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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...