Disclaimer: This is not a “get rich quick”-scheme on how you can make $211,969. This is a video on how Yaro Starak managed to earn $211,969 while traveling around the world. It’s an inspiring video to watch even if you don’t want to spend the full 14 minutes watching it, at least check out the … Read more →
The company Arbor Networks, in cooperation with University of Michigan, has created a report called “2009 Internet Observatory Report“. In the report, they conclude that after having studied over 256 exabytes worth of traffic (I’ll explain how much that is, in just a bit…), that half of that traffic comes from just 150 companies. Just … Read more →
Could salt be a future storage device? Researchers at University of Edinburgh have worked on creating the perfect crystals out of salt. A process not easily accomplished. By using two low-energy lasers, they managed to make use of an old discovery found years ago, that light can be used to create a crystal formation. The … Read more →
The latest study from ComCast into the US search engine market shows that Bing only saw a 0.1% increase from 9.3% to 9.4% from August to September, while Google increased by 0.3% to 69.9%. It’s mostly Yahoo taking the biggest hit on the risings from Bing and Google as they saw a decrease of 0.5% … Read more →
What kind of a blogger are you? A) The one that diggs all of your own posts. B) The one that diggs some of your own posts. C) The one that never diggs your own posts. So, which one are you, blogger type A, B or C? The digg community guidelines says: Don’t spam. You’re … Read more →
Several elements can cause laptops to take a greater toll on the environment than desktop computers. Especially since the laptop computers with small power consumption has convinced many that laptops are “greener”, compared to desktop computers. But looking at the total impact on the environment, it’s not so certain that a laptop is actually greener … Read more →
This is some pretty cool stuff. A team of scientists from the University of Missouri reports a break-through in battery technology. The scientists have created a battery with the size of a small coin, able to contain a million times as much capacity than a regular battery and last for hundreds of years. It contain … Read more →
Woopra is an innovative live tracking and analytics software for your website or blog. It provides detailed analytics data just like the free Google Analytics does, but Woopra does it live – which can be very interesting to look at it. Up until recently, Woopra was in closed beta so you would need to apply … Read more →
For decades, Internet users have been typing in http:// in front of the websites they wanted to visit, but according to one of the inventors behind World Wide Web, the two forward slashes was partially a mistake. Actually you don’t even have to enter http:// in front of the domain name, most browsers today, if … Read more →
That title caught your attention, huh? How to instantly boost visitors to your blog! Now that would be something… before I tell you the secret, first have a look at this pageviews graph screenshot within my WordPress dashboard. I took this screenshot right before midnight, so the day was almost over – I’m sure you … Read more →
A few weeks ago I blogged about the gloves from Dots Gloves that will allow you to control your capacitive touch screen device (such as iPhone, iPod Touch etc.) while still wearing gloves – really useful during winter and other cold periods, where you might not be too happy about walking around with bare hands … Read more →
I’m not going to get into a whole deal about fanboys/fanbois here, Scott Sharkey from 1up seems to have nailed it pretty good in his video, where he believes that the world needs fanboys. If we didn’t have fanboys we would only have geniuses, intellectual discussions and peace in the world. Plus free candy for … Read more →
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 →
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 →
This post is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All the views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to do this review. Everybody knows what a GPS is nowadays, probably mostly used for navigation in cars but also starting to become a … Read more →
Dan over at TycoonBlogger.com just opened up voting for his Rookie Blogger Of The Year contest. There’s a total of 18 great blogs in the contest and it’s up to the readers to decide which one to win, as it’s YOUR vote that counts. There’s a total prize value of over $600 to be won, … Read more →