I love the fact that I can get map data for basically anywhere I go. I am a Google fan. I use Gmail to manage all of my email and pretty much only search with them. I have had some incorrect directions from their map service so I have been useing Mapquest of late. That’ll be the case until I get bad data from them. These services are all well and good, but not exactly what I’m looking for.
Personally I’m pulling for OpenStreetMap. It’s attempting to be the equal of Google Maps and Mapquest but wiki style. All of the data will be open source and not subject to the terms of the Google API or Mapquest.
Check it out!
Open Street Map
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Despite my promise to go into detail about my methods for getting music onto my iPod, I’m going to jump ahead a bit and talk about my .mp3 format editor of choice, Audacity. Why should you use Audacity? Well for starters it’s free. In fact I’d recommend never buying another software package, ever. You can pretty much be certain that there is something that you can use that has been programmed for free. If you want to throw your money away, throw it at the developers of these products! I always start at Source Forge! This is where you can find Audacity.
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