Reviews

Mozy – Online Backup. Great, Except For Restoring iPhoto & Aperture 3

Dear Mozy, First let me say how thrilled I was when I first learned about you and your online backup services, I especially liked the part where I could get 2GB free and expand it with 0.5GB for each friend I referred – a great way to start out with your service. I also liked … Read more →

Special Usenet/Newshosting Offer – Discount For Life & Unlimited Downloads

Usenet is a very fast and secure way of downloading pretty much anything you like – but in order to get access, you need to purchase a plan from one of the usenet providers. Such a plan will often provide you with a certain amount of Gigabytes per month, connections, security etc. Right now, Newshosting.com … Read more →

Get 2GB Free Online Backup Space With Mozy (Plus 500MB Extra)

I’m very happy to provide you with this tip on FREE online backup space for your Windows or Mac computer. There are several “cloud based” online backup providers out there these days, but I was looking for something for a client of mine, who needed to backup several Gigabytes of data to an external site, … Read more →

Review: Sony MDR-NC300D Noise Canceling Earbuds

SONY MDR-NC300D. Perhaps not the most appealing name and probably also not an easy name to relay to older family members when you tell them what you would like for your birthday. The name, however, becomes totally irrelevant once you find out exactly what these earbuds are made of and what they can do… In … Read more →

Apple Magic Mouse: Just Got It & I Hate It. Wanna Buy?

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. … Read more →

Woopra – Live Visitor Statistics For Your Blog

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 →

Interview & Review: Ryan, Webmaster Forum – LovingTech

Welcome to the first interview I’ve ever done for TechPatio – I hope you like it! Ryan Grant is a talented young individual from North West England who has a passion for developing successful websites, his latest creation is the LovingTech Webmaster Forum, which I’m personally also a member of. LovingTech Webmaster Forum consist of … Read more →

Movie Review: Seven Pounds (2008) – Will Smith, Rosario Dawson

Seven Pounds, Will SmithPlot: An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

I’m gonna let the cat out of the bag on this right now; this movie is fantastic and I strongly recommend you watch it, unless you’re only into action movies and such.

Seven Pounds is a movie up along side, or even better, than Pass It On (Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt) and almost – in my eyes and in this genre of movies – as good as The Shawshank Redemption (number #1 on the Top 250 IMDb list of all time).

Seven Pounds really touched me like only very few other movies ever did, including the two above mentioned movies.

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Movie Review: Fanboys (2008) – Kristen Bell, William Shatner, Seth Rogen

Plot: Star Wars fans travel to Skywalker Ranch to steal an early copy of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). Before you read any further, please make sure that you can answer the following 3 questions: Who tracks down Han Solo and takes him to Jabba The Hutt in Star Wars Episode … Read more →