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

That is true folks. Twitter finally has a retweet feature. So retweet away to glory I say!
It is still in beta and I haven’t gotten around to using it much yet (just noticed it a while ago!) But is this cool or what? Will retweet a few tweets and test it out.

Tags: native twitter feature, retweeting from twitter, rewteet, twitter
Categories: The Web

Ever asked yourself if you should take the car, train or plane on your next holiday or business trip? Maybe you have even tried to calculate the traveling time and expenses for the various traveling options. Doing that manually can take quite some time. That’s where the new web service routeRank steps in. RouteRank queries [...]

Tags: holiday, routerank, travel, traveling costs, traveling time
Categories: Open Source, The Web

Services that make use of the vast video and audio archive that is Youtube are springing out of the ground more recently in this year. YouScrobble is the latest service that is combining Youtubes video archive with the information provided by the music service Last.fm. This combination alone proves to be very effective. Users who [...]

Tags: last.fm, music, music-download, youscrobble, youtube
Categories: 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

Offering a popular website or web service is not always a blessing. This especially becomes apparent when you have to deal with security related issues like phishing attacks. Facebook is without doubt one of the most popular sites on the Internet these days and it therefor comes unsurprisingly that the service is regularly attacked.
Trend [...]

Tags: facebook, facebook login, facebook login page, facebook phishing, facebook security, phishing
Categories: Security, The Web

How many times have you installed a LAMP server only to find Apache doesn’t seem to want to run right? Or you install a new module only to see Apache try to download pages as file, instead of displaying them on screen?
There are a hundred and one thousand things that can go wrong with any [...]

Tags: apache, apache log, apache2, apache2ctl, log files, php
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development