On my recent vacation in the United States, I suddenly found myself in a Bose outlet store in Leesburg Premium Outlet. An outlet center filled with boring clothing shops, if you ask me 😉 But the Bose shop instantly caught my attention. Initially I just wanted to look at their products and see if I … Read more →
Respect on the road is important and in more and more places respect and courtesy on the roads are becoming lesser by the day. We keep hearing about “road rage” and for some reason, too many drivers becomes animals behind the steering wheel. What’s to do about it? Well, for starters, AXA Car Insurance is … Read more →
Sometimes it can be a good idea to take a step back in time and see how things were done back then – also when it comes to technology, but mostly because it’s interesting to see how things used to work. The IBM 305 RAMAC might not be an iPhone killer (or is it?), but … Read more →
Engadget had their hands on the new Samsung Galaxy tab for a preview and several specifications are now available: Android 2.2 with TouchWiz 3.0 7″ capacitive touch screen with 1024×600 resolution Weight: 380 grams 16GB or 32GB internal storage 1 GHz Cortex A8 CPU 1.3MP front-facing camera and 3MP on the back 3G data and … Read more →
iTunes 10 was announced and launched yesterday at the Apple music event and I’ve been playing around with it a little bit for today. The first thing I noticed was how the left navigation sidebar now looks gray and dull. The colored icons are gone and replaced with color-less gray icons. Next after, I noticed … Read more →
Apparantly the new AppleTV, announced yesterday along with other Apple products and iTunes 10, will not be launched in countries where Apple can not offer movie and TV shows rentals, despite the 1st generation AppleTV being sold in those countries. I cannot confirm this but it’s the word out of Apple in Denmark, a country … Read more →
Yesterday, same day as Apple announced lots of new iStuff, Sony used the IFA fair in Berlin to announce they will launch a new video- and music service in Europe. At first it will only offer movies but later expand to include music as well. The service is based on their video-service, Qriocity, which already … Read more →
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 →