For most lovers of music on the go, the default seems to be the combination of iTunes and iP* (where * is either hone or od). This is great for Apple and Windows users. But where do Linux users get their new music? Oh sure you can purchase the CD, rip it, and copy it [...]

Tags: amazon.com, Debian, Fedora, mp3, music-downloads, opensuse, ubuntu
Categories: Amazon, Entertainment, Linux, Music Industry, Music and Video, Online Services, Tutorials Basic, companies, software

If you’re like me (and I know you are) you have an endless assortment of passwords stored in your head. And, again, if you’re like me your age is defying your memory such that your brain isn’t always so quick to recall that endless stream of random characters you have for passwords (and you know [...]

Tags: password encryption, passwords, Security
Categories: Advice, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Security

The iTunes store is offering a good selection of podcasts that iTunes users can subscribe to. Apple uses its own format to serve the podcasts which is problematic for two groups of users. Those who do not want to use iTunes and those who cannot use iTunes. The former group likely uses another software program [...]

Tags: apple itunes, feed flipper, itunes, itunes podcast, itunes store, podcasts
Categories: Apple, Online Services

For the longest time I refused to see the value in Twitter. Over the last six months I have changed my tune on that. Now I use Twitter primarily as a PR tool for my articles. And since my renewed belief in micro-blogging, I have found plenty of tools with which to enact with Twitter.
One [...]

Tags: cli, command-line, tweet, twitter
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic

RSS has become such a common source of information for us information junkies. Whether you are following Ghacks via RSS, your favorite news site, or your favorite blog, it’s nice to be able to get all of those feeds centralized on your desktop.
For Linux there are plenty of possible RSS feed readers. One of my [...]

Tags: aggregator, feed-reader, news, news reader, rss
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

Bing Maps has been updated today with several new features and a new look and feel. Most notably in this regard are a new button bar with each button loading a specific feature of Bing Maps. Microsoft has also added some new colors to Bing Maps but those are only the obvious changes to the [...]

Tags: bing, bing maps, maps, microsoft, search engine
Categories: Microsoft, Online Services, Search Engines, The Web

Do you use Google for your collaboration tools? Gmail? Google Documents? Contacts? Although the Google suite is a very nice suite of tools that has grown exponentially in popularity, there is something to be said about keeping your collaboration tools in-house. There are plenty of tools that will allow you to set up such a [...]

Tags: collaboration, google documents, mobile office, office suite, online office
Categories: Linux, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development, software