Brandon Dimmel

Acer Gridvista Acer Gridvista allows you to use your monitor more effectively by dividing your screen into custom sections. It mimics the Windows 7 snap feature but goes further by allowing you to place your windows into any of two, three, or four ... sections on the screen through drag and drop. http://www.softpedia.com 30 Commercial Games Now Free Here's a list of essential games you'd still love to play. Most of them look dated, for sure, but whether you're looking for some decent side-scrolling action, nostalgic hits from the golden age of adventure, classic titles of interest, or even ... (view more)

A U.S. District Court Judge for Washington's Western District has dismissed a claim against software giant Microsoft over the use of its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program four years ago. One of many reasons that Windows Vista failed was ... because of widespread fear of something called WGA, or the Windows Genuine Advantage program. The drive behind WGA was simple: analyze a computer for pirated copy of Windows and report back to Microsoft headquarters. Unfortunately, the Windows Genuine Advantage stirred up plenty of fear and anger in the lead-up to Vista's launch. Plaintiffs Claim WGA is ... (view more)

At one time, MySpace was the dominant social networking site on the web, a pioneering force that allowed users to create and regularly customize their own web pages. With the advent of Facebook and micro-blogging site Twitter, however, MySpace's ... popularity continues to dwindle, and now CEO Owen Van Natta's recent decision to leave has left many wondering what lies ahead for the troubled firm. According to a report from MySpace parent company News Corp., Van Natta has announced that he will be resigning his seat as CEO of the social networking site after just ten months in the position. For ... (view more)

XP Syspad XP SysPad is a Windows system monitoring utility that allows easy access to Windows system information and Windows system utilities, such as the individual control panel applets. With XP SysPad, you can easily access hundreds of Windows ... operating system utilities and system monitoring information. http://xtort.net 64 Things Every Geek Should Know Think you're a geek? Do you know what RAM, USB, and GPU mean? If not, then here's an essential checklist of must-have geek skills and terms that will help you show off for friends and keep the girls away. http://caintechnews.wordpress.com ... (view more)

Motherboard Monitor Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chips on your motherboard in your Windows system tray, such as chip temperature. MBM supports a wide range of chipsets and sensor chip ... combinations. It can sense temps from CPU, hard disk, graphics card, and motherboard. It also senses fan speeds. If it senses that your hardware is overheated, it can protect it by shutting it down. http://majorgeeks.com Virtual Keyboard A free, lightweight, multilingual and finger-friendly virtual on-screen keyboard. Virtual Keyboard works on any Windows- ... (view more)

It's still a few days till Valentine's, but already Microsoft has provided its February security gift for Windows users. In yesterday's Patch Tuesday release, the Redmond-based software firm has unveiled fixes for 26 vulnerabilities, almost ... one-fifth of which are marked "critical". Critical Fixes for Windows, MS Office Suite The recent patches address flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating system and its Office software suite. Five of the vulnerabilities have been ear-marked "critical," Microsoft's highest threat rating, and another seven "important". One is considered "moderate". Across the ... (view more)

Tweak Now Power Pack TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune MS Windows and your web browser. The Virtual Desktop module lets you run as many as four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously, ... allowing you to tailor your computer screen to your mood and your work requirements. The suite also gives you a complete picture of all aspects of your computer's hardware, including detailed information about your motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disk and network. http://www.tweaknow.com Taskix Taskix allows you to reorder taskbar ... (view more)

ImgBurn Need to make backups of CDs or DVDs? Then try ImgBurn: a lightweight CD, DVD, HD, DVD, Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit. http://www.imgburn.com ShellMenuNew ShellMenuNew is a small utility that displays ... the list of all menu items in the 'New' submenu of Windows Explorer. It allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items, so this 'New' submenu will display only the items that you need. http://www.nirsoft.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City, in partnership with Infopackets.com. Please note ... (view more)

Late last week, a number of Windows 7 users lit up Microsoft's TechNet forums with complaints that they were experiencing a dramatic decline in the battery lives of their laptop computers after upgrading from XP or Vista to Windows 7. In a recent ... statement, however, Microsoft denies the charge and has stressed that these issues are strictly hardware-related. Windows 7 Not Poisoning Batteries In some cases, un-tethered notebook PCs were going into hibernation or shutdown mode after an incredibly short period of time, leaving recent Windows 7 adopters wondering if the operating system (OS) was ... (view more)

Sandboxie Sandboxie helps to protect your operating system by running specific programs in an isolated space. For example, sandboxie would isolate a newly-installed program from having access to making changes to other programs and data in your ... computer. If you do a lot of downloading and want to try out a program and don't want it to make changes to your system, sandboxie is what you need. http://www.sandboxie.com Page Zipper Ever read one of those top ten lists or photo galleries where every item is on a different page? PageZipper automatically merges all the "Next" pages into one ... (view more)