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A proposal for a crowdsourced portal acceptance system for Ingress agents.

Jan 16, 2015

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in ingress, social media, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople love to submit portals and portals add excitement to Ingress. The more portals there are the busier you are. Cities are fantastic places for ingress players for this reason. Geneva, Barcelona, Neuchatel and other cities already have hundreds if not thousands of portals but go to the swiss countryside, the…

INGRESS REPORT – Agents Welcome 2015 – Raw Feed Jan 08 2015

Jan 9, 2015

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richard

in ingress

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOf course it’s geeky but as a result of playing this game I have decided to walk 3650 km this year. That’s an average of ten per day. I know that some days I can walk a greater distance. We will see by how much I overshoot this goal at the…

Gimel’s Ingress Mission

Jan 6, 2015

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in ingress, Swiss walks, Switzerland

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe views as I drove up to this ingress mission were beautiful. I could clearly see the Jet D’eau in Geneva and the streets of Lausanne on the other side. I could see how light was playing with clouds to provide enjoyable views. Gimel is a village/town in the Jura surrounded…

Rolle’s Ingress mission

Jan 5, 2015

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richard

in ingress, Swiss walks

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Rolle Ingress mission starts at the castle and has you walk towards the centre. You then walk along the main street and through an arch back towards the lake side. From here you walk along the lake for a short distance before heading back in to town and the last…

Tourism and Ingress

Jan 2, 2015

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richard

in ingress, London walks, reviews, social media, Swiss walks, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re a geek and you like mobile phones with a data plan then ingress is for you. Over the last two days I walked 18 kilometres playing ingress and winning back the City of Nyon for the Resistance. It didn’t last long. The same evening the enlightened players destroyed my hard…

Rome’s Lost Empire

Jan 1, 2015

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in Documentary, observation, Post-university life, reviews, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDocumentaries have been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. This year I started with the Documentary Rome’s Lost Empire narrated by Dan Snow. With Sarah, an associate professor they travel from Rome to Transylvania, to Petra and to Tunisia to uncover the Roman Frontier. Using a…

Lebara Spain

Dec 29, 2014

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richard

in mobile, social media, social networking, spain, travel

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you visit Spain and get a lebara Spain sim you need to set up two access point names. One is for internet access and the other is for MMS. I only point this out because dozens of sites tell you what the configuration requirements are but non indicate that you…

CERN gears up to cool LHC down

Dec 17, 2014

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richard

in Switzerland, tech related, Video, youtube

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What the World Searched for in 2014.

Dec 17, 2014

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in google, tech related, Video, youtube

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNot the most inspired year in search.

Ingress and the Sony Xperia Z3

Dec 14, 2014

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in ingress, mobile, tech related, Uncategorized

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIngress is a game that requires a data connection, GPS data and the screen to be on. As a result of this battery consumption is high. Earlier today I took the Sony Xperia Z3 out in the rain and played for two solid hours non stop walking from portal to portal…

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