Discover all things internet. Easy to understand guides and advice for the average internet user and web master http://www.cozahost.com/news/ We spend so many hours, so much blood (and tears) building, refining, polishing and admiring our products, we are seduced into believing that our product is so good, customers will beat down our doors to get their hands on it. We invest ourselves in our own products. We love our own dog food http://blog.gezact.com/2012/01/buying-profitable-customers.html Is Facebook about to become obsolete and is Google changing the face of the internet - again? http://blog.gezact.com/2011/07/is-facebook-becoming-obsolete.html Google's latest innovation is an update to their search ranking algorithm, code named "Panda". It is one of the most dramatic changes Google made to it's ranking algorithm in several years. http://blog.gezact.com/2011/05/large-percentage-of-web-sites-will.html To those that still think social networking (Facebook, Twitter and others) are toys: you need to get your head read. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/10/facebook-and-twitter-become-even-more.html No matter what business you are in, your current and future customers are talking about you on Facebook. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/10/how-to-market-your-business-on-facebook.html When I watched the new music video by Arcade Fire I got a little freaked out. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/09/creepy-demo-of-future-web.html imagine plugging a huge big internet cable into Europe's side with a loud WACK! sound. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/08/wacs-was-sound-of-cable-slapping-home.html Social media is here to stay because it addresses basic human needs: To connect. To belong. To be heard. It is an evolutionary step for mankind. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/08/social-media-is-evolutionary-step-for.html Your should not rely on your ISP to backup your mail - they can do only so much. Protect your own information. It is irreplaceble. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/08/importance-of-backing-up-your-email.html Our cables are being repaired and more are coming. The internet is about to hot up in South Africa...and yes, we try to teach old dogs new tricks http://blog.gezact.com/2010/07/single-most-desired-response.html More than one third of South African ADSL users are stuck with slow or broken internet connections. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/07/devil-in-deep-blue-seacom.html Four hundred and nineteen million good reasons for investing in your online presence http://blog.gezact.com/2010/07/four-hundred-and-nineteen-million-good.html It is spelled "Phishing" instead of "Fishing", but it is basically the same thing: they offer you bait so that they can steal your money and your identity...but they don't kill you...they let you go after a while...sucked dry and much poorer... http://blog.gezact.com/2010/06/phishing.html Ponder the difference between a means to an end and an end itself - as illustrated by effective web sites and never hot enough braai coals. http://blog.gezact.com/2010/05/spade-does-not-hole-make-aka-effective.html To say I had "no clue" is like saying Napoleon had a "setback" at Waterloo. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/11/mental-napalm-and-five-new-lessons-i.html Spring arrived in the entire Southern Hemisphere (except in Cape Town). Here is an article with step by step instructions on how to spring clean your computer and make it run faster. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/09/spring-clean-tuning-your-windows-xp.html The internet in South Africa is only 13 years old. Cozahost turned 10. A LOT has happened, but the fun has only started. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/08/ten-candles.html It was fantastic. A cybernetic enchanted forest. Building digital tree houses, fortresses and fantastical machines. An ever changing, moving and re-configuring puzzle. A land filled with dragon bugs. I was the dragon slayer. Ruler supreme in my digital kingdom. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/06/infinite-computing.html Thing is, internet access via cell phones are still a bit voodoo to many users - so that is what this post about: un-voodoo'ing internet access via your cell phone. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/05/un-voodooing-internet-access-via-your.html Here is a list of 5 things to watch out for when you register your domain name http://blog.gezact.com/2009/05/5-things-to-watch-out-for-when-you.html I do mean to scare you. It's so simple to register your domain name, it's just silly not to. The cost and effort is minimal. The risk of loosing your domain name to an abusive 3rd party is absolutely not worth taking. Unless alien abductions are your thing. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/05/true-unsung-hero-of-internet.html The image seems to be the antithesis of technology and yet it is not. Communications technology is so interlinked with our everyday lives, we swim (and drink) with it. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/04/cell-phones-dentures-public-swimming.html Knowing the future and not acting? Well, gentle reader, that's just weapons grade stupid. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/04/time-is-weird-thing-tie-your-brain-into.html We all know and understand overt incompetence: The kind that creates a burning desire to grab someone by the head and smack it down on the table until it stops moving. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/03/after-dinner-and-few-stiff-digestives-i.html Brandy did bite the hand that feeds it, but assuming positive intent is still the best advice anyone can offer you. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/03/always-assume-postitive-intent-but.html The financial equivalent of the penguin strategy is to save: Cut costs. Close factories. Fire staff. Put money in the bank. Cut advertising budgets. Shut down your web site. Close shops. Crawl under the bed. In other words: duck. Like a penguin. Excuse the non-pun. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/02/penguins-are-going-to-die.html My argument was flawless. Eloquent. Powerful. Super relative. Satisfied, I put down my drink on the little table next to me and leaned forward to check on the large black pot happily bubbling on the fire. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/02/be-careful-what-you-thinkand-drink.html O-oh! Eish! Wow! Splat! That was the sound track for the last year. http://blog.gezact.com/2009/01/2009-in-crystal-ball.html The only call I might tolerate receiving is one curt sentence: May I press this big red button while you are in the building? http://blog.gezact.com/2008/11/i-hate-phone-calls.html It was lying there on my shelf, on eye level, burning holes in my consciousness. A productivity book. Another not-done thing.. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/11/book-that-was-staring-at-me.html As the priest of the "Value-for-money-cult" would whisper reverently: "this is a good value." The Asus eee is a modern day computer appliance. Simple, effective and best of all: you can sneak one into a braai if, say, some emergency image manipulation and Facebook upload would be required to put some or other idjit in his place. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/11/extreme-value-alert-on-asus-eee.html Friction and inertia are as real to business as it is to a physical body. Huge changes are occurring in the world... http://blog.gezact.com/2008/11/frictionless-commerce-and-idjit-tribe.html Open Office 3 offers exceptional value for money - but, since it is free, is it really valuable? A product or service can only have value to you if it satisfies a need you have - at a price that is lower than the benefit you get...or something like that. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/10/open-office-3-and-value-for-money-cult.html Consider for a second how much damage a malicious person or program with knowledge of your password(s) can cause. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/09/strong-and-secure-passwords.html Web 2.0 is a collection of technologies that is changing the shape of the web as we know it. It is the beginning of a paradigm shift. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/09/web-20-and-tong-bearer.html An incident a few years ago. The names are witheld to protect the guilty... http://blog.gezact.com/2008/09/morning-in-live-of-sysop.html Googling is an essential skill that will save you countless hours. We help you improve your skills - even if the GPS will stay lost. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/08/improve-your-googling.html A binary computer records, calculates and manipulates by using little switches - microscopic transistors - almost like a child would use it's fingers to remember numbers or do sums. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/08/how-computers-remember-things.html It was at a braai the other night when someone asked if we knew a person can be knocked flat without touching him. http://blog.gezact.com/2008/08/its-knock-out.html Blogs are changing the world - and it's not going away. All of us have something to learn and all of us have something to say. http://www.cozahost.com/news/view.asp?en=/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/01AUG2008 In troubled times like these asking the right questions will help you find the opportunity in the adversity. http://www.cozahost.com/news/view.asp?en=/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/18JUL2008 The term is so vague and misused, it is bound to start a lively and entertaining conversation http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/13JUN2007 Are you offering spades when you could be offering holes? Do you know about the unwritten rules of sending email or do you annoy your clients / colleagues and friends http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/09MAY2007 We kick off with a special "request": We explain where spammers got your email addy and what you should do to protect yourself in future. http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/18APR2007 We explore cognitive dissonance and the resulting cognitive bias as well as tips for writing copy for your web site while touching briefly on glossophobia. We introduce Google videos and point to internet happenings in South Africa too. http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/26MAY2006 Art vs. craft: perspiration and not inspiration is required - we also talk about writing copy for your web site and optimizing your web site for search engine ranking. http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/09MAY2006 The principles of web marketing are not to be confused with the (alleged) healing properties of snake oil - and download free trail software to improve your search engine ranking. http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/26JAN2006 It`s all communications this time: we discuss how you can send SMS messages via the internet cheaper and faster, and we answer some of the most often asked ADSL questions. http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/24SEP2005 "Malware" - the bane of all computer users on the internet. Find out what it is, how it works and how to protect yourself. http://www.cozahost.com/NEWSLETTERS/GENERAL/ISSUES/28JUN2005