The truly great thing about laptops and netbooks is that you’re not bound to your desk. You can bring them with you anywhere. Some people are taking that to the extreme, bringing their laptops with them to places where most of us wouldn’t.

So, just for a minute imagine you’re not stuck at your desk and join these people who are taking portable computing to new heights.

Photo by Ken Colwell.
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Photo by nantonos on Flickr.
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Photo by Theo Lagendijk.
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Photo by Ehsan Amini.
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Photo by Per Ola Wiberg.
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Photo by Brandon Davis.
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Photo by Tim O’Bryan.
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Photo by Michael Alan Goldberg.
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Photo by Joël Frijhoff.
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Photo by Martin Reisch (*safe solvent copyright 2009).
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Photo by chelove on Flickr.
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Photo by Norman Peters, copyright 2009.
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Photo by Børge Ousland.

Photo by William Parker III.
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Photo by Giorgio Montersino.
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Photo by badibouzouk on Flickr.
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Photo by exact2a on Flickr.
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Photo by bearsgonebad on Flickr.
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Photo by Brett Taylor.
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Photo by Christian Nally.
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Photo by Frances Berriman.
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Photo by George Conard.
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Photo by Ben Grantham.
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We hope you enjoyed this little collection.

And this of course leads to the question, where’s the most unusual place you’ve used a laptop?

And a big thank you to all the photographers who let us share their pictures with you!

Do you live in a country that loves Apple’s iPad? Most of us probably think we do, but we wanted to be able to tell you for sure. So even though we have written about the iPad many times before, it’s now time for us to tackle this hotly contested topic again.

Read on to find out, which countries are the most iPad-friendly.

Perhaps you live in one of them.

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Display resolutions are increasing every year, something that’s being taken to its extreme with the recent “retina display” trend that came with the latest iPad. The jump in onscreen pixels is massive, and such displays are soon bound to make their way into regular laptops and desktop displays, perhaps as soon as this year.

This development will have a profound effect on the size of the graphics resources necessary for websites, which ultimately will make websites bigger, more bloated and slower to download. That is, if we don’t change tactics.

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The juggernaut that is Facebook is quickly approaching 1 billion users, so the social network is growing at a rapid pace overall.

But if we look at some of the latest figures available, it would seem that Zuckerberg’s creation is not gaining users in every corner of the world.

In fact, in one country, Facebook has lost 16% of its users over the last six months, the equivalent of over 200,000 users. But in another country, Facebook has gained almost 17 million users over the same period.

What countries are we talking about, you ask? Read on and we’ll tell you.

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Developers who want a portable computer to code on, which is thin, light, sleek and yet powerful, may now be getting another option in an ultrabook from Dell. What makes the “Sputnik” ultrabook different is that it runs Ubuntu 12.04 Linux and it’s tailor-made for developers.

Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, security, and other geeky topics.

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“Photograph what is close to you. Share it with the world!“ That’s one of the headlines on Aday.org, a global project that will attempt to document what goes around the world in one day.

This all takes place on Tuesday May 15, 2012, and Pingdom will be participating.

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