Klaus With the words by Choosy developer George Brocklehurst, let’s see what Choosy is all about: Forget the default browser, Choosy opens links in the right browser. When you click on a link Choosy will do the right thing, whether that’s something simple (like using whatever browser is already running) or something complex (like prompting you … Read more →
I bet you didn’t think notebooks would ever look like this when you got your first laptop back in the 90’s, but Intel just showed a new concept they call Activedash which comes with four displays; A normal, big, display and three touch sensitive displays just above the keyboard. The three touch screens works just … Read more →
The Xperia Pureness mobile phone from Sony Ericsson is the first phone with a transparent main screen. Xperia Pureness should be available in United Kingdom sometime in November with a price tag of £530 (€600), according to the British website Brand Republic. As opposed to the usual sales channels for Sony Ericsson and cell phones … Read more →
Last week I found out that my CommentLuv plugin was broken, today I found the culprit and the problem has been fixed, so you can now use CommentLuv again here on TechPatio.com to promote your latest blog posts and receive some link love 🙂 The problem was some javascript code from Chitika that would insert … Read more →
I just found out why I haven’t seen any “xxx’s latest blog post: bla bla bla”-texts at the end of all the comments here on techpatio for the past few days: My CommentLuv plugin is broken. Unfortunately, at this time, I have no clue what is wrong with it. But at least now I know … Read more →
Today’s Friday Flick Find video is a video I made myself, yep that’s right, I made it myself so it’s brand new on YouTube and fresh out of the stove (though it’s a while back since I actually recorded it). While this video also focuses around guns (BB guns and an air rifle), it’s really … Read more →
Twitter is a rather small company with just 50 employees in San Francisco, but already worth one billion dollars, as they just received an injection worth $50 million. Twitter has not officially confirmed this new $50 million, which most of it came from Insight Venture Partners in New York, but TechCrunch reports that the employees … Read more →
Sometimes a featured post can be a good thing, if you have something you’d really want to push and make your readers aware of – like you can see on the following screenshot where I’m “pushing” the first interview I’ve ever done for techpatio.com. That post, as featured, will always appear on top of my … Read more →
Earlier this week I wrote about how Mail.app in Snow Leopard changed the way e-mail addresses would be copied to your clipboard, when you right click on a “From” name on an e-mail, to copy their e-mail address. The way it used to work, like in Leopard, was that it simply copied the e-mail address, … Read more →
The small Apple TV 40GB has been removed from the Apple Store, leaving only the 160GB version available for purchase, which also saw a price cut, now down to $229. If you’re satisfied with just getting content from the iTunes Store (or converting your stuff to an iTunes compatible format), the Apple TV is a … Read more →
There’s no need to bust your shiny new iPhone 3GS wide open if you want to see what it looks like on the inside, or if you just want some iPhone porn – have a look at this X-ray video instead and you can see what’s hiding inside the iPhone. See something you like…?
Microsoft has bet big on their new search engine, Bing, and it seems to be the right move, according to a study into the U.S. search market. Bing had 1.1 billion searches in August, an increase of 22.1% compared to July. This gives Microsoft a market share of 10.7% of all searches. There is still … Read more →
Hitler learns that the new generation of iPod Touch doesn’t come with a camera and when he finds out that the camera instead was put into the Nano….. well, take a look for yourself 🙂 It’s a fun video and probably funnier if you understand as little German as I do.
I didn’t really plan on it, but while I saw it at the shop I decided to pick it up anyway, The Lost Symbol from Dan Brown. I was going to wait till November when it’s released in my primary language but since one of my goals with this blog, techpatio.com, is to improve my … Read more →
Facebook seems to be moving more and more into the whole Twitter thing recently and now they just added yet another Twitter like feature: “@Replies” in your status updates. It’s very simple. As you write your status update, you just hit “@” on your keyboard and you can start writing the name of the person … Read more →
iContact, my all-time favourite when it comes to e-mail marketing and autoresponders both professionally and personally, just upgraded their application with some new features. Here’s a quick run-down of the new features just added: Spell Check Now the message editor has the ability to recognize misspelled words, highlight them, and provide suggested options for correcting … Read more →