Official: 300,000 iPads Sold During First Day. I Want One!!

It’s official. Apple announced that they sold 300,000 iPads on opening day. The number includes pre-order pickups, deliveres to channel partners and walk-in sales at Apple Stores. With a starting price at $499 and 300,000 units sold, we’re looking at 150 million dollars spent on iPads… The 300,000 new iPad owners went ahead and downloaded … Read more →

Money March 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

Another month has passed and that means it’s time to do another round-up post with my income report for TechPatio.com. You may have noticed how I wrote “Money March” in the title to this post. Well, there’s a good reason for that: I focused a lot of my energy on making money this past month. … Read more →

Friday Flick Find: Wilhelm Scream

Welcome to another Friday Flick Find – the first one i April, that is. If you want to see my past Friday Flick Find videos, simply click here! Wilhelm Scream Have you ever seen a movie where somebody would scream because they got hurt? I bet you have. It’s likely that you’ve experienced the Wilhelm … 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 →

Usenet Index Site, Newzbin, Found Liable For Copyright Infringement

Newzbin is a usenet indexing site that basically indexes everything on the binary usenet servers. You cannot actually download any content from Newzbin, except for “NZB” files (like a torrent file) that will allow your “news reader” to easily download the necessary files to extract whatever content you are downloading (legal or illegal). To actually … Read more →

D-Town TV: The Weekly Photography Show For DSLR Shooters

This is just going to be a quick post about a video podcast I really enjoy watching. It’s a weekly show by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski for Digital SLR photographers, but anybody who enjoys photography will be able to learn from this show, though some of the DSLR tips of course only applies to … Read more →

Adobe Photoshop CS5: Content Aware Fill – Amazing New Feature (+Parody Video)

While there are a few great alternatives to Photoshop, and even a free one (GIMP), there’s no way around it – Photoshop is the king of image editing software. One of the great new features of Photoshop CS5 (not released yet) is Content Aware Fill. Adobe just released a demonstration (sneak peek) of this new … Read more →

Gmail Warns About Suspicious Activity

Since (almost) forever, Gmail has been showing from where (IP address) the last login at your mail account occurred. But very few people actually pay attention to it and most people are not aware of their own IP address and whether or not a login has occurred from a different IP. Now, Google changed this … Read more →

iPhone Hacked In 20 Seconds – Text Messages Exposed

Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann spent 20 seconds yesterday on the first day of Pwn2Own “hacker” conference in Canada, to hack an iPhone and steal all the text messages (SMS) in the phone, including sent, received and even deleted messages. They also said it was possible to get your contacts, e-mails and pictures, using the … Read more →

GoDaddy “Goes Google” And Disobeys China, Stops Selling .CN Domains

Google already pulled the plug when it comes to abide by the censorship rules set by the Chinese government. Initially Google just redirected traffic from censured Google.cn to Google.com.hk in Hong Kong, uncensured. It didn’t take many hours before the Chinese censorship authorities put their own censuring in place though, and so, Google remains censured … Read more →

Opera Mini 5 for iPhone Submitted to App Store – Don’t Hold Your Breath!

Norwegian software company, Opera, now has a Opera Mini 5 version ready for the iPhone. It has already been submitted to Apple for approval in the App Store, but I wouldn’t hold my breath to see it being approved anytime soon. I seem to remember having read that Apple doesn’t want applications that duplicates functions … Read more →

Just Host Review [Sponsored Post]

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this. The first you’ll see at the front page of Just Host’s website, besides a blue-eyed blonde girl, is the catch phrase “The last … Read more →