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Samsung Galaxy Tab announced – the real iPad killer?

September 3, 2010

Engadget had their hands on the new Samsung Galaxy tab for a preview and several specifications are now available: Android 2.2 with TouchWiz 3.0 7″ capacitive touch screen with 1024×600 resolution Weight: 380 grams 16GB or 32GB internal storage 1 GHz Cortex A8 CPU 1.3MP front-facing camera and 3MP on the back 3G data and [...]

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AppleTV being pulled from lots of countries

September 2, 2010

Apparantly the new AppleTV, announced yesterday along with other Apple products and iTunes 10, will not be launched in countries where Apple can not offer movie and TV shows rentals, despite the 1st generation AppleTV being sold in those countries. I cannot confirm this but it’s the word out of Apple in Denmark, a country [...]

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Sony announces Qriocity in Europe [iTunes competitor]

September 2, 2010

Yesterday, same day as Apple announced lots of new iStuff, Sony used the IFA fair in Berlin to announce they will launch a new video- and music service in Europe. At first it will only offer movies but later expand to include music as well. The service is based on their video-service, Qriocity, which already [...]

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August 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

September 1, 2010

A new month has arrived and that means it’s time to look back and see how August went for TechPatio.com in terms of traffic and money. I was on a two week vacation in August so I didn’t really have much time to write content and do the usual marketing, but thanks to a bunch [...]

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Wrapup: Apple Music Event September 1st – iOS, iPods, AppleTV, AirPlay

September 1, 2010

Steve Jobs and Apple just wrapped up their September 1st music event in San Francisco, showing us the next two updates to iOS, new iPods, new AppleTV, new iTunes, new AirPlay (previously AirTunes) and a new social media site called Ping. Here’s a complete overview of all that has happened in the 1.5 hour long [...]

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Apple Live Video Streaming of September 1st Event – for Mac’s & iOS only!

September 1, 2010

Awesome! For the first time since early 2000, I think, Apple is back with online streaming from one of their events and it’s all going to happen today/tonight (depending on where in the world you’re located, it’s tonight for me). An interesting twist though, Apple’s press release on the matter states that: Apple® will broadcast [...]

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Newshosting Upgrades Binary Retention to 650 Days

September 1, 2010

Press Release: ASHBURN, Va., August 30 — NEWSHOSTING.COM, the world’s leading provider of premium Usenet newsgroup service, today announced that it has upgraded retention across all of its 107,000+ newsgroups to 650 days. This upgrade comes at no added cost to Newshosting subscribers. Newsgroup retention rates indicate the length of time that a binary or [...]

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HTML5 – The Internet Future (Non-Technical Guide)

August 31, 2010

So we all know that the web is basically built on HTML, and that programming language has been with us since 97, but now we are seeing the emergence of the new incarnation of HTML. The current version of HTML, (4) has been with us a long time and from its humble beginnings way back, [...]

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Flash Coming to iPhone in Skyfire Web Browser?

August 31, 2010

Apple is usually rather strict about which apps to let into their App Store, especially if they duplicate features of built-in iPhone apps. Nevertheless, Opera Mini was (surprisingly) approved some time ago and also Atomic Web Browser has been approved. Now there’s a new browser just around the corner, called Skyfire. According to MobileCrunch, it’s [...]

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Intro Offer: Advertise on TechPatio – $10/month

August 30, 2010

I don’t know what to call this, a bargain, a steal? Either way, I’m pretty sure that $0.33 CPM is rather cheap for either a 468×60 upper right corner header banner ad or a 160×600 skyscraper middle right banner ad, am I right? Let’s be honest here, I’m new to this whole advertisement business but [...]

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Open Source Facebook Competitor, Diaspora*, Launches in Two Weeks

August 30, 2010

Diaspora* is an open source project that was launched a few months ago where they initially tried to raise just $10,000 via Kickstarter.com so that these four guys could develop their Facebook competitor. They ended up getting around $180,000 instead – including some money (apparently) from Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg. The deal with Diaspora is [...]

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Review: Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet [iPad]

August 30, 2010

Like photography? Own an iPad or iPhone? Then you’re gonna want to check out Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet app. There’s both an iPad and an iPhone version out, the iPad version is $8.99 and iPhone version is $4.99 in the US iTunes Store. This review is based on the iPad version and if you [...]

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New Text (SMS) World Record? iPhone 4…

August 30, 2010

The current world record holder, Melissa Thompson from United Kingdom, wrote the paragraph (below) in 25.94 seconds on a Samsung Galaxy S using the Swype input method: The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human. Blogger Brian Sweet [...]

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TechPatio Updated to Thesis 1.8 and WordPress 3.0.1

August 29, 2010

WordPress 3.0 has been out for some time now but I don’t feel comfortable upgrading to a new major version until at least one bug fix has been issued, so when 3.0.1 came out, I was ready to upgrade. Unfortunately I was about to go on vacation so I didn’t have time – but now [...]

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TweetAdder 3 Has Arrived (The App That Got Me 16,000 Twitter Followers)

August 29, 2010

I’ve mentioned TweetAdder before, but last time I really told my story was all the way back in January 2010 on how I got 500 targeted Twitter followers in 5 days. A lot has happened since then, as I’m now up to over 16,000 Twitter followers – thanks to TweetAdder. Not too bad, ay? A [...]

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Usenet Server Launches New Website (Free Trial Available!)

August 29, 2010

Press Release from my favorite Usenet provider: Ashburn, VA – USENETSERVER.COM, the recognized leader in affordable Usenet access, is pleased to announce the launch of its new internationalized website. The new UsenetServer.com website launch is part of UsenetServer’s commitment to bring premium, affordable Usenet to end-users throughout the world. In addition to more streamlined content [...]

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Back from vacation – some hotel reviews!

August 27, 2010

Click here to read the first part of this two-part series post: Back from vacation – and a big thanks to the guest posters! Yep, so I was on vacation. Basically it was a road trip on the east coast in the United States. Spent a few days in New York City, then drove up [...]

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Back from vacation – and a big thanks to the guest posters!

August 27, 2010

If you’re one of the 8% recurring visitors to TechPatio.com, you might have noticed a lot of guests posts during August – well, the reason is simple, I’ve been away on vacation. About a week before I left, I published an article letting people know that TechPatio is open for guest posts (and still is, [...]

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Exposé-ish Multitasking for iPhone and iPad [Video]

August 27, 2010

If, for whatever reason that might be, you’re not satisfied with how Apple integrated multitasking into iOS 4, you might want to give Multifl0w 2.0 a shot. It requires jailbreak – of course – and you’ll have to buy it through Cydia which is the “dark side of App Store”, though it’s not really dark [...]

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