Brandon Dimmel

Analysts from Nielson have put together the most-wanted gifts for kids this holiday season. The top-ranked item shows just how far the little tykes have come since I was eight years old, when G.I. Joe and He-Man action figures were all the rage. ... According to Nielson, among children aged six to twelve, the Apple iPad is the most-desired tech device. Almost one in every three kids interviewed responded that they wanted the popular tablet computer sometime within the next six-month period. (Source: cnet.com ) Touch, iPad Beat Out Video Game Consoles Also high on Santa's list: a computer (reports ... (view more)

1by1 Audio Player 1.72 1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player. It provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks, with no need for playlists or databases. http://mpesch3.del.cc FreeUndelete ... 2.0.34689.1 FreeUndelete restores deleted files, including those removed from Windows Recycle Bin. In case of accidental removal of files on a NTFS (1.0 and 2.0) (default for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32, FAT16 or FAT12 file systems this is the utility to help. The recovered files are saved into a new user-selected location to prevent ... (view more)

American retailers in and out of the tech industry are expecting another record-setting Black Friday shopping bonanza this year, despite the stubborn clinging-on of a troublesome economy. Deals involving several retailers, including Wal-Mart and ... Apple, are already arousing considerable attention. The National Retail Federation (NRF) recently estimated that 138 million people will hit stores between Black Friday and the following Sunday, up 4 million from 2009. An NRF survey found that 60 million people are already committed to shopping this weekend, with another 78 million saying they'll wait ... (view more)

Security firm BitDefender suggests that one in five users using its 'safego' product have been exposed to malicious threats through Facebook. The report reinforces the position held by many industry experts that Facebook needs to do more to protect ... its users from privacy or security threats. Safego is a BitDefender security product specially designed for frequent social networking users. It is built to detect malware and prevent users from getting spammed because they use these sites. (Source: bitdefender.com ) Safego is in its beta stages, and BitDefender is thoroughly analyzing the tool ... (view more)

Lansweeper 4.0.0.41 Lansweeper is an automated network discovery and asset management tool which scans all your computers and devices and displays them in an easy accessible web interface. There is no need to install any agents on the computers, all ... scanning is done by standard build-in functionality. http://www.lansweeper.com Memtest86 3.5a Memtest86 is a thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are a quick, cursory check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86. Memtest86 is released under the terms of the Gnu Public ... (view more)

NK2Edit 1.55 Every time that you type an email address or name in the message window of MS Outlook, it automatically offers you a list of users and email addresses. This feature is known as 'AutoComplete' and Outlook automatically build this email ... list according to user activity. In some circumstances, you may need to repair or modify the values appearing in the AutoComplete list. MS Outlook doesn't provide any ability to edit this AutoComplete list, so this is where NK2Edit software can help you. http://www.nirsoft.net EasyWords 1.5 EasyWords is a free program that helps you memorize words, ... (view more)

The Apple iPad is off to a fast start, dominating a nascent but growing market . But that doesn't mean Apple has stopped thinking about its successor; in fact, one analyst predicts the Cupertino-based company will probably have a new iPad ready for ... release in the spring. Gleacher ... (view more)

Apple's new, 11.6-inch MacBook Air might look a little bit like a Windows 7 netbook, but it sure doesn't perform like one. According to recent reports, the super-light and very small Air easily outperforms its PC brethren, backing up Apple CEO Steve ... Jobs' claim that this piece of hardware is most definitely not a netbook. The new MacBook Air, available in 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models, shipped in mid-October of this year. Within a couple weeks, the company received mixed reviews : some analysts criticized the device for not offering enough processing power for the price at $999 -- which is ... (view more)

DriverView 1.25 DriverView is a utility which displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product ... name, company that created the driver, and more. http://nirsoft.net WirelessNetView 1.35 WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitors the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, ... (view more)

TheSage 4.0.1774 TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system. TheSage can ... look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) and is 100% portable. http://www.sequencepublishing.com iTunes Agent 1.3.4 iTunes Agent is a program that allows you to synchronize your MP3 player, Playstation Portable and your Walkman using an iTunes Library interface. This program works even if you don ... (view more)