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1 hour and 19 minutes

Using everytrail for iphone: the app shows for this particular trip 33km in 1 hour and 19 minutes with a resulting average speed of 25km/h.

The same trip displayed on everytrail.com is 1 hour and 46 minutes long, however, which makes for an average speed of 18.6 …

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ipad and photography

I am wondering about the next iPad. What is available now is certainly enticing and must be a joy for light computing / intense internet reading. I do have limited budget, however, and think that probably the iPhone 4 is a better way to spend my money. But I look at …

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network speeds

Useless stats on network speeds using speedtest.net.

  • Eni / ??? / Milano

70932 kbps (download) 16594 kbps (upload)

ping 13 ms

  • Wind / ADSL / Bari

535 kbps (download) 213 kbps (upload)

ping 126 ms

  • Alice / ADSL / Pietro Bari

2696 kbps (download) 251 kbps (upload)

ping 115 ms

  • Fastweb / ADSL / Giulia

4840 kbps (download …

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the future according to google

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An interesting piece was published a few days ago on the official google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/future-of-search.html

Let me quote two passages:

It would be much nicer if we had a device with great connectivity that could do searches without interruption. One far-fetched idea: how …

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