Brandon Dimmel

Last week US President Barack Obama met with several big tech names, including Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, at a much-talked about dinner party in Silicon Valley. The ... point of the get-together was to discuss current technological innovations and how can they could improve the sliding United States economy. (Source: com.au ) One would think that a dinner meeting of such big names in the tech field would also include Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, but it did not. Ballmer Not the Only Odd-Man-Out The ... (view more)

AudioGrail 6.18.2.169 AudioGrail (Formerly K-MP3) is the Swiss army knife for everything that is related to audio files (MP3, MPC, OGG, etc). It can easily rename and tag (tag: info such as artist name, album, track title) MP3 files automatically. ... It can also analyze quality, organize files on your system, and find duplicated files. http://kcsoftwares.com CPU-Z 1.57 CPU-Z is a freeware program that looks up your CPU, motherboard, and RAM information (including vendor, model #, etc) and displays the information on screen. This is a very handy program if you want to know what's inside your ... (view more)

EditPad Lite 6.7.0 EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. EditPad Lite works with Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7. Note from ... Dennis: I use this program every day to program the Infopackets website in PERL (practical extraction and reporting language). EditPad is highly recommended even if you aren't a programmer. A++ and kudos to Jan Goyvaerts (author) for such an awesome program. Click here to see a screenshot of a program I'm working on using EditPad. Use the link below ... (view more)

A week after pro-WikiLeaks hacker organization 'Anonymous' reportedly infiltrated one of the security firms investigating their activity, the group has now published more than 70,000 emails stolen during that initial attack. Some of the messages ... reveal staggering details that could hurt the targeted company's reputation. HBGary Federal is an American security company investigating Anonymous, which late last year admitted responsibility for a series of hacks against major financial institutions, including Visa and MasterCard . All of the targeted institutions had, at the time, recently ... (view more)

MyUninstaller 1.71 MyUninstaller is an alternative uninstaller utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system. It displays the list of all installed applications, and allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall ... entry, and save the list of all installed applications into a text file or HTML file. http://www.nirsoft.net SiteShoter v1.40 SiteShoter is a small utility that allows you to save a screenshot of any Web page into a file. It automatically creates a hidden window of Internet Explorer, loads the desired Web page, and then saves the entire content of ... (view more)

Parted Magic 5.10 The Parted Magic operating system employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle hard drive partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful software (e.g. Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, ... SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc) and an excellent set of info to benefit the user. An extensive collection of file system tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs. Parted Magic requires at least a i586 processor and 312MB of RAM to ... (view more)

A new zero-day security flaw has been found in Windows that could allow a hacker remote access to a PC. A security researcher recently disclosed the bug, which Microsoft is currently investigating. The programming code for the security flaw has been ... posted publically and is related to a Windows system file called "mrxsmb.sys". The file is related to Windows Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, used for network communications. Bug Rated Critical by Security Experts In short, the affected file is associated with file and printer sharing features within the Windows operating system (OS). ... (view more)

DownTester v1.28 DownTester allows you to easily test your Internet download speed in multiple locations around the world. It automatically tests the download speed of the URLs that you choose, one after another. It moves to the next download URL ... after the specified number of seconds has been elapsed or after it downloads the specified amount of KB. http://www.nirsoft.net XBMC 10.0 Dharma Xbox Media Center (XBMC) for Windows is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original ... (view more)

According to a recent report from security firm McAfee, Chinese cyber criminals have been leading coordinated and covert attacks on major Western energy companies since November 2009. McAfee, which has dubbed the cyber terrorism offensive 'Night ... Dragon', says oil and petrochemical firms have been affected. Perhaps the most surprising finding in the report is that many of these major companies, which have not been named, do not appear to have had particularly robust defense measures in place. "The attacks were not very sophisticated and did not use any zero-day exploits ," noted McAfee Labs ... (view more)

The long-running trivia show "Jeopardy!" is trying a new tactic to woo viewers -- replacing human players with computers. Well, sort of. Starting on Monday, February 14th, two particularly dominant former human champions will take on a computer ... specially engineered by IBM to rival the way a human answers trivia questions. It's the game show version of The Terminator. Jeopardy! Winner Racks up $3M in Prizes, Wins 74 Shows NonStop Ken Jennings is perhaps the most memorable Jeopardy! player ever, setting show records back in 2004 when he won an incredible 74 games in a row. During his run, ... (view more)