A survey made by an American electronics insurance company, SquareTrade, reports that 33% of all laptops break within just three years. Hardware issues makes up for 66% of those cases. Cheap netbooks (small notebooks) are even more likely to break, in fact the failure rate is 20% higher and the chance of hardware failure is … Read more →
Who would have thought, there’s actually something that Internet Explorer 8 does better than the other browsers 🙂 When it comes to battery life on your laptop, surfing with Internet Explorer 8 is likely to provide you with 8% more minutes for surfing than if using Firefox 3.5.2. Safari 4 in Windows is the worst … Read more →
Rumors have launched the Apple “iTablet” several times already, but it never showed. Now Digitimes reveals that Apple delayed the tablet till late 2010 as they want to swap some of the components and launch a model with 9.7″ OLED screen from LG instead. OLED screens are still very expensive but prices are expected to … Read more →
I’m not a huge gamer. I mean, I can play a little PlayStation every now and then, but for the past few years it’s mostly been Uncharted: Drakes Fortune and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare. Well, that was last year. This year it has been Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and soon, Call Of Duty: Modern … Read more →
I love impressions, also known as impersonations. It’s amazing how they manage to sound exactly like somebody else – I wish I could do that from time to time. It could be “my thing”, you know, like a “party trick” or something. That would be so cool! It’s too bad that this video shows the … Read more →
I’ve been ‘suffering’ from the “iSyndrome” since I got my first MacBook back in Q2 2006 and when the iPhone EDGE was released in the US, I had no other choice than go to eBay and import one of them. Then came the iPhone 3G and I bought one locally. The year after, iPhone 3GS … Read more →
This is a very short post on these topics: Personal, iPhone, introvert brains and Megan Fox. Last night when I couldn’t sleep, I decided maybe it was time to try something new. I went on to the iTunes Wifi store on my iPhone to find the most boring podcast out there, to help me fall … Read more →
Apple has taken over Nokia, when looking at profit by selling cellphones, according to a recent study by Strategy Analytics. With operating profits in the third quarter of $1.6 billion (estimated by Strategy Analytics), they made more money by Nokia with $1.1 billion. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones during the third quarter (July-September), generating sales … Read more →
This is a true story, folks! Robert Bradford, a teenager from New York, can send his regards to Facebook for him not being sent to jail. On October 17th he wrote a Facebook status update, from his father’s computer in Harlem, “Where’s my pancakes”. The day later he was arrested, for a robbery commited around … Read more →
“Unfriend”. One of the new buzz words in 2009, thanks to the social media explosion. We all know what it means to “google it”. It means to go online and search for something (on Google, since I don’t think it’s possible to “google something” on Bing…). For Twitter users, “unfollow” has also grown to be … Read more →
During the weekend when I wanted to go for a walk, I couldn’t find my iPhone earbuds. After searching for a few minutes I remembered that I stored them in my pants as I walked up the stairs, coming home from my last walk. Where were those pants now? In the washing machine! Not much … Read more →
When I decide who to follow on Twitter, it’s usually a mix of some of the following parameters: Their ratio of following/followers Their amount of followers The language they tweet in What they tweet about (topics) How often they tweet How many RT’s How many useless quotes from “famous people” And then I also look … Read more →
Who would have thought that the most searched term to arrive here on TechPatio, would be “Caroline Wozniacki breasts“? Well, in October, 5% of all my search engine visitors came here looking for them. Caroline Wozniacki breasts were the 4th most searched term in Google on September the 8th, 1 hour before her quarter final … Read more →
Over the past week I’ve answered a few questions in the comments here at TechPatio, asking if the speed of a website has anything to do with how it will rank in Google. My responses were, basically, “no, I don’t believe that is the case”. With the recent comments from Matt Cutts, “the face of … Read more →
Google started shooting pictures of the streets in Switzerland this summer for their Google Street View service. The local authorities didn’t like that one bit (no pun intended) and the Swiss commissioner for federal data protection, Hanspeter Thür, told Google to stop whatever they were doing! Google didn’t obey the request and continued their drive-by-shooting. … Read more →
I just updated my MacBook Pro to the latest version of Snow Leopard, 10.6.2. After a restart I noticed that my volume was turned all the way up, for some weird reason – but I couldn’t hear anything. Nothing came out of my internal speakers at all. No sound! First thing first, I turned to … Read more →