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(Unusual) Domains registered by Google

Published on Apr 23rd, 2008 in blog, the web | 1 Comment »

With the kind of financial backing that Google has, it’s not at all surprising that they have registered at least a few dozen typo domains and the like, but ones like thesecretofburritos.com or googlesex.com are a bit more unusual.
Here at TechSpot we have had a few problems with other people registering regional domains, but what […]

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Speed up Vista using Firefox 3 Beta

Published on Mar 31st, 2008 in blog, windows, the web, microsoft, software, tips & tricks, apple, thumbs up | No Comments »

If like me, you spend a sizable amount of your computer time on a web browser, you can forget about RAM or processor upgrades, it’s software where the hole was all this time.
First let me tell you that I’m an avid fan of trying new web browsers, or at least new versions of today’s traditional […]

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Crazy, crazy funding for a web startup

Published on Mar 16th, 2008 in blog, the web, thumbs down | 1 Comment »

Just like a bad habit or a reality TV-like guilty pleasure, over the past few weeks I have grown accustomed to check out startup-related blog TechCrunch once a day just to see what’s popping around the web. It’s been exciting times for a while on the web now, the late nineties bubble is well forgotten, […]

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Say hello to TechSpot Mobile

Published on Mar 9th, 2008 in blog, techspot, the web | No Comments »

Now you can catch up with the latest technology news from your cell phone using our new gorgeous looking mobile portal.
Although we already offered RSS feeds that are mobile friendly, and depending on your device Opera Mini could let you render the full fledged frontpage, this is even better. We used the tools from startup […]

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Do you Twitter?

Published on Feb 26th, 2008 in blog, the web, interesting links, thumbs up | 1 Comment »

I know I’m like months behind the trendy web, but just recently I thought I would try one of these micro-blogging platforms, and Twitter is by far the most popular out there, so I opened an account and I have been micro blogging since yesterday.
So far so good, although nobody is reading my stuff but […]

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Apple prepares new MacBooks, release set for tomorrow

Published on Feb 25th, 2008 in blog, the web, apple, rumor mill | No Comments »

Edit #2: Announcement made, full story here.
Edit: Forgot to mention this story from the Financial Week on how Apple is currently sitting on a pile of cash estimated at $18.4 billion.
There is an inexplicable enthusiasm for whatever Apple has to announce next, and while the hype behind products like the iPhone is more than justified, […]

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Interesting poll results on PC gaming and sales

Published on Feb 21st, 2008 in blog, techspot, the web, interesting links, gaming | 1 Comment »

When time came to think about a new topic for TechSpot’s biweekly poll, I thought that doing something about the state of PC gaming and how sales are being generated was very timely considering the many recent headlines about just that…
The results have been very surprising to an extent:

The poll is not over yet and […]

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3dmarks per $

Published on Jan 28th, 2008 in blog, the web, interesting links, gaming, hardware, thumbs up | 1 Comment »

The guys at Futuremark (developers of the popular 3dmark benchmark) emailed me late last week letting me know of the launch of a new service available through their YouGamers portal that gathers submitted benchmark results, system specs, and ultimately pricing information to build a table of the best values in videocard and processors.
There are obvious […]

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TechSpot’s frontpage receives the pagination treatment

Published on Dec 28th, 2007 in blog, techspot, the web | 1 Comment »

(This is a reprint from a frontpage news story, reposting for those who missed the annoucement given further news coverage followed shortly after).
To kick off the post-Christmas news coverage let me tell you about a new feature I implemented in the TechSpot frontpage during the break, news pagination.
Although this feature is widely used by blogs […]

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New MacBook Pro owner, joining the dark side?

Published on Dec 14th, 2007 in blog, techspot, windows, the web, software, hardware, apple | 3 Comments »

Depending for how long you’ve been reading TechSpot you may have read a variety of comments about Apple products, from hate to well, less hate :). No, but seriously, despite of being mainly a Windows site we have tried to remain balanced and objective when time has come to report on any product, no matter […]

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