Now entering it’s eighth year, with a 360 degree display of everything in, on or under water – including the latest in powerboats, yachts, sailboats, scuba diving, fishing and watersports – the National Boat Show, featuring the ever popular Dive Expo (NBS), is the largest and most comprehensive boat & leisure show on the continent.

NBS is recognised by visitors, exhibitors, the media and industry associations as the biggest event of its kind because it hosts the biggest number of exhibitors; visitors; exhibition floorspace; competition and prize bounty as well as boating, fishing, scuba and lifestyle events and attractions.

When: Friday, 13 August 2010 to Sunday, 15 August 2010
Where: Coca Cola Dome – Northriding
More Info: National Boat Show

Decorex 2010 takes the lead to guide you through the labyrinth of design trends & present you to our comprehensive collection of trusted décor companies & gifted designers showing the very best. Green is the buzzword du jour, giving rise to do-good design; sprouting green merchandises & eco-friendly resolutions.

Bringing the scream! Factor to the world of interiors our unrivalled choice of exhibitors sets the scene for a décor world of wonderment – sparking rising ideas, stimulating new solutions and bringing design desires to life. Trade professionals and consumers can indulge in limited-edition luxury, beautifully presented have-to-haves, curated art-happenings, handmade collectables and the creative energy of the design industry’s most talented style masters.

Event Dates: 5 – 9 August 2010
Location: Gallagher Convention Centre
Info and Web Site: Decorex Johannesburg 2010

For a classroom, a projector is used to enhance the learning experience using a visual medium. Projectors are often used to show PowerPoint presentations accompanied by discussions. A television with a DVD player is used in a classroom to show documentary films and educational movies. Children these days are multimedia savvy and the use of AV equipment in the lessons promotes more participation and generates greater enthusiasm among them.

For bigger events such as school plays or seminars, more specified audio visual equipment is necessary. Microphones, speakers and large venue sound systems are needed. Particular presentations will also require high resolution Data projectors that produce bright and crisp images, creating the necessary affect.

Schools these days plan their budget keeping AV equipment demands in mind – some times existing equipment need to be exchanged, while at others equipment need to be rented. It is generally a good idea to get an ongoing relationship with a reliable local AV equipment rental supplier like Screenquip, who can fulfill all kinds of Gauteng audio visual equipment renting requirements.

The IFS is the supreme shopping spree event where top designers and retailers trade their end of season stock at absolute rock bottom prices allowing you, the shopper, to stock up your wardrobe with all the classics at a fraction of the average retail price.

Running over 4 days, from Thursday 29 July to Sunday 1 August 2010, 10am – 10pm (Sunday till 8pm) EVERYONE can look important without breaking the bank!

The IFS also wishes to help those who are incapable to enjoy fashion like the rest of us and has partnered with the Princess Project, which offers unwanted dresses from the public and celebrities to under-privileged girls to wear for their matric dances and beyond. We encourage all our visitors to join in this very worthy campaign and to bring any dresses you no longer wear to the IFS where we will have a designated area for collection. You may even be lucky enough to meet ex Miss SA Jo-Ann Strauss, the founder of this great charity.

So, whether you need your winter or summer wardrobe revamped – there’s only one place to go: THE INTERNATIONAL FASHION SALE!

Venue: The Coca-Cola dome
Web Page: International Fashion Sale

Why The Internet Show?

The Internet Show is a place where innovation is showcased, solutions are found and learning is done.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies
• Understand new business methods
• Learn to deliver ROI
• Create new business and revenue streams
• Learn how to generate cost savings
• Learn how to risk and project manage
• Purchase the latest solutions


Google University FREE to attend

Attend Google’s FREE sessions and learn about Google’s AdWords platform in the Google University.
Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use the Google AdWords program to promote their products and services on the web. Now you can as well.
Attend The Internet Show as a visitor and receive your free Google AdWords coupon courtesy of Google.
Once you have the voucher, attend the Google University on either 2nd or 3rd August and learn how to use Google AdWords and optimise your web site.

The seminars

Online, things change so promptly. Today’s essential thing will be history tomorrow. Keeping on top of this is a continuous cycle for all executives in all business organizations.
With 72 free presentations running over the two days of the show, this is where the Internet Show can help you. There are 4 seminar rooms themed around the following:

• Digital advertising and marketing
• Web 2.0 and social networking
• e-commerce and payments
• Content management and streaming

Seminar subject demonstrates world best practice and admits case studies and panel sessions.
Access to the seminars is FREE to visitors who register online before the show.

Location: Sandton Convention Centre, 2nd -3rd August, Johannesburg, South Africa
Contact: Leanne Mathey – 011 516 4050
Web Page: The Internet Show

Africa’s store of oil and mineral resources and the meteoric rise in world prices for these commodities has awakened the world to the fact that the continent is suddenly a good place to do business. There is little argument that Africa’s economic expectations are the best they have ever seen. Africa’s rapidly expanding middle class, their changing lifestyles and growing disposable income all add up to enormous business opportunities for suppliers of raw produce, processing and packaging equipment, associated relevant technology as well as retail ready products.

For further details and space booking on Africa’s Big Seven 2010
Contact: Lineke Fleischer
Exhibition Manager Africa’s Big Seven Expo
admin@exhibitionsafrica.com
tel +27-11-783-7250/1/6/9
fax +27-11-783-7269
When: Sunday, 25 July 2010 to Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Where: Midrand
Venue: Gallagher Estate

StoneEx Africa will be an African turning point for all producers and trade operators with local and foreign exhibitors within the Natural Stones, Technologies and Design sphere. This exhibition will be viewed as the most exciting and upcoming on the African continent that goes far beyond our expectations, confirming that StoneEx Africa will be a vital appointment for trade operators in the natural stone field, from machinery to instrumental products, from blocks to more complex processing, as well as for the building sector and the contract field.

Date: 23 to 25 July 2010
Venue: Gallagher Convention Centre, 19 Richards Drive, Midrand
Venue Tel: +27 (0)11 266 3000
Time: 09h00 to 17h00 daily.
Cost: R50 per person (Tickets available at the door)
Contact: 0860 (eventX) 383689 or +27 11 896 5701

So far as we can tell, the Dell Inspiron 13R, 14R, 15R, 17R and M501R are precisely like their non-R contemporaries save for a few choice options: the GPU variety is far more powerful on the new flavors, while there’s a broad quantity of choices in the operating system, RAM and wireless departments.

There’s also discussion that a Dell Dock feature is constructed right into these, making it easier to access media for those who aren’t precisely technically inclined.

To quote Walt Mayo, vice president Dell Consumer Asia: “This is a laptop that moms will love and youths will desire.” We can’t say we fit that demographic in any way, shape, or form, but we can value the “smudge-resistant palm rests, full-size, ergonomically-designed keyboard and stiffer frame” when compared to the other Inspirons.

These seem to be available now all over in Australia and New Zealand, which means that order pages could go live at any minute for the rest of the world.

A 42 inch plasma screen is the most popular size and will usually be sufficient for a smaller meeting – up to 20 people. Some other sizes, bigger and smaller, are also available, including 32, 37, 40, 50 and 61. Remember that these TV sizes are a measure of the diagonal dimension of the screen, so a small variation in this vital statistic can make a big difference to the actual screen size.

What will you be showing on the screen?

Both data (from a laptop) and video can be used to input into the screen. Some LCD screens and plasmas have a TV tuner built in; others will need a separate tuner if you wish to receive TV signal (from a DSTV Decoder).

How big is the room – do you need a PA system?

There’s nothing worse than being incapable to make yourself heard! If there is sound on your material do you have a way to magnify this? Many screens have basic speakers on them, but these can’t be used for big events.

What is the difference between LCD and plasma TVs?

The technology is converging towards terms of quality and size availability. It used to be that plasma was larger, but LCD was brighter. These deviations are now reducing as the technologies converge. The choice of LCD or plasma rather depends on the intentional use of the screen.

What about the Resolution?

Resolution is the amount of pixels available on the TV. The higher the resolution is, the greater the definition and sharpness of the picture. This is more essential with larger screens where the pixel size is more noted, and less essential when displaying images from a video source because quickly changing images make the pixilation less noticeable. Nowadays, it is normally best to go for at least XGA if showing data and at least SVGA if exhibiting only video.

Wall mount, free standing or desk stand?

When considering the hire of a plasma screen, remember to consider how it will be mounted. The common method is to use a fixed or wheeled base with steel poles attached. The bracket on the back of the screen is then slipped over the poles to allow a proper viewing height. The poles can be of different lengths to provide various heights.

The idea of plasma gas may have you thinking twice about sticking your hand in this box, but at room temperature and pressure and in the determined environment its in, it can get your hand, from your skin to below your fingernails entirely sterilized in under 4 seconds. It’s so effective, in fact, that research workers found it could get rid of said Athlete’s Foot without the patient ever having to take off a sock.

The engineering is geared toward hospitals, hotels and the service industry, where cleanliness is important. Plasma cleaning itself isn’t new as it’s been used to sterilize medical tools for years, but to use it on human tissue several processions in both the way plasma gas is handled and the engineering behind industrial hand sanitizers had to be made.

In the future, the plasma gas sanitizer could spread up new areas elsewhere, such as being applied in air conditioners to purify air. In other words, get ready to see all those ion air purifiers at Sharper Image exchanged by plasma ones.