Klaus Over the past week I’ve answered a few questions in the comments here at TechPatio, asking if the speed of a website has anything to do with how it will rank in Google. My responses were, basically, “no, I don’t believe that is the case”. With the recent comments from Matt Cutts, “the face of … Read more →
Google started shooting pictures of the streets in Switzerland this summer for their Google Street View service. The local authorities didn’t like that one bit (no pun intended) and the Swiss commissioner for federal data protection, Hanspeter Thür, told Google to stop whatever they were doing! Google didn’t obey the request and continued their drive-by-shooting. … Read more →
I just updated my MacBook Pro to the latest version of Snow Leopard, 10.6.2. After a restart I noticed that my volume was turned all the way up, for some weird reason – but I couldn’t hear anything. Nothing came out of my internal speakers at all. No sound! First thing first, I turned to … Read more →
Twittley is a Digg-like Twitter community where users can “vote” on articles by tweeting them. The more tweets doesn’t necessarily mean a post will be made popular. It depends on the weight of those voting (tweeting) them. On the frontpage of Twittley you will find their Popular section, showing what articles are popular right now. … Read more →
If you don’t know how to spend your Sunday, how about checking out your PC and see if it needs a cleaning? If you’re on a laptop there’s probably not much to do, but if you’re not, you should be aware that sometimes an interior cleaning of your computer would be in order. Otherwise it … Read more →
Logging into Twitter.com yesterday, I found this appeared at the top of the page: Since it says that I’m part of the beta group, I assume not all of you have seen this one before, which is why I decided to share it with you and give a heads up of what you might be … Read more →
Sony just confirmed that Facebook is coming for the PlayStation 3, after several pictures revealed the social network on a PS3 a few days ago. Facebook and Twitter is already scheduled to be released for Xbox 360 in a software update November 17th. There’s still no news about when Facebook for PlayStation 3 will be … Read more →
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. I’m sure, by now, all my loyal readers will have read that I recently moved TechPatio.com to a VPS hosting platform and you … Read more →
Greetings, Twitter user! You’re here because somebody (probably myself) tweeted the link to this page and because you would like one of my free Google Wave invitations, ain’t that right? Well, it just so happens that I have 25 of them available (see proof below). I’ve given away Google Wave invitations two times before. Both … Read more →
This is so whacked I couldn’t believe my own eyes when I first read about it. I don’t mind EU at all, I actually prefer to be in the European Union and all that crap, but every now and then something comes along that makes you wonder how stoned those law-making people really are and … Read more →
YouTube has been offering regular 720p HD videos (1280×720) for a while now, if the uploaded video was in HD as well, of course. Most dedicated video camcorders today records in 1080i or 1080p resolution and next week YouTube will be able to display those as well – all the way up to 1080p. Billy … Read more →
Justine Ezarik, more commonly known as iJustine, is an Internet evangelist, blogger and self-proclaimed technology addict. You might have seen some of her videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites, as she has more than 75 million views online. This is the first time I feature one of iJustine’s videos in Friday Flick Find … Read more →
I’m not a Nokia fan, I haven’t liked many of their phones for several years, but their new N900 looks like an interesting piece of tech that I wouldn’t mind getting my greasy fingers all over. At least just to try out the Linux Maemo system it’s running. The Journey Starts Here Nokia (or their … Read more →
Jailbroken iPhone owners, you better listen up or you might be seeing Rick Astley as a wallpaper on your iPhone! There’s a new worm spotted in Australia. It “exploits” the fact that most users with a jailbroken iPhone, doesn’t change the default SSH password if you have OpenSSH installed. If the iPhone is infected, it … Read more →
If you believe what you hear in the media, there are an awful lot of viruses going around. No, I’m not talking about the make-you-sick kind of virus, though they get plenty of airtime too, especially the swine flu. I’m talking about the kind of virus that enters via your Internet connection rather than your … Read more →
Earlier today I posted a little bit about my issues with moving techpatio.com to another form of hosting, so called VPS (Virtual Private Server), with Surftown. It seems I have finally solved the worst problems and at least now the site is running and e-mails are able to be sent out (comments etc.). While there … Read more →