Brandon Dimmel

Reg Toy Reg Toy is a neat, all-around tweaker. It provides several important and useful services, including registry tweaking, service managing, startup managing, a registry cleaner, window manager, secure deletions, and much, much more! ... http://k-n.co.cc Qt Web Are you worried the popular browser you've been using the last few months or years isn't locked down against the web's legions of hackers? QtWeb is a lightweight, secure and portable browser having unique user privacy features. http://www.qtweb.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension ... (view more)

Just a day after it was reported that Microsoft's Word could be pulled from store shelves due to a copyright snafu, there's now word that such measures could be prevented -- and that the initial decision may not be as catastrophic as we were led to ... believe. According to reports, Microsoft will almost surely be able to find an "easy technical work-around" to the injunction by a Texas federal judge earlier this week ordering the Redmond-based company to stop selling its popular Word software due to a copyright mix-up with Canadian firm i4i. Headlines "not really true" New York judge ... (view more)

Microsoft might just be readying a (very) early Christmas gift from 'ol Saint Nic. Rumors are that the Redmond-based company will soon announce a major price cut to its Xbox 360 Elite console, to a rather reasonable $299. The rumor is due to a ... catalog page posted on game blog Kotaku showing the 120 GB version of the console for just under $300. The ad belongs to Meijer, a popular Midwest grocery chain in the same market as Wal-Mart. According to reports, the Meijer catalog should ship around August 30, meaning that the Elite could be available for the low price shortly after the beginning of ... (view more)

Q-Dir Q-Dir is a great file manager that provides all the features of the competition plus more. How? Because it uses the amazing "quadro-view" technique. Click on to find out more about this great utility. http://www.softwareok.com Live Edge ... LiveEdge is provides a simple approach to mouse gestures. The application makes use of the edges and corners of your screen and turns them into hot zones. Drag the cursor to the edge and a keyboard shortcut of your own choosing will be executed. LiveEdge is great for web surfing because it lets you keep your focus on what you are looking for ... (view more)

TrID TrID is designed to identify file types based on their binary signatures. It is extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way. This type of utility could be useful for determining which programs are ... associated with certain file types -- such as a .DOC file belonging to MS Word, for example. http://mark0.net PDFTools PDFTools is a PDF (portable document file) management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create and rearrange a PDF file. Version 1.1+ includes a very powerful and simple to use XML to PDF converter. http://sheelapps ... (view more)

Another Microsoft Patch Tuesday has come to pass, and with it a fairly long list of fixes. A total of nine patches have been made available for five issues marked "critical". An incredible 19 problems have been addressed by the entire day's release. ... The nine patches address holes in Windows, MS Office software, ISA Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, the .Net Framework, BizTalk Server, and also Remote Desktop Client for Mac. MS Office Flaw Very Serious It's possible none of the fixes are more important than one Microsoft made public last month. Affecting Microsoft Office, the issue specifically ... (view more)

How smart is your pooch? Many of us have often wondered how Rover, Rex, or Cocoa interpreted and understood the wider world around them. Now, a recent psychological study has pinpointed just how smart our dogs are, and the results are surprising. ... The report was part of a presentation called "How Dogs Think," staged in front of a Toronto crowd this past weekend. The presenter: University of British Columbia emeritus professor of psychology Stanley Coren, perhaps the leading expert in the examination of dog intelligence. Canines Think Like Toddlers Coren's finding: that the best way to study ... (view more)

It has been rumored for some time that netbooks, the slim-sized and under-powered notebooks sold for under $500, might not be able to handle Windows 7. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently dismissed that, and went on to discuss exactly how certain ... hardware restrictions define which version of Windows 7 a netbook can manage. Ballmer outlined the special edition of Windows 7 for low-powered processors and small screens at Microsoft's annual financial analyst day. Netbook owners will receive a version of Win7 called Starter, which will not be sold directly to any consumers or businesses. Instead ... (view more)

High Sign High Sign is an application that allows you to easily create and map custom mouse gestures to perform a series of commands (or actions) on a Windows PC. Unlike some other mouse gesture recognition software, you are not limited to a set of ... predefined gestures; you are free to create any gesture you can think up. http://highsign.codeplex.com System Info Screen Saver This is a freeware screen saver which displays information about your system status while the system is, or seems to be, idle. very useful for servers and and background activity systems. http://www.ng.aua.gr Today's fresh ... (view more)

It seems "being all that you can be" also means being an online hermit. The United States Marine Corps recently announced that it will be banning social networking for all members of the elite fighting force from this day forward. Included in the ... ban are uber-popular pages Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, which encourage members to publish personal information and photos, while roping friends into joining them online. That's a problem for the Marines, who believe that such activity -- and more specifically the disclosure of personal data -- is a security threat to its members who, by extension ... (view more)