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Bicycling Directions, Trails Comes to Google Maps (342 diggs) There's nothing worse for a bicyclist than finding yourself a mile in to a two-mile stretch of shoulder-less, busy, highway-speed traffic with no alternative route. Before today, this was a common occurrence if you went to trusty Google Maps to get bicycling directions, but starting today, that has all changed.

10 awesome yet forgotten CD-ROMs from the 90's [Slideshow] (525 diggs) Before the Internet provided instant access to vast stores of reference information, news, entertainment, and the like, there were CD-ROMs.

Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads! (267 diggs) Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc. is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app.

US softens Internet export rules for Iran, Sudan & Cuba | (298 diggs) Looking to facilitate what it calls free speech rights in countries that don't look favorably at such liberties, the US government Monday said it would ease the regulations around exporting Internet-based applications such as e-mail, blogging and social networking software to Iran, Sudan and Cuba

Comcast's Latest iPhone App Manages Your DVR From Anywhere (244 diggs) Comcast is fairly evil, to be sure. But if they're doing one thing right, it's the latest version of their free iPhone app, Comcast Mobile App 2.0.

Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly (427 diggs) Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year.

Five Best VPN Tools (615 diggs) VPN software gives you access to private networks as though you're sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here's a look at five of the most popular VPN tools.

5 Great Extensions To Manage Various Tasks On Google Chrome (337 diggs) From opening a new tab to restoring or saving our session,we perform various tasks in our internet browsers. Sometimes these tasks are present in the browser in an already convenient enough manner to make life easier for the user. But at other times,in the form of extensions and add-ons,third-party developers make these browser tasks easier for us.

6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed (396 diggs) Using many plugins can affect a website's performance, and thus, you must be highly selective in choosing the plugins you install. In this article, we share with you the WordPress plugins that we use on our sites.

Recent Nvidia Drivers Causing Catastrophic Failures (502 diggs) If you're using an Nvidia graphics card you should check your drivers, as there is a chance the newest drivers could cause your card to overheat during World of Warcraft, the Starcraft II Beta, or even Warcraft III.

Software patents should only be valid for 7 years (683 diggs) Patent trolls would generally disappear, because a loophole in the current patent system allows them to wait for a technology to spread before retro-actively patenting it.

Opera 10.50 Lands On Windows, Mac And Linux Version (392 diggs) Opera Software today released Opera 10.50, which it touts as “the fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers” (which, in turn, calls for a comprehensive speed test – anyone?).

Opera 10.50 Web browser released (550 diggs) Opera Software has released version 10.50 of their desktop browser for Windows.

Google buys cloud photo editing site Picnik (317 diggs) Until recently, you had to edit your photos using client software on your computer, but today Google has acquired Picnik, one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud.

New Google Chrome browser translates websites (372 diggs) Google's new version of its web broswer offer automatic translation of websites as well as enhanced privacy controls

Google Adds Flickr, Picasa Photos to Street View (334 diggs) Google actually began incorporating geo-tagged photos into Street View last year, but they've now added a new photo-viewing interface for users moving through a Street View tour of well-captured areas. That allows you to peek at places that weren't accessible by Google's camera-topped cars, and also provides more angles on any area y

Why Google Pushed Buzz Out The Door Before It Was Ready (340 diggs) When Google Buzz launched three weeks ago, the product wasn't ready. There were basic privacy issues that still needed to be hammered out.

All About Google (INFOGRAPHIC) (1,908 diggs) Everything about Google from how they make all their cash, to the composition of their workforce, to tidbits about Google's culture (a Googler n00b: Noogler)

HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote (828 diggs) A few weeks ago, tensions between Adobe and Apple rose to all-time highs after Apple prominently left Flash off of the iPad. A lashing by Steve Jobs, calling Adobe lazy and Flash buggy didn’t help matters at all.

The Best Way To Customize Your Desktop: 3 Top Apps Compared (439 diggs) Just as you have one heart, and one brain, your Windows installation comes with but one desktop. Sure, you can change the look of this digital meeting space by applying new wallpapers, or adding sidebars and widgets, or letting Windows 7 do all that automatic stuff that it does every ten minutes or so. But that's not really changing the desktop!

Google Search Accounts For 9% Of All Pageviews On The Mobile (251 diggs) In their January 2010 State of the Mobile Web report, Opera Software looked at social networking on the mobile Web and concluded that Facebook dominated that aspect by a margin throughout 2009, while Twitter was the fastest-growing.

15 Awesome Google Services You Never Knew Existed (866 diggs) Most of the mega company's services are either full blown web applications readily available to the public, or secretly tucked away behind a door in the Google Labs. However, even those wearing their Public Beta scrubs are readily available to play with.

45+ Free Open-Source Software For Windows (527 diggs) List of some best and free open source software for windows. These software are licensed under Free Software Licenses and Open Source Licenses.

Places You Don't Want To Be Mayor Of On Foursquare (285 diggs) Since we’re tired of repeated 4sq updates from people at Starbucks, the mall, eating sushi, that indie record store, or the soup kitchen, we thought we’d look into the places that don’t seem to make the 4sq cut.

The Secret World of Private BitTorrent Trackers (972 diggs) Somewhere on the web is the ultimate music site. It has virtually every album, EP and single ever released in a variety of high-quality formats with insanely fast download speeds. You're probably not allowed in.