Brandon Dimmel

David Einhorn, President of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, has publicly encouraged Microsoft to fire CEO Steve Ballmer, going so far as to criticize the big-name exec for what Einhorn believes has been a "Charlie Brown" management style. The ... comments were made about Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at this month's Ira Sohn Research Conference, held to raise money towards combating childhood diseases. Einhorn has made headlines of late for offering $200 million for a minority stake in baseball's New York Mets. Although the setting wasn't quite where one might expect to hear a tirade about Microsoft ... (view more)

They're natural opposites: geeks get the grades and, sometimes the great jobs. But muscle-bound jocks get the girls and all the attention. So, which would you rather be? According to a new survey it's clear who Americans prefer: geeks. The survey, ... which was released on International Geek Pride Day, was conducted by Modis, an information technology staffing firm. They find that fifty-seven per cent of all Americans believe being called a geek is a compliment, and would rather be a geek than a jock. Apple, Microsoft Make Being a Geek Cool "People have gone from the vision of the movies 'Revenge ... (view more)

POP Peeper 3.8 RC 12 POP Peeper is an email notification program that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail / MSN / LiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, MyWay, Excite, iWon, ... Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Fastmail and other services. http://www.poppeeper.com Element Mail 4.0.64 Element Mail is a full featured email client designed for use in the home, office and corporate environments. Element mail is an email client designed to cut costs and work efficiently with ... (view more)

An Italian security researcher has found a new security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser that could allow hackers to steal login information and passwords. The threat comes in the form of a 'cookiejacking' scheme (related to session ... hijacking ), which allows hackers to review website history and then use that to enter protected domains. Rosario Valotta recently demonstrated his cookingjacking findings at security conferences in Switzerland and Amsterdam. He acknowledged that exploiting the flaw isn't particularly easy, requiring a hacker to convince an online user to drag and ... (view more)

MessenPass MessenPass is a password recovery tool for MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Google Talk, and more. MessenPass can only be used to recover the passwords for the current logged-on user on your local computer. http://www.nirsoft.net ... PstPassword PstPassword is a small utility that recovers lost passwords for Outlook .PST (Personal Folders) files. This utility can recover the PST passwords of Outlook 97, Outlook 2000, Outlook XP, Outlook 2003, and Outlook 2007. You don't have to install MS-Outlook in order to use this utility; all that is needed is the original PST file which was ... (view more)

According to a new report from Microsoft, 1 in every 14 PC programs found on the web are laced with malware . The statistics come courtesy of the Redmond-based firm's Internet Explorer SmartScreen filter, which is designed to figure out a program's ... reputation before proceeding with a download. The SmartScreen filter first appeared in Internet Explorer 7 and continues to be developed with Internet Explorer 9. The latest edition of SmartScreen now checks the reputation of downloads. (Source: betanews.com ) "Using reputation helps protect users from newly released malware programs -- pretending ... (view more)

OSFClone 1.0.1008 OSFClone is a free, self-booting CD / DVD / USB thumb drive solution which enables you to create or clone raw disk images quickly and independent of the installed operating system. In addition to raw disk images, OSFClone also ... supports imaging drives to the open Advance Forensics Format (AFF). OSFClone was created using Tiny Core Linux and PERL and does not operate under Windows. http://soforensics.com Mp3tag 2.48e Beta Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis ... (view more)

Apple iPad and iPhone owners are being targeted by a new scareware-like scheme this week, which uses a unique phishing strategy to frighten them into giving up their personal data. Fake Email Spoofs Apple App Users The scam is being reported by ... security company F-Secure, who say that hackers are using carefully designed emails to fool Apple fans. An email appears in a target's inbox from the "Apple AppStore," telling the recipient that their recent app order "has been successfully cancelled." Those users who don't want that to happen are asked to click on the link "order information" to find ... (view more)

WordWeb Free Version 6.51 WordWeb is a comprehensive one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to look up words from almost any program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. It includes pronunciations and ... usage examples, and has helpful spelling and sounds-like links. http://wordweb.info Foolish.IT CheckDisk 1.5.4 CheckDisk is a wrapper program for chkdsk.exe, a command-line driven console utility included in Windows. CheckDisk provides a graphical front end for chkdsk.exe, making it easier to work with as well as adding a level of automation. A tool ... (view more)

NirLauncher 1.11.09 NirLauncher is a package of more than 100 portable freeware utilities for Windows, all of them developed for NirSoft Web site during the last few years. NirLauncher and all the utilities in the package are completely freeware, ... without any Spyware / Adware or Malware. http://launcher.nirsoft.net Bluetooth Driver Installer 1.0.0.68 This small freeware utility will try to install generic Microsoft driver for your bluetooth adapter. The program is based on a widely known method of patching %WinDir%\inf\bth.inf file. It works for most (but not all) bluetooth adapters, both USB ... (view more)