Brandon Dimmel

No Script No Script is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (example: your online bank), and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS (anti cross site ... scripting) protection available in a web browser. http://noscript.net Port Mapper Port Mapper is a program that maps a specific TCP or UDP port on your machine to another port on another machine. It can also limit access based on the IP address of an incoming connection request. http://www.analogx.com Today's fresh software picks were provided ... (view more)

It's been over a week now since the April Fool's Conficker debacle passed without any noticeable disaster. However, the threat itself is still very present, and researchers are now finding out exactly what the motivation is for a future attack: ... cash. It would seem that if one stumbled upon a mysterious, universal hacker rulebook there would be two major motivations for their craft: 1) anarchy/destruction and 2) money. Researchers studying Conficker's spread are finding that, surprisingly, the worm might be more about the latter than previously thought. (Source: informationweek.com ) Conficker ... (view more)

Greenshot Greenshot is a screenshot tool used for productivity. Features include: save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file; apply text and shapes to the screenshot; capture a window, region, or full screenshot. Greenshot supports several ... image formats, making it very convenient! http://www.greenshot.sourceforge.net GMABooster Offering up to an astonishing 2.4x of extra processing power for your integrated graphics engine, the GMABooster is a must-have tool for every user interested in advanced 3D gaming, improved video playback, and performance in a variety of professional ... (view more)

In a recent Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft revealed that scareware threats are steadily climbing. The report, which covers the second half of 2008, finds that fake security software is becoming more and more prevalent as people head online ... in greater numbers. Scareware isn't your traditional malicious software. It's not simply a virus or malware, but can lead to those kinds of infections. Instead, scareware is a more sinister kind of threat -- it pretends to be security software willing and able to "repair and protect" a user's system, but is in fact just a farce. Most ... (view more)

Page Zipper Ever read one of those top ten lists or photo galleries where every item is on a different page? You spend more time clicking "Next" and waiting than actually reading anything. PageZipper is a free tool that automatically merges all the ... "Next" pages into one, so you can skip directly to the stuff you want. http://www.printwhatyoulike.com MobaLiveCD MobaLiveCD is freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD inside Windows via the excellent emulator "Qemu." MobaLiveCD allows you to test your LiveCD with a single click: after downloading the ISO image file of your favorite ... (view more)

Secret Disk Secret Disk lets you have a separate disk on your PC that can be locked and unlocked with a password. When a disk is locked, it is invisible in the Windows system. http://privacyroot.com USB Webserver USB Webserver is a small web server ... package that includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin. The program is dock-able to the system tray and services can be run either portably or installed as a system service. http://www.pendriveapps.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below software descriptions are ... (view more)

A day after Microsoft revealed that it would make Windows 7 downgradeable all the way back to XP, a new poll suggests it's unlikely anyone will really want to do that. Apparently, Windows 7 is gaining popularity after all. The poll is courtesy of ... ChangeWave Research, which has been keeping tabs on Microsoft's operating systems for a while now. Two years ago it polled users shortly after Vista's much-anticipated launch, only to find that just 10% of all users felt "very satisfied" with the OS. A couple years of serious griping later, and here we are with what most hope will completely redeem ... (view more)

At this point, Windows 7 represents Microsoft's best hope for regaining the confidence of business and home users disgruntled with its much-maligned Windows Vista operating system. Just in case Win7 doesn't satisfy, however, the company is making it ... downgradable all the way to Windows XP. Downgrading a Windows system is hardly new, but prior to Vista the demand for such retroactive steps was actually quite rare. As Vista's popularity began to wane only a few months after its launch in early 2007, computer makers and retailers began marketing certain systems that had XP instead of the newer, ... (view more)

Batch Chat Batch Chat is an easy-to-use office chat room. Batch Chat runs from a single file / shared folder and allows everyone in an office (for example) to quickly and easily communicate with one another. http://batchchat.blogspot.com DOSBox ... DOSBox is a program that emulates older PCs based on the Intel x86 CPU. DOSBox comes complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, and modem support. DOSBox is an excellent utility especially for running old DOS games that cannot run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. http://www.dosbox ... (view more)

The solution to the age-old problem of weakening battery capacity may soon emerge thanks to tech wizzes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT. Scientists there have discovered an efficient way of powering electronic devices using ... bacteria-infused batteries. No, this isn't a late April Fool's joke or a long-lost X-Files plot. It's true; the new batteries use a kind of bacteria that can construct an anode after being protected by a layer of cobalt oxide and gold. Once this process is complete, the bacteria batteries can be formed into a nanowire . This makes them drastically ... (view more)