CPUCooL is a program that monitors temperature, fan speed and voltages for many motherboards. It works with all chipsets from Intel, ALI, VIA, AMD and SiS 5595 motherboards.

TVTool was developed to replace the poor support video card manufacturers had for TV-Out. TVTool works with most Nvidia based cards.

The most popular method of communication on ICQ is instant messaging, enabling you to send a message that immediately pops up on an online contact's screen. ICQ also lets you chat, send emails, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. ICQphone incorporates IP telephony functions enabling you to engage in PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calls. Used in multiple-user mode, groups can conduct conferences or play games with ICQ. In fact, ICQ supports a variety of popular Internet applications and serves as a Universal Platform from which you can launch peer-to-peer applications. Click on Read More... for more information and a download link.

NVIDIA® System Utility is the ultimate utility for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system. Whether you want to monitor temperature or voltages, overclock your system for ultimate performance, or underclock for quiet operation, the System Utility enables total system control with user-friendly control panels. With the profile manager you can setup and save individual profiles such as an ultra-fast profile for gaming, a quiet profile for watching DVDs, or a standard profile for office productivity.

Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chip on your motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of Chipsets & Sensor Chip combinations. MBM is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and .NET.

eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client, because it's opensource but under the restrictions of the GPL License. Click on Read More... to see what's new and download links.

Zoom Player Standard, a flexible feature rich Media Player that for all its features and goodness remains bloat-free. And Zoom Player Professional, which on top of being a great Media Player, incorporates the most powerful DVD Front-End you could imagine (and is even a few features you didn't think of imagining). Click on Read More... to see what's new and download links.

With DivX 5.1.1 Beta 1 we focused on squashing as many bugs as possible while at the same time incorporating the requested changes and improvements we received. With DivX 5.1 the majority of users agreed that DivX 5.1 was the best DivX Codec release *ever* in terms of "best quality", however it was at the sacrifice of some speed.
DivX 5.1.1 Beta 1 is 50% faster than DivX 5.1 and 12% faster than DivX 5.0.5. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link.

Freeware VirtualDub is a video capture and processing program. It features fast capturing, process files larger than the 2 gigabyte limit, optimized for linear editing, support for Motion-JPEG, MPEG-1 video and layer 3 audio, real-time and near-realtime video processing, video job queues, and much more.

Thanks to Tim @ Majorgeeks.com for the news that Nero has updated the following Tools:

Nero CD Speed 2.10 Nero InfoTool 2.07

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and currently runs 1800+ classic (and even some not so classic) arcade games! Believe it or not, MAME now even runs Neo Geo Games! There are two version of MAME:

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While using your computer, you may receive a window from the Messenger Service with an advertisement. This occurs even after Ad-aware has removed all detected objects, and none remain on the computer.

D-Force MobileMod 4 can automatically read an ATI driver INF file (Windows 2000 or XP format), see if it supports mobile cards, and if it doesn't, write the neccesary keys.

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Just got word from Edskes at Betas.intercom.net that QuickTime Alternative 1.20 and Real Alternative 1.10 are out! QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player.

AMDBoard.com reports that a Japanese software called CrystalCPUID is becoming the star of some threads, thanks to a new integrated feature, named LoveHammer, said to be able to change Athlon 64's, and also some Athlon XP, multiplier directly under Windows! It seems that this is only possible with AMD processors that have the Cool'n'quiet feature included. Get CrystalCPUID here and, as usual, use it at your own risk !

The K-Lite Codec Pack contains everything you need to be able to playback the most popular audio and video formats. The basic version contains all the codecs that are needed for playing most movies that can be downloaded from the Internet. The full version has some extra codecs which are used less often and includes a media player.

Visual Boy Advance is a Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows systems. There are two versions available: DirectX and SDL.

'DVD Identifier' retrieves and interprets the pre-recorded information that is present on all DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R/-RW Media. This information contains a variety of parameters such as disc manufacturing information and supported write speeds. All this information is especially useful for uniquely identifying discs when comparing the quality of different discs. Since the packaging of a disc is not a reliable way of identifying it (e.g. different brands can still have the same manufacturer and some discs don't even have any labeling whatsoever) "DVD Identifier" now offers a 100% reliable method to distinguish between discs.

Thanks to Dreamer at Savagenews.com for the Info:

Zone Labs® IMsecure Pro is the first comprehensive instant messaging (IM) security solution for any program that accesses the most popular IM services such as AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. IMsecure Pro ensures that IM conversations are private and secure, protecting PCs and valuable personal information from spammers, identity thieves, hackers and predators who exploit vulnerable IM connections.