Brandon Dimmel

The identities of 10,000 radical British National Party members were recently published on a specially-designed web page, revealing personal details including profession. The hack, if you can call it that, could incite violence across the pond -- ... the BNP represents an all-white, anti-immigrant platform. News of the publishing led to panic at the British National Party headquarters. According to reports, the web site containing the 10,000 names included a wide variety of members and their professions, ranging from teachers to government officials to police officers. The leak could be ... (view more)

Screen Check Screen Check is a very simple and useful monitor calibration tool. See images on your screen as others see them on their screens. http://photographerusa.com Easeus Partition Manager EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition is a ... comprehensive hard disk partition management software with all powerful functions including: resize and move partitions, create, delete and format partitions, hide and unhide partitions and much more. The freeware version works perfectly with hardware RAID and Windows 2000 / XP / Vista Operating Systems. http://www.partition-tool.com Today's fresh software ... (view more)

After a year and a half atop one of the web's most powerful search companies, Jerry Yang has decided to step down as chief executive of Yahoo. The co-founder of the number two search engine has in the last year unsuccessfully attempted financial ... agreements with competitors Microsoft and Google, and the company remains in tatters heading into 2009. Yang, 40, won't completely abandon the company he helped found, however. Although he'll no longer assume the duties of chief executive, Yang plans on returning to his previous position as "chief Yahoo", or corporate strategist. Thus, he'll remain on ... (view more)

Vistart ViStart dramatically decreases the time taken to search in Windows. You can simply type part of the program into the start menu and ViStart will instantly find it. ViStart not only indexes programs but also files as well. Just type the file ... you are looking for and in miliseconds ViStart will return results (Up to 4 times faster then the orignal Vista start menu!). http://www.lee-soft.com Media Portal MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC and TV into an advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio, watch and ... (view more)

For those of you who feel that USB 2.0 isn't quite fast enough for your needs, take note: USB 3.0 is on its way, and the new technology offers data transfer speeds that are ten times faster than the last generation. Dubbed "SuperSpeed USB" at the ... recent USB Implementers Forum in sunny San Jose, USB 3.0 is the next step in a must-have technology. USB data transfer devices can be found just about anywhere, including wireless Internet peripherals and "sticks", tiny thumb-sized disc-like storage units that allow one to carry several gigs worth of data in their pocket. USB 2.0 isn't exactly ... (view more)

It's been some time since Sony's Blu-ray high definition movie format knocked off its stiff competition from Toshiba and HD-DVD. However, the monopoly on HD flicks hasn't yet morphed into big sales, according to reports. In fact, the slowing global ... economy could drastically hurt the transition from standard (and cheaper) DVD. Although it took a good long time for Blu-ray to nudge out HD-DVD, there had been speculation for some time that this would be the final result. Toshiba's HD-DVD caught fire early because of its cheaper price tag and a popular Xbox 360 add-on (yours truly was a sucker ... (view more)

Windows System Control Center Windows System Control Center is a free, portable program that allows you to view, execute and organize utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC is only an interface, and you'll need to download and install ... the utilities separately. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. http://www.kls-soft.com Viorb Vista Start Orb ViOrb automatically replaces your start button with one that looks the same as Vista's start orb. Thus, you can get the Vista feel and look for Windows XP; just download ViOrb, extract the ViOrb ... (view more)

Think the Internet is all about freedom of speech? Not Facebook. After a number of complaints from mostly European sources, the popular social networking site has pulled and banned several Neo-Nazi groups. The European Parliament lodged the most ... significant complaint with the California-based Facebook. Martin Schulz, Socialist leader within the EP, told the media, "The existence of these groups is repulsive." Officially, Facebook removed the sites because they conflicted with its terms of use. Although the site "supports the free flow of information," representatives felt that the Neo-Nazi ... (view more)

Dm2 DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons, freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can manipulate windows ... in various ways, such as minimizing to tray, roll to caption, resize, align to screen borders, hide, set the opacity, etc. http://dm2.sourceforge.net Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack adds international handwriting recognizers to a Tablet PC or other personal computer. ... (view more)

GPU Caps Viewer GPU Caps Viewer is an OpenGL graphics card utility for Windows XP and Vista (32/64-bit). This tool offers quick view of the graphics configuration, display of the main OpenGL capabilities, display of the OpenGL extensions supported ... by your graphics card, or even the display of all existing OpenGL extensions. http://www.ozone3d.net Create Video Card Profiles The following article is a guide to create profiles for the installed video card to optimize it for different applications, namely working on the desktop and gaming. The problem with running a video card in Windows is that ... (view more)