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anApple··on A factory that supplies Apple and Nokia used the toxic solvent n-hexane
And that's the reason why I don't buy apple products. Apple has used many toxic/nature killing compounds in the past as well.
anApple··on Jason Calacanis responds to Aaron from SEO Book
Seven? I could spot 8 seperate google text ad blocks and 3 graphical google ad blocks.
anApple··on Jason Calacanis responds to Aaron from SEO Book
Google should simply pull the plug.

Internet users would benefit more from this than pulling the plug from google.cn.

anApple··on Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White
Thanks for the information!
anApple··on Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White
They have 5 adsense blocks on their site, blended into the content. Good luck trying this as well if you are a "small" adsense customer!
anApple··on Paypal Freezes Wikileaks's Accounts (Scroll down to donate)
They are regulated by the CSSF.
anApple··on How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
Eurodns
anApple··on Carnegie Mellon student robbed, uses iPhone to track down culprits
A friend just told me today that he got his iphone stolen by a class mate. He went to the police, gave them the UID of the phone, and he got it back 3 days later.

Apperantly, as he told me, the police contacted apple which gave them the exact position of the mobile phone through the build in gps device, so the police could just pick it up.

anApple··on NewsCred Relaunches, Looks To Become “Ning For Newspapers”
"Fill your newspaper with news from around the world, about the news topics you care about."

Using somebody's else copyrighted content and then charging for the newspaper? Good luck with that!

anApple··on Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show
I guess we will be seing baiduu news, baiduu image search, bmail, bdrive sometime soon! :-)
anApple··on How a spare server turned into Twitpic, the $1.5M+ a year startup
My thought as well
anApple··on How a spare server turned into Twitpic, the $1.5M+ a year startup
Lucky guy. Twitter could have killed him in a glimpse by just offering an image/video storing site themselves.
anApple··on Ageism is becoming an issue for me
It's an execuse so they can higher you for less money.
anApple··on A new approach to China
Wouldn't every entrepreneur hope google would pull out of his market? :-)
anApple··on Paypal is evil
Well said.

To each story there are both sites of the story. No point was being written outlining the reasons why his accounts was being closed. If he would be serious about doing business, he could have provided all that information in the beginning.

anApple··on Electricity From WiFi Signals
If everybody ends up using these devices (and creating black holes for the signal), the gsm providers have to increase the output power on their antennas in order to get the same coverage as before.
anApple··on Things I learnt by not writing tests
That's called design by contract: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
anApple··on Performance / Price for CPUs
Is the performance measured over all cores or over just one core?
anApple··on Wikipedia Servers: How Does It All Work?
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:6df44nPiWlYJ:https://ro...
anApple··on Everything Paul Buchheit has bought from Amazon in the last 3 years
My mother buys at least 1 book per day on average from amazon. (she can read very very fast)
anApple··on Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009
I guess their revenue would be in pico dollars as well if you had to download, compile, configura and install the balsamiq software as well.
anApple··on SpamAssassin 2010 Bug
This also affects big email hosting providers, eg gmx.net.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Jahr-2010-Problem-im-...

anApple··on A New High-Tech Battle - Which 3-D Glasses Are Best?
I rather prefer the polarized 3d glasses over the shutter glasses, as with shutter glasses, the picture is a way too dark!
anApple··on Facebook (PHP) is not very Copenhagen (Change to C++ to save planet)
The webserver will only do computations which data they get from other services (memcache, etc...). They will never fetch the data locally, so there is no local bottleneck except the local bandwith and the efficiency of the code, thus the cpu.
anApple··on BBC News - Cheques to be phased out in 2018
Cheques should be reintroduced in Europe so that the US. can't ocpy all the transactions as it does right now with SWIFT.
anApple··on BBC News - Cheques to be phased out in 2018
It's required by law in the EU to put your bank account details on the web if you run a company.
anApple··on Goo.gl: Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
The other link shorteners don't have access to your email, to your search history, to your phone, to the places you look up on the internet, etc...
anApple··on Goo.gl: Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
* Chances are, we will log all the links you click and associate them to your account even though you don't want us to do it.
anApple··on At Twitter we're working on using Cassandra to store tweets
I love how twitter is constantly trying to reinvent the wheel for a simple message passing service.
anApple··on Twitter: All Developers Will Get Access to the Firehose in Early 2010
And they will be certainly charging access.
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