Four Reasons Why I <3 Twittley
on Nov 16, 2009 in Twitter Digg Popular StumbleUpon Twittley Twittley is a Digg-like Twitter community where users can “vote” on articles by tweeting them. The more tweets doesn’t necessarily mean a post will be made popular. It depends on the weight of those voting (tweeting) them. On the fr...

Switzerland Says “No Thanks, We’ll Sue You” To Google Street View
on Nov 16, 2009 in Google Tech News Street View Switzerland Google started shooting pictures of the streets in Switzerland this summer for their Google Street View service. The local authorities didn’t like that one bit (no pun intended) and the Swiss commissioner for federal data protection, Hanspeter...

Google To Rank Sites Based On Speed? Matt Cutts Explains
on Nov 16, 2009 in Google SEO Tech News Matt Cutts PageRank SERP Over the past week I’ve answered a few questions in the comments here at TechPatio, asking if the speed of a website has anything to do with how it will rank in Google. My responses were, basically, “no, I don’t believe that is the...

Snow Leopard 10.6.2: Missing Sound/Low Volume After Update?
on Nov 16, 2009 in Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Apple Mac OS X Soundflower Update I just updated my MacBook Pro to the latest version of Snow Leopard, 10.6.2. After a restart I noticed that my volume was turned all the way up, for some weird reason – but I couldn’t hear anything. Nothing came out of my internal speaker...

Dirty PC’s, An X-Rated Picture Guide
on Nov 15, 2009 in Hardware Cleaning Dirty Dust PC If you don’t know how to spend your Sunday, how about checking out your PC and see if it needs a cleaning? If you’re on a laptop there’s probably not much to do, but if you’re not, you should be aware that sometimes an interio...

New Twitter Feature (BETA): Retweet To Share Tweets
on Nov 15, 2009 in Twitter Logging into Twitter.com yesterday, I found this appeared at the top of the page: Since it says that I’m part of the beta group, I assume not all of you have seen this one before, which is why I decided to share it with you and give a heads up...

Facebook Coming To A PlayStation 3 Near You
on Nov 14, 2009 in Facebook PlayStation Tech News PS3 Software Update Sony Twitter Xbox 360 Sony just confirmed that Facebook is coming for the PlayStation 3, after several pictures revealed the social network on a PS3 a few days ago. Facebook and Twitter is already scheduled to be released for Xbox 360 in a software update November 17th. T...

TechPatio & VPS Hosting [Sponsored Post]
on Nov 14, 2009 in Other Hosting ReviewMe TechPatio VPS This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this. I’m sure, by now, all my loyal readers will have read that I recently moved TechPatio.

YouTube Opening Up for 1080p HD Video Next Week
on Nov 13, 2009 in Social Media Tech News 1080p 720p Billy Biggs Google HD Video YouTube YouTube has been offering regular 720p HD videos (1280×720) for a while now, if the uploaded video was in HD as well, of course. Most dedicated video camcorders today records in 1080i or 1080p resolution and next week YouTube will be able to dis...

New Cookie Law Will Require User Consent Before Placing Cookies
on Nov 13, 2009 in Tech News Browsers Cookie EU European Union Law This is so whacked I couldn’t believe my own eyes when I first read about it. I don’t mind EU at all, I actually prefer to be in the European Union and all that crap, but every now and then something comes along that makes you wonder how...