Author: Trent Meikle

It’s that time of the month again, folks. That sometimes wonderful, often saddening time, when the Central Energy Fund drops the mid-month stats for petrol prices in South Africa. This time, it seems like we’ll be enjoying the former, rather than the latter. If all goes as expected, there could be a drop in petrol prices, even if only a slight one. We’ll take what we can get at this point. In total, the stats show that we could be looking at a drop of as much as R1.08 for petrol, and 94 cents for diesel. But don’t get too…

It finally feels as if everything is returning to normal. Masks and travel restrictions have been lifted, and NFTs are dying a slow, painful death. Of course, with the return to normality folks are itching to get out of South Africa, if only for a few weeks. FNB has noted the rise in travel and is again offering qualifying customers complimentary access to SLOW Airport Lounges. Access to SLOW Lounges will be free from tomorrow, 15 July, until 15 October. Three glorious months of free Wi-Fi, snacks, and drinks, and easy access to charging ports. If you travel often, the…

BMW has announced the launch of its first all-electric sedan, bearing the name ‘i4’. This beauty has just hit the South African market. Oh, and it’s launching with a price tag of R1.6 million. Surely this one will come with heated seats that don’t cost R250 p/m, right? Right? The BMW i4 is the German company’s first fully-fledged outing into the world of electric vehicles. South Africa will only get to see one model at launch, the i4 M50 Performance Model. Something about the words ‘Performance Model’ ignites fear in the chest, but that’s just us thinking of the price.…

Since the beginning of the pandemic, FNB has seen consumer spending increase by 70% on services like Netflix and Spotify, among the other big names. In terms of actual money, FNB customers spend over R190 million per month on music and video streamers. But why? Well, there are a few reasons – with the largest being the eBucks rewards customers are accustomed to. People tend to notice stuff like that, which can only mean those numbers aren’t slowing down anytime soon. Also, it’s considerably easier (and safer) to stream content to a home than it is to go outside. That…

It’s pretty wild that we can look up almost any address in the world, and get a view of it instantly. Obviously, it’s crazy technology. But it’s become so commonplace that we take it for granted. And maybe with good reason. Every year, Google updates plenty of places across Google Maps, allowing us to get current views of the world. With all its updates, Google Maps has built up a collection of digital data. Now, Google is making older data useful again. It’s not just sitting on a server somewhere, of no use to anyone. Google has added the ability…

South Africans really dig streaming boxes, huh? Well then, they’ll really like this one. The Netogy Nova 4K UHD streaming box has just hit South African shelves. It wants to be the very best where streaming devices are concerned. Like no one ever was. And it has a long road ahead of it – beating the Xiaomi Mi Box S is its real test. Entertaining? That’s just its cause. Trying to be #1 So, what is Netogy’s strategy to become the best Pokémon trainer streaming box? For one, the Nova box comes standard with Android TV11 installed, and 16GB of…

You would think, sitting down to watch some sport; whether it be football or cricket, you would notice if something was a little off, right? Especially if the match you were watching wasn’t even real. Of course you would. Well, apparently not everyone would notice. A group of conmen in India organized an entirely fake Indian Premier League (IPL), which was apparently good enough to trick Russian bettors into giving their hard-worked money away. It’s pretty silly, and also completely hilarious. And the best part is that the group organizing the event almost got away with it – if only…

2022 has been rough on South Africa. At the moment, the country is facing its worst bout of load shedding since the term showed up back in 2007. People are turning every which way to find a solution that isn’t Eskom It looks like Makro is coming to the rescue. The popular retailer has announced its plans to start selling power walls and full solar installations to everyday consumers. As the year has gone on, more shoppers have approached Makro looking for generators, inverters, gas cooking tops, lanterns, and so on. Essentially, any product that may offset the problem that…

So, you want to know how disappearing messages work on WhatsApp? We’re sure you have your reasons. You probably just want to send memes to your friends and keep said friends from stealing them. Yeah, that’s it. That’s all that WhatsApp’s disappearing messages will be used for. WhatsApp has had this feature for a little over a year, though the app it got the idea from – Snapchat – made a name for itself by having this as its primary feature. It’s certainly something Meta’s users wanted. WhatsApp decided it was time to finally give it to us. View Once…

Recently, FNB launched a new eBucks rewards program that allows customers to earn back an extra R2 per litre in eBucks form. Yes, you’re only earning money back in the form of eBucks, but it’s better than nothing. And R2 is nothing to turn your nose up at – especially as fuel prices keep rising each month. FNB has been working on making the feature as easy as possible to use. To earn back eBucks, qualifying customers must do their business at Engen and use their virtual FNB cards to pay (for something else) at least once a month. Your…