How-to: Torrents on your iPad

// How to download/watch torrents on your #iPad:
1) Go to www.put.io and make a free account
2) Get a #torrent link from your regular legal source
3) Paste the torrent link to put.io.
4) You're done. Very soon you'll have a download link and a stream option
Enjoy! :)

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Hoax almost becomes true, hell will freeze quite shortly, please stay tuned

Hoax almost becomes true, hell will freeze quite shortly, please stay tuned

// Dear +Mark Zuckerberg, I really like your development priorities. We still can not edit our status updates, but we can now pay you money so that our posts can actually be seen by people that used to see all our posts. Keep up the good work! :)

I had previously reported http://bit.ly/P1y63j on this while passing via Turkey, now I see it in Greece as well. According to a recent CNN article http://cnnmon.ie/RAc9Gz it's coming everywhere with varying price charges ($7 in the US, 2.54 pounds in Greece (not sure why it didn't give me a euro price)). Meanwhile, Google+ doesn't even have ads. I feel like i'm not significant here :) 

It is interesting to note that the hoax about Facebook adopting a monthly subscription model is yet to become true http://bit.ly/Tf44JV

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Free eBook: Introduction to SQL

// If you are new to programming and looking for a way to start learning about databases, here is a free #eBook  on #SQL  by Rahul Batra

Contents
1) An Introduction to SQL
2) Getting your Database ready
3) Constraints
4) Operations on Tables
5) Writing Basic Queries
6) Manipulating Data
7) Organizing your Data
8) Doing more with Queries
9) Aggregation and Grouping
10) Understanding Joins

Download here http://bit.ly/VzpF3d

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Browser Modes and Doctype

// Because there are still clients who refuse/can not to upgrade from #IE7 ...
Here is a helpful page with tons of information on which browser runs which mode (quirks/ standard) under which condition. http://bit.ly/UKEqj3

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Romney Self-Googlebombed!

// Apparently if you search on #Google images for "completely wrong" you get tons of photos of Mitt Romney. It's not an old-style #googlebomb but just a regular search engine... feature. This result comes probably from Romney's recent statement that he was "completely wrong" on his characterizations of 47% of americans...

Google search link: http://bit.ly/VQqLGt
Link to statement: http://usat.ly/WSck2T

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Awesome Google Maps fail

// Maybe we shouldn't be so hard on #Apple's #map failures... :) 
Link to the see it for yourself http://goo.gl/maps/4bh3m
And Bing getting it right http://binged.it/QQMkkf 

Reshared post from +Sharon Strandskov

I am usually pretty pleased with Google Maps, but surely there has to be a faster way... I know there were border issues, but I thought they settled those, and imagine you could go through a closer country regardless... anyone know why this would be the case?

Edit: Read comments for more examples, such as those from +Nigel Fish and +Wayne Radinsky, like this one where the pins are both in Vietnam, within 0.12km and it is a 750 hour rerouted drive: http://goo.gl/maps/O9Oy6

Edit, potential reason, thanks to +Jennifer Luzio:
"Google hasn’t actually operated in China since early 2010, when they decided they would no longer censor search results on Google.cn. That move came after Google sustained a cyberattack originating in China, designed to steal the GMail information of Chinese human rights activists. The Chinese government has long denied any involvement.
Users in mainland China can still search using Google Hong Kong."
from SearchEngineWatch
More on the cyber attack: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066083/Googles-New-Approach-to-China-A-Closer-Look-at-the-Attack-Heard-Round-the-Web

Either Google is purposefully avoiding China or they have such a lack of quality sourced data that they choose to avoid China.

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Dailymotion opens up Publisher Network - kind of

// #Dailymotion has been doing revenue deals with big sites like Yahoo! and The Huffington Post, but recently they have opened their platform for smaller sites as well. 

The basic idea is that you embed Dailymotion videos in your site, ads are server and you get 30% of Dailymotion's net ad revenues. A "Curator tool" is offered as well as API access. 

So I've signed up Top40-Charts.com and got accepted, but apparently not everything is in place yet as I got this message: _In the next couple of days the revenue share system will be activated and you’ll receive a temporary password in order to access your account._

So, we're on hold...
Check out the network's site here http://dai.ly/QZKAW5

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SoftLayer considered spam by Google

//If you are a  #SoftLayer client, be sure to check your #junk folder often as #Gmail is now considering it as a source of #spam . This is probably a recent development as I never had this problem before. As a result all mails from Softlayer of the last 10 days have ended up in my junk folder.

The irony of this #fail is of course the SoftLayer ad over the spam-considered message :) 

Is anyone else having this? 

Update: Looking at my junk folder I now find random mails from Twitter, other services, even Google Analytics! 

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