More Than Half Of The Microsoft Xbox 360 Breaks

Microsoft Xbox 360Xbox 360 is a bittersweet success for Microsoft. Although the machine is the second most selling and so far keeps up with the very hyped Playstation 3, the cost has been high. First there was the Red Ring Of Death (RROD) issue, when a hardware failure meant that virtually all of the Xbox’ had to be replaced. In light of this, Microsoft extended warranty to three years.

But the errors didn’t stop there. A software update in the spring meant multiple machines went bust, again.

Now the magazine Game Informer investigated how widespread the problem really is. They sent questionnaires to 5,000 readers, and the results doesn’t look too good for Microsoft. 54.2 percent of Xbox 360 consoles break. By comparison, only 10 percent Playstation 3 and Wii 6.8 percent breaks.

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TechPatio Is A “Do Follow” Blog – Spreading The Link Love For Free

In case you didn’t know, TechPatio has alwas been a do follow blog. Meaning, if you post a comment on techpatio.com and include the link to your website/blog, you will receive some of the so called “link love” or “link juice”. Often nowadays, blogs are no follow blogs so if you post your link there, … Read more →

Simple & Easy DIY iPhone Dock For Free

diy_iphone_dock1This is one of those “Why didn’t I think of that!?”…

A really simple made Do It Yourself iPhone dock, made out of the box it came in and using the dock plate and USB sync cable that also came with the iPhone.

All you need is basically some glue and cutting a hole in the iPhone box and you have your very own home-made iPhone dock without paying Apple $49 for it.

“Seeing as the iPhone already comes with a dock plate, it was just a simple matter of gluing the dock cable to the plate and mounting it onto a box.” – Vince wrote in his caption.

[via: iPhone Savior]

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Q2 Plasma HDTV Sales Increased – LCD 40″+ Sales Flat

vizio-truled-vf551xvt-415As the LCD technology evolved, more and more was convinced that the days of plasma TV’s were over, and several manufacturers have even  opted to completely abandon the production of plasma displays.

New figures from the U.S. for the second quarter of this year shows that plasma technology is far from dead. Compared with the quarter before, there has been an increase of 31% in the number of units sold and an increase of 35% in turnover.

During the same period, the LCD television didn’t do quite as well, here the curve has been flat for the number of TV sales, while turnover fell 7%.

One of the reasons for the huge success of plasma technology is the new 2010 models from Panasonic, Samsung and LG, which breaks with the large energy consumption, plasma screens are known to have. The new models have had the energy cut down so much that it actually matches the LCD technology.

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3 Article Headline Techniques That Will Bring A Flood Of Traffic To Your Site

Article marketing can be a great way to drive traffic to your site. One of the best article directories, EzineArticles, get hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. EzineArticles allows you to submit your articles to their directory, for free! But getting the EzineArticle users to take a look at your article is a completely … Read more →

Most Popular Camera On Flickr: iPhone

Flickr logoThe vast majority of phones sold today comes with a built-in camera, but common to them all is that the quality is not yet near as good as what you’ll find in most pocket cameras. But one camera phone has done really well on the photo service Flickr, and that’s the Apple iPhone.
Flickr keeps statistics about the cameras used to upload pictures to their service and among mobile phones, the iPhone is far ahead, but now it has also taken first place among all cameras.

Until now it has been the Canon EOS 400D (XTi) which had the first place, but no more.

Observers don’t think that this means a lower quality of images, but more the fact that it’s much easier to put up pictures on Flickr via the iPhone.

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Facebook – Friend Or Foe ?

facebook-logoby Dino Delellis

A few days ago, I wrote an article that was republished a number of times around the internet. In it I detailed a little bit of the angst being felt by people who had been banned or suspended while diddling around in the social network – Facebook.

Go ahead, say it – so what ? Granted that being suspended from facebook pales next to world hunger and global melting or is that global warming. But, if you were the cherished one expected to invite 600 wedding guests to your mother-in-laws anniversary and suddenly you got suspended after sending out only 20 invites, well you know then that being banned at such an auspicious time is going to look a little suspicious, right?

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Facebook and FriendFeed Combine Power

facebook-logoby Ben Janke

Well, I’m certain that you’ve heard the news now that FriendFeed has been purchased by Facebook. This is working to put Facebook on the mapping for real-time search queries just like on Twitter. It sure does look like that Facebook is going after Twitter, hard-core.

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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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Friday Flick Find: David After Dentist

Todays Friday Flick Find video is “David After Dentist”. It features a 7 year old kid who had a tooth removed at the dentist. It’s quite funny and at the same time I can’t help feeling a bit sorry for the kid, but apparently he was fine after just a few hours and later that … Read more →

Interview With World Famous Problogger Darren Rowse (video)

Gideon Shalwick from the Become A Blogger program, at which I’m a premium member, had the honors of making a video interview with one of the most famous bloggers in the world – Darren Rowse from Problogger. In this 30 minutes video interview, Darren Rowse spills the beans on some very interesting subjects about blogging, … Read more →

Self Pity – Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself!

I found this video on human mindset by Karl Moore as part of the 30 Day Challenge to be very interesting and true indeed – I already knew about the principles explained in the video, but lots of people don’t – and even if they do – it’s good to have it refreshed in your memory, every now and then.

In this video Karl is talking about how to overcome self pity. I won’t give out all the details here, you would have no reason for watching the video then 🙂

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23 Badly Placed Internet Ads

Most times banner ads are clever enough to display ads relevant to the page you’re reading right now – like if you scroll to the bottom of this post and look for the Google AdSense banner, it will most likely advertise for something related to this post (I wonder what that might be).

But at other times, the banner networks really screw up!! Buzzfeed.com collected 23 Badly Placed Internet Ads that probably never should have been showed…

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Internet Web Site Marketing And SEO

by Tamas Maddox

Search Engine Optimization is a highly specialized skill that goes far beyond good content and HTML skills. Page structure, incoming links, style, title tags and many other things come into play to get a website to the top of the search engines for your keywords. Search Engine Optimization is crucial to your success online. Search engine optimization is a popular type of online marketing. The term SEO refers to utilizing content to increase search engine results and thus traffic. An internet web site marketing campaign can become quickly overwhelming of not done right. Search engines are the way most people find a web site. Being well-placed in the search results can make a tremendous difference in the number of visitors you get.

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