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The technical side of the redesign is impressive, merging 100k posts since 1990s across 12 databases and 17 blogs into 1 WordPress install (@MarcusWohlsen )


That is very impressive.

I'm a little mystified as to why they chose WordPress, though. It doesn't strike me as the kind of platform you'd want to build a... well, a platform on.


WordPress has come a long way, I have created a lot of site with WordPress as the CMS as the page management tools are ideal for non technical users.

And consider they are focusing on blog, WordPress is ideal :)


I can think of one app which would benefit - The Simpsons Tapped Out.

So annoying having to wait for 1GB of updates to download before you even get to play the game


Google used to be able to index Rapidshare so you could just search for files on via Google


There was load of blog sites which kept posting up new stuff with links back to Rapidshare in the footer, but older page just ended up have dead links as the content got deleted.


I completely forgot about RapidShare till I saw this, I'm probably not the only one...


LOL me too. I have switched to torrent since megaupload was banned.


Really annoying that they don't have a Mac desktop app for this, but they do for Windows


Contactless?


iPhone 5 and 5s will be pair-able with Apple Watch, so I would assume they will have access to Apple Pay too


According to the Apple Pay site, that'll be the case for in-store purchases.


You can customise your own version of bootstrap to have double the amount of columns, 24 instead of 12

http://getbootstrap.com/customize/


It doesn't connect to the Internet, it is the Internet (The IT Crowd)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg


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