Brandon Dimmel

DShutdown DShutdown is a stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many options. DShutdown can monitoring the PC to shutdown after a particular application terminates, for example. There are also ... options to shutdown a PC when Internet traffic reduces below a particular data-rate: useful to shutdown a PC when it has finished a large download. For full list of features, visit site. http://dimio.altervista.org Task Switch XP Task Switch XP is an Alt-Tab Replacement For Windows XP; it's an advanced task management utility that picks up where the ... (view more)

Tired of your wimpy laptop battery kicking out too early? I, for one, have just about had it with my two-year-old Vista-equipped HP laptop, which practically laughs at me every time I attempt more than twenty-five minutes of work sans power cord. In ... an attempt to help ramp up excitement for its upcoming Windows 7, Microsoft has now promised that their new Windows 7 Operating System (OS) could help improve the battery life of your PC. If a recent Microsoft demo is to be believed, the improvements could be dramatic. When the company used two identical laptops running the same DVD in a ... (view more)

You can "blame Canada" in a good way for Facebook's recent decision to stiffen its privacy controls. In response to demands from Canada's Privacy Commissioner, the social networking site revealed new guidelines that target third party applications ... and the information they're allowed to access. Back in July, the Canadian Privacy Commissioner's office hastened a campaign to identify and publicize the concerns many people have with Facebook's policy towards third-party applications. In the past, some of these applications have been able to access a significant amount of member private data, ... (view more)

Text On 9 Type on your computer like you're texting from your phone using Text On 9. http://home.swipnet.se Live Edge LiveEdge is a radically simple approach to mouse gestures. The application makes use of the edges and corners of your screen and ... turns them into hot zones. For example: you can drag the cursor to the edge of your screen and type in a keyboard shortcut to launch a program. http://home.swipnet.se Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below software descriptions are provided solely from the developer and ... (view more)

PC makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard, some of the world's largest manufacturers of computers and their accessories, have announced their support for Microsoft's bid to overturn a recent injunction preventing the Redmond-based technology giant from ... selling its popular MS Word software in its current form. Back on August 12, a Texas federal judge ordered Microsoft to stop the resale of Word because of XML patent conflicts with a small, Canadian company. The order accompanied a gargantuan series of fines totaling $290 million, but the real financial threat for Microsoft -- and its major customers ... (view more)

Sysinternals Suite The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have now been rolled up into a single suite of tools, containing approximately 67 programs used for testing Windows. Note however that the suite does not contain non-troubleshooting ... Sysintenal jewels such as the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) Screen Saver or NotMyFault , a program that simulates crashing software drivers used for developers. http://technet.microsoft.com Super F4 SuperF4 kills the process of a foreground window when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. It's a better alternative than merely pressing Alt+F4, because when you press the ... (view more)

Socket Sniff SocketSniff allows you to watch the Windows Sockets (WinSock) activity of selected processes (programs). For each created socket, the following information is displayed: socket handle, socket type, local and remote addresses, local and ... remote ports, total number of send or receive bytes, and more. You can also watch the content of each send or receive call, in ASCII mode or as Hex Dump. http://www.nirsoft.net Shadow Shadow is a powerful data encoder and decoder for anything stored on your hard disk drive. You can encode texts, pictures, movies, music, applications, and more. http ... (view more)

A Swedish court has failed to make The Pirate Bay walk the plank. A day after the Torrent site's primary ISP was ordered to stop traffic to the site, The Pirate Bay is once again up and running. Yesterday we reported ISP Black Internet's decision to ... terminate its connection with controversial download site The Pirate Bay. Facing a $70,000 USD fine had it failed to stop traffic, Black Internet pleaded poverty and complied with the order. In the hours that followed, Pirate Bay was inaccessible to global traffic. Pirate Bay Blames "Odious Apparatus of MPAA," IFPI However, by yesterday ... (view more)

Yesterday brought another major setback for The Pirate Bay, the prolific Torrent site that for years has faced accusations that it enables the piracy of movies, TV shows, video games, and other media. The Pirate Bay's Swedish Internet service ... provider (ISP) Black Internet recently severed the site's connection to the world. The Pirate Bay last made news at the end of July, when a Dutch court ordered traffic to the site be blocked. Although Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi referred to the decision as rubbish, it appears Holland was only the beginning of the site's many troubles. $ ... (view more)

RarZilla RarZilla Free Unrar is an easy-to-use (for newbies) decompression tool for .RAR archive files. It supports spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files. http://www.philipp-winterberg.com Process Monitor Process ... Monitor is a Microsoft Technet recommended advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows your PC's file system, registry information, and process and thread activity. It allows users to 'keep tabs' on their system at all times. The program comes from sysinternals.com, but a brief introduction to the program is hosted on the Microsoft website. http ... (view more)