Brown Thoughts

Sundays at Brown Thoughts is all about the community. With Christmas right on top of us, this session of Brown Talk is doubly special. If this is your first time here, Sunday means no regular articles. We just have one open post where everybody is invited to chat about anything they want.
Nothing is off topic.
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Are you one of those people who love to customize their Windows installation? Got your own customized cursors? Stardock CursorFX is a free application for Windows XP/Vista that lets you create your own cursors or edit existing cursor packs.
If you were wondering, CursorFX is the replacement for Stardock’s CursorXP.

Here’s the feature list:

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If you’ve ever been frustrated with the voting trend on Digg, you’ve probably wished that you could set up your own. Here’s the good news. Drupal developer Tony Mobily has created a module for Drupal that allows users to promote stories based on votes.
To see how it works, take a look at Drigg.org. You’ll notice […]

Sporting a new start page with a retro robot, Firefox 3 Beta 2 has been released. The first thing I noticed after installing was that only 3 of my extensions worked (StumbleUpon Toolbar, Fission, ReminderFox). It seems I’m destined to wait for the final version.
The next thing anyone will notice is that when you start […]

Our designated time waster for the weekend is a fast paced zombie shooting game. The Last Stand is a browser game that puts you behind a barricade while zombies come at you hoping for a quick snack. Movement is controlled with the W,A,S,D keys. Use the spacebar to reload and your mouse to aim and […]

Google has added translator bots to its instant messaging service. As Jonas Lindberg mentioned on the Google Talkabout blog, you can use the bots as interpreters for your chat sessions or as pocket translators for the GTalk client for Blackberry.
To use a translator, just choose from any of the 29 available bots and add it […]

For those of you who’ve seen the look of Mac OS X Leopard and liked it, I’ve got good news. The Mac OS X Leopard Transformation Pack by kampongboy92 will give your Windows XP the Leopard look.
This transformation pack requires Win XP Service Pack 2 English version.

The pack includes explorer.exe, shell32.dll, xpsp2res.dll, mydocs.dll, and msgina.dll. […]

After letting a few beta test the early version, Microsoft has announced that they’re making the latest service pack for Windows XP available for everyone to download.
A company spokeswoman stated that the release candidate would be found at the Microsoft Download Center later tonight. Windows XP Service Pack 3’s release candidate will be a 580 […]