Brandon Dimmel

Many users are planning to skip Windows Vista and move straight into the more promising Windows 7 next year. However, the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 might prove to be a daunting hassle. With Windows 7, Windows XP users won't be able to make ... an easy "in-place upgrade" which allows one operating system to overwrite an old one while maintaining already installed applications and settings. Rather, Windows XP users will have to jump through several additional hoops, including a "clean install" involving the backup of their old data, the deletion of everything XP, the installation of Windows ... (view more)

TaggedFrog Based on the convenient drag'n'drop technique, TaggedFrog allows you to organize your files, documents and Web links. Just add objects to the library and tag them with any keywords. That's it. You can forget the file name or where the ... file is located, but don't worry -- the tags will find the file for you. http://www.lunarfrog.com KDE for Windows Project KDE is a desktop environment originally built for UNIX, but now it's available for Windows. You can use this installer to download and install the various binary packages that you need to run KDE applications on MS Windows. http:// ... (view more)

Are you a big fan of the plasma flatscreen television? It might be harder to get your sticky hands on one in the future, with recent announcements that two of the most popular plasma TV manufacturers have decided to terminate production. Although ... the plasma market has been struggling for some time, it's hard to ignore the role played by a stagnant U.S. economy in driving down interest in tech products. The most stunning news came earlier in the week when technology giant Pioneer announced it would bow out of the television business altogether. To the average consumer who has in the past ... (view more)

What's the problem with introducing a new operating system? When it comes to Microsoft, the upgrade makes your last operating system pretty much obsolete, even if it took almost ten years to construct and a lot of hassle to promote. A recent survey ... from industry analysts Gartner found that about 30 per cent of large businesses were seriously considering skipping Windows Vista altogether, a significant blow to Microsoft which has spent the last year and a half trying to convince home and corporate users alike that the operating system is worth the software and training costs associated with ... (view more)

Process Manager For Windows With Process Manager for Windows, users can easily take control of foreground processes. How simple is it? In just two simple steps you can do what Windows task manager takes seven steps to do. More than triple your ... efficiency! http://processpriority.wiki.sourceforge.net Windows 7 Secret Context Menu While poking around in Windows 7, the folks at Stupid Geek discovered extra context menu items using the same Shift + Right-click trick they used to open a command prompt from the desktop menu, and they've got big, colorful screenshots to prove it. http://www.howtogeek ... (view more)

A hole allowing hackers to take control of Microsoft Exchange was just one "critical" issue the Redmond-based company promises it has fixed with a patch correcting a total of eight vulnerabilities in its programs, including the Internet Explorer ... browser, Office, and its SQL Server . Three of the eight vulnerabilities patched yesterday were marked "critical". The most concerning is an issue with Exchange that would allow attackers to take over an Exchange server by simply forwarding a carefully crafted message to a corporate mail server. Microsoft has admitted that the vulnerability can be ... (view more)

Res Edit ResEdit is a free Resource Editor for Win32 programs. You can use it if you want to use dialogs, icon, version information or other types of resources. Output files can be compiled by any Win32 compiler, like MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++. ... To open a file which uses Win32 API symbolic constants, you will also need Win32 header files (usually coming with you compiler). If you don't have any C++ compiler, you will need the Win32 headers (mainly windows.h and commctrl.h). You can download the Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK to get these files. http://www.resedit.net Sk Time Stamp ... (view more)

Kaspersky Lab, one of the most prominent antivirus companies on the web, has admitted that its web site was breached by hackers for almost eleven days. Despite the Moscow-based company's claim that its software is the most secure on the web, it ... reportedly didn't know its own site had been breached until the Romanian hackers behind the attack told them so. Knowledge of the hack was made public on the weekend when the hackers, who are at this time only rumored to be Romanian, bragged about it in a blog posting. They claimed to have used an SQL injection attack to access Kapersky's United States ... (view more)

Microsoft has again changed its position on the User Account Control (UAC) interface for Windows 7. However, the company might be due some credit for the decision, given that they're being made in direct response to protests from common beta ... participants. More details are beginning to emerge about the proposed UAC, which has been at the center of significant controversy for several weeks. Earlier last week, rumors swirled that Microsoft had decided to ditch the UAC altogether. Users of Vista know UAC as the prompt that demands confirmation of just about any action in the operating system, ... (view more)

Qwiktulz Qwiktulz is a suite of Windows Explorer right-click menu utilities that can be activated or deactivated using a special control panel. Once activated, an option for the utility shows up in the Windows Explorer context menu when you ... right-click on a file, folder, or drive. http://www.freewebtown.com Proximodo When you access the Internet with your web browser, a lot of things happen that are hidden to you. The browser and the website exchange "headers" that define the behaviour of the browser's cache system, create or use cookies, tell the website who you are and where you came from, ... (view more)