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Chances are you either listen to internet radio or knows someone who does. How about Last.FM? Myspace? While the source quality of music from these sources can be questionable, the ability to download that music would be an undeniably handy resource.

Free Music Zilla, by Innoshock, is just the tool for the job. Despite the name, Free Music Zilla is a simply wonderful little tool that is long overdue. Fans of internet radio will wonder how they lived before this app existed. While not all sites are supported, the most popular, including Myspace, Last. FM, and Pandora, are. Small, lightweight, and functional regardless of browser… what could be better?

From the site:

Key Features:

• No limit download!
• Download music from Last.fm™, IMEEM™, Pandora™ and more social music!
• Support all web browser like IE, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon, Avnta, Netscape!
• Super light, micro-sized and resource-friendly!
• Free! No adware! No spyware!

Unfortunately this app is Windows only. No clue if a Linux/OSX version is in the works, but we can always hope.

Download: Free Music Zilla (Windows Only)

You can add another tick to the checklist, as software has officially been socially networked. Wakoopa.com is a social networking site targeted to software usage and recommendations. It does this by use of a tracker program, which interestingly enough, tracks your software usage. The tracker keeps tabs on usage of active processes, while also keeping tabs on processes ‘running in the background’. This all adds up to a nice overview of what applications you use, and how often you use them.

From a technical standpoint, both the site and tracker software should be considered beta. And not the Google, “this isn’t beta but we’re going to call it beta so as not to need support”, beta… real beta. Not that the software is flawed by any means, it is simply lacking features that one would assume would come with it. For example the tracker doesn’t do to well on full screen applications, leading to large discrepancies. For example I use Media Player Classic to watch video, movies, etc. My usage times for this are not accurate however as 99% of my MPC usage is fullscreen.

There are two reasons which make Wakoopa.com worthwhile to me: It allows me to see my software usage, which is good motivation to spend more time working, and less time on irc. Secondly, it’s entertaining to watch trends of other users. For example, did you know that Internet Explorer uses generally use a majority of Microsoft apps? Outlook express, wordpad, notepad, calculator all see major use by IE users.

If you decide to join Wakoopa.com, don’t forget to add little ole me to your friends list.

A lot of people, programmers and designers especially, make a living doing freelance work. By nature freelance work can be very lucrative, but also very difficult when work is sparse. We all know of the classic sites like Rent a Coder, but are there other sites for freelance workers?

Freelance Switch, a site devoted to freelancers of all types, recently featured an article entitled The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites. This should be pretty self-explanatory so I’ll just get to the description from the site:

When it comes to freelancing, one of the biggest challenges can be finding work. Even the most successful of freelancers will experience a lean month here and there, so it pays to have as many sources of potential work as possible. That’s why we’ve compiled a monster list of job sites from around the net. There is sure to be a site in here that is listing a job tailor made for you!

If you are a freelancer, I’m sure you will find this source as helpful as I did. So go, check out the The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites.