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Microsoft warns against using Gmail from Google

In a weird advertisement from Microsoft (for their new Office 365), they warn users against using Google’s free e-mail solution, Gmail. Probably all Gmail users have noticed ads when you’re using the free web-based version of Gmail, but not all might know that the ads are actually based on the content of your e-mails. Google … Read more →

4 Tips for How to Develop a Perfect iPad Magazine App

The revolutionary iPad 2 has reached an interesting point and companies are enthusiastic about working on iPads and developing apps for their products, websites, blogs and magazines. Digital magazines for iPads are becoming quite popular in US and UK and people love the new enhanced reading experience. Digital and iPad magazines are popping up everywhere … Read more →

Did you know you can manage your money using an iPhone?

For some of us, managing money is not as fun as spending them, am I right? But if there’s no money to spend, the fun suddenly disappears. And to have money to spend, you need a budget to manage your money carefully to make sure you can afford to spend money while also keeping a proper reserve for when times might get rough or if you lose your job or business goes down.

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Play Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest etc. on your iPad – for free!

I’m guessing if you’re around the age of 30, you’ll remember playing Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest on your (or your dad’s) PC back in the days. Remember, where you had to type commands and such? It was awesome! Well, now you can do it again – on the iPad. And it’s free, thanks … Read more →

Quick Tip: Free Mac data recovery software

Just a quick tip for Mac users on how to recover deleted or lost data, such as pictures or documents. CleverFiles has just released Disk Drill, which is a new free Mac data recovery software. Disk Drill recovers damaged and deleted data from external or internal hard drives, memory cards, etc. and allows protecting data … Read more →

5 iPhone apps that can save you money

On June 11, 2007 Apple announced that the iPhone would support third party applications and since then, their rise has been phenomenal. As of July 2008, there were only 500 applications available from the Apple iStore but that number soon rapidly grew. As of this month, September 2010 there are over 250,000 apps in circulation … Read more →

Free giveaway: Daniusoft “Video Converter for Mac” – 3 Licenses ($35 each)

TechPatio is happy to announce the first free giveaway draw in the history of this blog. Thanks to Daniusoft for providing three licenses that we may give away for free to our readers! Daniusoft Video Converter for Mac is a full-featured piece of software that will convert video and audio in excellent quality. Obviously it … Read more →

Friday Flick Find: “Don’t be evil?” – Eric Schmidt parody

Consumer Watchdog in the United States is behind this cartoon parody video of Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt. The video makes it clear that nothing is free and even though the kids does get “free” ice cream, they’re actually paying by giving up information about themselves. Sound familiar…? The video also features the well-known comment from … Read more →

How to Resize Your Photos Easily on Windows

In recent years the cost of digital cameras, as well as digital camera memory chips, have been decreasing rather rapidly. These trends, along with increasing hard drive capacity, have paved the way for a situation in which individuals often store hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures on their computer. Now, in all honesty, transferring pictures … Read more →

See How Easily Video Cash Is Made [YouTube]

If there’s one thing I hear all the time about making an income with video, it’s that it’s too HARD. Too time-consuming, difficult, expensive… Listen up friend: THAT IS SO 2005! 🙂 Take Gideon Shalwick for instance. He cranks out cool videos pretty much as fast as he can think. These clips often get thousands … Read more →