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!

As Super Bowl 46 is approaching, fans will flock to the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and to TV sets around the world to follow the New York Giants battle it out with the New England Patriots.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30EST on Sunday, February 5, and we’re already monitoring Superbowl.com to see how the site will handle the event.

What team will win Super Bowl 46? How will the site cope? We can only wait to find out.

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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, and other geeky topics.h

This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on cloud, with a few other topics thrown in to boot.

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Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December.

Whether this helped spur on the booming sales in the US, we don’t know, but retail e-commerce spending in the US reached $37.2 billion for the November to December 2011 period. That was an increase of 15% from the same period in 2010.

We decided to dig into the numbers for these e-commerce sites to see how well they did in terms of uptime and performance. After massaging the data coming from our Pingdom probes, it turns out that the sites overall performed well during December 2011 in terms of uptime, but response time was an issue for several sites.

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Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff.

In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending submission of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We’re also joined by Mario Lurig, who talks about using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront to speed up a website.

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Want to be able to download a DVD worth of data in about 38 minutes? It may not seem very impressive, but that’s with the average Internet speed in South Korea, according to the latest “State of the Internet” report by Akamai.

Covering Q3 2011, the report again puts South Korea at the top of the list of countries with the fastest Internet connections. The country scored an average connection speed of 16.7 Mbps in Q3 2011.

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