Each year, Fortune (the magazine), elects the world’s most admired companies. For the third year in a row, Apple is the winner. This year, Apple even increased it’s distance down to 2nd place, Google, and 3rd place, Berkshire Hathaway (investment firm). A total of 4,200 executives and analysts voted in Fortune’s study. As BMW CEO … Read more →
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. WordPress is one of the most-used and best platforms for blogging. If not the best platform for the purpose. WordPress was started back … Read more →
This is a sponsored post, paid for by Sponsored Reviews. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this. If you own an inkjet printer for your computer, you’re probably aware that buying new ink cartridges can be quite expensive. If … Read more →
A few days ago I wrote about the first comment spam that I received from this Dr. Ann Voisin person, a message that is most likely automated and simply abusing the name of the real Dr. Ann Voisin from Linda Christas College. Click here to read that post: Akismet Blocking Your Blog? No Way, Just a SPAM Trick!
Conan O’Brien, you might have heard of him in relation to Jay Leno and The Tonight Show. Long story short, he has over 500,000 followers on Twitter – and he doesn’t follow anybody himself. Until 1 hour ago, where he wrote this tweet: Sarah Killen, who is @LovelyButton, up until a few hours ago had … Read more →
This one is a classic so it deserves a spot in my Friday Flick Find series, where I every Friday try to feature a cool or interesting video to show you. If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to work in tech support, here’s your chance to take a look behind the scenes. … Read more →
If you’re a Twitter user and you follow one of the really big guys with like a million other followers, you could – without knowing it – actually be part of a DDoS attack. DDoS stands for “Distributed Denial of Service” and is used to describe what happens when a website receives so many requests … Read more →
I recently moved away from MobileMe as my primary Inbox, to which I had a few other e-mail accounts forward e-mail to. I was happy with MobileMe as my e-mail provider, except for the fact that some e-mails never arrived, not even in my spam/junk folder. I investigated and found out that the sending SMTP … Read more →
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. Getting free stuff on the Internet is nothing new these days, but when a 200 pages long eBook comes a long, which is … Read more →
Apple fanbois, you better buckle up, cause when the anti-Apple crew gets a hold of this little titbit from Charlie Miller, they might mock your choice of being a Mac user just a little bit. Italian IT Security site, oneITsecurity, published an interview with Charlie Miller, two-year contest champion at Pwn2Own where the deal is … Read more →
February. Such a short month. Only 28 days. Never the less, these past 28 days were very interesting for TechPatio, as the table below will show you. Maybe it’s because of the winter or maybe TechPatio.com is just growing? Well, have a look at the table and then I’ll discuss a few of the numbers … Read more →
I’ve been enjoying my Aperture 3 so much that I went ahead and purchased a license even before the trial expired, despite the Aperture 3 problems that some other users might have experienced, my Aperture 3 seemed to be running acceptable. Then, Apple recently released version 3.0.1 and things got even better. One of the … Read more →
I already did one post on SPAM today (read it here: Bloody Sexual Twitter DM’s. Go Away!), so I might as well continue in that track with another SPAM related post for WordPress. As a blogger, getting SPAM comments is to be expected and it happens every day for most blogs, several times a day … Read more →
The micro-blogging social network, Twitter, recently reached 50 million daily tweets, so it’s safe to say that Twitter is getting more and more popular as time goes by. Just like anything else popular, some people will try to exploit for. For Twitter, it’s often spammers. For instance, I follow many Twitter users because of TweetAdder … Read more →
I don’t usually do a lot of hardware reviews on this site, as much as I would like to, at least, so here’s one of my latest acquisitions. It was sitting there in the store window as I went to purchase my Apple Magic Mouse (which I sold again the day after for half the … Read more →
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, turned 55 yesterday. Happy Birthday, Steve! I hope you didn’t get a Magic Mouse though 🙂 Because of Steve’s birthday this week, I want to dedicate this Friday Flick Find to him. Well, to his “jokes”, that is. I doubt we will see much of this in the future, unless Microsoft … Read more →