Brandon Dimmel

Just when it looked as though Sony's PlayStation 3 was getting ready to eclipse sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360, it appears the latter's controller-free peripheral, Kinect, has revived the flagging MS video game console. According to a recent report, ... January sales of the game system climbed 15 per cent over the same period last year. The findings come from industry analysts NPD Group, which note that about 8 million units of Kinect have now sold. In January 2011 alone Kinect helped ship 381,000 Xbox 360 units, a 15 per cent increase over January 2010. (Source: punchjump.com ) Kinect Popularity ... (view more)

AceMoney Lite 4.15 AceMoney makes it easy to manage multiple accounts of different types, create and manage budgets, juggle finances in multiple currencies, track spending habits, record expenses, transfer among accounts, and do on-line banking. ... Many other features are instantly usable without prior experience in accounting. Note: scroll down to get the freeware version. The blue "download full version" button / link is not the freeware version. http://www.mechcad.net fishCode Library (Free Note Edition) 17.6 Library .NET (Free Note Edition) is a personal notes and information ... (view more)

Apple has set aside March 2nd, 2011 for a major media event, where it's expected the Cupertino, California-based company will unveil a totally new iPad. (Source: mercurynews.com ) iPad2: Thinner, Lighter Body Likely What we don't know, however, is ... when the device itself will ship. It's hoped that will be one of the points of discussion at the upcoming media event, along with reasons why consumers should be bothered to purchase an iPad 2. Experts speculate that the new iPad will feature a thinner and lighter design, more memory, and a front-facing camera. These features seem a lock, but ... (view more)

GE3KTV 0.2 Beta GE3KTV is a free Internet television program that can receive over 90 online channels of live broadcasts from around the world. There is no need for a PC TV card because the TV channels are streamed through your Internet connection; ... all that is required is a Windows PC and an Internet connection. http://www.ge3ktv.com Game Fire 1.0.40 Final Game Fire is a free, open source PC games accelerating utility. Play games faster in a touch of a button. http://www.smartpcutlities.com This freeware software program is brought to you by MajorGeeks.com: The Original Spyware-Free Download ... (view more)

Kantaris Media Player 0.6.6 Kantaris Media Player is a free and open source media player that plays almost all multimedia formats without the need for installing any separate audio and video codecs. It can also automatically connect and download ... subtitles automatically, plays RAR-archives without first extracting the media, and provides beautiful music visualizations. http://kantaris.org Media Format Feature Pack for Windows 7 N Windows 7 N and Windows 7 KN editions include the same functionality as Windows 7, except that these versions of Windows do not include Windows Media Player, and ... (view more)

FavoritesView FavoritesView displays the list of all your Favorties (from Internet Explorer) and bookmarks (including Netscape / Mozilla) in a single page. Each line in the list specifies the title of the item, the URL address, the created / ... modified date of the bookmark item, and the folder name. http://www.nirsoft.net Plane9 1.7 Plane9 is a revolutionary 3D visualizing software. The visualizer, including any scenes you create yourself, can be used either as a winamp plugin, a Windows Media Player plugin or sound sensitive screensaver that reacts to what your currently listning to, be it ... (view more)

Back in late November 2010, Dell released a dual tablet/netbook computer called the Inspiron Duo. Netbook Similar to Apple iPad, but Runs Windows 7 The Inspiron Duo features a vertically rotating screen that switches between two independent modes: ... one that runs Windows 7 and the other a proprietary tablet mode which operates Dell software. At the time of release, the device raised lots of eyebrows -- but its $550 asking price was a bit steep for many. That is, perhaps, until Microsoft recently slashed that cost dramatically on its Microsoft Store website. Inspiron Duo Features Dual Core ... (view more)

PhoXo 7.1 PhoXo is a free and powerful image editing software. It's tiny, fast, easy to use, can be treated as a mini PhotoShop (made by Adobe). Its features include layers, undo, over 50 special effects, batch processing, and a wide variety of ... useful and powerful tools for selecting, crop, painting, retouching, measuring and navigation. http://www.phoxo.com The Web Blocker 2.0 The Web Blocker is a program that helps to block websites on the Internet with one click of the mouse button. This program can be used as "Internet parental control" software and can (for example) block ... (view more)

It would seem at least somewhat logical to equate the number of one's Facebook friends with their overall happiness. The more Facebook friends, the more events one is invited to, the more pals to consult in times of stress. But a new study says ... that's not true, and indicates instead that the people with the most Facebook friends appear to be the least happy of all site members. The study comes to us from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. Researchers interviewed about 200 students to find out how Facebook use can be connected to one's overall mood. In their final report, these ... (view more)

In the end, the battle between man and machine wasn't much of a battle at all -- Watson, the IBM supercomputer specially engineered to squash humans at trivia, earlier this week easily defeated the game show Jeopardy!'s two most prolific players, ... Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Now, the question becomes: what's next for IBM's Watson? Earlier this week the long-running and very popular trivia TV show Jeopardy! switched things up by replacing one of its human competitors with a computer built by IBM. There were three intense days of competition between Watson, Jennings and Rutter (the two human ... (view more)