Author: Trent Meikle

Whether you entered 2025’s clutches with the hopes of learning something new just so you can slap it on your resume or not, Udemy makes a compelling case for becoming your new temple of learning. If you aren’t familiar, Udemy styles itself as one of the larger online teaching marketplaces out there with more than 250,000 courses available. And, at the risk of sounding like a YouTuber looking for rent money, they’re all on sale. Well, almost. By quite the sum, too. Stick around on Udemy’s site for most of the year and you’ll rarely ever see its top courses drop…

New Year, same ol’ petrol price concerns, right? According to the latest crop of data from the Central Energy Fund (CEF), those concerns aren’t going anywhere anytime soon – despite the relatively minor price hike that struck the country’s motorists on Wednesday, 1 January. In fact, on the current trajectory, South Africa is in for a nasty shock where its fuel pumps are concerned. The CEF, a state-owned energy company reporting directly to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), reports that South Africans could be facing increases ranging from R0.50 to R0.75 depending on their choice of fuel.…

We’ve finally reached the point where Amazon’s lineup of Kindles is distinguishable by more than the numbers in their name. The Kindle Scribe is the company’s largest departure from tradition yet, introducing a gorgeous 10.2in e-ink display that we (and our backpack) immediately welcomed with open arms. If you believe Amazon, the Scribe is meant to be your biggest, brightest eReader yet, all while being your new (and ultimate) note-taking companion. It’s… not all those things. That, however, is perfectly okay with us. It may not be suitable for jotting down your very flow of consciousness, but boy is this…

Stuff, and the wider residents of South Africa are no strangers to Vivo. The Chinese company has long since used South Africa as a breeding ground for mid-range devices while flinging its more premium devices to other, less South African countries. That’ll be changing as soon as 2025, however, with the incoming release of the X200 Pro. Until then, we’re stuck with the Vivo’s 2024 efforts, of which we tested the Y100 – a smartphone that turned up a few months back with an impressive R10,000 asking price (and an even more impressive price of R8,500 if you know where…

Super Mario Party Jamboree is out, and it’s certainly a mouthful. But, like all Mario Party entries before it, the most recent game serves as the definitive way to play Mario Party – meaning we’re going to stop all this Super Jamboree nonsense early. This is Mario Party – the final entry of the Switch-era games, proving itself a worthy swansong for the series’ as Nintendo readies the firing squad for the now eight-year-old console. Mario Party is about as feature-filled as we could have hoped, a welcome breath of fresh air for the series after Mario Party Superstars reimagined the series’ more iconic boards and minigames – which served as the…

With the literal New Year around the corner – which, incidentally, happens to fall on a Wednesday – the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has officially published the fuel price adjustments for January 2025 in South Africa. And… they’re not the best. But you already knew that, didn’t you? The Central Energy Fund (CEF), a state-owned energy company reporting directly to the DMRE, has predicted the increase throughout December, and now the DMRE has finally swung the axe. Those new prices, listed below, will come into effect at SA’s pumps at midnight on Wednesday, 1 January 2025. We’d…

Who said that you needed to drop R20,000+ to get your hands on Samsung’s suite of Galaxy AI features? Technically, Samsung did, multiple times. But if you managed to outwit Samsung’s marketing team (AKA your salary didn’t permit the purchase of a new phone) for this long, all that hard work is about to pay off. Samsung just dropped the Galaxy S24 FE (Fan Edition) and we can comfortably confirm this is the mid-ranger to get. At least until Samsung decides to unleash the Galaxy S25 line-up onto the world. That won’t be until January 2025 at the very least, likely…

Picture this: it’s Christmas Eve, your calendar is cleared, your beverage of choice is sweating bullets, and you’ve just booted up your console for some over-the-holiday gaming. But oh no! Your boss is blowing up your phone with emails detailing the strict return-to-work policy, effective from early 2025. There’s no use loading up Baldur’s Gate 3 or any of those games that have sat on your wishlist just yet, is there? Instead, why not pick up one of the five games – hand-picked by Stuff – that we guarantee will leave you bawling, cheering, or shaking your fist at the credits…

There’s nothing more mortally embarrassing than inviting over that special someone to Cloud Atlas and chill – only to find it’s been removed from Netflix entirely. Scouring the many, many streamers operating in SA for a further ten minutes isn’t great, either. As streamers become more prominent, with many subscribing to two, three or even four at a time, navigating this new world is difficult. But there is a solution. It’s called JustWatch. JustWatch is one of the handier little services we’ve ever had the pleasure of using. Rather than bombard Google with queries like “Breaking Bad streaming where,” JustWatch…

That’s one way to ensure you always get replies, right? Today, OpenAI announced the release of ChatGPT on WhatsApp. Sorta. OpenAI isn’t officially displacing the mightily annoying Meta AI chatbot but has instead made its GPT chatbot a full-on contact in your phone. 1-800-CHATGPT is the phone number you’ll want to add if you’re looking to make ‘friends’ with the chatbot over Meta’s messenger. If anyone is confused as to why the number has letters in it, we’ll spell it out for you: 1-800-242-8478. Users can even give it a ring on ye olde landline (in the US). ChatGPT’s big…