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Twitter as DDoS Tool To Crash Websites – You’re Guilty!

March 4, 2010

If you’re a Twitter user and you follow one of the really big guys with like a million other followers, you could – without knowing it – actually be part of a DDoS attack. DDoS stands for “Distributed Denial of Service” and is used to describe what happens when a website receives so many requests [...]

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Gmail Tip: Trick Gmail Into Checking Your POP3 Accounts Often

March 3, 2010

I recently moved away from MobileMe as my primary Inbox, to which I had a few other e-mail accounts forward e-mail to. I was happy with MobileMe as my e-mail provider, except for the fact that some e-mails never arrived, not even in my spam/junk folder. I investigated and found out that the sending SMTP [...]

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The 13 Pillars of Internet Marketing eBook [Sponsored Post]

March 3, 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.
Getting free stuff on the Internet is nothing new these days, but when a 200 pages long eBook comes a long, which is free [...]

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Charlie Miller: Snow Leopard Easier To Hack Than Windows 7

March 3, 2010

Apple fanbois, you better buckle up, cause when the anti-Apple crew gets a hold of this little titbit from Charlie Miller, they might mock your choice of being a Mac user just a little bit.
Italian IT Security site, oneITsecurity, published an interview with Charlie Miller, two-year contest champion at Pwn2Own where the deal is to [...]

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February 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

March 2, 2010

February. Such a short month. Only 28 days. Never the less, these past 28 days were very interesting for TechPatio, as the table below will show you. Maybe it’s because of the winter or maybe TechPatio.com is just growing? Well, have a look at the table and then I’ll discuss a few of the numbers [...]

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Aperture 3 Brushes – A Quick Demonstration

March 2, 2010

I’ve been enjoying my Aperture 3 so much that I went ahead and purchased a license even before the trial expired, despite the Aperture 3 problems that some other users might have experienced, my Aperture 3 seemed to be running acceptable. Then, Apple recently released version 3.0.1 and things got even better.
One of the very [...]

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Akismet Blocking Your Blog? No Way, Just a SPAM Trick!

March 1, 2010

I already did one post on SPAM today (read it here: Bloody Sexual Twitter DM’s. Go Away!), so I might as well continue in that track with another SPAM related post for WordPress.
As a blogger, getting SPAM comments is to be expected and it happens every day for most blogs, several times a day also. [...]

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Bloody Sexual Twitter DM’s. Go Away!

March 1, 2010

The micro-blogging social network, Twitter, recently reached 50 million daily tweets, so it’s safe to say that Twitter is getting more and more popular as time goes by.
Just like anything else popular, some people will try to exploit for. For Twitter, it’s often spammers. For instance, I follow many Twitter users because of TweetAdder (and [...]

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Review: Exspect Pop-up Travel Speaker, USB & Rechargeable

February 27, 2010

I don’t usually do a lot of hardware reviews on this site, as much as I would like to, at least, so here’s one of my latest acquisitions.
It was sitting there in the store window as I went to purchase my Apple Magic Mouse (which I sold again the day after for half the price…), [...]

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Friday Flick Find: Steve Jobs’ Meanest Jokes About Microsoft

February 26, 2010

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, turned 55 yesterday. Happy Birthday, Steve! I hope you didn’t get a Magic Mouse though
Because of Steve’s birthday this week, I want to dedicate this Friday Flick Find to him. Well, to his “jokes”, that is.
I doubt we will see much of this in the future, unless Microsoft fails [...]

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Ebuzzing Launched In UK – Bloggers, Start Monetizing!

February 26, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by Ebuzzing. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.

Ebuzzing is a portal for connecting bloggers with advertisers and vice versa in order for advertisers to brand themselves and for bloggers to [...]

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Report: Initial iPad Demand Greater Than iPhone’s

February 25, 2010

TUAW reported yesterday how a report indicates the initial iPad demand to be greater than iPhone’s. It’s Mike Abramsky from RBC Capital Markets who conducted a survey of 3,200 people and found that 13% are likely to buy the $499 iPad. The interest for iPhone was at 9% prior to it’s launch in 2007.
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Twitter: 50 Million Tweets Per Day

February 25, 2010

Take a good look at the graph to the right (click it to enlarge). Go back to the summer of 2009 and Twitter had 10 million tweets a day. Fast forward to January 2010 and they’re at 50 million tweets per day. That’s a lot of tweets and a new milestone just reached by Twitter.
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Apple Magic Mouse: Just Got It & I Hate It. Wanna Buy?

February 24, 2010

It took me long enough, but I finally got the Apple Magic Mouse. My precious. I was too slow to get my hands on one the first shipments that arrived here in Malta and the next shipment was delayed for several weeks because of bad weather conditions throughout Europe for the past month or so.
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“EgoTweeting” Review: An eBook On Ego- And Business Marketing Using Twitter

February 24, 2010

This is a brand new eBook, just released. Written by my good friend over at BlogInTheBag.com – and because I’m lucky enough to know him, I was allowed to read and review it, before it was released, which is why I’m very excited to finally be able to tell you about it, now that it’s [...]

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Google To Be Investigated By The European Union

February 24, 2010

The European Commission has received three complaints over Google and now intend to start an investigation. The three complaints are from Foundem, a UK-based “price compare”-portal, French legaladvice search engine ejustice.fr and german Ciao, a company below Microsoft.
Foundem believes that Google’s search algorithms place Foundem’s pages worse in Google, because Foundem is a competing search [...]

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YouTube Parts With Internet Explorer 6

February 24, 2010

Google means business and soon end support for old browsers on YouTube, despite millions of users still surfing the ‘net with Internet Explorer 6 or other outdated browsers.
Back in 2009, Google announced how they intend to end support for old browsers because it slows down evolution (is that even the right word to use here?), [...]

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TechPatio Reaches 1000 Tweets on Twitter & 200 RSS Subscribers

February 23, 2010

Who would have thought it could take me around 6 months to reach a 1000 tweets on Twitter? That comes down to just about 5 tweets per day. Well, I’m not sure my @TechPatio account has been active for exactly 6 months, but it’s plus/minus a few months at the most, so no big deal.
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