Build From Within

Build From Within

Yesterday, I talked about what I called The Perils of Self Employment. Yes, I realize nothing I've been talking about since I relaunched content on this blog has been directly rela ...

The Perils of Self Employment

The Perils of Self Employment

Just yesterday I talked about how I had begun to focus most (actually all) of my time and energy working on Elance. It's great. I'm making 8 - 10 times what anyone else my age woul ...

Time for Another “Where Have I Been?” Post

Time for Another “Where Have I Been?” Post

Yes, I'm quite familiar with writing these kinds of posts, unfortunately. Paul Shirey Tech has gone up and down, all around the universe of the internet. Some of the early readers ...

Social Brain Busting: Kwizzly for iPhone Now Available!

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

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

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

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 ...

Making Blogging Profitable – 10 Months Later

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 ...

Read more

If RIAA Cracks Down on “Illegal File-Sharing” – They Will Lose Billions

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 ...

Read more

Incase Your Missed: Watch Felix Baumgartner Jump From 120,000 Feet

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 ...

Read more

20 Truths of an IT Technician [Funny :D]

I've been doing more freelance IT work lately, and I thought it would be funny to come up with a list of 20 true things that happen to IT Technicians. Enjoy! Leave in the comments which ones you liked the best :D We sometimes do work in exchange for free food Spare server racks equal Mountain Dew/energy drink storage space If it's USB, we probably have it All the problems with Windows Vista bought our Ferra ...

Read more

“Can the PC Survive in the Tablet Age?” – What Tablet Age?

To try to lower the amount of potential hate-mail a post like this could generate, let me make some things clear, I was pretty fired up with I wrote this post, but that's what inspired it. I'm not against tablet owners, I own one myself I have nothing against people who only use a tablet as a main computer, I just don't feel it's right for me Tablets aren't bad, they just don't do everything You are free to ...

Read more

Protect Your Blog by Licensing With Creative Commons

Leaving a blog (even your small blogger blog that you update once a month) unlicensed is like giving your services and hard work out to just about anyone completely free, with no rules or guidelines. Without having any guidelines to visitors of your blog as far as how your content may or may not be sources, linked, or used, you are basically allowing anyone to take your work, use it, even modify it to their ...

Read more

Embedded Smartphones Could Keep Print Magazines Alive!

I gotta admit, the advertising in magazines is starting to get extremely annoying. Most of the tech magazines keep it clean and do it at a respectable level, but other magazines such as Forbes have decided to put full-page ads in the middle of stories, and they make them look like party of the story you are in the middle of reading to get you to read it until you find out it's really an advertisement. Print ...

Read more

If You’re Going to Download Copyrighted Material, Do it Right

DISCLAIMER: In no way am I saying illegally obtaining copyrighted media is right or wrong. In fact  this guide isn't as much of a guide for pirates as it is for anyone who is going to download a file of some sort off the internet. So here's the brought me to create this post. According to a user on Twitter, popular generally illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay stores IP addresses of users when they reg ...

Read more

How to Get The Most from Old Tech Devices

The world of tech devices has been moving at a healthy rate for the past couple of years, but with Samsung and Apple competing heavily with phones, and all sorts of manufacturers competing with tablets, it's moving at a crazy new rate. While it might get annoying to see a new tablet every 4-6 months at times, this does present an advantage for those who want to have the latest and greatest. Your old tech de ...

Read more

MySpace 2.0 – This Changes Everything [VIDEO]

Myspace is ready for a big comeback according to Justin Timberlake. The Social Network has announced on their front page that they will soon be attempting to bring some new life back to the Social Network that many barely remember. Check out this video. From my perspective, the new Myspace looks a lot like a social media hub instead of a social network. Right from the beginning it allows you to sign in ...

Read more
Scroll to top