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 →
Two girls at the age of 10 and 12 got lost in a stormwater drain in South Australia yesterday. When everybody else might have called 000 (“911” in Australia), those two girls decided to seek help by posting a Facebook status update instead. It is a worry for us because it causes a delay on … Read more →
16 year old Matt Fisher from the Great US of A created this video for YouTube, in which he tells us about some hidden features and shortcuts he has found in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. In the video, Matt covers some hidden new features from within Finder & Coverflow, Preview, System Preferences and … Read more →
In a matter of a few months, the 65 million people across the world who has a gaming console with the ability to go online, will be able to watch 3D movies from the comfort of their own home. We’re launching 3DMovieChannel during first quarter next year. Everybody who today can watch movies on YouTube … Read more →
31 seconds was all it took for five masked thieves to bust an Apple Store i New Jersey wide open and steal 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod Touches while being recorded by the surveillance cam. The thieves smashed the window with a blunt object, ran into the store and threatened the security … Read more →
The title says it all. But I’m just gonna throw in a few more words anywho… I know cat videos are getting kinda old, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be fun – and that’s exactly what this video is all about, it’s really funny, made me laugh at several occasions (might not help if … Read more →
Ever since I had my good ol’ MacBook stolen from within my flat because somebody forgot to lock the kitchen window, I’ve been using Undercover from Orbicule on all my other Mac’s. The reason is clear: It gives me a better chance of ever recovering my Mac, than if I didn’t have the software installed. … Read more →
A new “bully filter” set in place by the largest mobilephone provider in Norway, Telenor, is said to be a great success. It’s no secret that children and young people can be pretty harsh against each other, but it’s not just in the school yard bullying is happening, but also to a very large extend … Read more →
QuickTime X is the newest version of QuickTime Player for Mac which comes with the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a major leap forward that advances modern media and Internet standards. QuickTime X includes a brand-new player application, offers optimized support for modern codecs, and delivers more efficient … Read more →
Today Nokia announced their X-Series Music phones at Nokia World 2009 event in Stuttgart, Germany. As expected, the new Nokia N900 smartphone were introduced, but other than that, not a lot of breaking news to report. There was however room for a couple of music related news. Nokia X6 and Nokia X3 are the newest … Read more →
It’s that time of the month again…. No, not that time, what’s the matter with you? The time I’m obviously talking about, is the time where it’s time to look into the month of August 2009 and report back to my readers how the month has been for techpatio.com, related to visits and income. So … Read more →