Depressed? Use Social Media And Be Saved. Seriously!

Despite the title may sound a bit “yeah, right”-like, this is actually some serious stuff. Scientists from Victoria University in New Zealand have developed an application that is said to be able to “trigger” if it spots certain tendencies with users at social media sites such as Facebook or MySpace, suggesting that the users could … Read more →

A Missing Dot Crashed Swedish Domains For Up To 24 Hours

For almost one hour, between 21:45 and 22:43 CET, Monday evening, all Swedish domains (.se) were inaccessible for all Internet users. An investigation afterwards revealed that a tiny human error was the reason for the “crash”. A routine maintenance script was missing a dot when updating the Swedish Top Level Domain (TLD), causing all Swedish … Read more →

Firefox 3.6 Will Support Accelerometers – Beta Release Tomorrow?

Firefox 3.6 beta was supposed to be made available for download today or yesterday, but so far I haven’t been able to find a download link for it – I can only assume that it might come out tomorrow instead? Firefox 3.6 comes with bug fixes as well as some interesting improvements such as a … Read more →

Membership Site: How To Find Out What Your Members Want Before You Launch

Last week I blogged about the free Membership Site Masterplan report you could download and read before the Membership Site Mastermind program re-opens for new studens October 27th, the last time in 2009. Today I’d like to direct your attention to a short video by Yaro Starak where he explains how to use a simple … Read more →

Woman Arrested For Virtual Poke On Facebook

Have you ever poked somebody on Facebook only to have them poke back at you and you then poked again and they did the same to you and before you knew it, you were inside an endless loop? Facebook poking is perhaps the most simple way of “communication” within Facebook, even though it’s nothing else … Read more →

Lufthansa To Install Mobile Broadband In Airplanes – FlyNet

Lufthansa announced yesterday that they will be installing equipment for mobile broadband in 50 of their long-distance airplanes. Passengers will be able to logon and connect to the Internet throughout the entire cabin, just like you would with any other wireless hot-spot. There’s also access for devices supporting GRPS, which is a rather old and … Read more →

Windows Mobile 6.5: All The New Features

Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 didn’t exactly win any prizes when it was released last week, but it does have some visual changes and new features you can enjoy, while you wait for Windows Mobile 7 to be released sometime next – here’s a list: Features MSN Widget (real-time weather, sports, etc.) Facebook Mobile MySpace Mobile … Read more →

Microsoft Shows “Minority Report” Look-Alike Office Wall

Microsoft Research just showed a prototype of how our office walls might look like in the future, based on their Microsoft Surface thoughts – having surfaces around us become part of our lives. The system is based on cameras, microphones and touchscreens and works a lot like the systems you would have seen in movies … Read more →

Learn How To Launch & Make An Income From Membership Sites

Yaro Starak, my favorite Internet Guru and the guy behind membership sites such as Become A Blogger, Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind, is soon re-opening the doors for the last time in 2009 to his Membership Site Mastermind program. The last time Membership Site Mastermind took in new students was in May 2009, so … Read more →

WordPress Plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do (WWSGD) – “If You’re New Here…”

I’ve received quite a few questions already from my great techpatio.com readers, asking me how I get that message to appear at the bottom of my posts that (per default) says: “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!”. I changed mine a bit, so that it … Read more →