Brandon Dimmel

The dust has settled after another Black Friday and Cyber Monday , and already statistics are suggesting they've both been very successful for retailers. However, it seems online sellers have benefitted the most this year, with Amazon.com and ... Wal-Mart leading the pack. As the first nation-wide holiday within striking distance of the Christmas season, Black Friday has become renowned for big sales and big lineups at malls and big box retail stores (making it more or less infamous with consumers more prone to frustration). However, over the last few years more and more shoppers have been ... (view more)

Next to Black Friday and Boxing Day, Cyber Monday (today in the US and Canada) is considered one of the most popular shopping days each year. However, while Black Friday and Boxing Day usually mean long lines and zero parking at the local mall, ... Cyber Monday is all about shopping for loved ones online, and this year it could bring the highest sales ever. Cyber Monday to Bring 100M Shoppers According to a recent estimate from industry analyst Shop.org, nearly one hundred million shoppers are expected to make their way onto the web today in order to find the cheapest merchandise from the comfort ... (view more)

WinToFlash WinToFlash will help pull over the contents of a Windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also do this with any Linux LiveCD. You don't have to worry about ... scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, where media is shifting to the cloud technology. http://wintoflash.com 100 Free Microsoft Games Microsoft offers over 100 online games to play, ... (view more)

Rename Master Rename Master is a free utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming ... hundreds of files. This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename with ease and also supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags. http://www.joejoesoft.com Browse Without Leaving a Trace Even after clearing out the cookie jar, your operating system continues to store more information about what you've been ... (view more)

Apple fanboys are bursting with pride this morning after a report emerging yesterday found that of all retail desktop revenue in the U.S. during the month of October, almost half went towards Apple -- a rather large jump over the previous year. ... According to industry analysts NPD, a total of 47.7 per cent of all desktop computer revenue went towards the purchase of Macs. That's up almost 15 per cent from the previous October (33.44 per cent). (Source: betanews.com ) NPD: Market Conditions Weighted in Apple's Favor How can we explain the hike in Apple sales? NPD vice president of industry ... (view more)

Much interest was generated by readers over the story on Apple's rumored Black Friday deals ; as such, we're upping the ante with a larger list of super bargains rumored to hit stores this weekend. Best Buy's $197 HP PC Number one on the list may be ... a sub-$200 Hewlett-Packard laptop offered by big box retailer Best Buy. Packing 2GB of RAM (expandable to 4GB), a 160GB hard drive, wireless, 15.6-inch screen and running Microsoft's new Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) operating system, this Celeron-powered PC should generate lots of interest amongst consumers hoping to stick an affordable ... (view more)

Set Owner 1.0 Set Owner 1.0 is a mini utility that lets you quickly and safely change the registered owner and organization in Windows (the information you see when you run Winver command). Portable and simple to use, Set Owner 1.0 has been tested ... on Win XP and Win 7. http://www.leelusoft.blogspot.com Active Directory Editor This utility will load the Active Directory user account attributes for the Domain you are currently logged in to. All three attribute types, Standard, Mandatory and Optional are loaded. Also added is the ability to use different values for each account changed in ... (view more)

The reputed "Godfather of Spam", 64-year-old Bloomfield, Michigan man Alan Ralsky, has been sentenced to four years behind bars by a U.S. District Judge in the Motor City. Ralsky and his co-conspirators were found guilty of leading an email stock ... scheme and money laundering operations. Ralsky, a West Bloomfield resident, was convicted alongside his son-in-law, 48-year-old Scott Bradley. Both designed an elaborate spamming operation that took aim at high-value targets: those in involved in the stock market. The pair were able to use spam to help inflate stock prices and in turn profited once ... (view more)

Memory Viewer With Memory Viewer you can view your system memory configuration without having to open your PC or laptop! Not only does Memory Viewer show you the channel, size and speed, but it also shows you the type of memory: SDRAM, DDR, etc. ... http://www.rjlsoftware.com Shortcut Key Explorer Shortcut Key Explorer will help you manage the list of shortcut keys you have loaded on your computer. Simply run Shortcut Key Explorer and it will automatically load the existing shortcut keys and display them in an easy to read list. From this list you can double-click on any item and edit the ... (view more)

Tray Cleaner Tray cleaner is a small and portable tool to clean your System Tray (notification area) from past items (even if you don't see them). The tool is very simple to use, just one click to clean, if there are no past items, Tray cleaner will ... inform you and the Clear button will be disabled. http://leelusoft.blogspot.com Memscope Testing memory is not always easy since many factors must be considered. Some tests are very short but to catch all possible errors it is often best to stress test the memory extensively. MemScope presents an alternative algorithm to identify more memory ... (view more)