Brandon Dimmel

The recession has affected Americans in many ways, forcing people to cut back on their spending and in some cases, out of their homes. According to a new study, it seems that more and more U.S. residents are heading online in search of solutions to ... their financial woes. In the past, community leaders and social workers were relied upon by Americans looking for help during tough economic times. However, today there's an easier way to consult experts for assistance. Americans Hope for Quicker Solutions Online A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that most ... (view more)

Window Sensor Window Sensor is a simple tool to find out the type of window or control at the mouse pointer position and is helpful for software developers in order to reveal the structure of a graphical user interface. It displays the class name, ... window handle and window text of the window or control and of all of its parents (containers) up to the main window. http://www.markuswelz.de Mp3 Quality Modifier Change the bit rate of your mp3 music collection in a really simple and intuitive way so that the file size can be dramatically reduced while the audio quality stays the same. Now it's ... (view more)

Tiny Talk TinyTalk is like a tiny Internet phone, or intercom system. For direct IP to IP voice communication, Tiny Talk offers a single .exe (executable file) that provides 8 bit PCM voice data at 11.025KB/s in Full Duplex operation. ... http://www.brooksyounce.com XP Run Count Editor XP keeps track of which applications are used the most and allows you to manually modify each program. This program allows you to manually modify each programs run count, and modify which programs are on the XP Recently used Program List. http://www.brooksyounce.com Today's fresh software picks were provided ... (view more)

Microsoft has made available a patch that promises fixes for nine vulnerabilities, three marked "critical" and another three deemed "important." Most Windows users will be glad to hear that a solution for the much-feared ActiveX DirectShow flaw has ... also been made available. Last week Microsoft made big news in a bad way for its ActiveX security flaw, which threatened to sicken user computers via infected web pages and "drive by" or "browse and get owned" attack codes within legitimate web pages. Much criticism lodged against Microsoft for the company's alleged knowledge of ... (view more)

Bump Top Transform your desktop into a three-dimensional interface with exciting new program 'Bump Top'. Bump Top is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that will impress co-workers, friends, and family. http://bumptop.com Desk Bug This friendly little menu ... is efficient and simplistic, no frills, no bloat, and no cost. Files, programs, links, multiple links - run them all using DeskBug: a selectable, mouse movable graphic with a pop-up menu attached. The graphic can be as small as a few pixels or as large as you want! It can be made so non-intrusive that it can put anywhere on the screen but still ... (view more)

Just a day after analysts predicted a dominant future for Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system (due this October), a new report suggests that up to 60 per cent of all companies might be hesitant to make the upgrade from Windows Vista and XP. The ... IDC Win7 forecast discussed yesterday painted a pretty picture indeed for Microsoft, suggesting that 75 per cent of all corporations would ditch XP and Vista for Windows 7 by 2011, just two years after its release. Given that most business users are XP users, that's good news for Microsoft. ScriptLogic Paints Different Picture However, another group ... (view more)

As we near the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 in October, insiders are now trying to predict just how popular it will be amongst consumers. A recent report suggests it could be very successful indeed. According to industry analysts IDC, Windows 7 ... should account for approximately half of all client operating systems shipped to corporate users by the year 2010. IDC predicts that should mean about 58 million copies of the new OS, which is set to ship October 22, 2009. Vista's Eclipse on Horizon The prediction means a quick eclipse of Windows Vista and even the long-lasting Windows XP, the ... (view more)

Virtual Clone Drive Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network ... drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive. http://www.slysoft.com Abel Cam With Abel Cam's built-in web server, you don't need expensive web hosting. The server supports various technologies, including SilverLight, PHP, CGI, and Ajax: all documented with templates. http://www.abelcam.com Today's fresh software ... (view more)

New Microsoft search engine Bing had a pretty hot month in June, growing an average rate of 25 per cent each week. At the same time, Google too got bigger, increasing its dominance over the search market from the previous year. Bing was unveiled ... last month amidst plenty of buzz . The new search engine promises more accurate and detailed results than its rivals Google and Yahoo, and clearly many felt Microsoft's promises were genuine. According to reports, Bing owned about 5.25 per cent of the total American online search engine market last month, the first 30 day period of its release. Bing ... (view more)

Readability A lovely and useful tool. If you read many articles on the net, you need it. Readability removes all the clutter surrounding the article, presenting it as clean as the page of a book. Some compare the service to Amazon's Kindle. ... http://lab.arc90.com Video Lan Video Lan is the latest version of one of the best video and multimedia players available. If you're tired of Windows Media Player and Nero (or something like it) just ain't doing the job, check out this one. http://www.videolan.org Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. ... (view more)