Brandon Dimmel

Disk Investigator Disk Investigator helps you to discover everything hidden on your computer hard disk and can even help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive ... sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors while verifying the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. http://www.theabsolute.net Desktop Icon Layout Saver Have you ever had your desktop icons arranged just right, only to have them reset to a jumbled mess? Save and restore the location of your desktop icons ... (view more)

Porsche recently unveiled an optional exhaust system that, upon the push of a button, actually makes the guttural roar of the sleek 911's tail pipe that much more impressive (uh, in other words, louder). None of that solar-powered , hydrogen-based, ... electric-driven alternative fuel source stuff for Porsche. Instead, here's a scenario it feels prospective owners of luxury cars will identify with: you're driving a loaded, bright red Porsche 911 along the packed downtown core of your local city on a cool but comfortable summer Saturday night. Just about everyone is taking in the flashing lights ... (view more)

If you were to list the world's most dangerous jobs, you probably wouldn't place tech site founder in the top, oh, hundred thousand. However, popular blog TechCrunch recently lost its co-founder Michael Arrington, amidst rumors that his life was ... being threatened. Although TechCrunch has only been in operation since June, 2005 it has in that time made quite the impression. Worldwide it boasts nearly 2 million web feed subscribers. Last year, the site unveiled a whole new web design, giving it a fresh feel and boosting its fan base. Unfortunately, fame (if you can call it that) doesn't go ... (view more)

Icons From File This tool is used for extracting icons or icon arrays from files and boasts the unique ability to scan folders and search for EXE, DLL and OCX files containing icons! There is even the ability to extract and save all icons from all ... files into a selected folder. Also, all icons from the selected file can be exported to HTML document. http://www.vlsoftware.net Simple Directory Analyzer With Simple Directory Analyzer, you can list all file types in a directory, list duplicate files, list hidden files. Sort by name, file type, location and size. Draw graphs from your information. ... (view more)

Srware Iron Srware Iron is like Google's Chrome web browser, minus the privacy concerns. Srware Iron will not create a unique user ID or submit entries to Google when you use it. Instead, this browser protects your footprints while offering the same ... features as Chrome. http://www.srware.net Explorer View ExplorerView for Windows Vista puts you back in the driver's seat of Windows Explorer. ExplorerView gives you the ability to turn off the way Windows Explorer attempts to auto-detect the contents of a folder. If you use Explorer very much, you know this feature is not accurate, and can lead ... (view more)

An early release of Microsoft's uber-popular web browser Internet Explorer version 8 (IE8) is now available for download. The Redmond-based company boasts that it's the safest and most secure browser ever constructed, and has included several new ... features meant to protect users against even the most innovative hacker attacks. As expected, Microsoft has simply added yet another digit to its browser, dubbing this one simple "IE8". There are a number of good reasons to invest precious download minutes in Internet Explorer 8; at the top of the list is a special new feature meant to protect ... (view more)

Online Malware Scan This great online tool scans a selected file with numerous antivirus programs in order to maximize your computer's security. It's like hiring fifteen big, burly bodyguards to protect you and your PC instead of just one! ... http://virusscan.jotti.org Kiwi Application Monitor Kiwi application monitor is a small program that lets you monitor your apps, processes, Windows and User activity. All you need to do is select an application or process from the built-in process viewer or enter an application name. The program can be set to start with Windows and run in the background. ... (view more)

While Nintendo boasts that its Wii can make you fit, the game company's popular line of DS "Brain Games" have for some time promised to make kids smarter by challenging them with word puzzles and math formulas. However, a French professor isn't ... buying the shtick. University of Rennes professor Alain Lieury, a cognitive psychology specialist in Brittany, France, recently studied a group of ten year old children playing a variety of mentally-challenging games. Not all were video games, however; Lieury pit more traditional games (including sudoku, Scrabble, and regular old reading and homework) ... (view more)

I'd hate to be a web writer, editor, or site owner while living in China. The country recently shut down over a thousand web sites it claimed were illicit and inappropriate, and critics are already speculating that those pages targeted might have ... displayed more than just nudies. At first, the site closures seem to be limited to those violating China's laws of "social morality," laws meant to protect the delicate "physical and mental health of youths." Images on sites like tiexue.com and vodone.com included a number of under-dressed women. However, at the same time official outlet People's ... (view more)

Gparted GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, ... copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another. http://gparted.sourceforge.net Davinci Script daVinci Script makes available to you a wide range of functions, including the unique ability to completely automate tasks, no matter how complex or extensive they may be. The various daVinci tools carry out their tasks by reading ... (view more)