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For those of you who’ve thought about creating your own Wiki but couldn’t find an easy way to go about it, you’re in luck. Wetpaint lets you create your own Wiki in a matter of minutes. What’s different about the service, is that Wetpaint Wikis actually look good.

Wetpaint has a busy community with members browsing […]

I’ve always joked about being interviewed as you can see in my imaginary interview. With all the great blogs out there, I never really imagined someone would willingly interview a crazy tech blogger.
1. The first real interview was with Blogs We Luv’s 10 Questions. Here’s an excerpt from that interview:
If you could choose anyone, […]

It seems that big pc manufacturers are taking a liking to penguins as Hewlett Packard has just announced that it will be selling Linux-based PCs . Coming after Dell’s jump to penguin land, Hewlett Packard will start selling its DX2250 preloaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop in Australia for $AU600, which is a […]

Popular torrent site, Torrentspy is now blocking all searches made by US residents. This move is their response to last month’s order by a California judge that Torrentspy create logs of its visitors’ activities while on the site.
Residents of the US who try to perform a search will be redirected to Torrentspy’s privacy page where […]

Yahoo Mail has a new version and it looks great. The biggest addition is the ability to send text messages to mobile phones. This feature makes Yahoo the first free web-based email service to offer sms functions.
When you send a text message, it will appear as a talk bubble next to your avatar in the […]

Bloglines has launched a beta site for the next version of its popular web-based RSS reader. The beta version lets you customize your start page by dragging and dropping your feeds in the main window in any order you wish.

There are now 3 ways of viewing feeds, “Full view”, “Quick view” and “3-pane view.” Quick […]

Acer will be acquiring Gateway Inc. for $710 million, which will effectively make Acer the third largest pc vendor in the world. The deal will have Acer purchasing all the outstanding shares of Gateway for $1.90 per share.
This move will give Acer a slight boost against competitor, Lenovo, who have announced plans to acquire Packard […]

Sunday is community day here at Brown Thoughts. This is one of the best days because we get to kick back and talk about whatever comes to mind.
Thanks to Matt of BAYB for giving me the idea. For those unfamiliar with open comments, this just means that you can talk about anything you want.
Nothing is […]