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Firefox 1.5 RocksI've been biding my time about saying anything about Firefox 1.5 -- I've been playing with it since RC1 ("Release Candidate 1"), and it's currently up to RC3, and looking rock solid. Rumor has it that the formal release will be around the end of the month, but as far as I'm concerned, it's pretty close. PC Mag must think so too, since they just did a review of RC3. Of course, I haven't fooled much with the PC version (which they review), but I've spent a lot of quality time with the Mac OS X version, and I've got to say, Firefox 1.5 rocks. The best "feature", as far as I'm concerned, is that it's much faster than previous...


Webjay - Free Music PlaylistsThere is a lot of great music on the web, yours free for the listening—if you can find it.  Now Webjay let’s listeners create playlists of their favorite free MP3s from all over the ‘net—you can listen to playlists made by others, or create your own (public or private).  It’s a great way to discover new music, and to share music that you’ve discovered with others. Here are a few of my favorite free MP3s to get you started… Enjoy! ...


Free Music Works for WilcoXeni Jardin writes in Wired about Wilco's "suprising" success. It's becoming a fairly common story -- artist gets shat upon by label, artist says "screw it" and puts out a solid representative sample of their music online, artist finds later commercial releases gobbled up by fans. In this case, they even raised $15K for charity from people who still wanted to pay for the material they released for free. What a concept -- let people hear some of the band's good stuff (not just some not-ready-for-album samples) for free, and they're more willing to buy stuff. Nothing new here, mind you -- it just used to be called "radio play". Except of course that several whole species of moneygrubbers evolved...


Make Mac Firefox FasterSure Firefox 1.5 is faster than the 1.0x releases, but if you really want to squeeze the last few drops of speed out of Firefox on your Mac, you'll want to go grab a release optimized for your particular CPU. G4 users will want the G4-optimized Firefox 1.5 , while those with a G5 will want the G5-optimized Firefox 1.5. If you're not sure what processor you have, your Mac privileges will be revoked just take a look at "About This Mac" under the Apple menu. As an added bonus, these already have the more Mac-like form controls that Firefoxy enables pre-installed -- install this and grab a copy of the GrApple Eos Pro theme and you're on your way...


Free Culture, Free ContentHurray!  Lawrence Lessig‘s new book, Free Culture is not only out, it’s available as a free e-book released under a Creative Commons license. I’ve just started reading it, but so far it appears to be brilliant (as expected). Now, if someone could steer me towards a non-PDF’d version suitable for putting on the PDA and hauling around to the places I tend to read e-books, that’d just be icing on the cake. ------------ Update—Blackmask now has it up in seven different formats (tip of the hat to Teleread for the link) Mmmm… Mobipocket goodness—I just love it when stuff moves at ‘net speeds… ...