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 →
Once you discover the App Store, you’ll see how applications can make your iPhone do just about anything. There are thousands of iPhone apps to choose from. Here are a few that will help you get the most out your iPhone, wherever you go. That’s how Apple introduces their new “Apps for Everything” site. You … Read more →
On Friday you will be able to purchase the soccer game FIFA 2010 from EA Sports for iPhone and iPod Touch. The price is yet to be announced but is expected to be around $10. EA announced their plans for iPhone and iPod Touch gaming back in March 2009 and now, some 6 months later, … Read more →
The European Commision has asked Apple to explain why several iPhone screens have exploded during the summer, according to AFP. “Incidents have been reported this summer in three countries, France, the United Kingdom and Germany. Tests are underway. If one country says that these products are unsafe, I will request them to be pulled from … Read more →
I guess we all knew it already, meta keywords didn’t really have any effects with regards to SEO, within Google at least. But most of us still use meta keywords from time to time and maybe even recommended others to do it. The reasons for still using meta keywords are simple: While Google might not … Read more →
If you live in parts of the world where you see a real winter, possibly with snow and icy roads, then you might already know how cumbersome it can be to control your touch screen device with gloves on. Or if you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or another device with that kind of fancy … Read more →
Twitter investor Joi Ito believes that Twitter creates so much extra traffic for network providers that somebody should pay for the usage of Twitter on mobile phones. “When Twitter grows, SMS usage goes up. Sites are now able to promote across friends’ [Twitter] networks; traffic to certain kinds of sites increases. There’s a lot of … Read more →
If you’ve been reading TechPatio for a while then you probably know that I like the “Top 5’s” from HowStuffWorks, the latest one is a top 5 on ways to make money on the Internet. In this post I’d just like to mention the 5 ways HowStuffWorks claims are the “top 5” ways to make … Read more →
In this week’s Friday Flick Find I have a real hustle video for you. I like to play poker and I like to “hustle” for fun (small “bar bets” etc. at family gatherings are always a fun way to entertain), so this video was right down the alley when I found it on YouTube earlier … Read more →