Brandon Dimmel

Last month the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced it was suing Apple and major publishers like Penguin and Macmillan for fixing the price of electronic books, or e-books. It has taken some time, but Apple has now responded to that ... suit by denying any involvement in e-book price fixing. In April, the DoJ said that Apple and at least five publishers colluded to increase the price of electronic books, starting in early 2010. The DoJ dated the beginning of this collusion to roughly the same time the Cupertino, California-based technology firm was preparing to launch its now very ... (view more)

Microsoft Autoruns 11.31 This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order ... Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. http://microsoft.com TrulyMail Lite 3.1.24 TrulyMail is a private messaging system that is ... (view more)

Right now there are a lot of people wondering whether an upgrade from Windows 7 to the soon-to-be-released Windows 8 operating system (OS) is worth the hassle. You may be one of them. To combat this apprehension, Microsoft has been trying to build ... consumer interest in and desire for the new OS by highlighting its various new tools, features, and improvements. As part of this campaign, Microsoft is making much of another Windows 8 improvement: better support for using multiple monitors. Microsoft: 1 in 7 Desktop Users Employ Multiple Screens With the price of PC monitors dipping in recent ... (view more)

There's no denying the distinctly American origins of Facebook: it was the brainchild of Harvard students and its 'trial by fire' was a monumental court case between its founders. For some, there's nothing more American than either attending an Ivy ... League school or angry litigation. That's why it's worth noting that America's Facebook membership could soon be eclipsed by the number of Facebook users in rising Asian superpower, India. India's Facebook Membership Rapidly Accelerating In a recent interview, leading Gartner research analyst Shalini Verma insisted that India's steady economic ... (view more)

ArtSage 1.00.09 ArtSage is a small but handy graphics viewer, totally free of charge. It displays a wide variety of image files in a simple folder tree. Features and options include slideshow, transparency, loop, sort, navigate, scroll, and archive. ... Together, these features allow users to view and organize their images easily and effectively. (Scroll down the page to find the download link.) http://www.xworks.ca IP Camera Viewer 1.2 Here's a nice, free piece of software that lets you set up an effective video monitoring system within minutes! IP Camera Viewer allows users to view live video ... (view more)

The 'Aero' interface was one of the few features of Windows Vista that people appreciated. It featured slick-looking translucent windows, and brought serious style first to Vista and later to Windows 7. Now it appears that Microsoft is dropping the ... Aero interface entirely from its newest operating system (OS), Windows 8 . Often known as 'Aero Glass,' the interface first shipped with the earliest versions of Vista some six years ago. Covering window borders and taskbars with a glassy look, Aero set the appearance of Vista and then Windows 7 apart from Microsoft's older OS, Windows XP. ... (view more)

LangOver 5.0.38 With the free software LangOver 5.0, PC users can quickly and easily convert any text they wish from one language to another. All that's necessary is to hit 'F10' and the text you have selected will be instantaneously converted by ... this remarkable software to whatever other language you have chosen. LangOver 5.0 is totally free and works with any language you need. http://www.langover.com System Explorer 3.8.9 System Explorer is free, award-winning software designed to help users navigate through their files. Once installed on your computer, it can also provide detailed reports ... (view more)

Just as its shares are hitting the stock market for the very first time, Facebook has been hit with a massive $15 billion lawsuit. The suit was recently filed in California by law firm Stewarts Law US. It's a class action suit that pools a total of ... 21 different suits from across the United States, and involves the way the company, newly valued at more than $100 billion, tracks its members after they've logged out of their accounts. Federal, State Privacy Acts Allegedly Violated The $15 billion request for damages and penalties is based on provisions in the federal Wiretap Act which say that ... (view more)

i.Scribe 2.00 Beta 40 iScribe is a small and fast email client with an built-in contact database and calendar. It works well with all the major Internet email protocols, and uses international standards wherever possible. Scribe doesn't require ... installation and can also be used from a removable drive, so you can take it with you to any compatible computer you operate. http://www.memecode.com WildBit Viewer 5.11 WildBit Viewer is compact and easy-to-use program that lets you view a wide range of images. It comes complete with a slide show maker and sophisticated image editing tools. It has a ... (view more)

Cloudfogger 1.1.1349 Cloudfogger is a file encryption tool designed to help users protect the information they have stored online, through the method now called 'cloud computing.' Cloudfogger secures these files and prevents many different forms of ... snooping, no matter where your files are kept in the "cloud." Powerful features make protecting your online data both easy and convenient. http://www.cloudfogger.com Listary 3.51.858 Listary is a free piece of software designed to help users better navigate around within the files and folder structure on their hard drives. It can speed up ... (view more)