Brandon Dimmel

Set Up A Home Server You could use it to run a website, collect and send e-mail messages, store your OpenID credentials or serve your music around the home or around the net. No matter the use, having your own server is a handy thing, and this guide ... from the friendly folks at webmonkey will prove very useful in reaching that noble goal. http://www.webmonkey.com Virtual Clone Drive Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or ... (view more)

Apple fans can breathe a sigh of relief this morning. After brief word last week that Steve Jobs was -- and I know this hurts -- dead, Infopackets has confirmed that the iPod's grandaddy is alive and well in Cupertino. To the shock of many in the ... tech and wider world, the Bloomberg business news wire last week ran an obituary describing the death of Steve Jobs, the man who "refashioned the mobile phone". The obit was published only for a few moments after a reporter added the news. Once superiors determined that the headline simply wasn't true, the headline was "immediately deleted". The obit ... (view more)

The good news for Nintendo just keeps on coming. Earlier this year, we reported that the company's Wii console fueled record sales for the video game industry; today, another impressive stat: the Wii has sold one million units in Canada, a country ... whose total population was last marked at just over 33 million. Despite being late out of the gate (a couple weeks after Sony's PlayStation 3 in November, 2006 and a year behind Microsoft's Xbox 360), the Wii has completely hammered the sales of its two primary competitors. Actual figures for Nintendo's console north of the border sit around 1,060, ... (view more)

Movavi Movavi Online is a free online web service that lets you download videos from YouTube, Google, and other video-sharing sites and save them to your iPhone, iPod, cellphone, and popular video formats, including AVI, MPEG, MOV, FLV, MP4, 3GP. ... With Movavi Online, you can also convert videos already on your computer. There's no charge for the service, and you don't need to download any software. http://online.movavi.com Photosynth Give your photo series the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a ... (view more)

Like covering your tracks online? Then you'll be happy to hear that Microsoft has recently announced a host of new privacy tools for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) capable of better protecting users' privacy during and after their surfing. It's a major ... step for Microsoft, which has in the past been criticized for failing to improve IE's privacy settings. With a dominant market share over primary competitor Firefox (from Mozilla), it seemed the impetus for change simply wasn't there. Now that Firefox presents a greater challenge to Microsoft's browser dominance than ever before, the Redmond-based ... (view more)

Unknown Devices Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are. By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, this program attempts to figure out what the device is. ... http://www.halfdone.com Hash Tab HashTab is a Windows shell extension which adds a tab called "File Hashes" to the Windows Explorer file properties. The tab contains the MD5, SHA1 and CRC-32 file hashes. These are common hashes that are used to verify the integrity and authenticity of files. Many download sites list the MD5 hash along with the download ... (view more)

Is It Down For Everyone Or Just Me The name says everything. An easy way to check to see if a web page is down for the entire world, or just your individual system. It couldn't get much easier to use: just type the page into the search-like tool, ... and you'll get that answer. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com Dll-Files.Com Download all your missing dll-files from this massive database. In addition, support staff is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to answer any questions you may have about those nagging DLLs. http://www.dll-files.com Today's fresh software picks were provided ... (view more)

DeviceIOView DeviceIOView allows you to watch the data transfer between a software or service and a device driver. For each call to a device driver, valuable information is displayed, including handle, Control Code, number of input bytes, number of ... output bytes, the name of the device handle, and all the input/output bytes. http://www.nirsoft.net Desktop Takeover Add plain photos to your desktop wallpaper with drag-and-drop ease. It's very easy to use, so there's no need for lengthy editing. Multiple desktop support means anybody's system can be 'taken over'. http://www.desktoptakeover.com ... (view more)

News has been spreading rapidly across the tech world regarding Microsoft's recent decision to hire Jerry Seinfeld, famed comedian and former sitcom star, as its primary spokesman for an advertising campaign designed to sell Windows Vista, the ... company's down-and-out operating system (OS). Released early last year, Windows Vista has undergone some tough times. Repeatedly berated by tech experts for its design flaws that compromise security or generally dampen system performance, the OS continues to be outsold by its predecessor , Windows XP. In the constantly-changing tech world, that's a bit ... (view more)

On-Site Computer Repair Kit What a seasoned computer technician brings to on-site computer repairs; this list is a great resource for green-horn users who want to know more about the various functions performed by their systems, and when necessary, ... how to fix 'em. http://www.technibble.com Boot Safe BootSafe takes the hassle out of rebooting in Safe Mode or back to Normal mode. No installation is required, no setup requested, just download and run -- it's that simple! Users will find that Boot Safe is simple to use, fast to download and FREE! http://www.superadblocker.com Today's fresh ... (view more)