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The Attack Against Twitter and Facebook show their Vulnerability

Twitter vs Facebook. One of my last post was trying to explain the similitude and the differences between the two.
On thursday august 6th, the two famous Social Networks were attacked, which left Twitter down for a few hours and it slowed down Facebook. The aggression was described by Biz Stone (Twitter’s cofounder) as “massively coordinated”. (http://blog.twitter.com).

Twitter vs Facebook.

Often some friends ask me ‘What is Twitter?’ I always try to explain what it is, but after a minute, my friend’s face makes me feel that I am not making sens.

I conclude the conversation by telling them that Twitter is a little like the Facebook’s status. You can update your Twitter account when you want to share something with your friends. The difference is that on Twitter you call your friends: followers.

Then some of my friend asks ‘What is Facebook?’. At that moment I want to stop to being friends with them or wonder if they really are friends with me. What’s the point? .....

Getting My Feet Wet With Amazon S3.

For a while now, I have been reading about Amazon S3 services.

Amazon S3 is an online storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides unlimited inexpensive storage via the web.

The first time I heard about it, was by reading Paul Stamatiou’s blog: How I Use Amazon S3.

I own and use a MacBook Air (MBA), first generation. Unfortunately the MBA does not have a lot of storage capacity. 

The hard drive which is the same size used in an iPod - 1.8-inch 4200RPM disk- is not rapid. I also do not trust it because I’m concern that the OS is soliciting it too much to function. 

Only advice: Backup! ........

Review: Sony Customer Service.

Not too long ago, I accidentally dropped my Camcorder Sony HDR-TG1 onto a hard floor and it got damage. That damage being a tiny dent into the super strong titanium outer-casing on top of the control button. This caused the control button to pop-out ever-so-slightly and rendering the camera inoperable. I consider this a design flaw especially for an object that costs $900. In the past twenty years, I have dropped other camera or video recording equipment but it never damaged the device so it could not be used. 

Firmware Corrupt Ready 2 Download.

Last week, I got my new iMac 24’. The setup was very easy. I transferred my User Account and the Applications from my old iMac using Apple 'Migration Assistant’. No headaches. 

Yesterday, my Hp Color LaserJet CP1515n printer did not print correctly. I could not print envelopes. The page setup was correct but the result was wrong. I decided to reinstall the driver and update of the printer’s Firmware. While updating, the printer blocked and when I restart it, the result was: "Firmware Corrupt, Ready 2 Download".

Sony HDR-TG1 and Gravity.

I accidently dropped my Sony camcorder onto a hard floor. 

My Sony HDR-TG1 fell three feet from my hands, hitting the concrete garage floor. DAMN IT!  Results, a broken control/function buttons - now dead - as you can see in these pictures.

Shazam: How does it works?

With the iPhone, phone or smartphone application Shazam, you can identify music tracks played on radio, TV, CD PLayer, Movies, etc.. 

Where ever you are, at home, in a store, in a movie theater or in your car hold your iPhone next to the speakers and in 10 secs Shazam identifies the song (Song and Album titles, Artist name), shows the cover and links you to the iTunes store or YouTube to watch the video.  

Last night, I was at my friends Pascal and Christian for a wonderful diner. We were 9 around the table when I was ask to show how Shazam works on my iPhone. After being impressed everybody was wondering how it works. I started to explain....... 

Review: Google AdSense.

DO NOT click on your own ads!

When I want to learn something new, I usually start reading about it on the Net. I read and read. Then because of the overwhelming quantity of information, I start to forget what I read in the first place. Then at a point, I decide to buy the ‘new thing” or to try out a 'new something'. That what I did with Google AdSense. 

Domain Mapping : piratec.net

I did it!. It was certainly not easy to understand. 

Sorry if you could not acces to the blog this afternoon for a couple of hours.

I don't know if you had noticed before today: the URL of this blog was not really http://piratec.net (or http://piratec.fr). These two domain names were redirect to the original typepad address of this blog: http://piratec.typepad.com.

Google's Android Software Debuts in Barcelona

Google's Android software for phones debuted this week in Barcelona, with several chipmakers demonstrating how the software would look on prototypes at Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry's largest annual gathering.
Google launched Android last year, hoping to establish its software as the dominant operating system for mobile phones and to improve the quality of web-browsing for handset users.

Thank You Ralph.