The online reputation building is a tough job and it takes years to build a trusted and well-established company with an excellent online rapport. It becomes even more difficult when there are millions of people like you who are trying hard to be at the top and be the one most reputed. The reputation building … Read more →
All WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and other CMSs users know the excruciating pain they have to go through to find the perfect theme for their blogs and websites. It is not as if there are not good themes for these CMSs. On the contrary, there are large numbers of greatly designed themes present on internet. The … Read more →
Every person using Internet has downloaded files to their computer at least a couple of times. If it is really a couple of times, then most probably web browser possibilities are just fine for that. But when you need to download the files often and lots of them, then you’ll need an app that would … Read more →
Dear readers, This is a notice, and a small heads-up, that the normal blog commenting system (WordPress-based) will disappear from TechPatio.com during Summer of 2013, more specifically, during June and July for sure, and I may even extend it to cover August as well. The WordPress-based commenting system currently supports users leaving their name and … Read more →
In 2002, PayPal changed the small business landscape by allowing small businesses to make online transactions independent of markets like eBay and Amazon; but until recently, their near-monopoly kept service expensive and buggy. With half a dozen challengers finally breaking out in the last few years, small businesses have seen online payments get cheaper, more … Read more →
Just because we manually make some alterations in our Mac system as a set of optimization activities, it does not mean the Mac machine is immune to slowdown and won’t be needing any deeper cleanup. We do only the alterations for which we have been assigned privileges; therefore, Mac OS X requires such cleanups frequently. … Read more →
The VISION IS BETTER series is an epic collection of articles, essays, and tutorials about the photographic life. David duChemin shares his insights on the how and why of photography, visual storytelling, and life lessons learned along the way. Now announcing Vision is Better 3: Become a Better Photographer, Make Better Photographs—the latest and largest … Read more →
Yahoo bought Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars yesterday, and now they have relaunched their photo-sharing site, Flickr, and now offers all users a free 1 terabyte (TB) worth of storage. Back in 2004 when Google launched Gmail, they offered users 1 gigabyte (GB) of free storage, saying users would never have to delete an e-mail … Read more →
… Microsoft Internet Explorer! That’s what NSS Labs claims. In a test, they fired malware against five popular browsers to see which browser holds up the most. The five browsers in the test were: Internet Explorer 10, Google Chrome 25/26, Apple Safari 5, Mozilla Firefox 19 and Opera 12. In the test, Internet Explorer managed … Read more →
American news sites reports that Yahoo has purchased micro-blogging platform Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Apparently the board at Yahoo approved the deal Sunday evening and it’s expected that Yahoo will announce the deal during Monday. This will be the biggest purchase Yahoo has made, since Marissa Meyer took over as CEO in June of … Read more →
The giveaway has ended! Winners will be contacted via e-mail from 3DPageFlip with their license codes! 3D PageFlip Standard 3D PageFlip Standard is flipbook converter which enable users convert PDF/Open Office/MS office/Images to stunning eBooks with page-flipping effect. It will keeps all features of original PDF like images, texts, table of contents, PDF links, etc. … Read more →
Do you ever receive those e-mails where the signature contains a line that goes something like “think about the environment, do you really need to print this e-mail?”. I get them occasionally, and I think it’s a good reminder not to waste paper unless you have to. At the same time, I know of several … Read more →
Most of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we think, how we work, and it even changes our brains. Now, a video has surfaced, based on an interview with Nicholas Carr (the author of “The Shallows: What … Read more →
Who will visit a boring blog or website? No one! So why let your site stay the same? Recreate it and engage your visitors fully. More than anyone else it’s your website and you who’ll gain advantages. Hey, you don’t have to do complicated stunts and strategies to make your website dynamic or entertaining, you … Read more →
Internet is the most used tool for all computer users, but one of the problems with online videos sites such as YouTube is there is a lot of distraction right and under the video player. And that in addition you want to watch only the video on that page. Turn Off the Lights is a … Read more →
In this age of instant and often anonymous online communication, it sometimes seems as if politeness has become a casualty—either because we have become so overwhelmed by multi-tasking that “please” and “thank you” have slipped from our online vocabulary or because many feel it is their right (if not their duty) to criticize others in … Read more →