Brandon Dimmel

There's been much speculation about the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs in recent days, and although no one outside his immediate group of friends and colleagues knows exactly what is wrong with the technology mogul, Jobs has officially announced ... that he will be taking some time off in the near future. Concern over Jobs' health is not particularly new. In September of last year, many Mac, iPod, and iPhone fans were devastated by a Bloomberg news slip announcing the Apple boss had actually kicked the bucket. In the end, that was merely a slip up on the part of someone in editing, but even when ... (view more)

Process Manager For Windows Ease your control over foreground processes and windows with this brand new version of the popular Process Manager for Windows. With Process Manager For Windows, you can prioritize applications, hide others, and even set ... the transparency of any window! http://processpriority.wiki.sourceforge.net RegDllView RegDllView is a small utility that displays the list of all registered .DLL, .OCX, and .EXE (COM registration). For each registered file, you can view the last date/time that it was registered, and the list of all registration entries (CLSID/ProgID). http://www. ... (view more)

It seems that the Consumer Electronics Show's (CES) poor attendance has been justified by recent statistics suggesting that holiday 2008 was one of the worst ever for the computer industry. According to research firm IDC: for the first time in five ... years, the personal computer industry failed to grow over the previous holiday season. In fact, sales over the final three months of 2008 decreased nearly half a percentile in comparison to the same period the year prior. Although rival research firm Gartner Inc. presented slightly different findings (it found that there was actually a growth of 1. ... (view more)

Just Close Some Tasks JustCloseSomeTasks allows you to easily close inactive tasks. These tasks are automatically marked for closing when they are deemed not in use for a specified period of time. The program adjusts to your behavior as it schedules ... the expiry time. http://www.donationcoder.com Lacuna Launcher Have you ever wished you had more control over the way applications are launched? Perhaps you'd like to set a delay for launching applications at startup? How about adding a pause in-between the launch of each application? Or control the order in which applications are opened? Or ... (view more)

Sandbox Sandbox is a 3D video game design software tool. It's the game design tool based on the Cube 2 engine and allows users to quickly and easily create and edit their own worlds in-game, even cooperatively. It is free, open source, and easy to ... use for kids and adults alike. http://kids.platinumarts.net Windows 7 If you didn't like Windows Vista, you can try Windows 7: Microsoft's next and highly-anticipated operating system. Note that this is a Beta version of Windows 7, meaning that it is the not complete / final version and it still has bugs. This beta version also expires on August ... (view more)

It seems the abnormally low number of exhibitors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been paralleled by a startling slide in attendance by Joe Techie. With the recession on and consumer spending down, overall attendance is even lower than ... first expected. About a week ago, we reported that CES organizers expected the number of visitors for 2009 to be down slightly from last year's 141,000, perhaps between 130,000 and 135,000. That was evident the weekend prior to the event, when it was alarmingly easy to find a hotel room in Las Vegas, CES' annual host city. That's usually not the case ... (view more)

Sony has finally unveiled its first netbook just in time for the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. About the same size as your average bottle of Coca-cola , it's tiny, slim, and surprisingly expensive. As expected, smaller, cheaper, ... and portable laptops -- otherwise known as 'netbooks' -- have stolen the spotlight from glitzy televisions and Blu-ray players at the 2009 CES. However, Sony's Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC is breaking the mould, at least in part. Though it's definitely small (no longer than a mousepad and about as thin as your everyday cell phone), the size of the ... (view more)

Index.Dat Analyzer Index.dat Analyzer is a tool used to view, examine and delete the contents of index.dat files, which are used by the Microsoft Windows Operating system (and are hidden on your computer). Index.dat files can contain your online ... activity, including the sites you visited, lists of URLs, and even files and documents you recently accessed. http://www.systenance.com IE Toolbar Customization Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 use a new graphical user interface (GUI) that hides the menus like File, Tools or Help which are normally located at the top of the ... (view more)

Open Firefox In Private Browsing Mode Being in Private Mode while surfing the Internet is a must nowadays, especially if you surf from a public computer. However, in some situations it's even important to erase your tracks using a home computer. ... This guide will direct you through steps leading to a safe, secure, and above all: a private PC. http://www.webtlk.com MoveMe MoveMe allows you to resize, move and center any dialog, window, or form on-screen with easy key shortcuts. It even allows you to hide/show the taskbar with a simple key combination. http://www.damnsoft.org Today's fresh ... (view more)

Despite its recognizable blue-and-gold logo and the popularity of its big box stores across North America, Best Buy does not appear to have emerged from a slow holiday season unscathed. In fact, according to reports released last week, the ... electronics giant actually posted significant sales losses in one of its most prominent markets. A report released late last week discussing Best Buy's fiscal month ending January 3 revealed that the company's video game sales had dropped significantly. According to industry insiders Gamespot, this year's holiday revenue was generally much lower for the ... (view more)