Massive congratulations to the South African cricket team who punished New Zealand.
I know some folks who’ll appreciate this:
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Western Province beat the Sharks
What a match, what a pleasure and what a great way to end a long drought!
That is all!
Olympics Opening Ceremony sound track
As it was my Birthday on Friday, I didn’t have a chance to watch the opening ceremony, but I did PVR it and will watch it in due course, but something I picked up on Twitter trends was that the sound track from the opening ceremony has gone viral and made it into the top 10 on iTunes in 19 different countries!
Quite an incredible achievement and such an honour for all the artists who appear on it. The album is called Isles of Wonder and will be available in the first week of August.
In the meantime, have a listen:
New DSTV Channel Lineup
So, some changes happening to DSTV I see:
Stay updated with the 2012 Olympics
An iMod reader sent through an email this morning to tell me about a new application that was launched to assist us all in staying up to date with the 2012 Olympics, which kick off on July 27 – great date, I turn 30 then!
I went across to have a look at the application and it’s pretty useful, definitely a great way to stay updated with the Olympics, here’s a screen shot:
You can look here: http://eu.demo.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=qvdocs/Global%20Games.qvw
I must admit, I can’t wait for the Olympics to start, I always thoroughly enjoy watching all the athletes and I think this year’s is going to be awesome.
Are you looking forward to the Olympics?
Update
Just just received this infographic from another iMod reader: (click to enlarge)
Everyday Awesomeness: get your free Olympics 2012 desktop calendar
The Olympics is almost upon us! Smashing Magazine releases a collection of free desktop calendars every month, and July’s offerings include two Olympics-themed images for those who’re in the sporting spirit.
This is what Smashing Magazine has to say about its monthly wallpapers:
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for over four years now, and we are very thankful to all designers who have contributed and are still diligently contributing each month.
We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for July 2012. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free. It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper!
Aside from the Olympics, there are plenty of other calendars, most of them summer-themed as the majority of contributing designers are from the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s a small sampling.
To see what else you can decorate your desktop with or to submit a calendar design, visit the Smashing Magazine July wallpapers here.
Do you regularly use a monthly calendar as wallpaper? Where do you get it from?
Track, tune and share your golf game with friends
That’s right, Nike have just launched a new application called Nike Golf 360. The whole idea behind the application is to assist golfers with their game through the ability to track distance, scoring games and so forth.
Take a look:
Great idea if you ask me, there are thousands of golfers around the world who would more than likely enjoy sharing their game with a friend and/or learning from their game and previous games. It’s essentially like the fitness applications that create competition amongst others and so forth.
South Africa vs Great Britain men’s hockey this Saturday
The series of three test matches between the South African men’s hockey team and Great Britain comes to an end this Saturday, with the final match being played at Hartleyvale Stadium at 6pm. With the series tied at 1 – 1, it’s a fight for the series and bound to be a great game.
The first test match was won by the 12th-ranked South Africa after they beat Great Britain, ranked 4th in the world, 5 – 3 at Hartleyvale on Friday 3 February. It was thrilling, fast-paced game hugely enjoyed by the crowd of more than 3 000, and afterwards the South African team was mobbed by a large group of youngsters eager to get photos with and autographs from their heroes.
The second test was played in Stellenbosch last night in front of a 2 000-strong crowd. Though SA scored the first goal, Great Britain fought back to win the game 3 – 1. This means that Saturday’s game is the decider for the series. It would be great to see as many people come down to support the SA team as possible!
The SA team will also play Pinoke, the top Dutch hockey club from Amsterdam, on Thursday 9 February at 7pm and again on Sunday 12 February at 12pm, both games at Hartleyvale.
Tickets for the matches cost R30 for adults and R10 for children under 18. All proceeds go towards sending the SA team to an Olympic qualification tournament being held in Japan in April.
Written by Marc Pelteret, Chairman of Pinelands Hockey Club, home club of Austin Smith – SA men’s club captain
5 of the Best Super Bowl Adverts of 2012
Not too much to really say here, apart from that each year incredible adverts are released for the Super Bowl and this year is no different, take a look at these:
Powerade’s Twitter Football campaign
Look, it’s quite clear that social networking has a huge footprint in our world and that more and more brands are recognizing it as a brilliant way to engage, but not only that, to harvest data and provide information from it.
Powerade is a brand that recognized this, and during an important Latin American football competition (Copa America Argentina 2011), they formed a way to take tweets and showcase matches based on the harvested tweets.
This is quite awesome:
This is only the start, as Twitter becomes the second screen we watch whilst watching TV, more and more brands will innovate to provide applications that provide information.
Can’t wait!
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