brijmin on Tech

People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.

Have some windows you might need to stash in a hurry? Don’t want your boss to catch you goofing off? Everyone needs a break now and then and Don’t Panic! will help you keep your breaks discreet.

Got yourself a netbook, but you’re a bit underwhelmed with the OS on it? Looking to squeeze a little more juice out of the low-power processor onboard? Easy Peasy is a Linux distribution designed to make netbooks better.

I have my home desktop set up with applications for a variety of tasks, but when traveling, at work or at a friend’s house (I’m often de facto IT for friends and family) I never seem to have the tools I need. I used to carry around a book of CDs with various applications, but [...]

Boxee is a free cross-platform media center and entertainment hub with social networking features that is a fork of Open Source XBMC media center software. As a “‘Social Media Center”, Boxee enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social networking features.

Oh, Android – How do I love thee? Let me count the ways; I love that you’ve essentially eliminated the need to hypothesize what might be coming in future firmware updates as, due to your open source nature, it’s put out there for all to see. I love that.. well, there are other reasons, but [...]

ZScreen is an extremely flexible alternative. The usual capture options are supported – full screen, active window, or selection and hotkeys can be mapped to a single key or to two or three key combinations.

XBMC (aka Xbox Media Center) is a free, open-source media center application designed, in the beginning, for the original Xbox. XBMC has made serious progress over the past year or so and can now run virtually anywhere-including Windows, Mac, Linux, and Apple TVs.

While network planning and design isn’t usually part of my job, I do sometimes need to put together a quick sketch of a client’s systems to help me oragnize a plan of attack.
Network Notepad is exactly what I was looking for – a small, free app that lets me lay out network devices, servers, printers, [...]

PortableApps.com is the most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any USB flash drive, iPod, memory card, portable hard drive or other portable device. With a full collection of open source software as well as compatible freeware and [...]