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This Is How Blogs Make Money – “Become A Blogger” Course Now Open!

February 8, 2010

UPDATE: On Tuesday at midnight Eastern US time, the doors close to the Become A Blogger Premium $1 Trial special offer.
If you want to try this highly respected and trustworthy program for just $1, sign up here!
Making a living from the Internet is a dream many people have, but figuring out exactly how to [...]

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Google’s Nexus One Doesn’t Sell

February 8, 2010

The “usual way” of selling mobile phones in the US is through the ntwork providers along with a contract of up to 2 years. Google went in a completely other direction when selling their Nexus One phone online at google.com/phone instead of using the network providers to sell it.
Flurry Analytics estimates a total sale of [...]

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Friday Flick Find: The Beer-Launching Refrigerator

February 5, 2010

I usually try to feature some longer videos in my Friday Flick Find, than this one, but since Friday means Friday beer at the end of the work day (in Scandinavia at least), I thought this particular video had some merits for featuring here. I first saw the video via Ching Ya who got it [...]

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Windows 7 Resulted In More Satisfied Users Than Snow Leopard

February 5, 2010

Both Microsoft and Apple released their newest operating systems in 2009 and according to a British opinion survey by YouGov, Microsoft’s operating system was the software users were most satisfied with.
YouGov followed the “satisfaction rating” for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for the past 6 months. A group of users were [...]

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Free “Become A Blogger” Roadmap

February 2, 2010

I just wanted to give you a heads up – the famous Become A Blogger program is re-opening it’s doors on Thursday to let in a new batch of bloggers (or to be bloggers) wanting to take their blogging to the next level. I’ve been a member for about 6 months now and there’s really [...]

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January 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

February 2, 2010

A new month has just begun and so it’s time to take a look back at the previous month and see how TechPatio did when it comes to traffic and income. Unfortunately, I messed up with Google Analytics in December so all my statistics for that months are gone (never recorded) and I’m missing the [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Now The Most Used Browser

February 2, 2010

Google recently announced how they plan to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 as well as other older browsers from Firefox and Safari when it comes to Google products like Gmail, Calendar etc., during 2010.
Now, updated numbers from Net Applications show that IE 6, which was released 9 years ago, no longer is the most used [...]

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Lowepro CompuTrekker AW Camera Bag, Nikon D5000 & MacBook Pro 15″

February 1, 2010

I recently replaced my Lowepro SlingShot 350 AW camera and laptop bag with the Lowepro CompuTrekker AW bag, which for me, is a far better choice. If my SlingShot 350 didn’t break, I probably wouldn’t have replaced it with the CompuTrekker. But it did and I’m glad to have an ordinary backpack available, since it [...]

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Steadicam For iPhone. What’s A Steadicam (Merlin), Anyway?

February 1, 2010

Tiffen, a company that makes lots of different things for photographers ranging from filters to camera bags to steadicams and so on, recently announced a steadicam for the iPhone.
A steadicam is a device that you attach your camera to, in order to achieve better looking video. The quality of the actual video footage doesn’t [...]

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A SPAM Mail That Kept It’s Promise And Paid $10,000

January 31, 2010

Well, well, well, what do you know… sometimes a SPAM mail will actually hold it’s promise and deliver on it. A company sent out such a SPAM mail before Christmas, wanting to give $10,000 away for free to the first person who replied with their personal details (bank info etc., also). Out of hundreds of [...]

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Funny Pictures: Google Street View Launched In Denmark

January 30, 2010

Google Street View was launched in Denmark last week, where more than 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) worth of streets have been photographed.
The Danish people has been busy finding funny situations the following few days and submitting them to online newspapers within Denmark and the results are in: Lots of funny pictures from Google Street View!
The [...]

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Internet Explorer Turns Your PC Into A Public File Server

January 30, 2010

In the beginning of February, the Black Hat Technical Security Conference is held in the US, where Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina will be speaking on a topic that might interest you, it will certainly interest Microsoft. The topic is “Internet Explorer turns your personal computer into a public file server”.
In this presentation we will show [...]

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TechPatio Switched Web Host Again: CS New Media

January 30, 2010

As it turns out, VPS hosting was not for me. Just to recap, here’s the hosting history of TechPatio.com for the past almost 7 months (since TechPatio was first launched):

Surftown shared web hosting plan. I’ve been a customer there since 2004 – (a few months).
Surftown VPS beta hosting as part of a small “VPS beta [...]

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Friday Flick Find: The New SLS AMG

January 29, 2010

Take a good look at this Gullwing, how can it not be the coolest car ever made? I love it and I want one, some day…. I wish!
WARNING: Don’t even think of pressing the “play” buttons below, unless you have your speakers turned on!!

Find lot’s more videos and pictures (wallpapers) at the official website.

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The New Apple iPad – Am I Getting One?

January 28, 2010

I’m 95% sure that by now, you’ve heard about the new Apple iPad. If you haven’t (how could you not?), you can check it out at Apple’s iPad section.
What I think about it? Well, it certainly looks interesting and I would love to try it out. But I don’t plan on getting one. First of [...]

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What’s A Domain Worth? Ask Domain Appraisal [Sponsored Post]

January 28, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
No matter if you’re in the domain market to buy a domain or to sell a domain, you’d most likely want to get the [...]

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Lowepro Slingshot 350 AW Camera Bag & MacBook Pro 15″ Unibody

January 26, 2010

If you own an Apple MacBook Pro 15″ unibody laptop and you’re considering a Lowepro Slingshot 350AW bag for your camera and laptop, you might want to read this first…
The thing is, the Slingshot 350 AW is a great bag. I really enjoyed mine, most of the time, for the full two days I had [...]

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Televisions [Sponsored Post]

January 26, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for, oh I don’t know how many years now, you must have noticed how almost everybody is [...]

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