Google will no longer be cooperating with the Chinese censorship authorities, they said in a recent press release: We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate … Read more →
I found this great piece of image in my archives. Unfortunately I can’t remember from where I got it, so I can’t give proper credits. If you know who made it, please leave a comment. I wanted to show it to you cause I think it’s pretty funny – and I’m sure, in most cases, … Read more →
American company, iSuppli, took an inside look at the Nexus One phone from Google, manufactured by HTC. It turns out that the price for all parts accumulate to $174.15. The most expensive part is the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm which apparently accounts for around $31. The 3.7″ AMOLED screen from Samsung is estimated at … Read more →
A few days ago I recieved a Tamron A17 70-300mm lens for my Nikon D5000. The full name is Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro. I don’t know enough about DSLR shooting to determine whether or not the lens is any good, but for the price of less than $200, I’m quite satisfied with it. … Read more →
The world-known App Store from Apple, I think it’s safe to say by now, just reached 3 billion downloads. In April 2009, nine months after launch, App Store reached 1 billion downloads and now they just reached the 3 billion downloads mark. App Store is 18 months old now and with a total of 3 … Read more →
One of the most popular applications for iPhone and iPod Touch, Facebook, has just been updated to version 3.1 and now includes the long awaited Push Notifications. Receiving the push notifications on your iPhone does not necessarily require that you have “Push” enabled, as this usually drains your battery rather quick. I have mine set … Read more →
This is going to be a very short summary & income report-post, I’ll tell you why in a minute. But first, Congratulations to me for having TechPatio.com online for 6 months now. That’s six full months of blogging. It’s been both fun and exhausting, it’s not as easy as they all say it is 🙂 … Read more →
Welcome to the 2nd Friday Flick Find in 2010. Girls, please stop reading – I doubt many of you will find the videos today too amusing, especially the last one. If you do decide to read on anyway, let me then apologize for not embedding the videos as I usually do. Embedding is disabled by … 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. PBX stands for Private Branch Exchange and is a telephone exchange that services a particular business or office. PBX is also known as … Read more →
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Let’s go back and pretend today is Friday January 1st 2010, then it means I’m not a few days late with this Friday Flick Find 🙂 What else to show a video of, on this day (January 1st), than Fireworks? I picked this video partly because of the New Year but also because we don’t … Read more →
I hope it’s not too late to wish you all a Merry Christmas – otherwise consider this an early greeting for Christmas 2010 🙂 Happy New Year 2009 is close to an end and a new year (2010) is just around the corner. 2009 was great for TechPatio for one reason: It was the year … Read more →
Somone over at Thesis Theme HQ reviewed TechPatio.com recently and compared the current site design and layout (as of December ’09) to the one I had before switching to the Thesis theme, back in August 2009. She did a really fantastic and lengthy review of my site and I’m really happy to see how much … Read more →
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We’re in the middle of the Christmas Holidays but it’s still Friday and that means Friday Flick Find. Of course I had to find something “Christmassy” for today’s video. We all know who Jack Bauer is, so how about a video where he interrogates Santa Claus?
Each year, Google announce the most popular searches throughout the year and now Facebook wants to get a piece of that pie. Facebook looks through words posted in status updates from users in the USA, to determine “words of the year”. 1st place: Various Facebook applications, where words such as “MafiaWars” and “FarmVille” are found … Read more →