Brandon Dimmel

To the surprise of many, Microsoft finished well in a recent World's Most Ethical Companies award list, recently unveiled by the Ethisphere Institute. Ethisphere is a think tank whose mandate is to improve standards for business ethics. It looked at ... 110 different companies, some being nominated by the Institute and others applying for nomination. A number of the firms included in the list are from the software industry, including Adobe, Microsoft, Symantec, Teradata Corp and Salesforce.com. Hitachi Data Systems was a winner in the computer hardware category, with other notable mentions ... (view more)

X-Mouse Button Control 2.0 With X-Mouse, a user can customize buttons for each and every application. This is useful for games which do not inherently support the extended mouse buttons, because you can map keys to each button. You can also define ... up to 5 layers of different button configurations per profile. http://www.highrez.co.uk Blender 2.57 RC Beta Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Discover the wide toolset available in Blender, defining a complete pipeline (from modeling to sequence ... (view more)

Windows Firewall Control 2.4 Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 already have built-in firewalls which helps to keep your PC protected from hackers, however, they lack a simple interface to define your own firewall rules and can be difficult ... sometimes to configure them the right way. Windows Firewall Control is a small, intuitive and easy to use program that runs in taskbar, next to the system clock, and provides quick access to the most frequent options used from Windows Firewall. http://binisoft.net Kantaris Media Player Lite 0.7 This is a free and open-source media player that plays ... (view more)

A 17-year-old California high school student has been awarded a $100,000 grand prize for a math project that could be used by tech companies to help encrypt information. The award is part of Intel's nation-wide Science Talent Search. $1.25 Million ... Awarded to Talented, Young Scientists Also winning a big cash reward was second-place finisher Michelle Hackman, a 17-year-old from Great Neck, New York whose study of the psychological relationship between teenagers and their cell phones shed new light on technology's impact on mental health. Hackman, who is blind, used ten helpers to conduct her ... (view more)

SeaMonkey 2.0.13 SeakMonkey is a software bundle that contains an Internet browser, email and newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools. SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web ... developers and corporate users. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. http://www.seamonkey-project.org Alternative Flash Player Auto-Updater 1.0.0.8 Adobe's Flash Player has long been targeted by hackers and malware ... (view more)

Less than a month before its launch date, we now know a little bit more about the PlayBook tablet from Canadian tech firm Research in Motion (RIM). PlayBook Tablet Similar to Apple's iPad 2 According to recent reports, the device will be smaller ... than Apple's iPad 2 but will come in at a similar entry price: $499. The 7-inch PlayBook, which is set to launch on April 19, actually comes in several versions, each packing a different price point. For instance, the 16GB version ships for $499, the 32GB for $599, and a 64GB version for $699. When it comes to pricing, RIM's device isn't much ... (view more)

There are currently about 100,000 different applications (commonly known as "apps") available for the Apple iPhone. The running total, however, is constantly changing and has probably increased since this article was written. But it's rare to see an ... app removed from the list, which was the case for a new application which speaks out against homosexuality. The app, which is available for both the iPhone and iPad, was designed by the Christian organization Exodus International and released for download last month. It reportedly advocates "freedom from homosexuality through the power ... (view more)

Great news for Windows XP users and especially Mozilla Firefox fans -- Firefox 4 (final version) has just been released to the public and is available for download. According to initial reports, the fourth version of Mozilla's Firefox was downloaded ... 1 million times in just its first three hours, putting it on pace to easily eclipse the popularity of Microsoft's IE9. For the record, users downloaded Internet Explorer 9 2.4 million times in its first 24 hours of availability. Surprisingly, this isn't the best Firefox launch to date. Instead, as Mozilla executive Mike Beltzner says that Firefox ... (view more)

NConvert 5.80 NConvert is a program that can view and convert graphic files in batches. Supported are more than 400 graphics formats. The latest version (5.80/3.87) exists for Windows, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, ... Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, and AIX. http://www.xnview.com AutoHotkey 1.0.96 AutoHotkey is a program that can remember sequences of key presses, similar to using Macros. For example, in addition to the typical Control, Alt, and Shift modifiers, you can use the Windows key and the Capslock key as modifiers. In fact, you can make any ... (view more)

IECacheView 1.38 IECacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Internet Explorer, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. You can easily save the cache information into text / html /xml file, or copy the ... cache table to the clipboard and then paste it to another application, like Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheet. http://www.nirsoft.net RunWithAffinity 1.0.2 RunWithAffinity allows you to run a program on a selected CPU core instead of all cores. Start RunWithAffinity without command line parameters and it launches a simple GUI so you can create a ... (view more)