XviD is a video codec just like DivX. Most new movies and videos are being encoded with XviD.
The XviD Codec is needed to play movies encoded by XviD.

VCDGear is a tool written to effortlessly extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VideoCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, create (Super)VideoCDs and more!

PowerStrip 3.56 has been released, adding support for the latest GPUs from NVidia and XGI, a custom resolution designer to assist in eliminating overscan on HD displays, and improved EIA/CEA-861B timings. Year after year, it continues to be the only program of its type to provide driver-independent hardware support to multiple graphics cards from multiple vendors, under every OS from the original retail release of Windows 95 to the latest 64-bit Editions of Windows 2003 and XP.

Advanced X VideoConverter is a comprehensive Windows video tool that makes it easy to convert, join, and split movies among AVI, MPEG (MPEG1, MPEG2), WMV, ASF, VCD (DAT), SVCD, DVD formats. It can also extract audio track and images from any movie.

A-Ray Scanner is new protection scanner. It is able to detect many new protections such as StarForce, TAGES, SafeDisc, Securom, ProtectCD, Slovak Protector and many others.

Thanks to Tim at Majorgeeks for the Heads Up!

Lost your Windows XP Product Key? The Product Key Editor allows you to view any Windows XP Product Key instantly. Also, the Product Key Editor will allow you to change any Volume License Product Key. Unlike other Product Key applications, Product Key Editor works with Windows Service Pack 2.

ASUS SmartDoctor is designed to satisfy two major goals. One is to monitor graphic chip Status, altering users about abnormal events, such as fan malfunction or chip overheat. The other, as the name SmartDoctor implies, is to cool down the graphic chip smartly when it is not necessary for it to be kept running at full speed. SmartDoctor2 includes AGP Power Level Monitoring, Fan RPM Monitoring, Overheated protection, Smartcooling technology, and Manual Overclocking.

BitTornado is a powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client which provides not only full BitTorrent protocol implementation but also many personalization functions. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol designed to transfer files.

thecaretaker over at The Caretakers' Website has just updated his Tweaks Page. The Tweaks Page is a list of useful tools and utilities to keep your computer safe, free from viruses and running smoothly. All these programs are freeware (apart from 2) and free from Adware/Spyware.

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitoring chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.

HDD Network Temperature Beta 1 has been released! It's a hard-drive temperature monitoring software for corporate networks, developed by PalickSoft! !

The utility checks and monitors the temperature of all your networked hard drives to help prevent data loss. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern hard disks, this program analyzes and show its current temperature. You can setup maximum value of drive temperature and in case of overheating HDD Temperature can display warning message. System administrators can setup e-mail address or computer name for e-mail and network messages about overheating.

Burn4Free is a freeware, simple to use and powerful (video, audio, data, mp3, wav, wma, ogg, cd, dvd) free dvd burner integrated with Windows Explorer.

HijackThis is a general homepage hijackers detector and remover. It scans for all objects which may be affiliated with Web Browser activity. StartList scans the system for all objects that are in all startup sections of the registry. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites.

CPUFSB is a small version of CPUCooL. It is for changing the FrontSideBus only. So you have a small tool only one of the the most important freatures of CPUCooL. Changing the FrontSideBus enables you to set the frequency of your CPU up to the limits.

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, tested with SP2 build 2180. To avoid confusion, this is for pre-installation, not like XPlite which is post installation customizer.

Nic's XviD Codec is a video codec just like DivX. Most new movies and videos are being encoded with XviD. The XviD Codec is needed to play movies encoded by XviD. XviD is better than DivX.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

DVDFab lets you make perfect quality DVD movie backups the smart way! Backup your entire DVD - including menus, trailers, and special features - on one or multiple discs.

HWiNFO32 v1.50 has been released. The following changes have been made:

- Added nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Go, Quadro FX Go1400 and GeForce 6200.

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.