Brandon Dimmel

Desktop Sidebar Desktop Sidebar provides you with instant access to the information you most desire by grabbing data from your PC and the internet and displaying it in a special window. The result is a dynamic visual display you configure and ... control. Note that the download link is at the very top of the page above the "Welcome to Desktop Sidebar" title. http://www.desktopsidebar.com Digitizer Digitizer will convert any image into a colorized textual representation of that image. The result is a neat effect and can be very stunning and beautiful given the right image and options. ... (view more)

Just a few months after being slammed by a Texas federal judge for infringing on the patent of a Canadian company, a similarly critical lawsuit has, in this instance, gone Microsoft's way. Earlier this week a Rhode Island judge overturned a ... Singapore company's $388 million victory against the Redmond-based software giant. MS Accused of Piracy, using Antipiracy Software First filed in a Rhode Island federal court in 2003, the case involved Singapore-based Uniloc, which accused Microsoft of illegally incorporating its antipiracy technology with Windows operating system (OS) and Microsoft's ... (view more)

Safe Keys SafeKeys is a small program that helps to defeat keyloggers on insecure computer terminals. Neo's SafeKeys is perfect for travel -- use it in internet cafes, the office or even at home as protection against stealth keylogging programs that ... can be installed without your knowledge. http://www.aplin.com.au ARP Plus Plus ARP (Add and Remove Programs) Plus Plus is an advanced version of the Add and Remove Programs in Windows. It will allow you to uninstall programs which cannot be removed from (or may not even appear in) the Windows Add and Remove Programs. http://users.csc.calpoly.edu ... (view more)

With Microsoft's highly-anticipated Windows 7 less than a month away from its much-publicized release, it's not all that surprising that company CEO Steve Ballmer has begun to tout the new operating system as the "best... [they] have ever built." ... What is surprising, however, are the decisions by Ford Motor Company and Continental Airlines to make the leap to Win7 almost immediately. New Standard for Operating Systems In a note released to the media early yesterday, Microsoft CEO Ballmer bragged that "Windows 7 is the best PC operating system we have ever built." In naming the reasons why, ... (view more)

Microsoft is scrambling this morning to find and release a fix for a newly discovered flaw that could end in the unraveling of a new and possibly devastating Windows worm. According to reports breaking late last night, hackers have made known the ... release of a new attack code capable of exploiting a bug in the Windows operating system (OS). The weakness has been public knowledge since the beginning of September, but until this week no one seemed to be taking advantage. That has changed now that Harmony Security Senior Researcher Stephen Fewer has developed an attack that allows a hacker to run ... (view more)

Microsoft has struggled to make room for itself in the digital media market since the days of iPod -- but now critics are today calling Microsoft's Zune HD the "best portable media player released by any vendor." Early Revisions Lackluster Released ... in time for Christmas 2006, few techies found the Zune hanging in their stockings. Despite wireless capabilities that allowed one user to swap tunes with a friend, the Zune's drab colors (black and brown, mostly) and few other features failed to shake the Apple tree. Experts: Zune HD Put iPod to "shame" But now it seems, Microsoft may ... (view more)

How To Move A Window Have you ever moved a Windows off the screen, unable to move it back onto the desktop? Here is a simple tip which will help you move the window in such situations. http://www.thewindowsclub.com 10 Tips for Firefox Extensions ... Want to learn more about Mozilla's increasingly popular Internet browser, Firefox? For the inside scoop on this rising challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, check out this list of great tips. http://articles.sitepoint.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below ... (view more)

Restore Zune Features Microsoft has already announced the availability of Zune HD & Zune 4.0, but some of the features are not available for users outside the U.S. and Canada. With the help of this registry hack, non-US/CAN users will be able to ... enable these features. http://www.thewindowsclub.com Moba Photo Create professional-looking photo galleries for your webpage. MobaPhoto also allows you to resize, crop or correct red-eyes on all of your pictures easily. http://www.mobatek.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note ... (view more)

High-end digital media device-maker Archos, which has made a name for itself in an iPod-dominated market by selling "entertainment products," is taking a big leap forward with tablet technology by introducing an 8.9 inch machine capable of running ... Microsoft's highly anticipated operating system (OS), Windows 7. The device, dubbed the "Archos 9PCtablet," will feature an on-screen keyboard and a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z515 processor. The tiny tablet will also boast high definition video, stereo audio, and non-3G wireless. However, the feature getting most of the attention is its ... (view more)

Microsoft's new search engine Bing continues to take small but steady steps towards chipping away at Google. Since its release in June, Bing has inch by inch racked up increasing market percentages each month, with August being no exception. Last ... month it was reported that Microsoft's short but impressive gains for July moved to 8.9 per cent of the total market, according to research firm ComScore. That was up nearly an entire percentage point from the days of Live Search, the name bequeathed to Microsoft's search engine before the arrival of the more cutting-edge Bing mid-summer. Bing ... (view more)