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Social Brain Busting: Kwizzly for iPhone Now Available!

There are many iPhone quiz apps available, but nothing to the level of the newest and best iPhone Quiz app - Kwizzly. Kwizzly takes the idea of testing your brain to a a whole othe ...

What a Year of Blogging for Free Brought Me

I started Paul Shirey Tech on December 8th, 2011. When I started it, I had taken a one month leave of absence blogging after deciding that my previous project, Paul's Daily Blurbs, ...

SEO is Real: How to Master SEO in WordPress 2013

Let's face it, even if you are as popular as Justin Bieber and you have a blog, there is no way that 100% of your traffic is going to be direct, or be enough to make your blog real ...

Developing Speed vs. Playing Techniques on Guitar

If you are trying to figure out how to play guitar faster, you might want to look at some other playing aspects too. In this video, Duncan discusses developing speed vs. Playing Te ...

Fixing Errors in WordPress 3.5

I write for several blogs seperate from mine (blog post about that coming soon), so I tend to see Wordpress updates on those blogs before I see them on mine. One of the coolest upd ...

Limited Edition Jackson King V Guitar – Review

The Jackson King V Shuriken is a limited edition guitar produced by Jackson. It's estimated only around 250 of them were ever produced. Check out this demonstration and complete re ...

Google’s SVP of Engineering Rooted Off of Twitter

[caption id="attachment_2991" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image Courtesy of dfarber[/caption] Google, being a company that is pretty laid back as far as what their employees can ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 10: Internet Pirates vs. Your Wallet

Posted by: Paul Posted date: August 10, 2012 | comment : 0

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw010.mp3] Download Audio [thumbnail credit] Send Feedback: paul@paulshireytech.com Welcome to another episode of Tech Roundup Weekly! We made it to double digits on our episodes, only 20 more before we hit the magic 30 mark! Just so everyone knows, new episodes won't be released to the iTunes feed for the next couple of weeks. If you're already subscribed, you ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 9: Wildfires at Google

Posted by: Paul Posted date: August 02, 2012 | comment : 2

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw009.mp3] Download Audio [thumbnail credit] Send Feedback: paul@paulshireytech.com Welcome to yet another episode of Tech Roundup Weekly! Kickstarter: 1000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space Paul featured 1000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space - a project that aims to send 1000 student scientific projects of all kinds in ping-pong balls (otherwise known ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 8: Cardboard Cheerios

Posted by: Paul Posted date: July 29, 2012 | comment : 0

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw008.mp3] Download Audio [thumbnail credit] Send Feedback: paul@paulshireytech.com Welcome to yet another exciting episode of Tech Roundup Weekly. Yes, this episode has been released just a bit more than a day before our next episode and we apologize for it. Things have been sort of hectic over here at the Tech Roundup Weekly Edit Facilities. This episode of Te ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 7: 3D Patents in Your Food

Posted by: Paul Posted date: July 20, 2012 | comment : 0

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw007.mp3] Download Audio Send Feedback: paul@paulshireytech.com Welcome to another episode of Tech Roundup Weekly. After struggling to find a good recording program for Skype, we are again recording our video with Google+. We think of this podcast as more of an audio production than a video production, but since we started with video we will never stop providin ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 6: Only $1.2 Million

Posted by: Paul Posted date: July 12, 2012 | comment : 0

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw006.mp3] Download Audio Welcome to episode 6 of Tech Roundup Weekly! We have a new video format we are testing to bring you higher quality video than what we could provide with Google+ Hangouts! Kickstarter Projects Paul featured the Cardboard Robot - a smart phone camera crane and robotic arm that you can build yourself for under $200 Roger featured the Gamed ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 5: Horribly Intexticated

Posted by: Paul Posted date: July 04, 2012 | comment : 0

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw005.mp3] Download Audio Welcome to episode 5 of Tech Roundup Weekly! In this episode, we welcome our first ever guest Tomas Henry, K6THM. Kickstarter Projects Paul featured the ReLaunch, a USB powered variable power supply that can deliver small amounts of DV power to small devices and circuit boards. Roger featured The Lumi Process, a printing process that al ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 4: Free Jellybeans at Google

Posted by: Paul Posted date: June 27, 2012 | comment : 0

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw004.mp3] Download Audio Welcome to episode 4 of Tech Roundup Weekly. We now have our format set in the ground, and are available on iTunes [link coming soon]! Sit back and enjoy the show! Kickstarter Projects Paul featured the L8 SmartLight - a 64 LED bluetooth connected sign that can display any kind of notification you want with various light codes. Roger fe ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 3: Facebook Wants Your Face

Posted by: Paul Posted date: June 20, 2012 | comment : 1

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/uploads/trw/trw003.mp3] Download Audio Welcome to the 3rd episode of Tech Roundup Weekly. If you listen to the audio version, you will hear our new and official intro developed by Paul Shirey, let us know what you think! Kickstarter Projects Paul featured The Pocket TV, a small dongle that allows you to turn any TV with a HDMI input into an Android 4.0 Smart TV. You can get ...

Tech Roundup Weekly Ep 2: The Samsung Toaster

Posted by: Paul Posted date: June 13, 2012 | comment : 0

Download audio We started off the show by discussing video quality in Google+ hangouts after a first attempt at recording. It seems that while Google does a good job at keeping video from lagging, this requires them to have horrible quality video at times. As the podcast goes on we will continue to develop even better video quality. Kickstarter Projects Paul featured a kickstarter called Build Your Own Arca ...

Is Social Media Dead?

Posted by: Paul Posted date: June 05, 2012 | comment : 2

Mashable recently wrote a blog post on a report of how Facebook engagement and time spent on the site is going down. We have seen time spent on the site go down simply because of less and less true engagement through conversation. People are more accustomed to liking. Things covered in this video Is Facebook Dead? What did you do on the internet before Facebook? Are Facebook and Twitter security issues? Why ...