Brown Thoughts

The open source community isn’t the only one to benefit from Mozilla’s decision to release their security tools. Opera Software recently identified and patched what it called a “highly severe” bug in it’s browser code. Opera used Mozilla’s Javascript fuzzer to find the bug.
Opera released version 9.23 of its browser that fixed the bug, and […]

Faster internet connections means more downloads. More downloads means your hard drive gets full really fast. In a perfect world, you could just download whatever you want without ever having to make sure you have enough space on your hard drive.
PCSpaceCheck is a free utility that lets you see what’s eating up your precious hard […]

With Sunday comes my chance of kicking back and being a regular guy instead of the author. This is one of my favorite days as I get to talk with everyone about anything, and get to know them better in the process. . Thanks to Matt of BAYB for giving me the idea. For those […]

There are always great articles being written by my fellow bloggers. For anyone thinking of spreading some link love, I would suggest visiting blogs outside your niche and mentioning newer blogs. As always, please try to visit each one on the list. The authors will surely appreciate it.

This week’s designated time waster is a tower defense clone with a twist. For those of you who got tired of constructing towers in Revenge of the Stick and Desktop Tower Defense, I’ve got just the game for you. Anti-TD is a tower defense clone with one major difference, you control the creeps and the […]

Everyone knows that once a torrent site or Peer to Peer service becomes popular, the RIAA comes knocking. LimeWire has found itself in a tight spot as the RIAA knocks on its doors to the tune of $150,000 for every song downloaded from the P2P client (who’s being greedy now?) .
LimeWire’s solution to the problem […]

More and more people are using the Yahoo Messenger invisible hack to determine who among their Yahoo Messenger contacts are really offline. A Virtual Exit has a great post on the dangers of using third party tools to check the YM network to spy on your friends.
The article mentions two safe and easy ways to […]

With the growing number of video sharing sites, it’s easy to spend a lot of time going from site to site in search of the video you want. A better way of looking for videos is to use a video search engine. Truveo is a video search engine that crawls most video sites to provide […]