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Barclaycard “Balance Transfer Sale” 2011

March 31, 2011

After the first launch of their “Balance Transfer Sale” which ended on February 2011 with great results, Barclaycard is proud to offer once again to its valued customers a generous 0% on balance transfers, but this time, for 20 months, and 25% off on additional balance transfer fees until May 3, 2011. Introducing Barclaycard’s second [...]

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Buying Domain Names

March 17, 2011

Discussing buying a domain name or two can be a sore point for a few people. For some, buying domain names is like buying shoes, or bags, or gadgets, depending on what you’re most into – cause some people are also into buying domain names, for various reasons, so they can really go nuts buying [...]

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Did you know you can manage your money using an iPhone?

March 11, 2011

For some of us, managing money is not as fun as spending them, am I right? But if there’s no money to spend, the fun suddenly disappears. And to have money to spend, you need a budget to manage your money carefully to make sure you can afford to spend money while also keeping a [...]

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The power of a green screen (TV shows)

February 26, 2011

Hopefully you’re already not trusting what you see on TV, or anywhere else that’s digital, for that matter, because it’s so easy to “photoshop” it to look completely different. For example, take a look at this reel from Stargate Studios. It features some scenes from “24″ that I could recognize, and also Monk I believe, [...]

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Follow-up: PokerStars Home Games concept

February 20, 2011

It’s been about a month since I last posted about PokerStars’ new online poker concept, Home Games, which basically means that you can create a private club within the PokerStars poker software client and invite your friends to join you. So instead of meeting up in person, you can play against each other online, from [...]

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How Lexar memory chips are made [cool video]

January 21, 2011

Ever wondered how they make memory chips? This cool behind the scenes video from Lexmark shows you just how memory chips are made and assembled. It’s definitely worth a quick look. Those robots are amazingly precise…

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Win a free stay with Park Inn by Radisson – or an iPad!

December 7, 2010

There is something about end-of-the-year competitions that make me excited when I know that I can participate and have a chance to win really cool prizes! Talk about ending the year with fun and great memories, plus winning an iPad just for playing a very simple game! What’s the commotion all about? There is a [...]

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We live in a digital world today – have you scanned your old photographs yet?

November 28, 2010

This is just a friendly reminder to make sure that you scan your old photographs. You know, the ones you had developed years ago and you now have stored away in photo albums in a big dusty shelving unit in the back of your living room? Or perhaps they’re in boxes, now stored in the [...]

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Is there a future for standalone GPS systems?

November 6, 2010

I’ve only owned one sat nav GPS system for a car, ever, which I bought several years ago. Since then, they have become much better, better UI, better GPS reception, better maps, better touch screen etc. I’ve considered many times whether or not I should buy one of the new sleek systems to have one [...]

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Win a year’s salary of £40,000 [PayPal]

November 4, 2010

What to do if I win £40,000? Of course, buy things I would love to have that I thought I can never buy without sacrificing many other things! The first thing I would do is to plan a nice holiday trip for my family, renovate our home, donate some to charitable foundations and to the [...]

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Easynews Launches New Web-based Usenet Search Interface

October 30, 2010

Press release: EASYNEWS.COM, the world’s original and one-of-a-kind browser-based Usenet newsgroup provider, today announced the launch of its brand new web-based Usenet search interface. This new interface is much more than just a shiny new coat of paint: It’s a cleaner, faster, more effective search tool. It provides easier searches and displays search results in [...]

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Friday Flick Find: The PEN Story – stop motion video of stop motion, amazing!

September 24, 2010

Some stop motion videos suck, some are good and some are just amazing – like this one, which took around 60,000 pictures to shoot and contains 9,600 developed prints. I can’t even imagine how many hours were spent making this 3 minute video! Click here for more great Friday Flick Find videos!

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Friday Flick Find: “Don’t be evil?” – Eric Schmidt parody

September 10, 2010

Consumer Watchdog in the United States is behind this cartoon parody video of Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt. The video makes it clear that nothing is free and even though the kids does get “free” ice cream, they’re actually paying by giving up information about themselves. Sound familiar…? The video also features the well-known comment from [...]

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Pre-bookable Airport transfers – use them! [Sponsored Post]

September 8, 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. Travel is living and I love to travel and visit new places and return with hundreds of pictures – but sometimes the whole [...]

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Caroline Wozniacki vs Maria Sharapova [Tennis]

September 6, 2010

Caroline Wozniacki just played a US Open tennis match against Maria Sharapova and won with 6-3, 6-4. Here on TechPatio.com, we’re quite happy with Caroline Wozniacki because of the amount of search engine traffic arriving here because of googlers searching for “caroline wozniacki”. In fact, in all of 2010, Caroline Wozniacki Breasts has pulled in [...]

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Easily create a free website with hpage.com

September 6, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by payperpost. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this. I was asked to review hpage.com as a service to create a free website, so what other way to review such service than [...]

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Bring back respect and courtesy to the roads!

September 3, 2010

Respect on the road is important and in more and more places respect and courtesy on the roads are becoming lesser by the day. We keep hearing about “road rage” and for some reason, too many drivers becomes animals behind the steering wheel. What’s to do about it? Well, for starters, AXA Car Insurance is [...]

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Friday Flick Find: IBM 305 RAMAC – 1956 Promo Video

September 3, 2010

Sometimes it can be a good idea to take a step back in time and see how things were done back then – also when it comes to technology, but mostly because it’s interesting to see how things used to work. The IBM 305 RAMAC might not be an iPhone killer (or is it?), but [...]

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Business Insurance – NetQuote

August 3, 2010

Do you know what the worst part is about insurances? I know what it is – paying for insurance. You know what’s even worse than that? I know that one too – finding the right insurance for your needs. Don’t get me wrong – I’d insure my lunch if I could, just to be sure [...]

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How It Works: SKY Cig – Electronic Cigarettes

August 1, 2010

I hate cigarettes and I hate smokers who thinks it’s their right to smoke when there are non-smokers present. Since smoking is what’s bad for your health, wouldn’t it be more fair that the smokers would have to lookout not to annoy the non-smokers? Luckily I think most smokers behave properly and respect the non-smokers [...]

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GPS Tracking Technology

August 1, 2010

I came across Rocky Mountain Tracking’s website that sells GPS tracker devices and thought I wanted to share some information about the use of GPS and tracking devices with you guys. Many people are still not aware about GPS tracking which is a shame – it can be really useful for many things. You know [...]

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Algadon – Free Medieval/Fantasy Online Role-Playing Game

July 27, 2010

It’s summer and you know what that means: Vacation! But for some, vacation also means too much time and too little to do – if this sounds familiar, or if you’re just looking for a new free game to play – you need to check out Algadon. Algadon is a medieval/fantasy themed multiplayer RPG with [...]

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Geeky, Funny or Crazy T-Shirts. Too Nerdy?

July 27, 2010

I’m not at all into fashion. I couldn’t tell you what’s the color of the year or what type of clothing everybody was wearing last year. I just don’t know because I don’t pay attention to such things. I believe that everybody should be able to dress like they want to but at the same [...]

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Get your very own tech forum – LovingTech.Net is for sale!

July 21, 2010

I’ve mentioned LovingTech.net a few times here on TechPatio already. First time was because of my interview with the site owner, Ryan Grant, where we talked about how and why he started LovingTech in the first place and what his goals were for the future. Nine months after that, about a month ago, I posted [...]

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