Cybersurf

Let’s start with a fascinating site for cyber detectives – or for the rest of us who are just plain nosy. Windeed dot co dot za describes itself as an indispensable tool of choice for law firms, estate agencies, credit bureaus, valuers, surveyors, conveyancers and other professionals involved in searching for information in the deeds Office, Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office, Consumer and Business Credit Records repository or the Surveyor-General. Wow – that’s quite a mouthful.

What it really does is find and sell information from all those offices I’ve just mentioned. My understanding is that all that information is available free of charge anyway – but Windeed saves you the enormous hassle of trying to find the stuff yourself. I have not personally tried a search, but family members and colleagues have been very impressed with windeed.co.za.

The charges depend on the type of information you want – many of the searches come in at under five rand each while some of the more specialized queries can cost well over fifty rand. This is a really cool site.

Newscientist - the esteemed British weekly magazine that also has a very good web site – Newscientist dot com, will soon be producing podcasts. The site says that it will be putting out nine podcasts per week with all the latest science and technology news. This means that you’ll be able to download the files to your iPod or any other MP 3 player and listen to science news at your convenience. Sounds great, but I hope they won’t be charging for this service – at the moment about half the material on the News scientist is for subscribers only.

Next, I have to tell you about a rock concert I went to on Saturday night – where the supporting band was absolutely spectacular. Freshly Ground is indeed fresh and talented, but for our purposes right now – the group also has a useful fan site at Freshly Ground.com

On the front page you can find out where the band is playing next – in other words a gig guide; click on the horizontal nav bar and you can meet the band, read the lyrics; hear clips of some of the songs

Fade up music – 5 secs and fade under voice

And even watch two of their music videos.

Great band great site

And if you missed their web site address, do not fear, I will post the Freshly ground web site and all the other addresses mentioned in today’s program on the Cybersurf blog which you will find at Cybersurf. Blogspot.com – one more time – Cybersurf.blogspot.com

That’s it from me - Thanks for listening and remember to keeeeep on surfin.

Relevant Sites:

• Windeed
• Freshly ground
• New Scientist

// posted by Steven Lang @ 5:27 am