Brandon Dimmel

We've heard a lot in recent weeks about attempts by Acer and Asus to overcome Apple's dominance of the high-speed, extreme-portability niche computer market with the release of their 'Ultrabooks' . Only time will tell if these slick and slim new PCs ... can take down the MacBook Air, but in the meantime Apple is boosting the power of its MacBook Pro line of not-so-portable but exceptionally powerful computers. This is the first update that the MacBook Pro has received from Apple since early this year, when the company introduced Intel's Sandy Bridge processor architecture. Hardware Specs Up, ... (view more)

A new rumor making its way through the Internet's tubes suggests that we might actually see a commercial release for Windows 8, Microsoft's next operating system (OS), as early as next August. What's even more surprising is that Microsoft is said to ... have a Windows 9 release for late 2014. The rumor comes to us in the form of a leaked roadmap available through the minimalist tech blog "MS Nerd." The roadmap reveals Microsoft's tentative plans for future releases and, as usual, the greatest interest has been drawn to the company's popular operating systems. The roadmap shows a Windows ... (view more)

IECookiesView 1.74 IECookiesView is a small utility that displays the details of all cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer. Sort the cookies list by any column you want, by clicking the column header. A second click sorts the column ... in descending order. http://www.nirsoft.net Winamp 5 Lite 5.622 Build 3188 Winamp is an .MP3 / media player. It offers the widest range of extensions, skins, and services to add to your listening experience. You can listen to, manage and organize your media catalogs, including audio, video, streaming media, podcasts and internet radio stations. It ... (view more)

A couple weeks ago embattled BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) suffered a massive service outage that affected an estimated 10 million users around the world. The service remained down for up to 5 days. (Source: theinquirer.net ) At first, ... the problem seemed to spare North American users, with only Europeans, South Americans, Africans, and residents of the Middle East reporting problems, but soon after Canadian and American BlackBerry owners were complaining that calls were being dropped and text messaging a complete and total mess. Now, frustrated and angry BlackBerry users are ... (view more)

Tired of the stress associated with fighting traffic on your daily commute? General Motors (GM) predicts such battles could be a thing of the past by the end of this decade. The company recently forecasted a rise in the number of driverless cars ... before 2020. In a recent report, GM notes that there are a number of reasons to look forward to a driverless future. For one, the Detroit-based company believes such technology would see to a 15 per cent reduction in fuel consumption and says that, as the tech improves, reductions could actually increase as time goes on. (Source: tested.com ) The ... (view more)

AlternateStreamView 1.31 AlternateStreamView is a small utility that allows you to scan your NTFS drive, and find all hidden alternate streams stored in the file system. After scanning and finding the alternate streams, you can extract these streams ... into the specified folder, delete unwanted streams, or save the streams list into text / html /csv / xml file. http://www.nirsoft.net DiskCountersView 1.05 DiskCountersView displays the system counters of each disk drive in your system, including the total number of read / write operations and the total number of read / write bytes. It also ... (view more)

JetPhoto Studio 4.11 JetPhoto is a full-featured digital photo organizing and web publishing platform. JetPhoto Studio provides some utilities to resize pictures and stamp watermarks in batches, generate Flash movie with photo slideshow and crop ... pictures for your cell phone or PDA screens. http://www.jetphotosoft.com Icaros 1.1.0 Icaros is software that makes thumbnails of files (for example: small pictures of the larger image in a folder). It is capable of thumbnailing just about any file by adding its extension(s) to the optional filetypes box and re-activating Icaros. The only filetype not ... (view more)

According to a new study, older people are able to read text off the iPad much faster than if they were using a "real" book. In fact, the iPad proved easier for reading than even e-readers like the Kindle. The study was performed by a research team ... from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in Germany. "E-books and e-readers are playing an increasingly important role on the worldwide book market," the researchers said in their report. "However, readers can be particularly skeptical when it comes to e-books and electronic reading devices. The objective of the study was to investigate ... (view more)

Identity Finder Home Edition 5.2 Identity finder is a program that searches your computer for credit cards numbers and passwords and warns you if you are vulnerable to identity theft and fraud. You can search files that commonly contain private ... personal information such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, text, and html. http://www.identityfinder.com Directory Hog 1.2 Directory Hog is a small, free utility for Windows which will scan a drive of your choice and list the total size of each folder in a list. The list also shows the largest file size found in the folder as well as the number ... (view more)

Arachnophilia 5.5 Build 2671 Arachnophilia is a powerful HTML programming editor with special production and editing features. With it, you can create HTML pages using a suite of powerful tools, upload your web site to your Internet service provider ... using the built-in FTP service, and more. http://vps.arachnoid.com Sothink Free YouTube Downloader 1.0 Sothink Free Video Converter is all-in-one video universal converter freeware that can convert rich formats of video audio files easily, like AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, 3GP, M2TS, H.264, FLV, MP3, OGG, RM with high definition and top speed. http://www. ... (view more)