Brandon Dimmel

PC maker Dell is helping to usher in a new age by announcing that it will no longer offer PCs downgraded to Windows XP after the end of this month. It's a deadline well ahead of that set by Microsoft: October 22nd, which, coincidentally enough, ... marks the first birthday of Windows 7. Windows XP Driver Support to Continue Although Dell will continue offering driver support for Windows XP for another two years (December 2012, in fact), the company is determined to stop selling the OS well before October 22. "This means that we will stop offering XP as an option for customers starting this month ... (view more)

HDClone Free Edition 3.9.4 Experience easy defragmenting and cloning in one step with HDClone 3.9, featuring compression, command-line parameters, 4k sector alignment, EXT4 support and more. HDClone is a perfect tool for backups and copies of entire ... software or operating system installations. The Free Edition is available for home use only. http://www.miray.de QuickZip Lite 5.1.8 QuickZip Lite allows users to perform powerful archive operations over a wide range of archive types using a familiar Explorer-like interface. Extract and Add can be done via drag and drop or Toolbar commands. http ... (view more)

DreamMail 4.6.8.0 DreamMail is designed to handle multi-user, multi email accounts. The supported protocols are SMTP, eSMTP, POP 3, Hotmail and Yahoo. With the additional remote mailbox access function, you could use DreamMail to logon your mail ... account remotely and check the mail content, preview even to delete it directly from the server. http://www.dreammail.eu BenchTec Toolbox 1.4.21 BenchTec Toolbox is an system tweaker that helps users make their operating systems suitable for 2-dimensional benchmarking at the highest levels. http://mutant-tractor.com This freeware software program is ... (view more)

MSI Afterburner 2.0.0 Afterburner is a program used for overclocking. New features include a voltage control layer that has been seriously revamped to give additional freedom to extreme overclockers with new custom design MSI graphics cards. Now MSI ... Afterburner is able to control up to 3 voltages on custom design MSI Fermi and other future custom design MSI graphics cards. http://event.msi.com CrystalDiskInfo 3.8.0 This hard drive and solid state drive utility software supports S.M.A.R.T. and a part of USB-HDD (hard disk drive). It is designed to display the health of your drives and help ... (view more)

A week after Canadian firm ExoPC revealed what should be the first Windows 7 tablet on the market , hardware maker ViewSonic has unveiled a 10-inch rival that will use either Windows 7 Home Premium or Google's Android 1.6 operating system (OS). The ... device in question is the ViewSonic ViewPad 100. The dual boot option will cost consumers roughly $850 USD -- almost double the cost of an Apple iPad. Viewsonic Tablet: a Netbook With a Twist? Beyond the dual operating systems, the ViewSonic tablet also boasts several other useful features, including wireless Internet (WiFi), Bluetooth capability, ... (view more)

Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.7 You'd be surprised just how many redundant or duplicate files you could find forgotten in an obscure documents folder. Duplicate Cleaner will deep scan for all types of files, whether it's photos, music, films/video, Word ... documents, PowerPoint presentations, or text files. If it appears twice on your computer then Duplicate Cleaner will find it. Once these files are found you are provided with helper tools to enable you to select which copies to delete or move. http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk JetPhoto Studio 4.9.2 With just a few clicks, JetPhoto Studio can turn your ... (view more)

We've talked a lot about Windows 7 tablets since the Apple iPad launched earlier this year. Most of the time, the companies rumored to be developing a slate using the new and very popular Windows 7 operating system (OS) are the usual suspects: ... popular PC makers like Toshiba or HP. But out of nowhere comes a new challenger, Canadian company ExoPC, which says it has a Windows 7 tablet in development right now -- and it may be ready sooner than you'd think. Earlier this year, it looked like several PC companies were going to release iPad-killers. One of the first was Hewlett-Packard (HP) , but ... (view more)

Facebook is beefing up its security by offering a new remote logout feature that allows users to view the computers and other electronic devices connected to the social networking site with the option to disconnect any with a click. Devices can also ... be permanently disabled from accessing Facebook. Facebook's decision to introduce the feature is a reaction to recent security threats. Spammers have been using phishing tactics to convince Facebook users to enter their login and password information on fake web pages that look a lot like Facebook's entry screens. (Source: eweek.com ) Facebook ... (view more)

MailStore Home 4.1 Emails are often scattered among different computers, programs and mailboxes. With MailStore Home you can bring order into this chaos by creating a single central archive for all emails. With MailStore, you can browse hundreds of ... thousands of emails and file attachments (all formats) in seconds. Free for home use. http://www.mailstore.com Google SketchUp 7.1.6860 With Google SketchUp, you can redecorate your living room, invent a new piece of furniture, or model your city for Google Earth. There's no limit to what you can create with SketchUp. http://sketchup.google.com ... (view more)

Microsoft yesterday announced it was resurrecting one of the most popular Windows 7 deals to date: the Family Pack discount. The deal, which gives consumers the ability to purchase a trio of upgrade licenses for their shift from XP or Vista to ... Windows 7, will again be available in early October. It's easy to see why the Family Pack Windows 7 deal was so popular: for three licenses the cost is just $150 (or $50 per upgrade), the same as it was last year. Microsoft put the package together for several weeks following the operating system's October 22, 2009 launch, and seems ready to celebrate a ... (view more)