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February 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report

March 11, 2011

Yeah yeah I know, I’m a bit late with the February report. I’ve been busy with real life stuff the past few weeks so I gave this report update low priority until I would have time to do it – which is now, so here you go…

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What Does Google Analytics Tell You About Your Site

March 4, 2011

Google Analytics is a wonderful tool for any webmaster, but what many of us may be ignoring might just be the most important part of Analytics. Tracking site search can hold valuable information about your site and the searchers that use your site. Many of us overlook this data in favour of the easier to [...]

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Quick introduction to QR Barcodes

February 10, 2011

In case you don’t know what a QR barcode is, it’s basically a barcode like the ones you know from the supermarket, except it’s more advanced than that and it looks different as well (see picture to the right). QR stands for “Quick Response” and is already being widely used in Asia for some time. [...]

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January 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report

February 8, 2011

2011 is the number of the year which means bye bye to 2010 and also bye bye to December. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year as well. There’s no way around it, you’re probably here to read the December [...]

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Google To Launch Their Own Version of Popular Groupon

January 30, 2011

You probably know about Groupon by now. It’s a site that gives users special deals on area restaurants and attractions. They send you the offer, and if you’re interested, you say okay. When enough people say yes, the deal goes into effect. These deals offer incredible savings on all kinds of things. What you might [...]

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December 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

January 4, 2011

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Firefox takes the browser lead in Europe

January 4, 2011

For the first time, Firefox is now the most used browser in Europe. Firefox reached a market share of 38.11% in December, leaving behind Internet Explorer in 2nd place with 37.52%. Firefox doesn’t have themselves to thank though, as the reason for being number one is mostly because of Internet Explorer losing market shares due [...]

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November 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

December 5, 2010

We’re almost a week into December so I hope you’re all close to getting in the Christmas spirit now that the holidays are closing in on us. So, November has ended and it’s time to wrap-up and see what November brought to TechPatio.com in terms of visitors and income. Here are the numbers… November ’10 [...]

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October 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

November 4, 2010

Well, hello there! It’s November – that means another month just went by and that also means it’s yet again time to spill all the TechPatio beans to let you all know how many visitors arrived here last month and how much money were made as well. I knew beforehand that October wouldn’t bring in [...]

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We might see a Nexus Two from Google after all…

October 29, 2010

Google has previously said that they won’t be making a new Nexus phone and that Nexus One was the only one. But now there are some indications that they have changed their minds and a Nexus Two will hit the streets already this year. While Nexus One was made by HTC, Nexus Two will be [...]

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Now 300,000 apps in Apple App Store

October 18, 2010

Apple is still leading the App Store race, now having reached another milestone: 300,000 apps. Google’s Android Market recently reached 100,000 apps so they’re still a bit behind. Out of the 300,000 “apps” in the App Store, around 50,000 are books, another 50,000 are games. The rest are spread across entertainment, education, lifestyle, utilities, travel, [...]

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HTC Desire HD vs HTC Mozart – Froyo vs WP7

October 5, 2010

High Tech Computer Corp, commonly known as HTC, is one of the top smartphone brands in the world. Even the iconic Nexus One had been developed by this company, for Google. Both Google and HTC have shared a very steady relationship since the birth of the Android platform. The HTC Dream, was in fact the [...]

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September 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

October 3, 2010

Welcome to another income report & traffic summary for TechPatio.com – as usual, we’re putting all the cards on the table for you to enjoy/laugh at them September was a quiet month in terms of content being produced, but let’s have a look at the numbers below anyway… September ’10 Aug ’10 July ’10 June [...]

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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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August 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

September 1, 2010

A new month has arrived and that means it’s time to look back and see how August went for TechPatio.com in terms of traffic and money. I was on a two week vacation in August so I didn’t really have much time to write content and do the usual marketing, but thanks to a bunch [...]

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CommentLuv – A Link Builders Dream Or The Latest Waste of Time?

August 27, 2010

First off I’d like to say I have never used comment spam, and I never plan to, I will admit that I have partaken in some forum spamming in my early days, before I seen the light. Matt Cutts and Google decided that they wanted to put a stop to this spam and the nofollow [...]

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10 Money Saving Android Apps

August 22, 2010

Everyone is interested in saving money in the wake of the Great Recession of the last couple of years. The first step that must be taken in controlling one’s spending lies in keeping a tight reign on what the person currently has. Also, a log with all of the information on everything being spent is [...]

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iSuppli: Android to Outstrip iPhone in 2012

August 6, 2010

More Android-based smartphones were sold in Q1 2010 than iPhones, on the North American market. A trend, which according to iSuppli, will continue so we’ll see more Android smartphones in 2012 than iPhone OS. In 2012, iSuppli believes that Android will be on 75 million smartphones and Apple’s iOS on 62 million devices. Obviously Android [...]

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Google Image Search – First Major Design Update Since 2001

July 26, 2010

Since Google Image search was launched in 2001, only minor updates has found its way to that part of Google’s search engine. Now, Google decided to “Bing up” their Image Search and make it more like Bing’s image search. The change is not available in all countries yet but should be over the next few [...]

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Microsoft Giving Free Windows Phone 7 To Its Employees

July 26, 2010

Just like Google and Apple did, Microsoft has (apparently) also decided to give away free Windows Phone 7 phones to their employees, says Gizmodo based on an e-mail they’ve gotten their hands on. Out of the major US-based cellphone providers, only Palm (now owned by HP) didn’t give a free phone to their employees. Microsoft [...]

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Android Market: One Billion Downloads

July 19, 2010

Android has just joined in Apple’s App Store in the “>1 Billion Downloads”-club, if there was such a club. Apple’s App Store reached 3 billion downloads in in January 2010 so by now they are even more ahead, but Google and Android also seems to have a good thing going now that they’ve reached a [...]

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10 Essential WordPress Plugins for Affiliate Marketers

June 7, 2010

WordPress has garnered much love from the blog community for its ease of installation, ease of configuration, and ease of modification. Many sites are even starting to use it as a content-management system (CMS) to drive the entire site, not just the blog or news portions. The power of WordPress really shines when you begin [...]

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Woman Sues Google Because She Walked On a Highway

June 3, 2010

This sounds like a joke, but I’m afraid not. A woman from Los Angeles now sues Google because she used Google Maps which told her to walk down a rural highway – without sidewalk or pedestrian paths. She ended up being struck by a car and now sues Google for medical expenses ($100,000) plus punitive [...]

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Must-Have iPhone Applications in the UK

May 30, 2010

In just a few short years the iPhone has completely changed the way that people look at mobile phones. Apple’s smartphone introduced the world to the idea of downloadable applications which meant that phones were no longer home to static content, but could be updated with new software and features from third party developers at [...]

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Google Pacman Ate 4.8 Million Work Hours ($120 Million)

May 25, 2010

Last Friday (May 21st) was Pacman’s 30 year birthday and to celebrate, Google integrated a fully playable Pacman game into their logo on Google.com. RescueTime, who did some calculations based on the activity of 11,000 users, estimates that the time spent on Google’s frontpage last Friday went from 11 seconds on average to 45 seconds. [...]

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