Category: General

  • Firefox 6.0 – Gray Colored URL in Address Bar

    If you have upgraded to Firefox 6.0 recently, you might have noticed a change in your URL address bar. Now, instead of the web address being in all black like you might have grown accustomed to over the past 10 years, the powers that be have decided it would be better to color all of…

  • Facebook Authentication and a Potential Security Risk

    The idea of a “universal login” is not new by any means. Since the early days of the internet, many people have longed for the ease of having to only remember one login and password to access all of their favorite member-based sites. Over the years, there have been a number of companies/organizations that have…

  • BrainFuel is Celebrating 10 Years

    Wow, that’s a little bit epic, if you ask me! This whole site started 10 years ago today, with the first post being made to a simple little HTML file that I uploaded to my server. Initially, it was a simple little page that linked to interesting web sites, and then grew into a massive…

  • Helpful web tool: Placehold.it

    Have you ever been working on a design and need to insert a placeholder image to show where a graphic will go? The typical process is something like this: open photoshop, create a new image, enter the size you need, change the background color, add some text and then save it. Here’s a handy web-based…