Brandon Dimmel

A recent report suggest as many as 1 in every 5 divorces can be directly related to Facebook. Why? Because it's the perfect place to re-ignite old relationships, but also because many users are unaware of what data will be shared to the public when ... it comes to maximizing their privacy settings on Facebook. That was the downfall of one Grand Rapids, Michigan man, whose recent marriage collapsed when his new wife found out that he was already married. In July, 34-year-old Richard Barton Jr. got married. It was a special moment in his life, and to celebrate he posted pictures of the wedding on ... (view more)

Gmail Manager 0.6.4.1 Gmail Manager is a Mozilla Firefox extension which allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications without having to login manually and check for messages. It displays account details including ... unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. http://www.longfocus.com ATI Tray Tools 1.7.9.1551 Beta ATI Tray Tools is a full-featured Radeon graphics card tweaker that can be found in the Windows tray. This very small download is quite handy and allows instant access to options and settings ... (view more)

Self-proclaimed cranky technology and business journalist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (whose articles have also appeared in the Washington Post, PC World and ZDNet) recently put together a list of five reasons not to upgrade to Microsoft's newest web ... browser, Internet Explorer 9 . Topping the list of reasons are operating system incompatibilities and performance issues. We've known for some time that Internet Explorer wouldn't be compatible with Windows XP, but that doesn't make it any easier for Vaughan-Nichols to swallow. Even though Windows XP is slowly declining in market share, it remains ... (view more)

Arachnophilia 5.4 Build 2445 Arachnophilia is an advanced Web site development program, as well as a general HTML programming tool. Nearly all Arachnophilia menu and toolbar items are internally represented by a "macro," a user-definable data ... element that connects a command with a button and a keyboard key. http://vps.arachnoid.com SpeedFan 4.43 SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. This is an especially useful program if you're interesting in knowing what temperature your CPU is running at (and if it's ... (view more)

XXCopy 3.10.0 XXCopy is versatile file management tool for Microsoft Windows driven by the command-line program (it does not include a point-and-click interface). It supports all versions of Windows (except Windows CE) and has more command switches ... than any other tool of its kind. http://www.xxcopy.com IEHistoryView v1.56 Each time that you type a URL in the address bar or click on a link in Internet Explorer, the URL address is automatically added to the history index file. When you type a sequence of characters in the address bar, Internet Explorer automatically suggests you all URLs that ... (view more)

Internet Explorer 9 Final 9.0.8112.16421 New from Microsoft: Internet Explorer 9 final version (open to public). IE9 makes websites instantaneous using one-click access to your favorite URLs right from the taskbar. Internet Explorer 9 now uses ... hardware-accelerated graphics and HTML5. http://www.microsoft.com Roboreader 1.5 Roboreader is a fast and free advanced image viewer. It supports CBZ, CBR, RAR, ZIP, 7z, animated GIF, JPG, JPEG, JPE, JFIF, BMP, PNG, TIFF, TIF, ICO files as well as JPEG image tag filtering. Features include ZIP archive image viewing and high quality bicubic image ... (view more)

"Don't get too used to the way Windows looks" was the message relayed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a recent Houston Technology Center luncheon. Ballmer says he figures the Windows operating system (OS) found on most PCs right now will look a ... whole lot different in just five years time. Windows "will look a lot different and it will run different applications," Ballmer told members of the local business community during a presentation at Union Square in Houston's Minute Maid Park. With many new technology innovations making their way into mainstream, MS Windows needs to keep up ... (view more)

Earlier this year, Jeremy Hotz, known to some as "GeoHot", made quite a name for himself by using his website to publish programming code that allows people to hack Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console. Hotz is currently in the middle of a ... lengthy legal battle with Sony as a result, and we've yet to see a final decision. However, it's a side story from the case -- a court order that allows Sony to see who is and has been visiting Hotz's web site and YouTube page -- which has drawn lots of attention lately. Hotz originally decided to publish a special hack for the PlayStation 3 that ... (view more)

The Microsoft Zune media player is officially dead. Amidst steadily declining sales, Microsoft has reportedly decided to stop producing the handheld MP3 player, once characterized as an 'iPod Killer' by the hopeful Redmond-based firm. Released in ... 2006, the Zune initially had techies excited for several reasons. For one, the design and build quality was top-notch. Others liked the subdued colors, such as brown. But most interesting about the Zune was the ability to share music across different Zune players. For instance, if one Zune owner downloaded a song, he or she could share that tune with ... (view more)

Recently, well-known analysts The Nielson Company asked nearly 15,000 Americans which mobile operating system they were currently using. Although several leading platforms scored very well, Google's Android narrowly took first place. The Nielson ... Company polled 14,701 Americans, asking each participant (who was also a postpaid mobile subscriber) what mobile OS was running on their primary smartphones. The race was a close one: 29 per cent reported using an Android-based device, 27 per cent said they use an (Apple) iOS phone, and another 27 per cent said they own a RIM (Reasearch in Motion) ... (view more)