Brandon Dimmel

Thought you knew netbooks? Hardware producer Lenovo is determined to change that. The company says its newest line-up of ultraportable netbooks will boast portability as well as power. For most of their brief history, netbooks have been little more ... than compact, lightweight web browsing and word processing tools with minimal performance capabilities. For many consumers, that's been just fine. Netbooks perform these basic functions (which, let's face it, are probably the most important things a computer can do) admirably, and in most cases they cost less than $500. Changing the Way Consumers ... (view more)

ImageUSB 1.1.1003 ImageUSB is a free utility which lets you write a disk-image concurrently to multiple USB Flash Drives. Capable of creating exact bit-level copies of USB Flash Drive (UFDs), ImageUSB is an extremely effective tool for the mass ... duplication of UFDs. http://www.osforensics.com Raidcall 5.1.8 Raidcall is designed for group communication while playing video games (gaming), especially for games requiring tight teamwork such as First Person Shooters (FPS) and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing (MMORPG) games. It can provide clear voice quality with extremely low latency, and ... (view more)

Microsoft is reportedly losing one of its most prominent and talented executives. Bob Muglia, who has been with the company nearly a quarter of a century, will be making his exit this coming summer. The news has generated much speculation from ... analysts, as the line of departing Microsoft execs grows longer. Cloud Computing Exec Looks to "New Opportunities" Muglia has been a part of Microsoft for 23 years. He's served a number of roles with the Redmond-based firm over that time, but in recent years has been a key part of Microsoft's shift toward cloud computing. It's not yet clear ... (view more)

MyDefragPowerGUI 1.0.4 MyDefragPowerGUI gives users the ability to schedule a hard drive defragmentation and perform simple maintenance duties on a PC. This convenient program is for those people who want an advanced defrag program but don't have ... advanced computer skills. http://www.wieldraaijer.nl Security Releases ISO Image January 2011 This Microsoft DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on December 14th, 2010. The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. This DVD5 ISO image is intended for administrators that ... (view more)

A day after Facebook denied rumors that it would be shutting down permanently March 15, 2011, it appears social networking rival MySpace may actually be headed towards oblivion. The company recently announced it will lay off nearly half of its ... current workforce. The 2010 movie "The Social Network" chronicles Facebook's rise from dorm room novelty to global phenomenon. If you didn't know better, you'd think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the whole social networking phenomenon. But before Facebook there was MySpace, which was drawing hundreds of thousands of members long before Zuckerberg ... (view more)

TinyPic 3.16b Tinypic reduces extremely large digital photos and shrinks them down to a manageable size for emailing. This saves you time on sending the emails and eats less of the recipients inbox storage space. A win-win situation! ... http://www.efpage.de Asterisk Logger v1.04 Many applications, like CuteFTP, CoffeeCup Free FTP, VNC, IncrediMail, Outlook Express, and others, allows you to type a password for using it in the application. The typed password is not displayed on the screen, and instead of the real password, you see a sequence of asterisk ('****') characters. This utility can ... (view more)

Facebook addicts recently got a scare when the tabloid Weekly World News reported that the social networking site would be shut down permanently after March 15, 2011. But Facebook brass says that's not about to happen. Despite the controversial ... reputation of Weekly World News (whose content usually concerns UFO sightings and escaped freaks of nature), the shutdown rumor spread across the web rather quickly. Weekly World News (WWN) reported the decision to shut Facebook down was the work of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who reportedly had said running the incredibly popular site was becoming too ... (view more)

Iobit Game Booster 2.2 Final This is the final version of the much-anticipated Game Booster 2.2, which helps to speed up PC video games. It works by updating hardware drivers, downloading essential gaming tools, tweaking system settings for gaming, ... defragmenting game directories, temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. http://www.iobit.com RedCrab The Calculator 3.00 RedCrab is a scientific calculator with a full screen formula editor. The mathematical expressions are not typed in a typical command line, but can be enter in an ... (view more)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's highly-anticipated address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 was focused on one major theme: catching up in the tablet market. But he also took time to discuss other big products entering the new year, ... Microsoft Kinect for the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7. There's been a lot of talk in recent months about how Windows is going to fit into a very Apple-dominated tablet universe. Since its release last spring, the iPad has completely monopolized this market, with most Windows-based contenders, such as the ExoPC , are suffering from poor design and ... (view more)

ServiWin 1.45 ServiWin is a utility that displays a list of installed drivers and services on your system. For some drivers and services, additional useful information is displayed, including: file description, version, product name, company that ... created the driver file, and more. In addition, ServiWin allows you to easily stop, start, restart, pause, and continue service or driver, change the startup type of service or driver (automatic, manual, disabled, boot or system), save the list of services and drivers to file, or view HTML report of installed services / drivers in your default ... (view more)