Brown Thoughts

Avid fans of dungeon crawling games have fantasized about going on similar hack and slash adventures since they started playing.

Gamers who play dungeon crawlers on their computers or those who play pen and paper D&D, will undoubtedly jump at the chance to explore real dungeons without fear of being eaten by its inhabitants.

If you’ve got dragon slayer blood flowing through your veins, head over to Gen Con Indy and join other adventurers in exploring Jeff Martin’s life-sized dungeon aptly named, True Dungeon.

Players waiting for their turn at the dungeon start at the True Tavern, the starting area for True Dungeon where players can relax before and after their adventure. The tavern includes a back alley with a blacksmith and magic shop where players can purchase equipment for their characters.

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Google has acquired Omnisio in what seems like a bid to improve the YouTube experience. Omnisio is a service that allows users to add annotations to videos of their choice.

The announcement on the YouTube blog states:

As you probably guessed, we’re big fans of anything that lets people interact with online video and gives the YouTube community the chance to express themselves in creative ways. New features such as Video Annotations, which allow you to insert comments and information into the video itself, are just one example of how we’re beginning to expand what you can do with your videos on the site.

Omnisio also lets users assemble their own video from different clips and add their own commentary. People using the service to post videos on their site or blog can have their friends add comments directly into the video.

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People who love using Firefox wish they could use the popular browser for more than just surfing the web. If you liked FireNes, which turns Firefox into a NES emulator that plays a ton of the classic games, you’ll be interested in Firefly.

Firefly is an extension that will turn Firefox into a file manager. You can choose between a detailed list view and the thumbnail view. Firefly functions like a normal file manager letting you copy, paste, move, and rename files on your hard drive.

The extension has a few glitches but has the potential of making my list of favorite add-ons.

Firefly works on most Windows versions and Firefox 2 and above.

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There are a number of free blog host services but not all of them will let you display your own ads.

If you know anyone looking to set up a blog on a free blog host with their own ads, tell them about IdeaFry. IdeaFry is a free blog hosting service that allows users to display their own Google ads. The service uses a 90-10 display ratio meaning your ad is shown 9 times out of 10, while the service’s ad is displayed once.

IdeaFry was built on WordPress MU and allows the user to import existing blogs from TypePad, Blogger, LiveJournal, etc. Backups are created every 24 hours which is good news for any user.

Currently, there are only 100 themes available and there are no links to existing IdeaFry blogs, which would give interested users an idea of how their blog would look.

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Microsoft is releasing Windows XP Service Pack 3 through its Automatic Update service. Expect reports of users having problems with this update just like earlier complaints from users who downloaded the release candidate of SP3.

Computers that have the automatic update service enabled will download and install service pack 3 automatically. Users who don’t want to install the latest service pack can either disable the automatic update service, or download Microsoft’s Service Pack Blocker which will delay the update up to 2009.

If you do decide to get the latest update, all I can say is, good luck heh.

[High five to Mary Jo Foley]

Technorati Tags: Tech News, Windows Service Pack 3

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Most of you would say that the majority of the images in your collection look great. If I were to ask how many images in your collection sounded great what would you say? You would probably think I was crazy (I am heh).

RGB MusicLab by Kenji Kojima is a free application for Win XP, 2000, and Vista that converts the RGB value of an image to chromatic sounds. Here’s a snippet from the official description:

One pixel makes a harmony of three notes of RGB value, and the length of the note is determined by brightness of the pixel. RGB value 120 or 121 is the center C, and RGB value 122 or 123 is added a half step of the scale that is C#.

You can select which instrument you want the software to use but that’s about it. The software will automatically create music from your image. Sometimes you’ll get good results while some of your images will generate unpleasant sounds.

Give RGB MusicLab a spin and see if you’ve got any image that can top the charts.

The software requires Apple Quicktime.

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Coming on the heels of Firefox 3’s record-setting download day, is an alert from Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which states that the newest version of the popular open source browser contains a critical vulnerability that affects Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.

Here’s a section of the ZDI report:

We verified the vulnerability in our lab, acquired it from the researcher, then promptly reported the vulnerability to the Mozilla security team shortly after. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Not unlike most browser based vulnerabilities that we see these days, user interaction is required such as clicking on a link in email or visiting a malicious web page.

Understandably, no specifics are mentioned by ZDI while Mozilla works on a patch. Just practice safe surfing and you’ll be fine heh.

On a lighter note, have you grabbed a certificate of the Firefox 3 download day yet? Here’s mine:

You can get your certificate here.

[High five to Ryan Naraine]

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Most site owners are always looking to increase brand recognition. If you’re one of them, this should be interesting for you.

AddOurSearch is a free service that will let your visitors search your site wherever they are, from within their browser. Simply put, your site visitors will be able to add your site to their browser’s list of installed search engines. The service supports Flock, Firefox 2 and above, and Internet Explorer 7 and above.

You don’t have to register. Just fill out a form and you’ll be provided with the code you need to add to your site. Once you’ve added the code, you’ll see the AddOurSearch widget. You can customize the look of your widget if you can’t find one you like from the available design. You can even use a customized text link if you don’t want to use a widget.

When visitors click on your widget, they’ll be presented with the installation window.

Here’s how it looks like once installed:

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