Klaus A lot of great news and interesting products came out of Apple in Cupertino over the last day or so, I’m not even sure I actually managed to grab it all – but I did write a few summaries about what I found interesting. Note that the links below leads to my Apple-related blog, ApplePatio.com, … Read more →
Apple once again delivered a great quarterly result by breaking their own record, again. The turnover for Q3 2009 was 9.87 billion dollars with a profit of 1.67 billion dollars. An increase in turnover of almost 2 billion dollars from 7.9 billion dollars compared to the same period last time. Profit increased by 410 million … Read more →
… you could be missing out on some sweet commenting action! Allow me to explain: When it comes to WordPress, there’s usually three kinds of bloggers (more or less): Those with a pretty standard WordPress installation and no “subscribe to comments”-plugin whatsoever. Those with some 3rd party comment-system like Disqus or similar, that handles it … Read more →
Disclaimer: This is not a “get rich quick”-scheme on how you can make $211,969. This is a video on how Yaro Starak managed to earn $211,969 while traveling around the world. It’s an inspiring video to watch even if you don’t want to spend the full 14 minutes watching it, at least check out the … Read more →
The company Arbor Networks, in cooperation with University of Michigan, has created a report called “2009 Internet Observatory Report“. In the report, they conclude that after having studied over 256 exabytes worth of traffic (I’ll explain how much that is, in just a bit…), that half of that traffic comes from just 150 companies. Just … Read more →
Could salt be a future storage device? Researchers at University of Edinburgh have worked on creating the perfect crystals out of salt. A process not easily accomplished. By using two low-energy lasers, they managed to make use of an old discovery found years ago, that light can be used to create a crystal formation. The … Read more →
The latest study from ComCast into the US search engine market shows that Bing only saw a 0.1% increase from 9.3% to 9.4% from August to September, while Google increased by 0.3% to 69.9%. It’s mostly Yahoo taking the biggest hit on the risings from Bing and Google as they saw a decrease of 0.5% … Read more →
What kind of a blogger are you? A) The one that diggs all of your own posts. B) The one that diggs some of your own posts. C) The one that never diggs your own posts. So, which one are you, blogger type A, B or C? The digg community guidelines says: Don’t spam. You’re … Read more →
Several elements can cause laptops to take a greater toll on the environment than desktop computers. Especially since the laptop computers with small power consumption has convinced many that laptops are “greener”, compared to desktop computers. But looking at the total impact on the environment, it’s not so certain that a laptop is actually greener … Read more →
This is some pretty cool stuff. A team of scientists from the University of Missouri reports a break-through in battery technology. The scientists have created a battery with the size of a small coin, able to contain a million times as much capacity than a regular battery and last for hundreds of years. It contain … Read more →
Woopra is an innovative live tracking and analytics software for your website or blog. It provides detailed analytics data just like the free Google Analytics does, but Woopra does it live – which can be very interesting to look at it. Up until recently, Woopra was in closed beta so you would need to apply … Read more →
For decades, Internet users have been typing in http:// in front of the websites they wanted to visit, but according to one of the inventors behind World Wide Web, the two forward slashes was partially a mistake. Actually you don’t even have to enter http:// in front of the domain name, most browsers today, if … Read more →
That title caught your attention, huh? How to instantly boost visitors to your blog! Now that would be something… before I tell you the secret, first have a look at this pageviews graph screenshot within my WordPress dashboard. I took this screenshot right before midnight, so the day was almost over – I’m sure you … Read more →
A few weeks ago I blogged about the gloves from Dots Gloves that will allow you to control your capacitive touch screen device (such as iPhone, iPod Touch etc.) while still wearing gloves – really useful during winter and other cold periods, where you might not be too happy about walking around with bare hands … Read more →
I’m not going to get into a whole deal about fanboys/fanbois here, Scott Sharkey from 1up seems to have nailed it pretty good in his video, where he believes that the world needs fanboys. If we didn’t have fanboys we would only have geniuses, intellectual discussions and peace in the world. Plus free candy for … Read more →
Despite the title may sound a bit “yeah, right”-like, this is actually some serious stuff. Scientists from Victoria University in New Zealand have developed an application that is said to be able to “trigger” if it spots certain tendencies with users at social media sites such as Facebook or MySpace, suggesting that the users could … Read more →