With a profit margin of over 36%, has Apple built up a cash reserve of 29 billion dollars. Focus on high profit products as iPod and iPhone, is the key to the whole business model and the reason why Apple is sailing calmly through the recession. The stone hard margin hunting is a big reason why Apple stubbornly refused to embark on the rocket market for notebooks. On the computer side, however, has Mac lost something the past two years.

In April 2009, was it time for Apple to present the quarterly report. Compared with the same period in 2008, has the profit increased, but the sales of Mac declined. iPod reached just over 11 million of sold units. That who holds up the figures is the high demand for the iPod Touch. iPhone sold 3.79 million units. Both figures are higher than the market expected. In the case of sales for Mac, it was sold 2.2 million units, down by 3%. Timothy Cook,at Apple, said in connection with this quarterly report – We will make the best computers in the world, not most. (Information from Seniorhuset)

A hot week, we have summer now. The summer is here with the tourist, also those who want to buy Marbella apartments or Marbella villas. I had little time over for write in the blog about the entire good and bad thing in Marbella. Ok, we had receive two new apartments and one villa for sale, new reports of saving water in Marbella, Antonio Banderas villa problem, property Marbella, rental tenants to court, GIMP program, more than just blogging on Wordpress, no follow links information and other news:

Test your computer: Are their unsecured program.
900 tenants to court in Marbella and Malaga for not paying their rent.
Stop immediately with internal no follow links.
Marbella Town Hall steals a slice of Antonio Banderas garden
10 fantastic things more with you WordPress besides Blogging.
Marbella saving water by its desalination plant.
Become professional in image manipulation program GIMP.
Marbella, Fuengirola and Costa del Sol news.

The new properties for sale are:

http://www.sundream-estate.com/395-marbella-apartments-penthouse.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/190-property-marbella-bungalow.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/391-marbella-apartments-property.html

Happy reading!

According to Security Company Secunia have 98 percent of all Windows computers at least one insecure program installed. These are all possible forms of applications that have security holes and other problems. As a rule, clogging the holes again continuously by the developers, but it is not at all certain that users know that there are free updates.

This is a clearly important part to keep track of. Security hole as found in Appendix for the browser is of course a great danger, because it can open up your computer for attacks from infected websites. With PSI installed, can you search your computer for problems, and you can also allow the program to be resident in the memory, for tell you when new updates coming. (this article did I found at TkJ, thanks Tommy).

With this economic crisis we are in now have more and more people sold there apartments or villas and rent a properties instead. And I found this article in SurinEnglish about this problem. More than 900 tenants are taken to court for not paying their rent in the province of Malaga. More and more landlords in the province of Malaga and here in Marbella are being forced to take their tenants to court over non-payment of rent or deposits, figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE) reveal. Last year legal action was sought in 1,019 cases and in more than 91 per cent of these, (931) this was for non-payment of rent.

The province of Malaga comes behind only Barcelona (4,576), Madrid (2,391) and Valencia (1,295) in the national listing, which proves just how hard the area has been hit by the construction slump and the massive job losses this has entailed and this has only started.

Cayetano Rengel, president of the Malaga Property Owners Association, says that the legal process involved in evicting tenants is discriminatory against landlords. “The process usually goes on for more than a year, and landlords find themselves defenseless, as they aren’t receiving the rent owed to them, nor can they let the property to other tenants,” Rengel points out.

In the majority of the cases which went through court in the province of Malaga last year, the judge found in favor of the claimant (977 cases), while 42 were rejected.
The number of cases which reached court in the province fell almost 14 per cent from 1,173 in 2007 to 1,019 in 2008. Estate agents often recommend that landlords use an arbitration system that cuts court action costs in case of conflict with tenants. By this system, tenants are obliged to present pay slips or guarantees when they sign a rental contract.

That the links is what gives value to the sites and the increase in search engine rankings is probably not news to readers of this blog. Many have certainly experimented with internal links and tried to push the maximum forces to the main pages. One part of this has been to put no follow on links to sub pages that are not so important to appear high in Google for. But now, Google has put the foot down and changed the rules for internal no follow. Since no other blog seems to take up the subject, so here comes a small summary.

What mean do follow links?

A no follow link means that you do not give any force to a particular page as a link pointing to. This technology was originally created to protect the blogs that got a lot of comments of all types of visitors. More recently, it used by a lot of various SEO companies to sculpt PageRank. Maybe you did not want to give any force to the login page or contact us page, but rather to your web shop. Then, it has been effectively with internal no follow.

This is it technically:

Plain link: <a href=” http://www.sundream-estate.com/marbella-apartment.php”> Marbella apartment</ a>.

No follow link: <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.exempel.com/”> questionable link </ a>

No follow previous:

Google has previously considered that the internal no follow links, PageRank can be spent on other sub. That is no longer.

No follow today.

With the new rules so, you should not have no follow internally in your site. You just are wasting your link force. If you have 10 internal links and 7 is no follow, so divided now 30% PageRank at the 3 common links. Previously, 100% of the PageRank went to the usual links. So now it is time to remove all no follow, the internal link power is wasted with using no follow.

Matt Cutts was there as usual, was the first to tell the news. So, have you changed your no follow or have you never had any? Personally, I will get a review of a number of pages that need to fix this.

One of the few and last famous people we have left in Marbella are the Town Hall now hunting out of the community. Antonio Banderas, one of Spain’s most famous film actor and singer,  who is a property owner in Los Monteros, Marbella, will have to pay a price for appearing as legal on the town’s new urban development plan (PGOU). The actor will have to give up the part of his garden that lies south of the swimming pool, a loss of a total of 1,243 square meters which also include a narrow strip adjoining the Siete Revueltas stream, because in the new PGOU plan reserves a strip to the south of the actor’s property for public parks and gardens.

The text of the new PGOU establishes that the plot houses a detached property built with a license granted against the valid planning regulations at the time. However his beautiful beach villa, La Gaviota, will be allowed to remain standing in exchange (community robbery) for part of the garden which will permit public access to the beach. Do you really think he or any wealthy people is going to stay in this stupid community, who one year give you building license and then a couple year later tell you it is illegal and want you to pay a penalty for that….

The legal situation of the property has already been through the courts. In April 2003 the Andalusian High Court (TSJA) ordered the demolition of part of the villa after the building license granted by Marbella Town Hall in 1995, when Jesús Gil y Gil was mayor, was annulled. Banderas, who acquired the property a coupe of years after the license had been awarded, appealed against the sentence but this was rejected in January 2008.

The Marbella Town Hall then applied to postpone this demolition order until the new PGOU has been finally approved, just as it has done with other cases in which the properties are likely to be legal once the new regulations come into force. Meanwhile the community of property owners on the Los Monteros estate has already announced that it would report a case of influence peddling if La Gaviota was finally allowed to remain standing.

Bandera’s neighbors plan to continue with this action, according to their legal representatives, as they consider that the compensation proposed by the PGOU only involves giving up part of the garden but not handing over an area of land equal to the size of the plot occupied by the house.

The ‘La Gaviota’ conflict gained another angle some six months ago. The criminal action against former mayor Julián Muñoz and other ex-GIL councilors for granting the license for the construction of the villa was shelved in December 2008 by a local judge. This problem is the same for many owners of Marbella apartments and Marbella villas in Marbella area.

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WordPress can be used for much more than blogging. After all, it is a really complex and flexible publishing system, and with the right additions, you can do lots of other types of websites. TkJ tips me about WP Candy who has written a very good and detailed article on ten items you can use Word Press to, in addition to running a blog.

The various points in the list are all thoroughly explained, with suggestions for extensions (plugins) you can download and install in Word Press for implement the project. For example shows you how you make a link directory or an advertisement site.

1.      Create a Static Web Site

2.      Build a Directory

3.      Start a Classifieds Site

4.      Create an Article Repository

5.      Make an Image Gallery

6.      Build a Review Site

7.      Start a Discussion Forum

8.      Aggregation

9.      Membership site

10.  Ecommerce Site (online store)

So if you ever meet a person who says that WordPress is limited, you can throw this article in the face of the person … Again, fascinated by the possibilities of WordPress!

Marbella and Costa del Sol in general have a serious water problem, which we all know, with so many swimming pools and golf courses that have been built in Andalusian there is always water problem when the summer comes. In the summer doubles the population of Marbella and this year we are in luck because the reservoir at La Concepcion has plenty of water because of the heavy winter rains.

However it cannot be predicted whether there will be plenty of rain next winter so saving it is a priority. The Marbella desalination plant is doubling its output to 35,000 cubic meters per day to supplement that used from the reservoir. This means that water will not have to be taken from the La Conception reservoir, thereby saving water stocks. The plant at Rio Verde takes sea water and converts it into high quality drinking water .This supplements the 250,000 cubic meters we use every day.

Why there isn’t a much more rigorous campaign for saving water in Spain is a mystery. We don’t see or hear anything from the Government or the Town Hall, that we should save more water and just not letting taps run in the garden or in the houses, also why must the golf courses been SO green grass….why must all the Marbella luxury villas and Marbella apartments have so unbelievable green grass…

GIMP is the open source – world’s answer to Photoshop. It is a complex image manipulation program full of functions and tools, and it is also completely free. You can download it for both Windows and Linux. The latest version is 2.6.6, and it contains many news.

I find an article of Six Revisions, which lists 10 websites with schools, guides and other articles with has to do with GIMP. Do you want to learn to master this great program in image editing, is this really good websites to begin with. If you think that GIMP is a bit too complex for your taste, are there a lot of other free image-editing programs. Two of my favorites are Paint.NET and Photoscape. They are both easy to use, have simple and logical interface and is also free.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program and was originally developed for Linux / Unix. It has however since several years been closed for Windows. GIMP is an enormously complex tools, and by that I mean that the learning threshold is relatively high, but above all that the program contains many and very good functions. You can very well compare GIMP with Photoshop.

That who probably is the most unaccustomed with GIMP is that the interface is different from the other of Windows programs, because it is was closed from Unix. But it is really no major differences, and once you come over the threshold, it is no problem. Once you start using GIMP, you will realize that it is an excellent tool for imaging, image editing and photo retouching. This article did found I in TkJ.

95 fully trained lifeguards are going to help those who might get into trouble in the water this summer on the beaches of Benalmadena, Fuengirola and Mijas Costa. All These lifeguards are also fully trained in first aid. So you can be safe on the beaches this summer.

All of Fuengirola beaches are having flying the prestigious blue flags which signify quality of water and sand. Last Friday celebrated Fuengirola this and a part of the ceremony a parachutist flew down to the Mayor carrying a blue flag. The Mayor raised it on a flag pole in front of one of the beaches.

Marbella feria has estimated more than a half a million people in the town. In this economic crises time was the feria organization afraid that not going around economic, but the high number of people did compensate for the lower individual spending rate. The fiesta of Saint Bernabe came to an end last Sunday with the Corpus Christi procession in the morning, followed by a bull fight in the afternoon. There were some unacceptable behaviors from those attending and this caused some clashes with those who were acting as security personnel.

The town of Nerja has had a setback with its proposed sewage works .The project has now been set back for three year and will not be started until 2012.There needs to be an environmental assessment and a technical assessment for this 37 million euro project. Until then sewage residue will continue to be placed in the sea.