Brandon Dimmel

Apple is under intense scrutiny this week following a CNN (Cable News Network) report revealing brutal working conditions at a supplier facility in Chengdu, China. Apple, meanwhile, say it insists it asks suppliers to treat employees with respect. ... CNN recently visited the Chengdu-based Foxconn Technology Group plant where it interviewed an 18-year-old factory employee. Known only as "Miss Chen" to the CNN audience (to protect the identity of the worker), the young employee was astonished when presented with an Apple iPad, the product she helps to make. Chen, like many workers at Foxconn -- ... (view more)

A new survey draws some interesting parallels between the smartphones we choose and our dating behavior. According to the poll's results, Android users are far more likely to engage in 'hanky panky' on a first date than those who prefer to use an ... Apple iPhone or a BlackBerry, made by Research in Motion (RIM). The survey was recently conducted by Match.com, a major online dating website. Survey questions were asked of Canadian singles, and produced a flurry of fascinating findings. The study should be taken with a grain of salt, however, as the sample size was only 1,000 respondents. (Source: ... (view more)

Popular chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) says it is currently working on a new line of processors designed to power Windows 8 tablets, and hopes to make them available to tablet manufacturers later this year. AMD chief executive officer (CEO) ... Rory Read made the announcement before a group of American analysts this past week. "We have a huge opportunity in front of us," Read noted. "How the world is using processors is changing rapidly. This is about stepping out of the shadows and leading." (Source: pocket-lint.com ) AMD Seeks Opportunity to Trump Long-Term Rival Intel There's no doubt ... (view more)

SmartPower 1.3.0 SmartPower is a Windows application that saves energy (and money) by hibernating and resuming your PC according to rules that you set up for it. SmartPower is particularly suited to servers, home theatre PCs, and office PCs. The ... download link is located on the top right of the proceeding page (using the link below). http://ignatu.co.uk LookDisk 5.2 LookDisk is a free tool that allows users to search for files anywhere on their hard drive, using various parameters, such as file size, date, or various file attributes. It also allows users to search for specific words or phrases ... (view more)

If you've developed an application capable of spying on users of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would probably like to have a chat with you. But don't worry -- it would appear they're more ... likely to use your app than putting you in prison for it. In a recent post on the site FedBizOpps.gov, the FBI's Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC) openly admits it's looking for an app that will allow the investigative organization to go behind the scenes in social media sites and news networks. According to the post, the much-wanted ... (view more)

Legendary rock musician Neil Young intends to release a digital music player and service, claiming to offer better-quality music than Apple's iTunes or Amazon.com's digital download platform. Young, widely known for hits like "Old Man," "Rockin' in ... the Free World," and "Heart of Gold," says he originally worked on a similar project with Steve Jobs, former Apple chairman, but the experiment was sidetracked and shelved by the Cupertino, California firm. Compression Reduces Quality of Music Young says his goal is to offer a device that plays music of the highest quality. For those who aren't ... (view more)

WinHTTrack 3.440-4 HTTrack is a free and easy-to-use offline web browser utility that allows you to download an entire web site from the Internet to local storage. HTTrack automatically rearranges the original site's relative link-structure so the ... site stored on your computer works just the same as it did on the Internet. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can navigate the site from link to link, just as if you were viewing it online. http://www.htttrack.com ArsClip 3.2 ArsClip is a freeware utility for the Windows clipboard that monitors the ... (view more)

Microsoft's marketing division has undergone some significant changes in recent days, as the company laid off approximately 200 employees. Some of its most prominent Xbox marketing executives have even left for industry rival, Apple. According to ... reports, the recent layoffs were almost entirely limited to the Seattle area, and are designed to eliminate redundant positions and clear up where responsibilities lie. To many observers, it appears that Microsoft's goal in the restructuring is to improve the efficiency of the company's marketing. 3% Cut From Microsoft's Marketing Force It also ... (view more)

MiTeC Mail Checker 7.1.1 This is a fully customizable mail checker that is able to retrieve emails from your Gmail account. Thanks to its architecture, you can run MiTeC Mail Checker from a USB drive or any other removable media as a portable ... application. http://www.mitec.cz Rizone Memory Booster 1.7.9.1798 Rizone Memory Booster enables Windows to clean the workspace of all computer processes not currently in use. This frees up a good deal of wasted memory and improves the system's overall performance. Once loaded onto your computer, it will perform clean-ups periodically. http://www. ... (view more)

Microsoft has revealed that it is now one step closer to releasing the next edition of its very popular Office software suite, 'Office 15' to the general public. The Redmond software giant recently noted that the highly-anticipated office suite has ... now entered the "technical preview state," which is only available to a select number of beta testers. It's suggested that the public beta edition of the suite will likely be available for release this summer. The focus of Office 15, like the previously released Office 365, is on improving the suite's cloud computing capabilities. Such ... (view more)