Brandon Dimmel

Just a few days ago I reported on rumors that Google was nearing a deal that would lead to the placement of full-length movies on its popular video site, YouTube. Now, it appears Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), one of Hollywood's biggest studios, is on ... board with the idea. The precedent for full-length movies was set back in the summer, when prominent Canadian studio Lionsgate (behind flicks like W. and The Transporter 3) announced they would be placing shorts on Google's popular video site. Of course, that's besides the fact that more and more people turn to web sites like Hulu for their favorite ... (view more)

Are you disappointed with those graphics in your favorite PC games? Not pleased that you have to turn down the resolution on games like Crysis or Far Cry 2? Well, if you've got $3,500 to shell out, Nvidia has a product for you: the Quadro FX 5800, ... the most powerful graphics card ever made. Nvidia truly has revealed the Lamborghini of graphics cards. The Quadra FX 5800 boasts an astounding 4 GB of graphics memory and up to 240 Cuda programmable parallel cores. Interactive 4D modeling is also one of its best new features, in addition to a memory bandwidth of 102 GB per second. Fill rates for ... (view more)

Angry Ip Scanner Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It is widely used by network administrators and just curious users around the world, including large and ... small enterprises, banks, and government agencies. It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. http://www.angryziber.com Ammyy Admin This is a reliable and accessible way for providing remote computer assistance and remote teaching for clients and employees anywhere in the world. Ammyy Admin connects remote computers within seconds without any ... (view more)

Streamripper Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music. Many of these mp3 radio stations only play certain genres, so you can now download an entire collection of goa/trance music, an entire collection of jazz, punk rock, ... whatever you want. http://www.streamripper.sourceforge.net Strange Maps Want to know exactly where 'Obamaland' is? Ever wonder what would have happened if Italy had won the Second World War and maintained its empire in present-day Somalia? Plenty of wacky and forgotten maps found herein. Very cool! http://www.strangemaps.wordpress.com Today's fresh ... (view more)

At one time, the Internet was targeted by the Motion Picture Association of America as a serious threat to the industry. For most of the last decade, file-sharing protocols and Torrents have been home to many free, pirated flicks for greedy movie ... fans with the tech-savvyness to download and burn them for free. However, it looks like that cynical attitude towards the world wide web is about to change -- primarily because the movie industry now recognizes that big bucks can be made online. According to reports, Hollywood is seriously considering posting full-length movies on YouTube, the home ... (view more)

Tiny Watcher The way Tiny Watcher works is pretty simple: basically, it starts by taking a snapshot of important parts of your Windows system and then it tracks changes. When a change is detected, you are notified. For example, you will be notified ... if a program puts itself in the startup lists of your machine, or if files are modified/created in your Windows directory, etc. http://www.donationcoders.com Vista Start Menu Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The program uses your cognitive abilities (visual memory, ... (view more)

Disgruntled Republicans may find some solace in recent news that Chinese and Russian hackers recently hacked the computer systems of president-elect Barack Obama -- unfortunately, they also infiltrated John McCain's system, too. The news appears ... much more serious than it sounds. These aren't your average basement-dwelling nogoodniks, but instead are reportedly sophisticated hackers that may even represent government elements in both China and Russia. The news stunned the Obama campaign. According to reports, the FBI and Secret Service recently visited the Democrats to tell them that their ... (view more)

Wikipedia DVD Selection Wikipedia for your hard drive. Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has ... about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). http://www.schools-wikipedia.corg Text Mining Tool Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files. The beauty of the program is that it works, extremely ... (view more)

Think the Internet generation is made up of Attention Deficit Disorder-suffering World of Warcraft players and Facebook fiends with no purpose in life? Think again. According to one expert, the Internet generation is smarter, quicker to adapt, and ... more accepting of diversity than its predecessors. Toronto-based Don Tapscott, author of "Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World", interviewed more than 10,000 young people between the ages of 11 and 30 from twelve different countries (including the United States and Canada). This generation is the biggest ever, ... (view more)

Just as we reported yesterday, it seems the Yahoo and Google web advertising deal has been rejected by the Department of Justice. The decision came early Wednesday morning when the Justice Department announced to the two top search engines that if ... they went ahead with their planned agreement (which would see Google ads on Yahoo's web pages), a lawsuit would be filed to block it. According to reports, over the last few weeks federal antitrust regulators steadily became more and more critical of the deal. Although there's still a chance the deal could be made with significant changes to its ... (view more)