The Sweet Setup stroke again today with a full rundown of the best ways to track deliveries on iOS and MacOS.

“Package tracking apps aren’t the kind of apps that we use 10 times a day. Our goal is to get the information we need and get back to work. All of these apps are doing something that we can do for free on many retail and shipping carrier websites, but a dedicated app makes tracking all of your packages a “one stop shop.” In this case, you are paying for the convenience. As I mentioned, I buy a lot online, so spending a few dollars on an app that can track all of those deliveries is well worth it for me.”

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Today, Daisuke Wakabayashi from The Wall Street Journal (the article is behind a paywall. To read it, just Google the title, and click on the link provided by Google) published more informations about GT Advanced deal with Apple, and some insights about why GT filed for bankruptcy one month ago (if you don’t know about this GT/Apple deal, Wakabayashi recaps the entire story well in this article).

First, it shows why Apple chose GT Advanced, a sapphire furnaces maker who had no experience whatsoever in making sapphire (and making furnaces is not the same as producing sapphire - I don’t think Whirlpool is the best company to call when you’re making food for 100 people) :

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The Coinbase blog :

Today, we are excited to release a new bitcoin tip button for accepting micropayments anywhere on the web. The tip button can be easily added to any web page and enables website visitors to tip using a Coinbase account or other bitcoin wallet.

Coinbase introduced today a very interesting way to make tips to people.This button doesn’t revolutionize anything, it’s very lookalike of the Flattr button, but adds the benefit of using Bitcoins for payments, which decrease the Credit Card fees, which can be a problem for transferring little amounts of money.

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After a 10 year voyage, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft finally landed it’s Philæ module on the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. As you’ve might saw it on the news, this was a big achievement and a marvelous job made by the scientists at the European Space Agency. As you might think, I’m incredibly proud of them, and by the fact that this was made possible because countries, instead of fighting against each other, chose to be on the same side and make great things all together. This is why Science is great (and for many other things). I’m proud to be an European citizen.

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