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Top 10 Classic Laptops

These are just some of the laptops we find especially interesting and worthwhile to remember. What do you think? Vote for your choice and add your own.Inspired by post here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1627769,00.asp

10 Famous Domains Before They Were Big

In today’s branded world, it is almost impossible to imagine a company that does not own the domain associated with their name or brand. But several of today’s famous domains had a very different use before they were big.

Geeky Halloween Pumpkins

If you’re going to carve a pumpkin today, you might be looking for some inspiration. To help you out, we’ve collected a range of pumpkins carved with various geeky themes. There’s, Windows, Super Mario, Tux, CSS, Twitter, and more.We did a similar ...

The 10 Most iPad-Friendly Countries in the World

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 ...

Top 10 Facebook losers (countries)

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 ...

Top 10 Facebook Winners (countries)

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 ...

Awesome License Plates for Computer Geeks

We here at Pingdom are computer geeks, and proud of it. None of us have any geeky vanity plates (custom license plates) on our cars, though. But others have, and we love those. This post is a gallery of pictures of some of the coolest vanity plates we ...

Must-Have iPad Accessories

These are some of the accessories for iPad you can't live without.

10 Guests Every Geek Wants to Have Over for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is primarily a North American tradition its impact reaches across the globe. The stuffed turkey dinner, Black Friday sales and other traditions associated with Thanksgiving are starting to make an appearance in many other parts of the ...

Top 10 Countries for Cheapest Broadband

10 US States with Fastest Internet Broadband Speeds

These are the 10 US states with the fastest Internet speeds in Q2 2012, according to Akamai.

Top 20: Hosting Locations of World’s Top 1 Million Websites

Do you know the hosting locations of the biggest websites in the world? More specifically, do you know in which cities they are located?Last year we found that 43% of the world’s top one million sites were hosted in the United States, but we felt eager ...

Top 10 Time Zones with the Most Internet Users

We know there are around 2.4 billion Internet users in total in the world, but did you ever wonder how many of them that are awake when you are? We did. For example, if you live in central Europe you share time zone with millions of people in Africa. And ...

Countries with Fastest Internet Connections

These are the top 10 countries (plus United States) with the fastest Internet connections in Q2 2012 according to Akamai.

How Nine of the World’s Largest Tech Companies Got Started

Many of today’s largest tech companies, such as Sony, Nokia, Samsung and IBM, have been around for a very long time (some since the 1800s). Their beginnings were often very humble, and it is fascinating to look back and see how they actually got ...

10 Places with an Internet Top-Level Domain but No People

Most country code top-level domains on the Internet represent areas with millions of people, such as .uk (United Kingdom), .ca (Canada), .de (Germany), .se (Sweden), and so on, but there a places where the population isn’t counted in the millions, or ...

Top Sexy UNIX Commands

UNIX is full of powerful and flexible command line tools. But there are also some that make your thoughts wonder in a different direction...

10 Amazingly Alternative Operating Systems

This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris. There are much less mainstream options out there for the OS-curious.These ...

The 8 Most Successful Open Source Products Ever

Open source in itself is a success story. From being a niche concept, it has become a mainstream movement (well, more or less) and has received the attention of both individuals and businesses worldwide.There are thousands of open source projects and ...

The Top 5 TLD Flops Ever

With the Internet growing rapidly over the years, the number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has increased from just a handful to about twenty, with many more proposed or in planning. Some, such as .com and .edu, have seen widespread adoption and ...

The 10 Most Mac-Friendly Countries on the Planet

Have you ever wondered where in the world Macs are the most popular? We have, so we decided to find out.To do this, we examined OS market share numbers from across the world to identify the countries where Mac OS X has the highest market share.You’d ...

10 great inventors of Internet technologies

We thought we’d pay homage to some of the people behind the Internet as we know it today.Some of the obvious choices would include Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn for TCP/IP, Vannevar Bush for much of the conceptual thinking behind the Internet, Ted Nelson for ...