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For someone who is so smart, Mark Zuckerberg has no idea what he’s doing. He turned 28 on Monday and Facebook is having its’ IPO on Friday. The valuation will be somewhere close to $100 billion. Yes, he is getting out at the right time as there is no way Facebook is worth this much. I posted back on February 2nd, that Facebook peaked last year. It’s not just because I hardly ever use the site anymore. First the valuation is quite high. Facebook only made $1 billion last year. Apple makes more than $1 billion in less than a month. Oh, Facebook spent that billion on Instagram. Just like Research in Motion and Google, in trying to compete with Apple they will waste billions. While Mark Zuckerberg is smart in his timing, IMO he has no idea what to do with Facebook at this point. The recent redesign appears to be a failure. Are any Facebook users trying let alone using all the apps they promoted with the site redesign? The most humorous part of all this is Wall Street’s roadshow where Mark Zuckerberg has been saying mobile will be Facebook’s main focus in 2012. Recall Facebook took forever to release an iPad app because according to Mark Zuckerberg, “The iPad isn’t mobile.” Yes, investors should feel confident that Facebook knows where to go from here.

I’ve been asked once or twice what is the worst iPhone app? I wasn’t really sure, but now I know for me it’s Skype. For the first time ever I’ve been having a problem with my iPhone battery. Almost daily for the past month the battery dies sometime in the late afternoon. I’ve turned my screen brightness down as low as I can handle. In over three years of iPhone ownership I’ve never has this problem. Sure I’ve read lots of iPhone battery complaint articles, but I’ve always been able to make it through the day before. The good news. I know the problem is being caused by the Skype app. Oh, and the app sucks for other reasons too. Continue Reading…

A little over a month ago a Pinterest spammer told the Daily Dot how he was making upto $1,000.00 per day spamming Pinterest. This got my attention so I spent a lot of time in April exploring this idea. Basically, I decided to dip my toe into the spamming water on a small scale and purchased his software bot for $250. While I hate spam, I saw this more as an internet marketing experiment. What did I learn? A lot. For one, you can make some coin spamming Pinterest, but it’s a cat and mouse game as Pinterest is starting to fight back. Continue Reading…

So here’s an update on what’s been going on with Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload. It’s been really interesting. Definitely my favorite story of 2012 and it will continue to play out. Recently there has been a political bribery scandal as well as the MegaUpload domain name going for sale today! Will Kim Dotcom who got $700,000 returned ever be extradited to the United States? For this news and a UK court ruling to force ISP’s to block The Pirate Bay – Continue Reading…

UPDATE 5/2/2012 Website is now just a landing page for ads. These things never last long.

I know things have been depressing ever since the USA shutdown MegaUpload. Well here is something I hope cheers you up. Open Safari on your iPhone, iPod or iPad and goto iOSLiveTV. There is no jailbreak required. The home screen gives you seven choices (United States, United Kingdom, Deutschland, France, Italia, PoccNR and XXX). The channel selection is massive. I haven’t looked through them all, but the United States includes (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Syfy, USA, A&E, Showtime, Cinemax, FX, ESPN, ESPN 2, Fox Soccer, TNT, History, MTV, Food Network, Discovery, CNN, Spike, truTV, Speed and more). The network stations include a East and West feed and there is even a channel guide showing what comes on next. Continue Reading…

Since there hasn’t been much iPhone news worthy of writing about thought I’d remind everyone one of the many reasons you love your iPhone. They are cool. I know because so many celebrities use them. While you likely can’t afford to live or stay in the places they do, drive the same expensive car or wear the same fancy clothes, you can rock the same smart phone. When I say of lot of celebrities I mean it. Just a few include Ryan Phillipp, David Beckham, Jessica Alba, Sandra Bullock, Kristie Alley, Demi Moore, Lenny Kravitz, Jenny Mccarthy, Megan Fox, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Bieber, Sharon Stone, George Clooney, Paris Hilton and many more. Oh, to see photos of the ones I mentioned Continue Reading…

What happened to the Forum? I’ve gotten a few emails about it this weekend. I decided to remove it for two reasons. First, the spam. It was out of control and I didn’t have an easy free way to fix it. It was taking too much time to manually delete. Second, there weren’t many links posted there anyway (despite PapaBear’s good work). So I’m gonna focus my efforts on a new project for the next month and then see where things stand. I’ll still be posting here and if you really need a link just email me. Most of you should know how to get and view things now. Any questions just leave in comments or email me. The Forum will likely return one day when I decide to refocus on this website. In the meantime stay updated through the Facebook Page.

Here we go again. CNet reported that Apple will release an iPad Mini this Fall. Speficially, that six million units are being prepared that will sell for $249 to $299. I still say not going to happen for the reasons I mentioned back in February. I keep reading that the Kindle Fire sold so well that Apple is going after that market. Really, how many has Amazon sold? Amazon seems quiet on that number. Are they over 10 million yet? I kind of hope it does happen even though that would make me wrong. How would it look. No way it could have a retina display at that price. What would be the quality of the cameras? Yeah, I really just don’t see it happening.

Within 24 hours of the release of the new iPad 3 multiple people displayed a jailbroken one. Yes, one month ago @MuscleNerd and other members of the Dev team displayed screen shots of the new iPad 3 with Cydia on it. Yet since that time silence. I’d expect an update soon saying it’s going to be at least another month. Until there is a jailbreak I’m sticking with my iPad 2. I sold the one I bought upon release after a week of playing with it. If you Google “new iPad jailbreak” you’ll find many sites offering to sell you one. Don’t do it as they are all scams. Patience will be rewarded as it always has in the past.

Two months ago I created an account on Pinterest to check it out. For those that don’t know (which is still a lot of you) it’s a social network where you pin photos on different themed boards. For example, boards might be of your vacation, children, a party or of your favorite actor, musician or sports person. After five minutes I determined it was horrible. That should have been a clue that it was about to take off as my tastes are not normal. So while I find the growth in Pinterest shocking in some respects I’m not surprised. So my interest in Pinterest has grown. Continue Reading…