Brandon Dimmel

Microsoft has officially unveiled online versions of its Microsoft Office 2010 applications, including cloud versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The company revealed its new products with surprisingly little fanfare, though it's likely ... they'll garner considerable attention in the next few days. Microsoft's move towards cloud computing alternatives for its traditional Office suite of applications is largely a response to Google's line of rival online products. The search giant has had considerable success with its Google Docs program, which allows users from anywhere in the world ... (view more)

Winometer Winometer is a small utility which measures your computer activity. It counts the keyboard and mouse presses and can easily be set up to be automatically loaded on startup. Every day of activity is saved into history, so you can make track ... vital statistics. http://www.tjelinek.com Speccy What's in your computer? If you're like most of us, you can probably name the processor (Intel or AMD, Celeron or Pentium), maybe how much RAM it has, and maybe how big the hard drive is. If you want to know more, Speccy is a great system information tool for your PC. http://www.piriform.com Today's ... (view more)

It turns out Facebook can be useful for more than hunting down your high school buddies and long-lost sweethearts. According to a recent report, it seems one woman used the popular social networking site to find two of her children, kidnapped in ... 1995. The woman, who lives in San Bernardino, California, has not yet been named. However, what we do know is that she used Facebook to find her children, who in 1995 were abducted by her then-husband. The tykes were just two and three years old when they were taken from their mother. New Technologies Make Staying Hidden Harder Back in the mid-90s, ... (view more)

SimpleSysInfo 2.5 SimpleSysInfo is a program which allows you to retrieve information from your computer. When the information is retrieved you can send it everywhere by simple selecting the email button. It's possible to print the information and ... save it to a text or HTML file. http://majorgeeks.com TwistedBrush Open Studio 17.00 TwistedBrush Open Studio free edition is a versatile and powerful digital paint and photo editing program. It offers more than 5,000 brushes available, along with all the features that artists love to use, including: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, ... (view more)

Photoscape 3.5 Photoscape is a photo editing program that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Features include a viewer, photo editor, batch editor, screen capture function, raw converter, and much more. http://majorgeeks.com Silverlight ... 4.0.50524.0 Final Microsoft Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. It is intended for developers and designers interested in learning more about how to build experiences with Microsoft Silverlight. http://majorgeeks ... (view more)

Yesterday Apple CEO Steve Jobs told a techie audience that Windows was doomed. A day later, Microsoft's head honcho has retorted that he sees PC sales growing as technology adapts to consumer demands. Speaking at the D: All Things Digital Conference ... on Tuesday night, Apple CEO Steve Jobs predicted a steady decline for Microsoft's Windows operating system as more people move towards alternative platforms for their web needs. Rather than power up Windows-based PCs, Jobs said, more and more people will start using smartphones, tablet computers, and more portable options. Microsoft CEO Says PCs ... (view more)

Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs says he's predicted the steady decline of rival Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS). That swipe at Microsoft comes only a day after Google says it's phasing out MS Windows as it ramps up internal ... testing of its Chrome OS. Jobs made the comments Tuesday night in an onstage interview at the D: All Things Digital conference. Jobs said he believes computers running Windows would begin a decline in popularity as people move to new platforms for their web needs: devices like the iPad, other tablet computers, or smartphones. Apple CEO Compares PCs to ... (view more)

Reboot System Restore If System Restore is failing to restore your system, it could mean that your restore file is infected with malware. By resetting the system restore, you should be able to start fresh. http://www.pcworld.com PenyuLocker With ... PenyuLocker, you can lock or unlock any folder with a given password. This will prevent an unauthorized person from having access to any sensitive or confidential information on your computer. http://www.penyuradius.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City, in partnership with Infopackets.com. ... (view more)

PortableApps Suite Light 1.6.1 PortableApps Suite is a complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, ... PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go. http://majorgeeks.com HWiNFO32 3.51-757 HWiNFO and HWiNFO32 are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. ... (view more)

A recent report says that Google, which is working hard to complete its upcoming Chrome operating system (OS), has started phasing out its own internal use of the Microsoft Windows. The report on Google's OS use emerged Tuesday when the Financial ... Times said search engine leader Google had decided to cut back its employment of Windows, citing for reasons of security concerns. (Source: computerworld.com ) Google Testing Chrome OS Internally It's likely the move to phase out Windows is primarily the result of Google's continuing work on its own operating system, Chrome OS. Google is currently " ... (view more)