Brandon Dimmel

A Russian hacker accused of launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Amazon.com four years ago has now been arrested in Cyprus. The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) is currently trying to have him extradited to the US. ... According to the DoJ warrant used to detain 25-year-old Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha in Cyprus last week, the Russian carried out two attacks on Amazon in 2008. Using botnet-based DDoS tactics, his goal appears to have been to shut down Amazon's Internet servers by overwhelming them with fake traffic. Amazon Faces Massive Traffic Levels Amazon says ... (view more)

There's no doubt that Microsoft's biggest hurdle in convincing people to buy Windows 8 is showing them why the new operating system (OS) is better than Windows 7. The software giant has been working hard for many months to accomplish this task. Now ... the firm has identified an important way Windows 8, which is officially due in retail stores on October 26, 2012, stands apart from its critically-acclaimed predecessor: better graphics performance. In a recent post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft graphics group program manager Rob Copeland carefully outlined the performance benefits ... (view more)

DevManView 1.27 DevManView is a free software alternative to the standard Windows Device Manager. Like the Device Manager, DevManView displays all the devices hooked to a computer, along with their properties, but in a simple flat table rather than ... the usual 'tree' view. In addition to displaying the devices of your own computer, DevManView also allows you to view the device list of some other computer that's part of your network. However, to view that list, you must have 'Administrator' level access rights to the computer you want to examine. http://www.nirsoft.net PicEdit 1.55 PicEdit is ... (view more)

DomainHostingView 1.27 DomainHostingView is a free software utility for Windows computers that collects extensive information about any domain you visit. It then generates an informative report that can be displayed in any web browser, including ... Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Very handy for finding out more about websites you'd like to emulate, or understand in more detail. http://www.nirsoft.net Pale Moon 12.3 Why settle for a basic 'build' of the Firefox browser when you can obtain one that is specifically made for getting the best possible performance from ... (view more)

Microsoft last week finally revealed the official release date for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system (OS): Friday, October 26, 2012. Unfortunately, few technology insiders or consumers appear excited about the product's launch. Now, one of the ... industry's most prominent analyst firms has referred to the desktop version of Windows 8 with one, ugly word: "Bad". Gartner Research Director Gunnar Berger recently tested Windows 8 and produced a five-part review. Windows 8 Great on Touchscreens Berger's findings: when used on touchscreen devices like smartphones, tablet computers, and all- ... (view more)

Tunngle 4.4.1.3 Tunngle is a revolutionary software tool for your computer that delivers a great online gaming and entertainment experience. This free program allows avid PC gamers to play their local area network (LAN) games over the Internet more ... comfortably. Each game gets its own instance of the public network and each network contains its own chat tool. If you like to play computer games, try this. http://www.tunngle.net AppCleaner 1.10.4552.20023 AppCleaner is a free software utility that removes all the obsolete and outdated files that are still stored on your computer. This includes ... (view more)

A Fairfax, Virginia, woman has accused a Best Buy employee of stealing "racy" photographs from her Apple iPhone. It's the first time the electronics retailer has been involved in such a case. Sophia Ellison went to the Fairfax-based Best Buy ... location because she wanted to have photos and contact information transferred from an old iPhone to a brand new one. What should have been a simple and straightforward process got complicated, however, when the Best Buy employee who volunteered to help her -- right now known only as 'George' -- offered to purchase the old iPhone for $60. ( ... (view more)

Microsoft IntelliType Pro 8.20.469.0 Microsoft's updated IntelliPoint software enables Windows operating system users to customize the features of their computer's Microsoft keyboard and mouse. You can easily assign and then reassign keys to perform ... such tasks as: open a program, file, or Web page, or to perform other useful commands and even application-specific functions. It's simple to learn and easy to use. http://www.microsoft.com JPEGsnoop 1.6 JPEGsnoop is a free Windows application that can be used to examine JPEG and AVI image files. It can also be used to analyze the source of an ... (view more)

A new study by third-party warranty supplier SquareTrade has shown that the Google Nexus 7 tablet is considerably more durable than Apple's iPad. The findings are based on drop tests and a water immersion experiment. SquareTrade, a leading vendor of ... after-market warranties on a wide variety of electronic gear, recently posted a video on YouTube showing Google's 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet taking more of a beating than the market-leading iPad. iPad Suffers Broken Display in Drop Tests SquareTrade's video shows two drop tests, with both tablet devices plopped onto concrete. In the first test, both ... (view more)

Microsoft recently touted the new features in its upcoming Office 2013 software suite, including enhanced touchscreen and cloud storage capabilities. That was the good news, but here's the bad: the new Office suite will be available only for the ... Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems. Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer offered that revelation at a press presentation in San Francisco on Monday, July 16, 2012. Left out in the cold will be users of Windows XP and Windows Vista; they won't be able to run Office 2013 at all. More Than Half of PC Users Still On XP, Vista Besides the ... (view more)