Well, after being abit bored as this is a long weekend for me, I decided to go through my study and get rid of all unnecessary stuff lying around.

What I came up with was a heap of cd’s with old or deprecated software, even found 7 different versions of Linux lying around on CD’s which is outdated.

One of the treasures I found, was a mouse which I bought in 2000 and used up till 2007 before it started giving problems.(didn’t want to click anymore).

As you can see from the pictures, the mouse was really USED. And for a purchase under R100 bucks for 7 years of trustworthiness! Thanks SAHARA!

So I decided to throw it out, don’t know why I kept it in my drawer anyways…

written by Arné

Ian this morning, fell asleep after he had his breakfast

written by Arné

I’ve decided that I need some personal time, and took off today and Monday, to give me a 4 day weekend.

I actually decided on this some time ago, and only tragically heard this weekend that I would have to attend a funeral of one of my childhood mentors today. So actually a good thing that I took off these days.

What am I going to do the rest of the time, well, I plan to :

• Watch some movies on my new MVix
• Go on a shopping spree to buy some clothes(got invited to 3 weddings in October, the 4th I did not get invited to;-)(this weekend))
• Go for a nice Wimpy breakfast
• Go to Potchefstroom to look at some property investment oppurtunities

written by Arné

After I ordered my DivX player I found a few reviews for the product and realized that the product won’t fit all my criteria, so I cancelled my order from WantItAll.co.za , and ordered another model from eShopper.co.za and also after some research found this to not meet all my criteria AFTER I ordered it…. so again I cancelled my order.

So eventually I decided to go for the MVix780D which I ordered on Monday(last week) afternoon around 17h00 from Nivo.co.za, and picked it up on Tuesday(the day after I ordered) afternoon as they are on my way to work in Montgomery Park.

I’m still playing around with my new MVix, and found a restriction that it does not support the new MKV format which is starting to come more and more visible these days. After visiting their site I found that they publish regular updates of the firmware and downloaded the latest firmware which has a beta release of MKV support.

All n All I’m happy so far, so when I’ve got some free time, I’ll try to publish a proper review of my MVix.

I checked MVix.co.za’s site and found that they already have a firmware update for MKV’s which is in BETA but it’s cool to now have a device where there is constant Firmware updates.

written by Arné

After reading Imod’s post on his DivX player I just had to get me one too.

After doing some research I decided to go with the D-Link Div X Connected player(uses DivX connected technology), which provides much more than just playing movies, viewing pictures, but also has vast amount of expandability, as the player connects to your PC and all the work is done there, conversion, GUI processing etc.  This also means you don’t have to worry about Firmware upgrades, you just upgrade the server.

I ordered mine from WantItAll.co.za and should probably receive it next week.  Will post some feedback after I’ve taken it for a spin then.

written by Arné