I’ve written about Box.net, a service that provides 1 GB of free online storage. To increase the adoption, Box.net has released a new service called Box.net Lite, that allows you to upload a file of up to 10 MB and get a direct link.

You
can upload any kind of file and there are no traffic limitations. You
don’t have to register, although you have to provide an email address,
so that if you decide you need to manage your uploaded files, you can
sign in for a Box.net account. If you don’t want to do that,
test@example.com seems to work.

For photos, you also get a
thumbnail, so you just have to copy-paste the code into your blog. I
think this service is a good replacement for All you can upload: you don’t have options for resizing, but you can do that with any image editor, and you can upload more than photos.

If
you upload audio files (I’ve tried only with MP3 files), Box.net offers
you a very slick Flash player, so you can embed it into your blog.

All in all, this is a very good file hosting service if you don’t have a domain or you don’t want to pay for the traffic.

If you use Firefox, you know that your browser has problems with memory leaks and will eat even 200 MB of RAM at times. I hoped that Firefox 2.0 (Bon Echo) will fix this issue, but unfortunately it’s not the case, as this version focuses more on cosmetic issues. So I’ve decided to try the alpha version of Firefox 3 (Minefield), that is developed in parallel with Firefox 2.0. And the results are incredible: the browser has never consumed more than 70 MB of RAM even with 10 tabs opened.

This version of Firefox, due to be released next year, has more rendering problems than Firefox 2.0 and doesn’t have too many new features (the most notable are Places – a unified interface for bookmarks, history, feeds, and a new data storage layer for bookmarks and history that uses SQL), but the memory management is clearly superior.

If you want to read more about the new features of Firefox 2.0 and how to make your extensions compatible, read this small review. Most of the things are still available for Firefox 3.0.

You can install the latest build of Firefox 3.0 from this page. For example, the Windows version can be downloaded from here [5.8 MB].

Remember it’s an alpha version, so if you have problems, uninstall it and continue to use your current version of Firefox.

I am writing this post using the beta version of Windows Live Writer. I so far like the interface, and it seems pretty easy to use. So I would recommend that you give it a try for your blog.