There are numerous different free streaming music websites on the internet these days, yet not many of them are any good. I recently found Grooveshark, a free, legal online music streaming website, that is largely defined by its large user community.
It is, as well, becoming a hassle to even find good websites that offer music streaming for free, as they commonly have downsides that range from corrupt links to having a terrible user interface. Fortunately Grooveshark is awesome in all these fields.

As a hybrid animal combining an online music marketplace driven by social media forces, Amie Street delivers generously on its promise: fans are empowered to explore and discover new music while musicians enjoy immediate feedback generated by a vibrant community.

On Amie Street all songs start equal: absolutely free. The more listeners download a song or album, the more its price goes north until it maxes out at 98 cents per track. Up-and-coming talent like St. Vincent as well as established artists like Interpol, Thom Yorke, Barenaked Ladies, and Tiesto have already jumped on the bandwagon!

One of the great benefits of the internet is that more information, arts and culture have become freely available. But if the RIAA has its way, it’ll be less of the “free” thank you very much as music artists slowly come to terms with the fact that the CD is dying a slow death and most people get their music these days by illegally downloading it. You may not like that fact but nevertheless it’s still a fact of life, along with death and taxes.

One of the goodies I received from Santa was the new CD album by the Eagles and as always, when I get a new CD, I make a private MP3 backup copy on the computer using CDex. But one of the really annoying things about having a MP3 copy is that each song comes out on the computer as “audiotrack1.mp3″, “audiotrack2.mp3″, etc. Even if you manually rename the song title in Windows Explorer, it still comes out in media players as “audiotrack1.mp3″ or “untitled1.mp3″ as below:

Too broke to afford iTunes Music Store? Or Don’t feel like paying for music at all? If that’s the case, here are some great websites and couple of tools that can help you download any MP3 song for FREE. If you’re going to download free music than these are the tools that can help you do it the “right way”.

	Simple windows program that auto-detects currently streaming tracks (from Imeem, Last.fm, Pandora, and many more.) and provides a one-click option to download and store them on your drive. Check out a HowTo Video here.

1. HowTo: Setup Quick Searches in Firefox.

Last month I posted about my favorite Gmail feature, well this one is my TOP 1 for Firefox. Probably the most underestimated (and yet VERY USEFUL) Firefox feature ever.

2. Three Awesome Firefox Quick Searches (via JimmyR.com)

3. Quickly Find and Download FREE MP3s from Google (using FF Quick Search) (via JimmyR.com)

for Windows

4. HowTo: Hide Files inside JPG images

5. HowTo: Speedup Windows Star Menu

Quick registry tweak that lets you speed-up Start Menu navigation.