Brandon Dimmel

Apple's iTunes Store has reportedly been hacked, with a developer named Thuat Nguyen using the opportunity to propel his own applications into 40 of the top 50 spots on the iTunes iBook section. The hack included unauthorized charges to hundreds, ... perhaps thousands of iTunes accounts. The story broke over tech blog TheNextWeb during the long weekend. Nguyen reportedly took advantage of a posted hack to the iTunes system and charged unsuspecting users for his own applications. The majority of these charges came for a set of books called Conan, Thuy Hu, and Vien Ngoc Rong, which all sell for $4. ... (view more)

IncrediMail 2 6.1.3 Build 4665 IncrediMail's PhotoMail Maker allows you to add your personal photos to the backgrounds of your emails. Choose from a variety of PhotoMail's convenient Templates - all you need to do is add your photos in a few simple ... clicks! http://www.incredimail.com Notepad++ 5.7 Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL license. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a ... (view more)

Over the weekend, Google admitted its enormously popular video site YouTube had been hacked. By Sunday morning the search giant had fixed the problem, which included raunchy pop-up messages and link redirections to explicit websites. The flaw ... involved hackers exploiting a cross-site scripting weakness that allowed them to insert their own programming code into YouTube's comments section. Rather amusingly, the hackers focused their attention on Justin Bieber clips (amongst others), with many of his music videos affected. Bieber appeared on an NBC Fourth of July TV special Sunday, so it's ... (view more)

GIMP Portable The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality ... photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. http://portableapps.com RJ TextEd RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML ... (view more)

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last week, Microsoft and Sony touted their upcoming motion-control gameplay devices, the Kinect and Move. Coming almost four years after Nintendo started the motion-sensitive movement with its Wii, one ... analyst says hype for the Sony and Microsoft devices is "relatively low." The report comes from analysts at EEDAR, who, in the wake of major E3 performances by both Microsoft and Sony, say that while hardcore gamers are interested in Move and Kinect, many casual gamers are not. Worse yet, EEDAR analysts think that even though hardcore gamers are ... (view more)

ExtractNow 4.4.5 ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives (.ZIP, .RAR files, etc) quickly and easily. ExtractNow is not a complete archival solution; instead, its main purpose it to allow the user to extract ... multiple archives with minimal effort. http://www.extractnow.com Hornil StylePix Hornil Stylepix is a free graphics editing program. It's light and powerful photo and image editor with professional tools for mid-range of users. StylePix helps you to create nice pictures easily and quickly. If you don't use the image editor or think it is difficult to use ... (view more)

Windows 8 may still be a few years away from reality, but according to a new study, small and midsize businesses can get a real financial boost by switching to Windows 7 right now. The reasoning has to do with a reduction in support costs. ... "Businesses with 250 or fewer PCs that are deploying Windows 7 are gaining more than happier users," said a report by researchers at analyst firm IDC. "They are lowering support costs, improving security, and making end users more productive." (Source: informationweek.com ) Support Savings as High as 65% Some support cost cuts have been higher than 50 per ... (view more)

Encopy This utility is designed rescue data from damaged media when the standard system copy fails, freezes and/or rejects the medium. This software will try to rescue data from media and in some cases of serious damage might restore data. ... http://www.micware.110mb.com Rumie This utility was developed for safe data discard, because not every time you delete files from a disk are they really removed. In fact, often they're only marked as deleted. This program is designed to make recovering a deleted file next to impossible. http://www.micware.110mb.com This freeware software program is brought ... (view more)

Zipeg 2.9 Zipeg is free alternative to WinZip, WinRar, StuffIt. Zipeg supports ZIP, RAR, 7z, ARJ, LHA, TGZ, TAR and many many more compression formats. http://www.zipeg.com BlueScreenView 1.27 BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created ... during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash ... (view more)

Toshiba is hoping to do more than capture an iPad-friendly market with its upcoming Libretto W100 -- instead, the tech firm seems ready to unearth a whole new audience, one that will appreciate a dual touchscreen device sporting Windows 7. The ... Toshiba Libretto W100 measures 7.95 x 4.84 x 1.2 inches and weighs much less than most netbooks at just 1.8 pounds. However, it's not all that similar to the tiny laptops; instead, its dynamics fall somewhere between an Apple iPad and a Nintendo DS. Techies Push for Alternative to Android Just as important as Libretto's size is its operating system, ... (view more)