Well, well, well, what do you know… sometimes a SPAM mail will actually hold it’s promise and deliver on it. A company sent out such a SPAM mail before Christmas, wanting to give $10,000 away for free to the first person who replied with their personal details (bank info etc., also). Out of hundreds of … Read more →
In the beginning of February, the Black Hat Technical Security Conference is held in the US, where Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina will be speaking on a topic that might interest you, it will certainly interest Microsoft. The topic is “Internet Explorer turns your personal computer into a public file server”. In this presentation we will … Read more →
As it turns out, VPS hosting was not for me. Just to recap, here’s the hosting history of TechPatio.com for the past almost 7 months (since TechPatio was first launched): Surftown shared web hosting plan. I’ve been a customer there since 2004 – (a few months). Surftown VPS beta hosting as part of a small … Read more →
Take a good look at this Gullwing, how can it not be the coolest car ever made? I love it and I want one, some day…. I wish! WARNING: Don’t even think of pressing the “play” buttons below, unless you have your speakers turned on!! Find lot’s more videos and pictures (wallpapers) at the official … Read more →
I’m 95% sure that by now, you’ve heard about the new Apple iPad. If you haven’t (how could you not?), you can check it out at Apple’s iPad section. What I think about it? Well, it certainly looks interesting and I would love to try it out. But I don’t plan on getting one. First … 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. No matter if you’re in the domain market to buy a domain or to sell a domain, you’d most likely want to get … Read more →
If you own an Apple MacBook Pro 15″ unibody laptop and you’re considering a Lowepro Slingshot 350AW bag for your camera and laptop, you might want to read this first… The thing is, the Slingshot 350 AW is a great bag. I really enjoyed mine, most of the time, for the full two days I … 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. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for, oh I don’t know how many years now, you must have noticed how almost everybody … Read more →
Bad news first: The only bad thing to report from Apple’s Q1 earnings 2010 was a decrease in iPod sales by 8%, but still a total of 21 million iPod’s sold in Apple’s Q1 fiscal year (which is actually Q4 of 2009). The good news: Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones during that quarter, an increase … Read more →
Being one of the biggest websites in the world, with 350 million users, usually requires a thing or two when it comes to the servers hosting such a site. While I’m sure Facebook does not have 350 million active users, I’m sure they have many users to serve each day. In April 2009, when the … Read more →
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 →