Brown Thoughts

There are various reasons why people don’t try out Linux. The most common reason, is that they can’t bring themselves to remove the familiar Windows system and replace it with a totally new environment. While there are ways to boot into a Linux environment without uninstalling Windows, most people either don’t have the patience or […]

A lot of us use presentations made from either PowerPoint, Google Docs, or other applications. Most of these apps work fine but I think you’ll be interested in this next one.
SlideRocket is a web application that lets you design and manage your presentations, as well as allowing you to share libraries of slides and assets.
Let’s […]

Those of you who haven’t been upgrading your WordPress installations due to laziness or lack of time might just change your mind when you see how 2.5 will look. A sneak peek provided by Matt shows an upgraded interface with sweet new features to boot.
Out of the box, WordPress 2.5 will have a customizable dashboard, […]

If you’ve got sites that you visit regularly on different days, you’re going to love this extension. Morning Coffee is a Firefox extension that organizes your favorite sites by day (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) and lets you load the sites you’ve saved to different days.

If some of your favorite sites update on M/W/F, you can save […]

Now that the weekend is here, you finally have time to relax and think of other things besides work. Let’s talk about tombstones. Have you ever thought of what you wanted your tombstone to look like? Probably not.
The folks over at Worth1000 pondered this and came up with hilarious examples of how some celebrity tombstones […]

To celebrate the week’s end, Brown Thoughts presents you with another time waster. Today’s designated stress reliever is a browser game called Armadillo Knight. Your task is to protect the bunny village from the evil dragon and its minions. What could be more noble than protecting bunnies?

Now go and save that village
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Here’s another interesting Firefox extension that enhances your tabs. Tab Kit lets you choose whether you want your tabs displayed in multiple rows, or have it shown as a vertical tab tree on the left or right side of your browser. Though it’s still in the Mozilla Addons Sandbox, you can still download it.
Tabs can […]

Sporting a new welcome page for testers, Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. The 4th beta boasts better integration with Vista, OS X, and Linux. Improvements to the Javascript engine and memory usage are also being mentioned on the announcement page.
Firefox developer, Mike Beltzner, had this to say in the developer site:
This […]