Brandon Dimmel

T3 Desk Want to add some flair to your Windows desktop? T3 Desk is a 3D desktop for your Windows screen. Windows will appear in three dimensions on your screen, allowing you to flip, zoom, swivel and generally interact with your desktop. The best ... part is that T3 Desk is easy on your resources, unlike most applications of its kind. http://tehnif.com Classic Shell An EXCELLENT freeware program! Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7 and Vista, like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer, and more. If you miss the "go up one folder" button in Windows Explorer, this ... (view more)

According to a recent report, most users still haven't answered the call by security experts to implement more robust passwords. In fact, in a list of the most easy to hack passwords, simply typing '123456' took a truly forgettable top prize. ... Security firm Imperva this week released its list of the passwords most likely to be hacked based on 32 million instances of successful hacking. Imperva named their report "Consumer Password Worst Practices," and some of the entries near the top are truly simple. Worst Password Practices The top three passwords all included the simple streaming of ... (view more)

TrayMenu Use SE-TrayMenu to gain quick access to your most frequently used applications and system commands via a customizable popup menu. It's a convenient way to keep track of your most-used programs while dramatically improving productivity! ... http://www.se-soft.com Red Button Red Button is a utility to increase the speed of Windows start-up. It can also activate hundreds of hidden Windows settings to enhance the performance of your operating system. http://www.pothos.ru Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City, in partnership with Infopackets ... (view more)

Microsoft has made its next move against competitor Google by publicly announcing that it will remove the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of logged searches from its servers after 6 months of storage. Back in September of 2008, search engine ... goliath Google announced it would begin anonymizing IP addresses logged in its servers after nine months, a reduction by half from its previous 18. Cookies would also be removed after this time. Google Critics: Time Frame Still Not Enough Privacy advocates have criticized Google for not doing enough, since the company only bothers to remove the last of ... (view more)

Microsoft announced yesterday that it was working on a special emergency patch to prevent the spread of an Internet Explorer zero-day flaw in its Internet Explorer browser that allowed hackers to breach the defenses of Google, Adobe, and about 32 ... other companies. The attack is said to be "the most sophisticated cyber attack... seen in years," according to tech security firm McAfee . Now, Microsoft is offering recommendations for home and business users trying to keep themselves protected until the Internet Explorer patch is widely available. Older Versions of IE, Windows Most ... (view more)

Defraggler Defraggler is compact and portable utility that defrags your entire hard drive or individual files, and supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems. http://www.piriform.com Recuva Have you accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something ... important when your computer crashed? Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it's free! http://www.piriform.com 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)

Predator Paranoid about your PC or laptop data? One way to protect your machine is to lock it using a simple USB drive which can be used in the same way you use your key to turn on your car. Predator locks your PC when you are away, even if your ... Windows session is still opened. It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device. Free for non-commercial use. http://www.montpellier-informatique.com TouchFreeze Have you ever typed a document on a laptop and accidentally hit the touchpad with your palm? If so, then you know it's annoying to have your cursor position move to a random ... (view more)

Excitement is building after members of the tech media received press invitations for a special Apple product event set in San Francisco next week. No one outside of Apple seems to know for sure what it is the company will unveil, but speculation ... suggests it could have something to do with the rumored iTablet . The event promises to be quite unique, and there's no doubt the slick Cupertino-based firm will be revealing something important. After all, invitations received by tech pundits read "Come see our latest creation," suggesting something on par with an iPhone or iPod is ready for ... (view more)

Widely-known security firm McAfee has called last week's breaching of several major tech companies (including Google and Adobe) "the most sophisticated cyber attack... seen in years," even suggesting the operation could usher in a new age of cyber ... warfare. Attack a "Watershed Event," Says McAfee Discussing the attack on 34 tech companies in China last week, McAfee Chief Technology Officer George Kurtz was noted as saying, "I believe this is the largest and most sophisticated cyber attack we have seen in years targeted at specific corporations," adding, "What really makes this a ... (view more)

USB Safeguard USB Safeguard is software you can use to encrypt and protect data with a password on your removable pen drives using AES 256 bits encryption. This is an extremely convenient and effective way to keep your security intact while on the ... go. http://usbsafeguard.altervista.org USB Dumper USB Dumper is a small, portable software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to create automatic backups of data on USB devices. The program is configured in an .INI file that is supplied with the download. The parameters that can be edited include the destination for the ... (view more)