Brandon Dimmel

Is manipulating a teenager with obvious self-esteem issues to the point where they commit suicide tantamount to a criminal offence? Not so, it seems, given that a federal judge has overturned the misdemeanor guilty verdict handed down to Lori Drew ... last year. Known as the "MySpace Mom," Lori Drew made headlines worldwide during the suicide investigation of Megan Meier, a 13-year-old who hung herself in Missouri a few years back. Investigators soon uncovered a complex web of deceit that pointed back to Drew, who, angry with Meier for having picked on her daughter Sara, created a fictional ... (view more)

Capster Capster helps you control what programs start at Windows boot process using hotkey items, allowing for much more in-depth customization options to your Windows startup process. http://www.bcheck.net Double Vision Double Vision lets you watch ... video and surf the web in a transparent browser. You can click through the browser to your open applications and work seamlessly, making it a very useful tool. http://www.godoublevision.com/ Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below software descriptions are provided ... (view more)

NetWorx NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can ... help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks. http://www.softperfect.com/ Serogate Serogate is an HTTP Proxy Server with Remote Proxy, User-Agent, Cookie, HTML Tug, ... (view more)

Facing the rising popularity of rival browsers Firefox and Opera, Microsoft has launched its first-ever advertising deal with Live Nation (a concert ticket search engine) to promote Internet Explorer 8. The agreement promises to make consumers happy ... by offering free content with every download of IE8. Fans of popular Canadian rock band Nickelback will be most pleased with the deal. The agreement means that Internet Explorer 8 and Microsoft have signed on as the main sponsor for the rock and roll crew's Dark Horse tour, named after the band's platinum album of the same name. Something in Your ... (view more)

Apple fans will be encouraged to hear that the company's iconic CEO Steve Jobs has returned from medical leave. Jobs had been away for several months due to what Apple has described as a "hormone imbalance". News of Jobs' recent health issues ... emerged back in January , when several reports suggested the dynamic Apple co-founder was suffering from an undisclosed but perhaps serious medical problem. Some insiders even worried that Jobs, who most can tell has lost a significant amount of weight, could have been experiencing the return of pancreatic cancer, which sidelined him several ... (view more)

Portable Extension Manager Set file associations without writing to registry. Portable Extension Manager (PEM) makes it possible to open files using default programs on a portable flash drive (for example). http://freewarewire.blogspot.com Drive ... Sort Sort an entire drive by size or date to find the largest or newest files. Very useful! http://lmadhavan.com 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 are absent from any guarantee or warranty. You are ... (view more)

MBRWizard MBRWizard presents a wide degree of functionality in a powerful yet flexible utility designed to assist with all types of Master Boot Record (MBR) difficulties. Initially developed to overcome MBR problems introduced by disk imaging ... products such as Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image, MBRWizard has become a popular utility for creating bootable Windows 7 flash drives, as well as repairing all types of MBR problems, especially those caused by disk-2-disk and system backup and recovery applications. http://mbrwizard.com Hawkscope Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to ... (view more)

Don't delay too long if you're thinking of downloading the highly sought after Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC). According to a recent statement from Microsoft, it plans to shut off the downloads on August 15. Installation After Cutoff Date The ... August cut off date -- about seven weeks from now -- doesn't mean that those who've downloaded the Windows 7 RC will all of a sudden lose the ability to use it. In fact, Microsoft says that it can still be installed even after that cut off date. "The [Release Candidate] download program closes August 15. After that, you won't be able to get the ... (view more)

Microsoft has acquired another all-star executive from one of its rivals. This time it's former Yahoo vice president of operations Kevin Timmons, who will now take control of Microsoft's Data Service organization within the company's wider Global ... Foundation Services (GFS) division. The hiring is part of Microsoft's plan to construct a cloud computing network complete with efficient data centers. When with Yahoo, Timmons headed that company's data center strategy and pushed hard to increase the PUE, or Power Usage Effectiveness metric. The PUE metric is used to measure energy efficiency -- it ... (view more)

Opera Unite Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any computer or device running Opera web browser into a web server. With Opera Unite, everyday non-technical users can serve and share content and services directly from their own computers ... in the form of intuitive applications. http://labs.opera.com Total Mounter KernSafe TotalMounter is an advanced and powerful virtual CD/DVD-ROM/RW/RAM emulator, and it is full-featured free software for Windows. TotalMounter is also a free full-featured iSCSI initiator, virtual disk emulator, and a client of INetDisk. http://www.kernsafe.com Today's ... (view more)