Brandon Dimmel

Opera 10.54 Final Opera is a full-featured Internet browser that includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, plus email, RSS newsfeeds, and IRC chat. You can also customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few ... clicks of the mouse. http://majorgeeks.com Sylpheed 3.1 Beta 1 Sylpheed adopts 3-paned display similar to the popular e-mail clients for Windows such as Outlook Express and Becky! Internet email. The user-interface is comfortable, operational, and stable. http://majorgeeks.com This freeware software program is brought to you by MajorGeeks.com: The ... (view more)

Amazon has slashed the price of several versions of its Microsoft Office 2010 applications suite. Cuts have been as high as 13 per cent at the online retailer, which insists the reductions have nothing to do with weak demand. Leading the cuts is the ... Home and Student version of Office: Microsoft lists the software at $149, but Amazon currently posts it at just $129. Receiving slightly less drastic cuts is the Home and Business edition, available for $259 (usually $279) and the Professional version, listed at $459 by Microsoft but sold by Amazon for a whopping $499. (Source: informationweek.com ... (view more)

According to reports, a flaw in the Windows XP operating system, which was first reported last week by a Google researcher, has been exploited by hackers in an attempt to spread malware. The flaw was reported on Monday , and is related to a ... vulnerability in Windows XP's Help function. A Google researcher by the name of Tavis Ormandy discovered that the web link script used in XP's Help and Support Center could be manipulated in order to route users towards malicious online content. (Source: itproportal.com ) Google Researcher Publishes Hacking Guide To Microsoft's disappointment, Ormandy ... (view more)

EasyTune 6 B10.0521.1 EasyTune 6 presents the most convenient Windows based system performance enhancement and management utility for Gigabyte boards. Featuring several powerful yet easy to use tools such as: overclocking for enhancing system ... performance; C.I.A. and M.I.B. for special enhancement for CPU and Memory; Smart-Fan control for managing fan speed control of both CPU cooling fan and North-Bridge Chipset cooling fan. http://majorgeeks.com Wise Disk Cleaner 5.33 Wise Disk Cleaner is a user friendly and fast way to clean up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used by ... (view more)

A recent hack of AT&T's web site has left over 100,000 Apple 3G iPad owners with exposed email addresses. It's feared the security hole could open the door to similar future hacks with more devastating results. Reporting on the hack is tech blog ... Gawker, which finds that a specialized hacking group was able to acquire 114,000 email addresses owned by iPad users when the former exploited a security gap in AT&T's central web site. The hacker group, known as Goatse Security, was also able to acquire the identification number these iPads use when communicating over AT&T's network, ... (view more)

Fresh HTML 3.50 FreshHTML is a full featured HTML (hyper text markup language) designer that is designed to be easy to use for beginners and advanced users alike. Its WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface makes editing HTML pages as easy ... as using your favorite word processor. http://majorgeeks.com Acronis Drive Monitor 1.0.0.187 Want to keep tabs on your system in order to maximize its safety and security? Acronis Drive Monitor is a free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives. http://majorgeeks.com This ... (view more)

Hallmark has been forced to pull a popular graduation card from its store shelves this weekend after complaints that the card makes a racist reference. Given that the electronic greeting is a little fuzzy, opinion is mixed on the legitimacy of the ... complaint. The card is a space-themed greeting for graduates of high school, or -- given the card's fairly childish tone -- public/elementary school. There are two characters speaking in the message, one named "Hoops," the other "Yoyo". Their declaration is that the world should look out for the card's recipient, who is bound to do big things. Card ... (view more)

Password Card PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them. http://www.paswordcard.org VM Tweaker VM Tweaker is a program that tweaks ... for VMWare .VMX files that features: VM BIOS tweaks, time/date synch between host and guest, MAC address tweaking, a hardware compatibility switch, and more! http://sourceforge.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City, in partnership with Infopackets.com. Please note that the below software ... (view more)

One of the major concerns about the launch of Windows 7 was that the new operating system would be too bulky for a very popular kind of PC: the netbook. The alternative was the decade-old Windows XP, but that option won't be around come the end of ... October, 2010. In a recent statement, Microsoft officials noted the deadline date for OEMs to cut off the loading of Windows XP on new netbooks: October 22, 2010, one year to the day since the launch of Windows 7. "OEMs will no longer be able to pre-install Windows XP Home on new netbook PCs," Microsoft said. (Source: appscout.com ) Performance, ... (view more)

SpyBHORemover 2.1 SpyBHORemover (previously called BHORemover) is the advanced tool to explore and eliminate malicious Browser Helper Objects (BHO) from the system. BHOs are plugins written for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser originally ... designed to enhance capabilities, but are often exploited by malware authors and used to send advertisements to your PC. http://majorgeeks.com Wireshark 1.4.0 RC1 Beta Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development ... (view more)