Brandon Dimmel

Apple computers get plenty of credit for the way they look, feel and perform: for the most part, they are well-built, thoughtfully-designed machines and the people that use them, love them. But they're not cheap, and for many consumers the high ... price of MacBook laptops is often a deal-breaker. That may have changed now that the Cupertino-based company has unveiled the 11.6-inch MacBook air, a super-light computer for less than $1,000. MacBook Air Receives Solid State Harddrive (SSD) Apple on Wednesday announced that it would revamp its popular MacBook Air by cutting it down in size and weight ... (view more)

SlimComputer 1.0.1 New computers come pre-loaded with promotional software, ad links, toolbars and trial offers. SlimComputer uses crowd-sourced feedback to make optimization recommendations for your computer. It removes unneeded programs, start-up ... entries and services and slims down your new machine to make it run fast and clean like it's supposed to. http://www.slimwareutilities.com Yadis! Backup 1.9.16 Yadis! is a free and simple backup application that helps to protect your private information within minutes. It's intuitive design helps to guide you through backing up in just a few short ... (view more)

QtWeb 3.5 QtWeb Internet Browser is a lightweight, secure and portable browser having unique user interface and privacy features. QtWeb is an open source project based on Nokia's Qt framework and Apple's WebKit rendering engine (the same as being ... used in Apple Safari and Google Chrome). http://www.qtweb.net RouterPassView 1.16 Most modern routers allow you to backup the configuration of the router into a file, and then restore the configuration from the file when it's needed. The backup file of the router usually contains important data like your ISP user name/password, the login password of ... (view more)

OpenOffice.org For Windows 3.3.0 RC 1 Beta OpenOffice.org 3 is a full Office Suite (similar to MS Office), but based on Java technology. It's easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org 3 ... straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language. http://www.openoffice.org Google Chrome Beta 8.0.552.5 Google Chrome is an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated ... (view more)

DevManView 1.12 DevManView is an alternative software tool to 'Device Manager' of MS Windows. DevManView displays all devices and their properties in flat table, instead of tree viewer. In addition to displaying the devices of your local computer, ... DevManView also allows you view the devices list of another computer on your network, as long as you have administrator access rights to this computer. http://www.nirsoft.net Fresh Download 8.60 Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and download manager that aids in downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite mp3 files, software, picture ... (view more)

A new study shows that Americans are less likely to engage in online social networking than many of their global counterparts. According to the findings, Asia is fast becoming the place where people are most likely to go online to share digital ... thoughts and photographs with friends and family. The research was performed by analyst firm TNS, which found that central and southeast Asia is a hotspot for social networking activity. In Thailand, approximately 92 per cent of Internet-connected residents have uploaded photographs to photo-sharing web sites. In nearby Malaysia, the number is 88 per ... (view more)

Disk2vhd 1.63 Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk, Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd ... and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that's online. http://technet.microsoft.com Comodo BackUp 3.0.164972.96 Comodo Backup is a free, simple to use program that allows you to create, schedule and run your own backups 5 minutes after you've downloaded it. This is a powerful backup tool you can virtually set ... (view more)

Last week Microsoft promised several new Windows 7 tablet computers would be available to home and business consumers prior to Christmas. For those of you who simply can't wait, take note: there's a Windows 7 tablet PC available right now, so long ... as you don't mind a relatively short battery life. CTL 2goPAD: Hardware Specifications Tech company CTL recently released their 2goPAD, a device featuring a 10.1-inch display with 1,024 x 600 pixels, 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 (single core, 2 threads) processor and 2GB of RAM. Internal storage of the 2goPAD is listed at 250GB, while boasting a 1.3 ... (view more)

A former Facebook developer has donated $100,000 to help Proposition 19, a California-based initiative seeking to make marijuana legal in that state. 30-year-old Sean Parker was one of the original developers of Facebook when the social networking ... site emerged in 2004. Proposition 19 is part of California's Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act 2010; residents of the state will vote on the measure on November 2 when they head to the polls to decide on a new governor and congressman. They'll also get the chance to vote on the legalization of marijuana. (Source: telegraph.co.uk ) Parker No ... (view more)

According to a recent report from Microsoft, the Redmond-based software company removed 6.5 million botnets from Windows machines during the first period of 2010 -- which is more than double the number eliminated by the firm over the same period in ... 2009. Botnets Used to Spam, Spread Malware, Steal Secrets In simple terms, a botnet (or "robot network") is a group of infected PCs that are under control of a few (or 1) individual. Typically, a PC becomes infected by visiting a malicious website, or by opening a malicious file or email. Once a computer is infected with botnet malware, ... (view more)