Brandon Dimmel

Windows 7 Little Tweaker Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small and simple-to-use utility that let you easily activate a few useful extras for Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a Windows 7-only portable ... application and will not run on any other Windows versions. http://leelusoft.blogspot.com Dvorak Keyset The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard is a keyboard layout and was designed to address the problems of inefficiency and fatigue which characterized the QWERTY keyboard layout. This tutorial explains how to enabled the Dvorak Keyboard using Windows XP. ... (view more)

Owners of RIM's BlackBerry beware: just because what you're carrying is much smaller than the average PC, don't expect hackers to ignore you. Research in Motion has recently revealed a security hole that could allow an intruder to take control of a ... BlackBerry device. In a statement issued late last week, Waterloo-based Research in Motion admitted that they'd discovered a gap that could potentially allow hackers to snag control of servers running the company's BlackBerry system. If that were to happen, intruders could then send emails throughout the system with infected PDF attachments -- if ... (view more)

Not ready to abandon Windows XP in favor of the much-maligned Vista? Neither are the Russians, whose government recently launched an investigation into Microsoft's decision to stop selling the popular operating system on new PCs there. Reports ... emerged yesterday stating that an official Russian anti-monopoly group had commenced an inquiry into Microsoft's controversial decision to cease the resale of Windows XP on new computers. The OS remains very popular in that country; most consumers there are against Microsoft's cutoff date of July 31, when it plans to prevent retailers from shipping XP ... (view more)

TweakNow PowerPack TweakNow PowerPack is a free, fully-integrated suite of utilities that lets you fine-tune many aspects of Windows. http://www.tweaknow.com Vsuite Ramdisk VSuite Ramdisk makes a virtual ram disk drive, which can be used to greatly ... reduce the work require of a standard hard disk drive by using the computer's own RAM. http://www.romexsoftware.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)

Microsoft has been making a lot of news lately about its dominance of the trendy netbook market. However, both Acer and RealNetworks have made splashes in recent days, announcing their intentions to use and develop for alternative netbook operating ... systems. Up to this point, Microsoft Windows XP has been the dominant OS for netbooks , the tiny 8.9" to 11.6" laptops with impressive web surfing speed but few hardware highlights. The majority of netbooks don't even have DVD drives, but given their sub-3 pound weight, miniscule width, and comparably cheap price tags, they've become awfully ... (view more)

Srware Iron SRWare Iron is based on the Google's Browser Chrome source code and has offers the same features, minus the privacy concerns. Use the innovative features without worrying about your privacy. http://www.srware.net ServerWatch ServerWatch ... is a Windows application designed to help network administrators keep track of the servers on their networks. ServerWatch is being developed under the OpenSoftware License and will be available free of charge. http://servwatch.sourceforge.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that ... (view more)

This is turning out to be a big summer for Microsoft: lately the company has been both driving up excitement for Windows 7 and wowing gamers at E3 in Los Angeles, and now the Redmond-based firm has released a legitimate competitor for Google. But is ... new search engine "Bing" any good? The first thing a visitor to Bing.com will notice is the design. Even on a low-res netbook it's immediately clear that Microsoft wants to bring the allure of its 'Aero' Vista graphics to the search engine's main page. When I visited, Bing greeted me with a lush, blue mountain scene. Quite honestly, it is ... (view more)

If you've been holding off on picking up one of the popular rhythm-based video games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero because songs like Metallica's "Enter Sandman" or Hole's "Celebrity Skin" don't catch your fancy, then take note that an upcoming ... edition of Rock Band will feature 45 popular Beatles tunes. The game, titled "The Beatles: Rock Band," is set to ship September 9. In a special ceremony at the video game industry's annual E3 extravaganza in Los Angeles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, helped reveal the first ten of the title's songs. ... (view more)

RegFromApp RegFromApp monitors the Registry changes made by the application that you've selected, and creates a standard RegEdit registration file (.reg) that contains all the Registry changes made by the application. You can use the generated .reg ... file to import these changes with RegEdit when it's needed. http://www.nirsoft.net DriverView The DriverView utility displays a list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the ... (view more)

HWiNFO and HWiNFO32 HWiNFO and HWiNFO32 are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information ... possible about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports! http://www.hwinfo.com Keyboard Lock Using ... (view more)