Travel Guides

What makes a city to be bike friendly? I have chosen personally the bellow listed cities judging the length and safety of the special bike lanes, the use of the bike in that city or country, the respect showed by drivers and walkers against bikers. Also, the basics: that city must anyway to be worth to be visited. Fact is that every city could be visited much better by bike, than by car, but not all the municipalities have understood this simply law. Every Maire of a major city should be aware of this simple fact: letting the bike hire for free could enhances the number of tourists. But let see the winners right now and go green !

1. Amsterdam is doubtless the capital of the biking Europe. There are many bikes, many bike lanes, a bike culture and a bike education . Also an amazing permissive city.

I have seen hundreds of people writing about various online services that allows you to store your data online so that you can access them at anytime anywhere you want. I always thought it would be a great to have an application that integrates online applications with the local desktop.  When I say that I mean a software that brings all your files together to your Windows Desktop.

Now people use these web services because they are extremely easy to use and majority of them don’t have cost a penny. Gladinet is an awesome tool that offer easy access to your online stored files or across Pcs. As the company itself would say “It is a personal cloud agent, an open online backup platform, and a desktop delivery agent for cloud service providers.”

Travelling at long distances is surely not unusual for you. But you should also notice during your travel the huge distance between the acceptable behaviour at different destinations. Sometimes, even between neighboring countries is a huge difference  about what is the civilised behaviour. For you as a tourist is necesarily to now and aply all these rules, otherwise the locals wil make a full of you, or will totally reject your company. In the worst cases, you risk to be emprisonned. Of course, you don’t want all these things to happen, and that’s why I present here the travel etiquette.

1. In the muslim countries the legs are the most disregarded part of the body. Don’t show your legs without apropriate shoes and remember the Iraqi journalist who threw one of his shoe against American President George Bush. He may not have intented to hit him, but the offence is huge, as he tried to demean him. He was sentenced at three years of prison.

When its comes to weather plugins for Firefox it seems their pretty easy to make because they’re so many of them. Just grab the weather forecast for the day from some place and update the plugin to show that info, simple right?

NO! 1ClickWeather plugin shows that weather isn’t just about copy pasting some unconfirmed weather claim . Utilizing data harnessed from around the world at www.weather.com 1ClickWeather goes beyond the normal collection of data to including regional Doppler radar maps (with severe weather alerts, when applicable). It may also use international satellite maps which gives it the ability to predict up to 5 days of forecast information.

You also get to detail and customize weather content, from 10-day forecasts to hour-by-hour updates. If you choose to, you can also get video updates of weather conditions 72  hours ahead by On-Camera Meteorologists from The Weather Channel through clickable icons.

If there ever was a software that made you look like a treasure hunter (or a fool) then HeatMapper is it!

HeatMapper is a free Wi-Fi Mapping software, which allows you to find the best WiFi spots in a given area. What’s unique is how it maps them!

You are required to load an image of the area you’d like to map (eg. a floorplan of your 3 bedroom apartment) then left click the location you’re at on the floorplan image you loaded (on your portable) and slowly start walking around the wifi region. If you are on an airport this software could come in handy then as well.

HeatMapper will begin collecting signal data as you walk around! Its best that you left click your current location on the image frequently while walking around as this will help the software fine tune its findings. Once you’re done just right click and the data gets saved!

Milan is one of Italy’s richest and largest cities, and situated on the fertile plains of the
Po Valley in Lombardy. This was originally a large Celtic settlement back in the 7th Century BC, and it was known at that time as Mediolanum. It has always been a successful and affluent place, and has been overseen by many different rulers in its time including the Goths (600AD), French, Austrians and Spanish. Milan was heavily bombed during the Second World War, and over a quarter of the city was completely
destroyed, but despite this many of the cities greatest historic, religious and architectural treasures survived including several priceless masterpieces by world famous Italian artists such as Leonardo da Vinci.

TweetMyPC is yet another web based service that uses the Twitter platform. This time to literally control your PC! That is, you tweet, and your PC does!

Still confused? Lets put it this way: You’re realize that you are late for work and rush to your car meanwhile your brother abroad is downloading your vacation pictures from your PC that’s acting like a private webserver. Once he’s done he tweets you and you receive his message, in between red lights you tweet to your specific TweetMyPC account with the word “Shutdown” and lo and behold! As you swerve your way into your work place you PC is being shut down!

I mean can you imagine the scope for something like this? With wireless internet becoming widely available each passing day. I don’t think it’ll be long before hobbyists I’ll wire small factor PC’s to their car and the be able to tweet command like “stream playlist from home PC”

If you’re a power USB user then you most probably know what portable apps are. For those who are new to the concept – portable apps are (usually) frequently used software (eg. browsers, media players, email clients etc)that have been tweaked to run off a USB stick usually without installation and are designed to avoid leaving behind traces of their usage (eg. window registry entries, histories, temporary files etc). This can always come in handy for travelers since they never get any time to download software while they are on the go. It’s best if you carry a complete pack of all the valuable applications with you all the time.

When you get bit by the portable app bug, most people start making their own collection of  portable apps designed to suit their tastes.