Brown Thoughts

If you’ve ever wanted to have Vista’s interface on Linux, you’re in luck. Vixta.org is a Fedora-based distribution that features the KDE Desktop Environment. Under the hood, this is still a Linux distro. On the surface however, well take a look.

Microsoft has yet to comment on the Vixta distribution. It’s possible that this version will […]

Discovery Communications Inc. will be acquiring HowStuffWorks.com for $250 million. A WSJ article reports that Discovery will use HowStuffWorks to aid in its effort to bring Discovery’s impressive video library to the Web.
With an estimated 11 million users worldwide with 3.8 unique visitors from the U.S. every month, HowStuffWorks’ integration with Discovery is sure to […]

Sunday lets me kick back and relax while I listen to what everyone else is talking about. If this is your first time here, Sunday means no regular posts. Just one open post for everybody to talk about anything they want.
If you’re a lurker(visits but never comments), come out of the shadows and say hi. […]

It’s Sunday and you know what that means right? It’s time to shine the light on other great authors and their articles. The blogging world is a big place and it’s easy to overlook a lot of great blogs just because they haven’t up on your radar.
Here at Brown Thoughts, I always try to showcase […]

With the holidays slowly but surely approaching, some of you are already planning your vacations. Browsing through the various online travel guides can be a frustrating task, particularly if you need reliable and updated information. Wikitravel is a free worldwide travel guide boasting of 16,697 destination guides.

Choose a destination and Wikitravel provides you with a […]

If you loved playing Tower Defense and most of its clones, here’s another variation of the TD game for your weekend relaxation. Bloons Tower Defense has you building towers to destroy hordes of escaping balloons. Your towers consist of dart-throwing monkeys, a tower that spits out tacks in different directions, the classic ice and bomb […]

The Google Lat Long Blog has just announced that you can now view YouTube videos within Google Earth. Users can browse geotagged videos by going to the ‘Featured Content’ folder in the left side panel. Clicking on the YouTube button will display video icons all over the map.
Videos appear when users zoom in on specific […]

Most of you are familiar with the great posters from Demotivators.com. Those posters are easy enough to design using your favorite graphics software but what if I told you that you could make posters like those in seconds?
Poster Forge is a free poster maker that lets you create posters in seconds. There are three types […]