Brandon Dimmel

Q-Dir Portable 4.83 Q-Dir (the "Quad Explorer") makes your files and folder easy to manage, as an installed or portable Windows program. It provides fast and easy access to your hard disks, network folders, USB-Sticks, floppy disks and other storage ... devices. http://www.softwareok.com TagScanner 5.1.602 TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags ... (view more)

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion's fall from grace continued on Thursday as the Canadian company's stock value continued to plummet. Now, analysts wonder if the firm, which helped pioneer the smartphone device, will be able to recover. Times have ... been tough of late for Research in Motion (RIM), the Waterloo, Canada-based firm whose BlackBerry handheld device was once the darling of the smartphone market. Besides a major outage in early October that affected users around the world, the company has seen BlackBerry sales slip steadily in recent years. Beyond that, RIM also flubbed in its ... (view more)

Songbird 1.10.1.2160 Songbird is freeware that offers users the ability to effectively manage their music and videos by allowing them to create playlists, and easily browse, search and sort all their media files. Users can also sync their music from ... a desktop to a portable media device, like a music player or mobile phone. Songbird is available for both PC and Mac. http://getsongbird.com DuckCapture 2.7 DuckCapture is a simple and ease-to-use screen capture tool. It comes with four capture modes that make screen capture easy! Capture a window on your screen, region of your screen, or the ... (view more)

Few books in recent years have received the kind of attention given Steve Jobs' newly released biography. One of the more interesting sections in that bio focuses on Jobs' relationship with former Microsoft chief executive officer Bill Gates. In a ... recent interview, Gates discussed (and mostly dismissed) Jobs' criticisms of him. This past weekend Gates appeared on the ABC program "This Week with Christiane Amanpour," where the host asked Gates questions on a number of different topics, ranging from his recent philanthropic pursuits to the state of the American economy and finally his ... (view more)

The heavily discounted Hewlett-Packard (HP) TouchPad has returned to store shelves and is currently available for a still very reasonable $149. Unfortunately, there's a rather steep requirement to the deal: those interested in the TouchPad will have ... to purchase a select computer in order to get the HP tablet at the reduced price. And even then, the HP Touchpad is still considered obsolete. TouchPad Price Reduction Leads to Buyer Frenzy The TouchPad buying 'bonanza' started this past summer when HP announced it would discontinue the unit only 2 months after its initial launch in July, slashing ... (view more)

Wireless Network Watcher 1.32 Wireless Network Watcher is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network. For every computer or device that is ... connected to your network, the following information is displayed: IP address, MAC address, the company that manufactured the network card, and optionally the computer name. http://www.nirsoft.net WebCookiesSniffer 1.05 WebCookiesSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all web site cookies sent between the web browser and the web server and displays ... (view more)

Touchpad Blocker 1.7.0.17 Touchpad Blocker automatically disables mouse buttons (on a laptop touchpad) for a small delay if a key has been pressed on a keyboard. Clicks are ignored just for a few moments, but it's enough to prevent the cursor from ... involuntarily jumping around on screen. http://touchpad-blocker.com NetworkTrafficView 1.10 NetworkTrafficView is a network monitoring tool that captures the packets pass through your network adapter, and displays general statistics about your network traffic. This utility works on any version of Windows, starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows ... (view more)

Firefox Portable 8.0 Beta 5 Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. For help ... getting Firefox Portable up and running, visit Firefox Portable Support. http://portableapps.com CPU Speed Professional 3.0.4.4 CPU Speed Professional will accurately benchmark your PC processor speed. It uses software records and reviews thousands of processor speeds which are added daily to the worldwide CPU ranking website. The CPU comparison ... (view more)

One of the most exciting, applicable but often ignored areas of technology research is that involving the development of prosthetics. A new project aims to give amputees the ability to reacquire limb functionality by effectively connecting the brain ... to a prosthetic limb through a computer interface. A first look at the new technology may cause some film fans to shudder. That's because the new prosthetics, free of their synthetic skin and flesh, look eerily similar to the exoskeleton used in the movie 'The Terminator'. New Technology Transfers 'Feeling' to the Brain The technology allows ... (view more)

Google is now taking its popular (though sometimes controversial) Google Maps Street View off the sidewalk and right into the brick-and-mortar of prominent businesses. Right now, a number of establishments have allowed the search giant to post ... pictures of their business environment on the web. Google Maps Street View is a handy little search tool that extends the basic Google Maps experience. It allows users to see the actual location from the street. It's extremely useful when you're unfamiliar with an area and need to know exactly what the destination looks like from a street level. Privacy ... (view more)