Brandon Dimmel

SmartSniff 1.76 SmartSniff is a network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP ... conversations in ASCII mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP) or as hex dump (for non-text base protocols, like DNS). If you think you've been infected with malware and it's capturing your data and reporting back to a malware server, this program would be used to detect such reporting, for example. http://www.nirsoft.net/ ... (view more)

Prepare to get your terrorism reports dished out via social networking sites very soon. The United States government says it's considering using Twitter and Facebook to announce changes in the terror-alert system, replacing the old color-coded ... ratings ranging from "Low" to "Guarded" all the way up to "High" and "Severe". Warning System Could Start This Month The report doesn't come to us from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but instead the Associated Press, which says it recently learned DHS is considering April 27 as a start date for the new program. The Facebook and Twitter ... (view more)

Following a recent report that found the people with the most Facebook friends tend to be those with the most anxiety, pediatricians are now warning parents to keep tabs on their teens' use of social networking sites, and to be vigilant in searching ... out "Facebook depression". About a month ago Edinburgh Napier University released a study which suggests that many Facebook users associated a great deal of anxiety with using the site, from rejecting 'friend requests' to navigating stressful social circles. Researchers went as far as associating Facebook use to gambling in some situations. In the ... (view more)

ServersCheck 8.7.8 The ServersCheck Monitoring Software is available as a freeware for monitoring up to 20 monitors, with no time limit. The software can monitor devices using PING, any TCP Port (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, VNC, DNS, etc.), ... perform database checks (ODBC, Oracle, MySQL), get SNMP data, monitor Windows servers (disk space, free memory, CPU usage, running services/processes etc.), verify content served from a web server, Linux and Unix systems, and much more. http://www.severscheck.ca QT Writer Express 2.4.1 Use QT Writer for anything from writing a quick letter to ... (view more)

More information about Windows 8 continues to emerge, though the details aren't coming from Microsoft. Instead, the recent information has been passed down by a pre-release version of Windows 8 leaked onto the Internet. The plethora of Windows 8 ... screenshots reveal a startling amount of information about the upcoming operating system, which is rumored for release sometime in 2014. Windows 8 Ribbon Could Change Windows Navigation Forever The most striking difference between Windows 7 and Vista and their successors is Windows 8's widespread use of the Ribbon interface. This navigation system, ... (view more)

YoWindow 2.0.445 YoWindow displays weather conditions using a nice, peaceful animated landscape so you can 'watch' the weather on your monitor instead of interpreting numbers. It's a new twist on viewing the weather commonly represented by numbers ... on a map: you see the picture instead of bare weather data. The location of the sun, moon, moon phase, sunrise and sunset times correspond to the actual values for a location! It's a very interesting and unique program. http://yowindow.com Intel Processor Identification Utility 4.31 The Intel Processor Identification Utility is provided by Intel ... (view more)

RadioSure 2.2.1004 RadioSure is a program provides radio listening over the Internet. Features include 17,000 different stations, support for most radio formats, a quick and reliable search feature, smooth switching between stations, and automatic ... software updates. http://www.radiosure.com Soundbase 2010.10.10 Soundbase is an MP3 player, a tag editor and an organizer. It will always give you a quick way of doing common tasks. Soundbase was created to fill a gap in the large amount of free and commercial mp3 players. http://www.dajukebox.com/soundbase This freeware software program is brought ... (view more)

Holding a 55 per cent share of the overall operating system (OS) market, Microsoft's Windows XP continues to be the world's most popular OS. But, Microsoft's newest web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), won't run on XP -- a fact that has been the ... point of criticism for many industry experts. Nevertheless, Microsoft continues to stand by its decision to leave XP behind. Abandoning XP Users: a Deliberate Decision "It was a very deliberate decision," said Senior Director of Microsoft's Internet Explorer division, Ryan Gavin, in a recent interview. "You simply can't build on something that is ... (view more)

According to a new report from security firm Symantec, the volume and complexity of web-based hacker attacks continues to grow. Symantec says the total daily number of online attacks actually jumped an incredible 93 per cent from 2009 to 2010. Also ... rising to concerning levels was the number of attacks launched upon mobile platforms. Symantec's findings come to us courtesy of the company's "Internet Security Threat Report," which was released on Tuesday. The findings were certainly eye-catching, including one report which suggests that hacking results in an average of 262,767 exploited ... (view more)

UNetbootin 5.49 UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many ... distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .ISO file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list. http://sourceforge.net LEGO Digital Designer for Windows 4.1.6 LEGO Digital Designer is a program that lets you build with LEGO bricks on your computer. Learn more about LDD and how you get ... (view more)