Free Software Magazine, verry nice

You are interested in the free software movement (open source software) and you have tried using some type of Linux operating system (if not, check out DistroWatch and try Linux you just might like it). I personally feel that finding a good software guide for Linux can be challenging and Linux Magazines at Chapters are not the cheapest. So a great option is the FreeSoftwareMagazine which focuses on tutorials on how to use popular open source software for Linux and even Windows. I find that the articles in the magazine are well written and very interesting. For the price of $0 you can't beat the value for an electronic version. Also if you really like an issue you can get a hard copy from Lulu.com for $8.99 an issue. Enjoy..

Boxing Day Flyers On-line - Canada

If you are looking for the Boxing day deals on-line visit RedFlagDeals. By now most of the flyers have been posted for:

- Future Shop Flyer
- Best Buy
- Dell Canada

and much more.

Enjoy..

What are website mashups?

The concept of a website mashup is very recent and has been growing at a steady pace. So what is it? In simple terms, it's a way to combine website content from one or more websites together and the result is a new website that offers a new way of looking at the content and the correlations between it. The most popular mashup out there is to use Google maps service and combine it with other useful data to map something interesting. For example, MapSexOffender allows you to search for sex offenders using google maps based on street / city / state and area code in the US.

So what this site is doing, it's taking a public database of sex offenders and crossing it with google maps to provide people with a new website service.

Another interesting site is a weather website called WeatherBonk that allows you to select a city using google maps. Once the city is selected, the site will retrieve live web-cams from the internet that will give you a live shot of the cities different areas.

Google is one of the most popular ways to create a mashup website, but there are many other sites that allow you to use their content in many ways like Amazon for e-commerce, Flickr for images, and many more.

A website that I found that is a gateway to the most popular mashups on the web is ProgrammableWeb, it contains links to a lot of great mashup websites.

Local Flyers On-line

The site FlyerMall has been a favourite of my for a long time and it keeps getting better. I'm sure a lot of people know about this site, but here is my review of it just in case you don't know.

The main feature of this site is the ability to view 90% of the major store flyers you get in your mailbox weekly in Ontario for free ON-LINE. I wish the site actually allowed you to opt out of getting the paper flyers (save some trees), but I don't think that will ever happen. By having all the flyers in one place, you can compare prices between all the stores and hopefully save some money.

Other features that I don't use as often

• Free Classified Ads Section
• New Products Section - highlights new products in flyers
  
• Food Recipes Section
  
• Entertainment Section - advertises bars, attractions, clubs in Ontario
• Store Openings - new stores opening in Ontario

I hope you benefit from this site as much as I have. Enjoy!