Nostalgia? Why not take good ol’ Windows 3.1 for a spin in your browser. Michaelv.org has a decent version of Windows 3.1 running and it requires nothing else than your modern-day web browser to use it. Windows 3.1 was first released in October 1992 and later replaced with Windows 3.11 in 1993. A few years … Read more →
Back in November, I was accepted as part of a VPS beta test program with Danish/Swedish hosting provider, Surftown. I moved TechPatio.com to the VPS server and now the beta test has been concluded. I have recently ordered one of the final VPS server solutions for TechPatio and so I will be moving the site … Read more →
Yesterday I wrote about a visit to the company that created graphics for Avatar 3D, the movie, so I thought today it would be approriate to feature a really amazing computer-generated movie as Friday Flick Find. “A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects … Read more →
Most of you are probably aware of James Cameron’s latest creation, Avatar, and some of you might also have watched it in 3D. If you haven’t, go do it before it’s too late, it’s really a great movie, despite the story not being the most original. The company behind the graphics in Avatar is Weta … Read more →
You are probably already aware of the Apple event on Wednesday the 27th of January. Lots of rumors going around on what to expect from the event and the only thing Apple is telling us, is “come see our latest creation”: The site, BoyGeniusReport, claim to have received a screenshot from the new iPhone OS … Read more →
BBC News reports that France has now joined Germany in their warning against web users browsing with Internet Explorer and also recommends users to find an alternative Internet browser until Microsoft has issued a patch to fix the security hole in the three Internet Explorer browsers. While a switch to an alternative browser, such as … Read more →
Recompute has created a computer where the casing is made out of cardboard. The company announced on their Twitter recently that the cardboard computer can be ordered already now, even though expected delivery and price is not yet official. Apparently, by making the computer casing out of cardboard, they reduce the amount of material not … 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. Do you remember the first time you launched either Word or Excel of Microsoft Office 2007? What was the first thing you noticed … Read more →
After Microsoft admitted it’s Internet Explorer was the weak link in the recent attack on Google’s systems, Germany has responded by warning web users to use an alternative browser than Internet Explorer. Even though spokesman Thomas Baumsgaertner, Microsoft Germany, said that the attacks were by “highly motivated people with a very specific agenda” and that … Read more →
GTA, Chinatown Wars, just hit the App Store and is available for iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a $10 ‘investment’ that will guarantee you some interesting game time. I bought it and tested it – just so you wouldn’t have to in case it sucked. So far, it’s really great and worth every penny. In … Read more →
A new webmaster video has been released from Matt Cutts, where he talks about how Google see links from Twitter and Facebook coming to your site and how the PageRank flows from these sites as well. If you’re a webmaster or a blogger, it might be a good idea to follow @googlewmc on Twitter to … Read more →
I first saw this version of Banana Phone over at Kikolani’s Fetching Friday, yesterday. The expressions on the woman performing in the video, are priceless, as she sings and dances around to banana phone. But when the song began playing in my head as of Monday morning, I knew the banana bug caught me. So … Read more →
LarsD from over at BlogInTheBag.com has created a program (still command line based, I believe) that will create a 100 megapixel mosaic picture, based on your Twitter followers and it will eventually look like your own profile picture. For testing purpose, he used my Twitter profile picture. Here’s a video of how 50,000 profile pictures … 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. We all know what ink is used for. Most of us use it for drawing and writing. But from where does ink really … Read more →
Since all I’m into photography (an expensive hobby, mind you!) at the moment, and I showed you some shots of how close you can get to your subject with a 300mm tele zoom lens last week, I wanted to take a different road today and show you some “not too pretty”-photos but rather some photos … Read more →
How cool is this kid? He’s just 5 year old and he plays the drums like that. I don’t know if I’m only impressed cause I have no clue on how to play the drums, but he does a pretty good job, especially in the end where he really seems to be picking up the … Read more →