Jayo Mobile Extender
Website: http://www.jeyo.com/
Cost: $19.95 (free trial available from website)

Jayo is a plug-in for Outlook that allows you to connect your mobile phone to Outlook and download all your text messages to a PST file. It is compatible with most mobile phones, regardless of whether it uses Symbian or Windows Mobile as its platform. You can configure Jayo to completely delete all text messages from your phone on send and receive, including your sent items, and, since it stores it in a PST file, it is easy to then sort your messages as you wish. And, as I receive around 200 text messages on a daily basis (work), I simply cannot live without it.

Tweetdeck
Website: http://www.tweetdeck.com/ 
Cost: Free

I have tried a couple of Twitter clients, but this one is by far my favourite. It gives you the ability to view a variety of streams at the same time, filter in place, find friends, see your directs and replies and so much more. It is lightweight and cross-platform compatible, and, according to the website, you can also use it to follow your facebook friends (still looking for this feature). I don’t tweet much, but love watching the streams on a regular basis. And, while you’re at it, follow me on Twitter.

GOM Media Player
Website: http://www.gomlab.com/eng/
Cost: Free

Free, lightweight media player that just plays anything and everything, without needing to worry about codecs. And, when you point it at a directory with logically named files, there is no need to create a playlist, as GOM will just automatically jump to the next file, making it so much easier to watch your favourite TV shows. It is also a fantastic DVD player. And one of my favourite features: the ability to fit the media to full screen without changing the aspect ratio.
Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies.
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

The NPA have dropped all charges (all 700-odd of them) against Jacob Zuma, not because he was found to be innocent, but because of an abuse of process by Leonard McCarthy. Full statement here.

I must emphasise that this does not mean that Jacob Zuma is innocent.

What this does mean that we will have a criminal for a president after the 22 April elections – only 15 days from now. This is a sad day for liberty, justice and democracy.

From the DA website:

The decision to withdraw the charges does not appear to be rationally connected to the information before the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP).  All indications are that the NDPP has not taken a decision based in law, but that it has buckled to political pressure. Two weeks before the election, it now portrays Jacob Zuma as a wronged victim in a show trial.

And from the ID website:

‘There are absolutely no legal reasons for the decision,’ says De Lille
ID President Patricia de Lille says she is ‘very, very angry that the NPA has not provided any substantive legal reasons for withdrawing the fraud, corruption, racketeering and tax evasion charges against ANC President Jacob Zuma.
‘The first casualty of this decision today is the principle that we are all equal before the law.
‘The NPA has got absolutely no right to drop the charges against Jacob Zuma before they have been tested in an open court of law,’ Ms De Lille says.
‘The fact that the tapes are legitimate is completely irrelevant to the Zuma case. The NPA must charge Bulelani Ngcuka, Leonard McCarthy and anyone else on the tapes for interfering in the independence of the NPA.
The ID Leader, the 1st of over 200 prospective witnesses in the Zuma case, says ‘the case against Zuma should have gone on uninterrupted.
‘The fact that these allegations of interference will be tested by the courts, but the Zuma case will not, means that the leadership of the NPA has replaced their loyalty to Thabo Mbeki with a new loyalty to Jacob Zuma.
‘The ANC has betrayed the visions, values and ideals of our Constitutional democracy and of the struggle we fought against Apartheid,’ De Lille says.
‘Ten years of hard work by whistleblowers, the media and the prosecuting team, all of whom were guided by the principle of equality before the law, have gone down the drain.
‘It is wrong that the ANC has been allowed by the NPA, which should be independent, to dictate to it what is in the best interests of our democracy,’ De Lille says.
‘This is an extremely sad day for me and for our country. We can only hope and pray that our people will eventually realize that the ANC leadership is motivated by self-interest, greed and dishonesty.
‘I am deeply concerned for our future for as long as these ANC crooks are in control of our country,’ says De Lille

From the COPE website:

The Congress of the People wishes to register its disappointment at the political decision of the NPA to drop the corruption, fraud and racketeering charges against the president of the ANC. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the manner in which this matter was handled.
The NPA’s decision to drop the charges against Jacob Zuma does not safeguard justice, due process or equality before the law. Instead, it guarantees that the president of the African National Congress, and the party’s presidential candidate, will forever be branded a criminal suspect in the eyes of much of the nation and the world. This decision is a blow to our democracy that will be felt for years to come. The NPA in this act, has undermined the Constitution and itself as an entity.

Is this the end of the Mandela beacon of hope? We can only hope and pray that the rest of the people in this beautiful country of ours will wake up before the elections and make the right decision to not put a criminal in power. Or at least to ensure the ANC does not have a 2/3 majority. But, after this decision, it looks like the road we find ourselves on was built by Robert Mugabe rather than Nelson Mandela.

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

~ Nelson Mandela

As per my previous post, I am testing out xPollinate for Windows Live Writer.

To use the plug-in, you need to compose your blogpost in WLW and publish it to your first blog. Then, you click the xPollinate link in your plug-ins bar.

Configure the blog(s) you want to post to, select if you want a header or footer stating that it was cross posted from the original blog, and click OK.

Your content will now be posted to all selected blogs.

Note: The other blogs will not automatically open after posting like it normally does with WLW, but I have checked and posting appears to be instantaneous.

Hint: If you select a header or footer, be sure to leave space for them in your post. Add an extra space above or below your entry, just to be sure.

I am trying out a couple of new plugins for Windows Live Writer. Today’s plug-in is xPollinate

Version 1.0.0.1 includes the following features:
* Cross post to multiple blogs at the same time
* Choose blogs to post to at cross post time
* Set plugin defaults through the options dialog, and override at posting time.
* Ability to turn comments and trackbacks (pings) on/off at the cross posted blog
* Add header or footer html to each cross posted entry
* Cross post to Ping.FM
** Supports triggers and services
** Post using blog, microblog, or status methods, simultaneously or individually

I am hoping it would help me cross post between Electric Bunnies and Sensory Overload, since the email posting doesn’t seem to work.

Note: Cross posted from electric bunnies.
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I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications
Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know we'll be alright
Perhaps it's just imagination
Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation
At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night from overkill
Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day
I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications
Especially at night
I worry over situations that
I know will be alright
It's just overkill
Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away
Ghosts appear and fade away

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