If you’re into salsa you’ll more than likely heard of Bachata – This is a cool tune by Romeo Santas, featuring Usher (yes, Usher!). The acting is awful, but the song’s quite wicked.

I think we can all relate to those services that spam you with information and give you the chance to unsubscribe, but when you try to unsubscribe, nothing happens.

How’s this for an exaggeration:

I laughed though.

I’m not much of a designer, I never have been and doubt I ever will, but I work with some incredible designers and I know they’ll appreciate this post. The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that we see as we journey through life.

The best part is that all the symbols are free, and will remain free. There’s no trick to grabbing the symbols either, so it’s simple and free.. rare.

The website allows you to drill down your search of the symbols into recent submissions, categories, featured and popular. You can also create yourself a favorites list if you wish.

I’ve been a fan of Sarah McLachlan’s music for many years, from her own songs to the parts she plays in electronic music. This evening I came across one of her songs called Dirty Little Secret and it’s an awesome track, well worth taking the time to listen to.

Enjoy..

It’s a good accomplishment to reach 10,000 fans, it’s an incredible accomplishment to reach 100,000 fans and then there are some brands which even reach 1,000,000 fans. It doesn’t stop there though, Top Gear has reached 10,000,000 fans and counting – what an achievement.

In celebration of reaching 10 million fans, Top Gear put together a video, take a watch:

Have you reached 10,000 fans or more?

It’s time to have some fun with Facebook, you hear? Timeline Movie Maker is a collaboration between Facebook and marketing agency Definition6. It will only work if you’ve upgraded to the timeline profile.

Head over to the Timeline Movie Maker website and click on the Make Your Movie button. You’ll be required to grant the app permission to access your Facebook information, and here you also get to choose who sees activity from the application.

Click on the Ok, Use App button, grant Timeline Movie Maker permission to access posts in your News Feed and a box will pop up with a progress bar, putting the wheels in motion for making your personal Facebook movie.

You’ll see the app capturing your good side, finding memories and flying over your timeline. This just adds to the experience and makes waiting for the rendering of your movie that much more bearable.

Depending on how much information you have on your Timeline, this could take quite a while.

The result is a one minute movie that features highlights from your timeline. And it’s pretty fantastic. Once the movie has played, you can share it or replay it. You also have the option of changing the soundtrack to something more suitable and you can change the images in the movie with other images from your Timeline.

I think this is a fun little web app that takes you on a slightly nostalgic trip and is a pleasure to watch and tweak until you get the perfect Timeline movie.

Have you tried out Timeline Movie Maker? What do you think?

Keeping up to date with technology can be a strain on your wallet (and your brain) these days. Smartphones, tablets, laptops, cameras, gaming…new models of awesomeness are launched all the time. How do you stay “in the know”? Local website, gearburn.com, rides to the rescue with a wealth of information about desirable gadgets and new technology.

Interested in Congolese tablets?

Maybe you’re a smartphone junkie?

Perhaps you want news on iOS jailbreaks…

Or an iPhone-lookalike camera.

Wondering what those little TV-things are? The ones you keep seeing dotted on the grass banks at Newlands, Centurion and the Wanderers?

Visit gearburn.com for news, reviews and your daily technology fix!

What’s your favourite tech website? Let us know in the comments.

A rather morbid topic lies below, but a topic that is really important to think about. I read an article entitled Top 5 Regrets of the Dying, and although I normally stay away from such topics, this one conveys a message that I’ve often thought about seriously, not specifically the death part, but more the getting older and looking back at regret as I see this as being an incredibly important thing to be aware of.

I always hear people moaning about their jobs, or wishing they could travel more, or wishing they’d told someone how they felt.. the list goes on and everyone can relate to someone else saying one of these things, but how conscious are you of what you’re saying to people. Let’s look at me for a second; I’m not afraid to admit that I work far too hard and a lot of people tell me that I do, but does that make me stop? No. I then read an article that communicates to us the top 5 regrets people have and I see number 2 on the list points to my exact situation – it’s a wake up call!

Take a read of these 5 reasons and their explanations:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

“This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.”

2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.

“This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.”

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

“Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.”

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

“Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.”

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

“This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.”

When you turn 60 or approach the end of your life, could you see yourself saying one of the 5 things above? Seriously, remove your hands from the keyboard and think about this for a second, read each one carefully, think about your life and if you see yourself relating to one of the 5 reasons then it’s probably time to make changes in your life before it’s too late. You don’t have to the 20 years old to do this, you could be 60 already, there’s always time to change course and try something different that will assist you in approaching those latter years feeling more fulfilled as a person and not harboring a large amount of regret.

I love working, it keeps me motivated, it keeps me passionate and I guess I’m lucky for this, but I do question myself as to whether reason number 2 will hit me.

Are you conscious of the direction your life is going in?

Valentines Day is right around the corner, that’s right, February 14th, and Heineken are giving you the opportunity to serenade someone! The campaign, Serenade, is attached to a Facebook Application, which allows you to choose someone to serenade in a few easy steps.

Take a watch of the video:

Right, let’s serenade! Here’s what you’ll do:

1. Click through to the Serenade Your Date Facebook application.
2. Who you want to serenade.
3. Why you want to serenade them.
4. What you want to do with them.
5. Why you chose that person.

DONE! Wait, check this out: once the request has been sent to someone, you have to wait and see if they accept it! Haha, gota love that mechanism, the one little thing that will potentially make this campaign go nice and viral.

The question is: because it’s a leap year, are all the ladies going to serenade the men this time *wink*

Please note that this is a sponsored post.

Last night I really wasn’t feeling motivated to be around a lot of people in a salsa class, but I managed to motivate myself to go and I’m glad I did as we did a move that I really enjoy.

It’s a cross body lead with a turn, the video below shows a similar move to what we learnt, we actually went a step further with lifting your hand over the ladies head and then completing the move, after the turn, with a final turn in dance hold. The video gives you an idea though:

Really stoked that I went :)