The Pirate Bay has been looking to set sail and find a new country to dock at, ever since the Swedish court ruled that their provider, Black Internet, should disconnect The Pirate Bay servers from the Internet. According to TorrentFreak, The Pirate Bay at first tried to settle down in Ukraine but ended up with … Read more →
Japanese PC maker, Kohjinsha (I wonder what that means?) is currently showing off their new dual screen netbook at the CEATEK conference in Japan. The new thing about this netbook is its dual screen layout. The netbook comes with two 10.1″ monitors, where one of them slides behind the other, when it’s not in use. … Read more →
Windows Mobile has received a ton of negative criticism over the years, though there’s still some faithful users of Windows Mobile, the rest of the world seems to have moved over to Symbian, iPhone, Android and webOS. And to be honest, Windows Mobile seems really old and clumsy to use compared to other modern mobile … Read more →
I often wonder exactly how important it is to have keywords in your domain name, so I would like to hear your thoughts on this. But first, let’s break down what we’re dealing with here, cause mostly you hear about keywords in the URL. An URL usually consists of two things, the domain name and … Read more →
As of September 30th, Verizon no longer provides free Usenet access to its customers and AT&T also stopped providing access as of July 15th. So if you’re based in the US and a customer of AT&T or Verizon you no longer have access to Usenet through your ISP, but don’t worry, there are alternatives… First, … Read more →
A list of over 10,000 usernames and passwords for Microsoft Live ID was leaked October 1st on the web site pastebin.com which is a tool for collaborative debugging and editing, usually for developers to paste code snippets etc. to share with others. The list was later removed but is said to include usernames starting with … Read more →
I was going to create a post on how you could get better Search Engine Optimization for your blog using FeedBurner links, especially if you have a habit of commenting on blogs with CommentLuv that pulls your FeedBurner RSS feed to get your latest blog post(s), but FeedBurner made a change that would render my … Read more →
I’m three months into my “blogging life” and my 3rd month has been my best month so far, when looking at visits and pageviews. I’ve also decided to start a new blog, which I call ApplePatio. Yes, you guessed it, it’s about Apple and it’s still within my ‘Patio theme (branding FTW, right?). Read more … Read more →
I’ve been blogging with TechPatio.com and providing the world with tech news and stuff for just three months – and I just put out another blog. I call it ApplePatio.com. Yes, you guessed it, twice. It’s about Apple and it’s still within my ‘Patio theme (branding FTW, right?). Why? In September I noticed that … Read more →
Google does the China move and removes The Pirate Bay’s homepage and seven other pages related to the Bay’s BitTorrent tracker, because of a DMCA complaint, writes The Register. At this time Google has not responded to The Register’s query for more information about the removal. Peter Sunde, former spokesperson for The Pirate Bay, asks … Read more →
The term “viral video” is defined by Wikipedia as: A viral video is a video clip that gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or Instant messaging, blogs and other media sharing websites. Viral videos are often humorous in nature and include televised comedy sketches […] In this week’s Friday … Read more →
Last month Apple announced they are looking to spend one billion U.S. dollars to build a gigantic 45,000 square meters data center in North Carolina, this week Microsoft invited selected reporters, customers and partners to see their new data center. This new data center, which is located near Chicago, is 65,000 square meters with room … Read more →
Digital projectors in cinemas are not that uncommon anymore. In such cinemas you’ll find a digital projector and a movie server where the movies are stored in a special version of MPEG2, such movies usually take up between 40 and 70 GB in disk space. But digital movies is not the only thing the new … Read more →
The battle between Apple and Palm for the Palm Pre phone to be allowed iTunes synchronization has been going on for a while now, but it might finally have come to an end. The last attack out of the Palm camp was to identify the Palm Pre as an iPhone by using Apple’s “USB ID”, … Read more →
Once again we find Nintendo at rock bottom in the yearly Top 20 chart from Greenpeace, showing the some of the biggest makers of consumer electronics. Nintendo scores 1.4 points which is 0.4 points more than last year. The reason for Nintendo still being placed last is due to their use of PVC, poor recycling, … Read more →
Meglena Kuneva, Commissioner for Consumer Affairs within the European Commission, believes that the volume in our iPod‘s and MP3 players is way too loud, especially for the young people. EU previously made sure to reduce the volume on music devices to 100 decibel and now they want to lower it 80 decibel because their research … Read more →