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flickrCC – A Resource for Images Legal for Use on Blogs, Websites, Etc.

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I was going through some of my RSS feeds the other day and one  from Wild Apricot (a non-profit technology blog), entitled “How To Find CC-Licensed Flickr Photos for Your Blog“, mentioned FlickrCC as an easy way to search Flickr by keyword and licensed use.

It looked interesting so I visited the site at .

I was impressed with the ease of use, as well as the information provided for each image found.

I searched for “pelican” with the Commercial check box checked. The first 36 thumbnails found are shown in the left hand pane, when you click on one of them the attribution information is shown in the right hand pane, along with the available sizes.

This is a quick and easy web app for getting photos with a creative commons license, for use in blogs, websites, newsletters, or experimenting with image editors.

Jamendo – Music Free and Legal to Download

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A co-worker walked by my desk today, stopped and asked what I was listening to.

I told him that particular song was some instrumental jazz I had downloaded from Jamendo, this link is to their english language page.

I have downloaded a multitude of albums, instrumental, sax, piano, jazz, blues, etc. for listening to on my computer.

These artists are from various countries, nine at this time, publishing under Creative Commons licenses.

If you like good music, this is the site for you.

Open Source – Firefox 2.0

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Well I finally downloaded Firefox 2.0 and installed it.

Just for my reference, I backed up my whole PC and then just doubled clicked the Firefox Setup 2.0.exe file and ran the installer. I did not remove my 1.5.0.7 version or any of its components first.

The installer ran in less than a minute and when Firefox started up I found that everything worked must faster, and that my installed extensions (now called add ons) worked with no problems.

In regards to add-ons, I particularly like that Firefox now restarts itself, with my permission of course, and then immediately I have access to the add-on. This is much simpler and quicker than the previous versions.

All of my bookmarks and prior settings seem to have come out OK. If upon further use, any problems turn up, I will let you know about them through this blog.

All in all, I am quite impressed with the improvements I have seen so far.

I can not compare this to the new Internet Explorer 7, as I have not yet installed or tried it. I very seldom, need to use IE anymore for anything and do not even have it at work yet.

For now, I think that I will stay with my current Firefox Portable 1.5.0.7, as 2.0 is only in release candidate stages at this time, but when Firefox Portable 2.0 is put out as a full version I intend to switch over to that also.

Let me know about your experiences with Firefox 2.0, good or bad, by leaving a comment to this post.