Brandon Dimmel

DSpeech 1.58.5 This Text to Speech (TTS) program comes equipped with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, allowing it to effectively read the text you have typed. This program is simple and small, limiting its impact on a system. ... http://dimio.altervista.org HomeBank 4.5.6 This completely free but very effective program was designed to help you better manage your personal finances. It gives users access to filtering tools and graphs that clearly reveal your financial situation and allow you to plan for the future. http://homebank.free.fr/ (view more)

Microsoft has revised its Hotmail / Outlook email privacy policy. It's in response to concerns after the company admitted to reading emails and instant messages of a blogger who allegedly tried to sell Microsoft intellectual property without ... permission. Former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo is currently being investigated for stealing Microsoft trade secrets. According to Microsoft, in 2012 Kibkalo acquired pre-release Windows 8 source code, which he emailed to a mysterious blogger who has not been named. It's the anonymous blogger who had his email and instant messages snooped. ... (view more)

Adapter 2.1.0.1 Compress and convert multiple videos in a jiffy with Adapter. This completely free program not only converts video, but it can capture images from video, time crop video, and control your video's resolution. Improvements to the ... software are sent along through automatic updates. http://www.macroplant.com/adapter/ Rainlendar 2.12.2 Rainlendar allows you to create a fully customizable calendar. You can create separate lists for events and tasks and set alarms for particularly important events. Rainlendar is also available in fifty different languages and is compatible with ... (view more)

Security experts are warning users to take extra caution when seeking information about the lost Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 online. Reports suggest that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the media buzz surrounding the missing plane in ... order to spread computer malware through malicious web sites, social media, emails, and bogus links. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014. It's still not clear if the plane was hijacked or crashed, let alone where the impact might have taken place. A coalition of 26 countries is currently looking for the aeroplane. (Source: ... (view more)

SearchMyFiles 2.48 Looking for an alternative to Windows' standard "Search for Files and Folders" feature? Then try SearchMyFiles, which gives you a number of unique tools for searching through the files and folders stored on your system. Users can ... search by wildcard, by last modified / created / last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. http://www.nirsoft.net Fotor 2.0 This completely free online photograph editor allows you to create exciting high-definition images of your friends and family. Using this program, you ... (view more)

Unreal Commander 2.02 (Build 982) Unreal Commander is a free file manager built for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. It features a two-panel interface, extended search tools, thumbnail mode, folder tabs, and customizable visual ... styles. http://x-diesel.com/ Efficient Sticky Notes 3.62.356 Never miss another important event by downloading and installing Efficient Sticky Notes. This completely free program allows you to create customized reminders and stick to your PC's desktop background. This program supports multiple languages. http://www.efficientsoftware.net (view more)

Legendary singer-songwriter and musician Neil Young believes his "Pono" digital music player is the next 'must-have' gadget. Young says that people who use the iPod and most other digital music players aren't hearing music the way it was intended to ... be heard. That's also why he firmly believes there will be great demand for Pono. Unlike the iPod and similar devices, Pono is built with audiophiles in mind. The major difference is that Pono is able to play music using a high-resolution "lossless" audio format, called FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). By ... (view more)

iPhotoDraw 1.8 Add all kinds of special effects to your favorite photographs with iPhotoDraw. Using this program you can add description text, special callout balloons, shapes, and other annotation objects to pictures. All of this can be done ... without affecting the integrity of the original photo. UPDATE: there appears to be a problem with the download link on author's website - garbled characters appear on the screen when the link is clicked. We've informed the author (please try again later). http://www.iphotodraw.com Sundance 3.9 Looking for an alternative to Firefox, Internet ... (view more)

Google's chief executive officer is promising Google users that their data is safe from the prying eyes of National Security Agency (NSA) officials. Eric Schmidt made that claim before a large audience at the South by Southwest Interactive ... conference, which is being held in Austin, Texas. When asked how he felt after it was revealed that the NSA had worked with Britain's top surveillance agency, the GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) to infiltrate Google's data centers, Schmidt admitted that he was shocked. "The very fact that they did this was very suspicious to ... (view more)