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Les cartes de l’empire Mcdonald’s. McDonald's, le géant des multinationales de la restauration rapide s'est étalé sur toute la planète en une cinquantaine d'années. Retour sur son histoire et son développement ... en carto! Multinationale du secteur de la restauration rapide avec plus de 32.000 établissements, McDonald’s est devenu en l’espace d’une cinquantaine d’années l’incarnation tangible du processus de mondialisation. Avec un nouvel établissement inauguré toutes les cinq heures, dont un tous les jours en Europe, ses 500.000 employés à travers le monde et un empire immobilier évalué à plus de 2 milliards d’euros, McDonald’s s’impose comme la figure mondiale du fast-food.

L’objet de ce billet n’est pas de rappeler une nouvelle fois l’histoire du groupe ou d’apporter un jugement sur sa stratégie économique, mais simplement de présenter la traduction cartographique de son développement. Le développement de McDonald’s McDonald’s dans le monde USA : un marché conquis L’Europe : deuxième terre sainte du sandwich Photo flickr. 30 Awesome Macbook Stickers. April 7, 2010 by Thomas Hardy As sleek and cool as the macbook looks normally, a vinyl sticker can really make your macbook stand out from the crowd. Here is a collection of 30 awesome macbook stickers. m0zaikit Macbook Sticker Source Squirrel Macbook Sticker Source Snow’s Revenge Macbook Sticker Source Pulp Fiction Macbook Sticker Source Invaderz Macbook Sticker Source Pac-Man Macbook Sticker Source Ironman Macbook Sticker Source Magritte Macbook Sticker Source Steve Jobs Macbook Sticker Source Bird Cage Macbook Sticker Source Custom Macbook Stickers Source Mr.

Source Pussy On The Prowl Macbook Sticker Source Boombox Macbook Sticker Source Trees And Birds Macbook Sticker Source Apple Atom Macbook Sticker Source Apple Skull Macbook Sticker Source Street Fight Macbook Sticker Source Snow White’s Wicked Witch Macbook Sticker Source Yoshi Eating Apple Macbook Sticker Source Dharma Initiative Macbook Sticker Source Gears Of War Macbook Sticker Source I Love Apple Pie Macbook Sticker Source Scrapple Pig Macbook Sticker Source Source Source.

Blutack.jpg (Image JPEG, 400x602 pixels) 12 Incredibly Useful Lil’ Utilities for your Mac. We come across a lot of apps in our trials for finding new goodies, but many of them are too limited in function to write a whole post about. We usually tweet them @smokingapples, but for those of you who despise twitter, and for the sake of posterity, here’s a collection of must-have apps (depending on your tasks) you can use with your Mac. Caffeine Ever watched a YouTube video and have to shake the mouse every few minutes to prevent that annoying screen dimming? Or maybe you’re reading something on screen and the screensaver keeps kicking in. Whatever be the purpose, Caffeine is one must have utility to have in your menubar. Taking little or no resources, just click it to enable ‘caffeine mode’ which will keep your screen bright as ever for as long as you want. Click again to go back to normal. ScreenShade You’re doing some late night surfing on the bed, lights out, but the screen is just too bright for your own good.

LargeType FlexCal Smart Scroll X iStat Menus Desktoptopia xScope F.lux MacLoc. Open Source Mac - Free Mac software, all open-source, all OS X. 7 Essential multimedia tools and their free alternatives :: 10,000 Words. Why spend money on expensive multimedia tools when you can use comparable alternatives for free? They may not be an exact replacement, but how can you argue with the price? PHOTO EDITING: PhotoshopFree: Splashup Photoshop may be the industry leader when it comes to photo editing and graphic design, but Splashup, a free online tool, has many of the same capabilities at a much cheaper price.

Splashup has lots of the tools you’d expect to find in Photoshop and has a similar layout, which is a bonus for those looking to get started right away. WEB DESIGN: DreamweaverFree: KompoZer Looking to create your next web site without paying big money for programs like Dreamweaver? VIDEO: Final Cut, Adobe PremiereFree: iMovie, JayCut Many video editors, both novice and professional, use iMovie to create professional-looking videos and an amateur price.

AUDIO: ProTools, Adobe AuditionFree: Audacity, GarageBand SLIDESHOWS: SoundslidesFree: PhotoPeach INTERACTIVE MEDIA: FlashFree: Effect Generator. 6 Ways to Correctly Delete Applications. Have you ever deleted an application from your Mac by simply dragging it to the trash? It turns out there’s more to most applications than what you see in the “Applications” folder. Many apps spread system files all over your hard drive that can be a pain to track down. This means when you simply throw an app in the trash, you’re leaving behind associated content that unnecessarily eats up space on your Mac. Fortunately, there are several third party solutions that save you the work of hunting down and deleting all these stranded files. Here’s a quick rundown of six of them, let us know which ones you use!

Amnesia Amnesia Amnesia is a feature rich solution that uninstalls applications, screen savers, dashboard widgets and preferences panes and their associated system files. Amnesia features a drag and drop interface as well as the option to view all installed applications, widgets, etc. in a list within the application. Price: $9.95 Developer: Koingosw Requires: Mac OS 10.4 or later AppTrap. Potion Factory. Things Mac OS X. 50 Mac Apps With Well Designed & Sexy Interfaces « SUBERAPPS. November 19th, 2009 50 Mac Apps With Well Designed & Sexy Interfaces Ever since the roundup of 21+ essential iPhone apps with sexy interfaces crashed my hosting server (!) , I understand how much people love roundups of well designed apps. This post is a round up of 50 handpicked Mac apps that have either well designed or have really sexy interfaces or both!

They’re not arranged in any order, just random. I know it’s a giant list to digest, so bookmark this for future reference! Pixelmator [$59 | Website] Pixelmator is a great alternative to Photoshop, low memory footprint and extremely beautiful. Tapedeck [$25 | Website] TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. Snowtape [$29 | Website] Snowtape lets you listen to radio stations and record them live. Delibar [$18 | Website] I have a review for Delibar coming up next week, so stay tuned! CleanMyMac [$29.95 lifetime or $14.95 6 month license | Website] Swatch [$4.95 | Website] Snippet [$12.95 | Website] Anxiety Capo Bodega Blogo. Essential Mac OS X applications.