Welcome to the first interview I’ve ever done for TechPatio – I hope you like it! Ryan Grant is a talented young individual from North West England who has a passion for developing successful websites, his latest creation is the LovingTech Webmaster Forum, which I’m personally also a member of. LovingTech Webmaster Forum consist of … Read more →
Apple’s mail program so cleverly named “Mail”, didn’t really add anything new and useful to me when I updated from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Sure, 64 bit is cool and might have made the application a bit snappier, but Exchange support which is the shiny new thing in Mail, is … Read more →
By looking at the picture to the right, you’d be forgiven to think that this thing is some fancy trivet, when it’s actually a real cellular mobile phone from Nokia. This new funny looking phone is the 7705 Twist and comes with a QWERTY keyboard and a design that doesn’t look too ergonomic or practical. … Read more →
If you have watched the Matt Cutts video from WordCamp San Francisco 2009 you probably noticed his mentioning of the two following HTML codes: [html] <!–google_ad_section_start–> <!–google_ad_section_end–> [/html] Most people don’t know about those two tags and so they don’t use them. Using them lets you define what part of your website (or blog) should … Read more →
Matt Cutts is often looked at as the “face of Google” among bloggers and search engine optimization people. Matt often posts information, tips, videos etc. with information about Google and other related stuff that can help bloggers and webmasters optimize their site for better ranking and readership. He joined Google as a software engineer in … Read more →
In a world where you can get pretty much anything in a “diet” version with zero calories (well, in the food and drinks category at least) we can also soon enjoy a lighter version of Facebook called “Facebook Lite”. This new version of the site comes with less features and no applications (no more invitations … Read more →
This Friday Flick Find video (what is Friday Flick Find?) is about the fastest gunman ever – he’s unbelievable fast, as you will see in this video (it has slowmotion too). But first, a little information about the shooter. Bob Munden (born February 8th, 1942) is a Fast Draw competition shooter. Bob Munden started his … Read more →
Caroline Wozniacki Breasts… that was the 4th most searched term in Google last Tuesday (September 8th, 2009) approximately 1 hour before her quarterfinal tennis match against Svetlana Kuznetsova. Apparently the Americans, who also gave Wozniacki her new nickname, Sunshine, were interested in a bit more than just tennis, at least before the game, that she … Read more →
Did you also reset your font-size in your browser yesterday when you noticed how the Google Search had grown in size? There’s nothing wrong with you, or me, it’s just Google changing things around. Google writes on their official blog: For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you’ll notice on our … Read more →
I’m sure by now you must know all about the It’s Only Rock And Roll keynote from Apple yesterday, where a new iPod Nano was announced as well as iTunes 9 and iPhone OS 3.1 software. The video from that keynote is now online on Apple.com, you can watch it right here. It’s one hour … Read more →
I don’t know what happened and I never thought I should say this, but I finally had my first really bad “whoops” with my Mac, after being a Mac user for over 3 years. By accident I clicked the “guest account” when I was going to login and it tried to login at my guest … Read more →
I’m not that famous (if any!), let’s just clear that bit up before we go any further 🙂 Never the less, I was invited to do an interview with Famous Bloggers Club which of course I was happy to do and by doing so, I have joined the ranks of bloggers such as Extreme John, … Read more →
One thing that Mac users most likely will encounter sooner or later in their Mac career, is receiving an e-mail from somebody with a file called “winmail.dat”. If you’re not at all tech savvy you might not even pay attention to the file or you may just wonder what it is – a virus perhaps? … Read more →
Apple just approved an iPhone C64 emulator application – the same one they rejected earlier. At this time I was unable to find it in App Store using iTunes but the price should be around $5 and it comes with five games: Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Jack Attack and Arctic Shipwreck. The developer … Read more →
We all know that Google has this habit of changing their logo on their search engine frontpage on special occasions – but recently they put up a very strange looking logo where you see one of the o’s in the logo being pulled up by a UFO. No more need for more guessing what that … Read more →
I’ve been using PTHPasteboard as my clipboard manager in Leopard for quite some time. I never really liked it, it didn’t feel “Mac like”. It was a combination of it’s visual appearance when you needed to retrieve something from your clipboard and also the settings – it just didn’t feel Mac’ish, you know? But I … Read more →