A new month has arrived and that means it’s time to look back and see how August went for TechPatio.com in terms of traffic and money. I was on a two week vacation in August so I didn’t really have much time to write content and do the usual marketing, but thanks to a bunch … Read more →
Steve Jobs and Apple just wrapped up their September 1st music event in San Francisco, showing us the next two updates to iOS, new iPods, new AppleTV, new iTunes, new AirPlay (previously AirTunes) and a new social media site called Ping. Here’s a complete overview of all that has happened in the 1.5 hour long … Read more →
Awesome! For the first time since early 2000, I think, Apple is back with online streaming from one of their events and it’s all going to happen today/tonight (depending on where in the world you’re located, it’s tonight for me). An interesting twist though, Apple’s press release on the matter states that: Apple® will broadcast … Read more →
Press Release: ASHBURN, Va., August 30 — NEWSHOSTING.COM, the world’s leading provider of premium Usenet newsgroup service, today announced that it has upgraded retention across all of its 107,000+ newsgroups to 650 days. This upgrade comes at no added cost to Newshosting subscribers. Newsgroup retention rates indicate the length of time that a binary or … Read more →
So we all know that the web is basically built on HTML, and that programming language has been with us since 97, but now we are seeing the emergence of the new incarnation of HTML. The current version of HTML, (4) has been with us a long time and from its humble beginnings way back, … Read more →
Apple is usually rather strict about which apps to let into their App Store, especially if they duplicate features of built-in iPhone apps. Nevertheless, Opera Mini was (surprisingly) approved some time ago and also Atomic Web Browser has been approved. Now there’s a new browser just around the corner, called Skyfire. According to MobileCrunch, it’s … Read more →
I don’t know what to call this, a bargain, a steal? Either way, I’m pretty sure that $0.33 CPM is rather cheap for either a 468×60 upper right corner header banner ad or a 160×600 skyscraper middle right banner ad, am I right? Let’s be honest here, I’m new to this whole advertisement business but … Read more →
Diaspora* is an open source project that was launched a few months ago where they initially tried to raise just $10,000 via Kickstarter.com so that these four guys could develop their Facebook competitor. They ended up getting around $180,000 instead – including some money (apparently) from Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg. The deal with Diaspora is … Read more →
Like photography? Own an iPad or iPhone? Then you’re gonna want to check out Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet app. There’s both an iPad and an iPhone version out, the iPad version is $8.99 and iPhone version is $4.99 in the US iTunes Store. This review is based on the iPad version and if you … Read more →
The current world record holder, Melissa Thompson from United Kingdom, wrote the paragraph (below) in 25.94 seconds on a Samsung Galaxy S using the Swype input method: The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human. Blogger Brian Sweet … Read more →
WordPress 3.0 has been out for some time now but I don’t feel comfortable upgrading to a new major version until at least one bug fix has been issued, so when 3.0.1 came out, I was ready to upgrade. Unfortunately I was about to go on vacation so I didn’t have time – but now … Read more →
I’ve mentioned TweetAdder before, but last time I really told my story was all the way back in January 2010 on how I got 500 targeted Twitter followers in 5 days. A lot has happened since then, as I’m now up to over 16,000 Twitter followers – thanks to TweetAdder. Not too bad, ay? A … Read more →
Press Release from my favorite Usenet provider: Ashburn, VA – USENETSERVER.COM, the recognized leader in affordable Usenet access, is pleased to announce the launch of its new internationalized website. The new UsenetServer.com website launch is part of UsenetServer’s commitment to bring premium, affordable Usenet to end-users throughout the world. In addition to more streamlined content … Read more →
Click here to read the first part of this two-part series post: Back from vacation – and a big thanks to the guest posters! Yep, so I was on vacation. Basically it was a road trip on the east coast in the United States. Spent a few days in New York City, then drove up … Read more →
If you’re one of the 8% recurring visitors to TechPatio.com, you might have noticed a lot of guests posts during August – well, the reason is simple, I’ve been away on vacation. About a week before I left, I published an article letting people know that TechPatio is open for guest posts (and still is, … Read more →
If, for whatever reason that might be, you’re not satisfied with how Apple integrated multitasking into iOS 4, you might want to give Multifl0w 2.0 a shot. It requires jailbreak – of course – and you’ll have to buy it through Cydia which is the “dark side of App Store”, though it’s not really dark … Read more →