Brandon Dimmel

It has been a big week for Google. The company not only unveiled its budget-priced Nexus 7 tablet computer, it also revealed more information about its upcoming Google Glass computerized eyewear. Nexus 7 is a $199 tablet computer designed to ... challenge Amazon's Kindle Fire, which retails for the same price in the competitive tablet market. Both devices will sell for roughly half the price of Apple's rival device, the iPad, and both will focus on offering basic Internet browsing features. Google: Nexus 7 "Simple" but "Beautiful" "We want things to be simple, beautiful and ... (view more)

DropIt 4.5 When you need to organize files, the free utility software called DropIt can eliminate much of the drudgery involved with searching for and manually opening folders, and moving files around. You can configure DropIt to perform 14 ... different actions on your files and folders, including filtering files by name, extension, location, size, and dates. http://dropit.sourceforge.net Free Sound Recorder 9.4.1 This is an easy-to-use, free software program that lets you record any digitized sounds, directly from your computer's sound card. You can then save the recorded sound directly into ... (view more)

A new Microsoft want ad indicates that the Redmond, Washington-based software giant is planning to bring Windows 8 and Kinect hands-free technology to the automotive market. In a recent job notice placed on Microsoft's web site, the company notes ... that "for the next generation of the Connected Car Platform, we plan to leverage the full power of the Microsoft ecosystem including Kinect, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Windows Live, Bing, Azure, and Tellme." (Source: cnet.com ) Systems Keep Drivers in Touch Behind the Wheel According to the job listing, Microsoft hopes to bring many of the features ... (view more)

Rename Master 3.0 Rename Master is a freeware utility that allows you to rename multiple files with a just few clicks of the mouse. Anyone who has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably had no ... choice but to spend way too much time renaming hundreds of files. Now that's over, as this little program offers a great deal of help with that process. http://www.joejoesoft.com CleanMem 2.4.2 CleanMem is a utility program that makes useful adjustments to any Windows-based computer's random access memory (RAM). Properly adjusted, clean RAM is a ... (view more)

Toolwiz Time Freeze 1.9 Toolwiz Time Freeze is a small, free piece of software designed to protect your computer from undesired changes. Basically, the software clones your computer system, creating working copies of your important files that you ... can use without risking your "real" system. This is great if you often install new software and/or hardware just to see if it's useful. It's also good for creating a "development" system on which you work up new software code that might crash your system by mistake. Toolwiz Time Freeze can also protect your files and folders from ... (view more)

That sneaky Facebook. For years, the social networking site tracked its users' online activity and sold the information to third-party advertisers. Now the company has decided to force a new @facebook.com email address on all its users, even those ... who have not signed on for the service. Worst yet, the social media company has plonked its new email address right onto its users' main Facebook page. According to reports, the email address now appears on everyone's main Facebook page and cannot be deleted. However, users can choose to hide the @facebook.com email address from public visitors, as ... (view more)

It has been another tough week for employees at Research in Motion (RIM). The company behind the ground-breaking BlackBerry smartphone has continued its major restructuring campaign with thousands more layoffs. At the same time, new reports are ... suggesting the Waterloo, Canada-based firm could soon split in two, in which case big-time tech firms like Amazon or Facebook might move in to acquire a half. It has been rumored for several months that RIM would make significant layoffs after the failure last year of several key products. The most notable disappointment was the company's PlayBook ... (view more)

Jarte 4.5 Jarte is a free word processing program based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine that's already built into Windows. It's a fast-starting, easy-to-use program that offers word processing capabilities well beyond the WordPad ... feature set. The documents it produces and works with are fully compatible with Word and WordPad. http://www.jarte.com X-Mouse Button Control 2.5 X-Mouse Button Control is a small, free Windows application that lets you reconfigure your mouse buttons and also increase the capabilities of your mouse! It allows you to build multiple command profiles, ... (view more)

Hackers have claimed responsibility for an attack that sent social networking site Twitter crashing twice on Thursday, June 21, 2012. The hacking group UGNazi told CBS Atlanta that it was behind Twitter's forced outage. Whatever the source, the ... attacks took Twitter offline twice between 9 AM and 11 AM, US Pacific Time (PT). The site was restored to full functionality within an hour after the first attack, but then failed a second time. When down, Twitter was entirely unavailable across all platforms, including mobile apps. Twitter Blames Internal Error for Outage Initially, Twitter said the ... (view more)

According to a new survey, almost one in every three American Internet users owns a tablet computer of some kind. If the trend continues, by next year nearly half of U.S. web users will own an Internet device in this category. The report also showed ... that Amazon's affordable Kindle Fire tablet has Android surging in popularity. That means Apple's share of the market appears to be in serious decline. The survey was performed by the Online Publishers Association (OPA), which summarized the results in a report stating that tablet adoption is "exploding" among American Internet users. ... (view more)