ICQ Lite is pure messaging: It includes only the most popular features of ICQ, such as instant messaging, file transfer, SMS and meeting people, for super-quick communication. Because it's so small and has everything good about the full-featured ICQ made easy, it's the perfect version to send to your friends and get them on ICQ. It is a new experimental version of the ICQ software.

Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the average framerate between two points.

FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

DVD Region+CSS Free enables you to watch and copy any region CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any DVD drive! It fully supports region-protected (RPC2) DVD drives, and does not require any firmware modifications. It will work, even if you can not change the DVD drive's region anymore. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link.

Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the average framerate between two points.

Gordian Knot started out as a simple bitrate calculator for DivX encoding but has evolved to become an integrated package or tool for the entire process of DivX/XviD encoding.

Gordian Knot contains facilities to do pretty much anything you need in terms of video encoding:

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

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AutoGK comes with almost all that you'll need to create excellent quality backups of your DVDs. This program puts the VOB files onto your hard drive, and in the process breaks the encryption and Macrovision protection which DVDs have, and which is illegal in many countries. You'll have to get it and install it yourself.

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SP2004 uses a redesigned user interface that calls Version 23 Prime95's torture test code. This should provide the same results as Prime95, displayed in a different manner. SP2004 provides: easily-visible test status, time-related test status, log window text that can be copied! Changes include: Hyper-Threading Technology detection, minor improvements and bugfixes.

One click DVD backup tool that uses CinemaCraft Encoder Basic/SP or QuEnc(ffmpeg) encoder or ReJig transcoder engine. This tool helps you to do a full dvd backup(movie, extras, menus) of your DVD9s to one DVDR using one of the best video encoder available, CinemaCraft Encoder.

The program is designed to identify the clock ratio locking for AMD processors based on Barton, Thorton, Thoroughbred and Applebred cores. Besides, it determines hidden major and minor revisions of the processor core and its possible marking.

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The tweaking and optimizing software for Windows® XP. Unlike other tweaking utilities, Tweak-XP? Pro bundles more than 42 different utilities in one: all you need for Windows® XP.

Guru3D have released a new version of their tweak tool called nVHardPage. If you seek an easy way to en/disable overclocking options or vsync option in your Detonator drivers without the burden of importing registry entries or the need to go in that registry yourself then get it. Basically CoolBits and more at your fingertips.

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.

Vitaliy Jungle, has released a small tool called PRCNM! It is designed to quickly change the Name String of AMD Athlon XP processors and AMD Duron processors with CPUID 680h when Windows starts. Just create a shortcut to PRCNM and place it into the Startup folder.

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Messenger Plus! is an add-on for MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger, the two popular Instant Messaging softwares from Microsoft. Messenger Plus! adds different features to Messenger to make it more enjoyable, day after day. A list of the main features can be found on the features section of this site. Remember that Messenger Plus! is not a chat program, it only adds functionalities to Messenger, it can't be used as a standalone application. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link.

Plextor Europe is proud to announce a new release of the PlexTools software. You can use PlexTools for instance to get more information on your drive, tweak its settings and besides that you can use it to play audio discs (with support for CD-Text) and of course you can use PlexTools to copy CD's or to make your own audio compilations with.

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.

G-Force is a real-time audio visualization plugin for audio players and can also operate as a stand-alone screensaver that accepts "line-in" audio. G-Force features fast anti-aliased effects, thousands of possible effect combinations, savable and scriptable effects, QuickTime services, and unparalleled expandability.

Mainly, it's a little bit of a slipstreamer, customizer, reducer and iso creator all in one package. Works for every version of Windows XP installation, so far tested up to slipsteamed SP2 build 2135. To avoid confusion, this is for pre-installation, not like XPlite which is post installation customizer.