p2p blog reports that  Allofmp3 introduced a new offer called “Music for Masses“, allowing to download and listen their entire catalogue for free. The limits are:

You must register a user account
You download the songs encoded in a special format called mp3x at 128 kbs
You must use a special player to listen to the song
You must […]

Element14 blog published some settings that should reduce memory usage in Firefox. I’m currently testing those settings, So I don’t know yet if they work or not. I like Firefox as it’s a very stable application. But it’s frustating sometimes, when you look at process memory usage: sometimes Firefox end using about 200 MB. This […]

On windows XP, the process SVCHOST.EXE is a mystery for most people. If you check your task manager, you may have several instances of this process running. On my XP home edition I have actually 7 of this processes. Microsoft describes SVCHOST.EXE on this document by the following sentences:
“At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the […]

Found via slyck and Torrentfreak. µTorrent WebUI public beta has been released. The news is here. With this Web interface, we can remotely control the µTorrent client. The slyck article describe a simple use case. A screenshot of the interface is reproduced below:

A nice cartoon from gapingvoid Hugh McLeod’s blog:

His cartoons may be reproduced in blogs. Here is an extract from his license page:
Like I’ve said many times before, I much prefer giving away my cartoons for free, rather than trying to sell them. It saves everybody a lot of hassle, myself included.
Which is why I’m now letting […]

Today I installed the K2 version 0.91 Wordpress Theme. It has a feature out of the box that I really like: Random header image. I’m still configuring it. I discovered that there are many mods also. 

Engadget has a small review, and some photo of Microsoft Zune here.

Another funny comic from bLaugh:

My daughter is going back to Kindergarden next tuesday