Brandon Dimmel

Echo Vnc EchoVNC is a secure, firewall-friendly, remote-desktop tool with support for VNC, Remote Desktop, and RAdmin servers and viewers. With it, a Windows PC or OSX Mac can be remotely accessed regardless of firewall, router or web-proxy ... configuration. http://sourceforge.net Jd Context Menu JDContextMenu combines a variety of different extensions for Windows Explorer, making it a useful tool for the customization and organization of your Windows operating system. Click on to check out its 11 exciting features! http://www.jdsoftwaresolutions.de Today's fresh software picks were provided ... (view more)

Index Of Commands For Windows XP Become a command line guru with Index of Commands for Windows XP, one of the most useful new tools for the very popular Microsoft operating system. If you're hesitant to make the upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows ... 7, you need to read this guide! http://ss64.com Vista Switcher VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a box that shows a list of all running tasks, with their names and preview snapshots. http://www.ntwind.com Today's fresh software picks ... (view more)

Parents, take note: Microsoft's Xbox 360 Elite holiday bundle doesn't pack all the cables you need to take advantage of the console's high-definition potential. That's a change Microsoft has made in hopes no one would notice, and it could lead to ... some disappointed faces on Christmas morning. This past weekend, I purchased Microsoft's Xbox 360 Elite Holiday bundle -- you'll recognize it by the two games on the cover, Lego Batman and Pure. On the surface, it's a good deal; two free games and a console Microsoft promises is less likely to suffer from the dreaded "Red Rings of Death" issue that ... (view more)

Advanced Shortcuts Composer With Advanced Shortcuts Composer, you can create shortcuts to run programs with a pre-defined destination, priority and keyboard hotkeys to activate. The program offers a variety of different customization features, and ... just might be one of the best new programs for increasing productivity on your PC. http://www.vasilios-free.gr Visual Performance Analyzer Visual Performance Analyzer (VPA) is an Eclipse-based performance visualization toolkit. Profile Analyzer provides a powerful set of graphical and text-based views that allow users to narrow down performance ... (view more)

Microsoft is being sued by a small tech firm for using a part of its name, Bing! Information Design, as the moniker for its new search engine. Bing! Information Design says it's been using the name for almost ten years, far longer than the ... seven-month-old Bing search engine. St. Louis-based Bing! Information Design filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in its home city. The company claims that Microsoft's search engine violates its trademark on the word 'Bing'. Bing! Information Design says it has had rights to that name since 2000. Specifically, the suit alleges Microsoft is guilty of "trademark ... (view more)

Got to get your fix for a Big Mac but can't stop writing that report? Then you'll be happy to know that fast food goliath McDonald's will soon be unveiling free WiFi Internet access at about 80 per cent of its U.S. locations. Thanks to a new pact ... signed with AT ... (view more)

Cameo Cameo is a portable desktop environment built upon available freeware and open source applications for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It also utilizes a modified 'bbLean' shell to replace the Windows Explorer shell for a ... more Unix style and feel. Think of it as portable apps with a shell. http://cameo.binarybums.com Drive Manager Drive Manager is a free, stand-alone portable drive info utility. It can be used to display, identify and manage your hard drives, CD/DVD Drives, removable USB flash drives, and USB hard drives. http://www.pendriveapps.com Today's fresh ... (view more)

Fix Win FixWin is a portable application to repair and fix common Windows annoyances and issues categorized under 5 tabs, including Windows Explorer, Internet ... (view more)

Losethos Operating System Losethos is an interesting and experimental operating system (OS) that some call a really 'souped-up' Commodore 64. It's x86_64, preemptive multitasking, multicore, open source, and public domain. Losethos includes a Live ... CD image so you can take a test drive before you install. If you're from the days of the beloved Commodore 64 and a self-proclaimed geek, you'll be completely geeked out by the author's demonstration video (requires Media Player browser plugin to play). It's geeky to the 500th factorial! http://www.losethos.com Simple Port Tester Simple Port Tester ... (view more)

A new report suggests Microsoft has now pocketed a 6 per cent global market share for its new operating system (OS) Windows 7. That's good news for Microsoft, but it could spell big trouble for users in both the developed and developing world who ... don't make the upgrade from Windows XP. In a frightening new report earlier this week, Finland's most prominent security company F-Secure found that the global shift towards Windows 7 could open up a new gap between users of the new, more secure operating system and those stuck with the outdated and soon-to-be unsupported Windows XP. Shift to Win7 to ... (view more)