Brandon Dimmel

Illicit torrent site The Pirate Bay continues to face a wave of opposition in Europe. Yesterday it was revealed that a Dutch court had ordered the popular site out of the Netherlands, blocking traffic between it and anyone in the country. According ... to the Associated Press (AP), the Dutch court involved in the case told Pirate Bay founders that it must put in place measures to permanently block any traffic from Holland in the next ten days, or face hefty fines of 30,000 Euros each day. The court noted that Pirate Bay must "stop and keep stopped the infringements on copyright and related ... (view more)

Ultimate Windows Tweaker Ultimate Windows Tweaker v 2.0 is a freeware Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows 7 and Windows Vista, 32-bit and 64-bit. It can be downloaded and used as a portable application to customize your Windows to ... meet your requirements. http://www.thewindowsclub.com Smilla Enlarger SmillaEnlarger is a small graphical tool to resize, and especially to magnify, bitmaps in high quality: extremely useful for anyone interested in tinkering with pictures on their computers. http://imageenlarger.sourceforge.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of ... (view more)

According to a recent report, extremely sensitive government data has appeared on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks. The information is reported to include the precise locations of American nuclear silos and FBI surveillance photos. News of ... the leak came at the recent House Government Oversight ... (view more)

A new report from a popular tech blog suggests that Windows 7 will have an enormously beneficial impact on several industries, but perhaps none more than PC hardware manufacturers, including AMD, Nvidia, and especially processor titan Intel. ... According to a recent report from CNET News, Windows 7 "will be more than just a better interface." Instead, its very technical design will make chips from several popular hardware makers more efficient than current systems loaded with Windows XP or the much-maligned Vista. Opportunities to Optimize Windows 7 The greatest beneficiary of Microsoft's new ... (view more)

Microsoft has finally acquired long-time search engine rival Yahoo Inc in a 10 year search engine partnership. The deal, which has been in the works on-and-off for over a year has been finalized and made public earlier today. (Source: ... computerworld.com ) The announcement initially sent Yahoo stock down about 8 percent, while Microsoft stock saw a brief jump, opening at just a little over $23 a share. (Source: bizjournals.com ) Revenue Shared by Search Technologies The deal was almost thrown off the rails when Yahoo demanded a significant payment up front, but now company will instead receive ... (view more)

Lunascape Lunascape is a triple engine browser because it uses technology from Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser. http://www.lunascape.tv File Searcher File Searcher allows you to search ... any file in any location for any content easily and quickly. File Searcher features a powerful regular expression ('regex') search engine that searches any type of file for any given regular expression or standard string. http://www.mariussoft.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note ... (view more)

Microsoft is releasing two emergency patches this morning outside of its usual Patch Tuesday rotation. The Redmond-based company has determined that fix addresses issues that require immediate attention. Microsoft usually releases a Patch Tuesday ... fix about once a month addressing security vulnerabilities marked "critical" or "important," the latter being regarded as slightly less concerning. However, it rarely releases a patch outside of the monthly rotation unless something is truly wrong. Emergency Fix Targets Visual Studio, IE At this point, the company hasn't fully disclosed the problem, ... (view more)

Boxee Boxee lets you navigate all your personal movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like MLB.com, Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm, and Flickr from one screen using a remote control. http://lifehacker.com G.ho.st ... G.ho.st, pronounced ghost, is the Global Hosted Operating System that provides a free and complete Internet-based Virtual Computer (VC) service, including personal desktop, files and applications, available from any browser, anywhere. http://g.ho.st/main Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. ... (view more)

As hype builds for its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft continues to face declining revenue in all five of its major markets. Just last week, the Redmond-based company reported miserable results for its fiscal fourth quarter. For the ... quarter ending June 30 Microsoft announced an incredible decline of 29 per cent from last year, with profits of $3.05 billion. The company's stock is also down to 34 cents per share, a decline of 26 per cent from the same period a year ago. Revenue dipped by 17 per cent to $13.1 billion. (Source: crn.com ) Decay Beyond Wall Street Predictions Not ... (view more)

KDE Mover-Sizer The KDE Mover-Sizer is a background application that emulates the behavior of KDE, which is a great Linux desktop environment. Essentially, you hold down the Alt key, and Left-click to move a window, Right-click to resize it. That's ... it. And once you use KDE Mover-Sizer for a few minutes, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it! http://corz.org Kill Disk Kill Disk detects and displays information about all partitions, hard disks and floppy drives currently connected to your computer. It wipes out all floppies and hard disk drives completely by securely overwriting data on ... (view more)