Brandon Dimmel

FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1 FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that enables users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and ... Drop mouse operation is also supported. http://www.faststone.org GreenForce-Player 1.09 GreenForce-Player is an portable alternative media player, with many additional functions, including the option to protect media files. You can save your audio and video files with a password and protect them against screenshots. http://gfp.rrsoftware.de This ... (view more)

Microsoft and Research in Motion (RIM) have announced a partnership that will see the Redmond-based firm's Bing search engine used on the BlackBerry. It's a surprise move that some are speculating might indicate an even deeper relationship in the ... future between the two tech giants. The Bing announcement was made at the recent BlackBerry World trade show, when RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis shocked the crowd by introducing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Together, the two revealed that Bing will soon be found on both the BlackBerry (and its various iterations) and the newly-released RIM PlayBook ... (view more)

AndreaMosaic 3.33 AndreaMosaic is a free project to create digital art using images and computer software. With AndreaMosaic you can create photographic mosaics made with your own pictures. http://www.andreaplanet.com Samsung Format Utility 2.4 The ... Samsung Format utility is a program specifically designed for Samsung External Hard Disk drives. It can be used to format the drive using either the FATS32 or NTFS file system. The Samsung Format Utility will erase all data on the external disk drive. Ensure you have backup copies of all data from the External Disk Drive before running this utility ... (view more)

A new poll suggests that adoption of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system by IT (information technology) organizations is proceeding slower than expected. The survey found that just one in four companies reported having already moved to the ... operating system, while more than half said they'd not made any progress in doing so. The poll comes courtesy of Unisys Corp., a Pennsylvania-based provider of IT services and technologies. It conducted the survey of 133 firms two months ago, and found that 53 per cent of all respondents reported that they either "haven't started" moving to Windows 7 or ... (view more)

PathLock 1.0 Do you share your computer with others? PathLock is a small utility for Windows which allows you to lock folders, thereby making its contents inaccessible to others. You can decide which directories users can rename files and folders or ... create files and folders, essentially allowing you to protect data from unwanted actions. http://www.rcpsoft.net Go! YouTube Snagger 1.5.0.47 Go! YouTube Snagger is a YouTube video downloader, which supports HD videos. Videos can be downloaded in FLV or MP4, upon availability. Go! YouTube Snagger is a free program from the non-profit organization ... (view more)

There's no doubt that many are curious to know more details of Osama Bin Laden's recent demise . Security experts, however, are warning that clicking on some links related to that subject may end up getting your PC infected with malware. "I suppose ... this was just inevitable," said McAfee Labs' director of security research, Dave Marcus. "The reported death of Osama Bin Laden is just too good a lure for cybercriminals and scammers to pass up." (Source: chicagotribune.com ) Emails, Google, Facebook Tainted with Infected Links Lucas was referring to a number of emails now circulating the web that ... (view more)

Microsoft has been accused of patent abuse by Barnes & Noble by allegedly preventing manufacturers from using Google's Android operating system (OS), a product which competes with the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. The accusation comes ... just over a month after Microsoft filed suit against Barnes & Noble company for allegedly infringing on a number of patents with its new Nook e-reader device. Microsoft Declares 5 Ways Nook Infringes on Patent Back in March, Microsoft accused Barnes ... (view more)

The recently announced death of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was big news around the world. Across the United States, people poured into the streets to celebrate. One of the more memorable moments came in a game between the New York Mets and ... Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday night, where fans greeted the news with an impromptu chant of "U-S-A!", "U-S-A!" But the most fervent activity might have been in the digital world, where Twitter members set a new record by Tweeting an average of over 3,000 times per second. (Source: tsn.ca ) Sustained Rate of Tweets a Record "[Sunday] night saw the ... (view more)

PenFormat 1.0 PenFormat is a small but extremely handy new utility that allows users to format a USB pen drive or MP3 / MP4 Reader in NTFS (Windows NT file system) partition format. NTFS is compatible with several Microsoft operating systems, ... including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. http://www.rcpsoft.net TrulyMail 3.0.19 TrulyMail is a private messaging system that offers automatic email encryption, and more. It also offers automatic tracking of last send and last received date for each contact; spell checking in many different languages HTML and plain text messages ... (view more)

It's becoming clear just how costly the recent hack of Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) could really be. A recent report suggests the debacle could cost Sony Corporation about $1.5 billion, with credit card lenders about $300 million in the hole. ... "It's not insignificant," said Keefe, Bruyette ... (view more)