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When I began blogging, the Facebook Cover Photo seemed like a wonderful place to advertise my Blog and Social Media Accounts. It turns out that Facebook doesn't like this one bit. I'm honestly surprised that Facebook would have any regulations for cover photos different than the regulations for any other photos published on the site, but it turns out they do. It also appears that this applies to both Fan pa ...

If you know anything about hackers, you are probably familiar with the hacking group Anonymous. To the average person, Anonymous might just seems like a hacker group out to cause Internet mischief. Based on most of the news reports about them, it would be easy to think that. However, Anonymous is much more than a hacker group, and they are out to cause much more than just Internet mischief. Anonymous is one ...

It's thanksgiving, which means that tomorrow is one of the largest shopping days of the year: Black Friday. No matter whether you prefer to shop online or in-store amid the thousands of people and angry mobs, statistics show that there will be at least one deal that you will find too good to be true. Of course, tech gadgets are going to be big on the list of on-sale items, especially tablets. Android tablet ...

When released, the Samsung Galaxy S3 was one of the most talked about phones of 2012. I saw more giveaways, more ads, and more promotion than any other phone. One of the key factors people mentioned is battery life, we'll talk about this later in this post. This is an initial almost 1 week review of the Samsung Galaxy S3. I purchased mine on Tuesday, November 6th. Right from the beginning, I was very impres ...

Facebook's IPO was less-than-spectacular, and they haven't really done much to try to turn it around since then. With 900 million users, something such as a search engine just might do the trick. It has been said by many that Facebook seems like they are trying to take over the internet, and this is something that could do it. Here's the one problem I notice from the beginning though, and that's the fact th ...

Alright, so my posts have been a bit personal lately, but there is this category on my blog called Memoris, so I might as well fill it up with some content once in a while. Since about 3 years ago (I would have been 13), I've been doing IT work for the church that I've attended most of my life. Of course, at age 13 I wasn't really old enough to have a job, so I was simply loving the volunteer experience. Ho ...

It's hard to believe that in two more months, this blog will be a year old. Paul Shirey Tech is already my largest, longest running blog. I've run other blogs in the past for over a year, but never updated them as often as this blog. I truly love writing and sharing my opinions with others. It gives me an opportunity to reflect on things, and know that there is someone out there who I am helping when they f ...

For the past couple of years ISPs in the United States have been trying to get peer-to-peer file sharing methods to be completely banned. The problem is that just because someone is using bit torrent doesn't necessarily mean that they are engaging in illegal acts. Needless to say, TorrentFreak has come out with a very interesting report that claims that file-sharers buy 30% more music than non peer-to-peer ...

Just spectacular is how I can describe the skydiving adventure the whole world go to see today. Felix Baumgartner broke many records as he climbed for more than two hours in a small capsule with nothing more than a seat and some instruments attached to a very large balloon. They were unsure if he would be able to jump due to a problem with his faceshield not heating, but they were able to fix it. After a lo ...