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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.
That [...]

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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.
But [...]

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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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Is Flash A Goner In The Future? What Will Happen?

February 22, 2010

Google just finished taking over On2 Technologies and their video format, VP8, so Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent an open-letter to Google where they encourage Google to release VP8 as an open-source format and also use it themselves on YouTube. By doing that, Google will “free” the world from patented and proprietary formats such as [...]

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Chinese Military School Behind Google Hacking

February 22, 2010

About a month ago, Google was about to pull out of China because they no longer wanted to continue censoring results on Google.cn as instructed by the Chinese Government. Long story short, Google got mad because somebody within China hacked some Gmail accounts and other major IT companies within the US.
Now, New York Times reports [...]

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iTunes App Store: 13 New Countries Added

February 21, 2010

TUAW reports today that Apple announced through iPhone Developer News that the iTunes App Store is now available in 13 more countries:
“You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda.”
If you’re a developer, [...]

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Future Of Flash in iPhone/iPad? “Old Technology”, Says Steve Jobs

February 20, 2010

Yada yada yada, the iPhone doesn’t support Flash. Everybody knows that by now. If you follow Apple, or just tech news in general, you will also know that their new soon-to-be-released iPad doesn’t support Flash either, as Steve Jobs (by accident, I guess) demonstrated during the iPad keynote presentation.
Personally I don’t care about Flash. I [...]

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Friday Flick Find: High Speed Car Chase In Google Earth

February 19, 2010

This video was made by Honest and is a Grand Theft Auto (GTA)-style high speed car chase through the streets of New York, based on images from Google Earth satellite view.
Don’t forget to watch some of my other Friday Flick Find videos!
Have a great weekend!!

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Google May Earn $500,000,000 On Typosquatting – Yearly!

February 18, 2010

A new report done by two Harvard scientists reveals that Google may earn up to 500 million dollars a year because of typosquatting.
Typosquatting is what they call it when somebody on purpose registers a domain that looks a lot like something else, like Googel.com (notice the misspelling). So if you go to googel.com because you [...]

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Check Out Webhosts Before Buying [Sponsored Post]

February 18, 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.
You don’t have to surf through many web sites on this big and bloated Internet that we have today, before you will eventually stumble [...]

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