Battery Eater Pro 2.51 has been released! Battery Eater is a handy little program, which measures battery life of your notebook computer. During the test it heavily loads CPU, RAM, HDD and videocard. Additionally, the program shows system information, which includes AC status, battery name, type and manufacturer, CPU, RAM and display info, etc.

This innovative software enables you to watch and copy any region-coded/CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any DVD drive!

Macecraft Software has announced the newest version of the jv16 PowerTools PC utility product. jv16 PowerTools 2005 is a complete toolkit to maximize the performance of any PC. The program allows users to remove all traces of previously uninstalled software, to clean the computer's Windows registry for optimal performance and stability, and to fix many registry-based problems with a single mouse click. The ultra-streamlined multilingual user interface allows the software to be used in all major languages.

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.

A new version of HWiNFO32 has been released.
Changes in v1.52:

Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player.

QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.

First 4th iteration of the finest MP3 encoder you can use. Been waiting a long time for version 4 and it's here to try.

Media Player Classic is an enhanced version of Windows Media Player 6.4. This program can play DVDs with help of external decoders like WinDVD and it can also play Realmedia files, if realplayer one is installed. The best part about this program is the ability to modify the filters when playing your favorite video.

X-Setup Pro 7 now uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) for all main files it supports: plugins, wizards and translations. Not only is this a logical step, since every application will use XML in the near future, it also improves X-Setup Pro in several ways.

Are you an IT professional, an overclocker, a gamer, a desktop modder? If so, you've come to the right place. Samurize provides all the information you need about all your computers in one central location on your desktop. Skinnable and customizable, Samurize features a script plugin system which allows you to add the information you want, when you want it.

This innovative software enables you to watch and copy any region-coded/CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any DVD drive!

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.

BSplayer is windows player for playing back avi/asf/mpeg video files. It can also display subtitles. Also available are different skins for this player. Please note that this is a general multimedia player for playing back AVI files.

Most of the regulars coming to Driverheaven.net will be aware of the fact we run a custom Photoshop benchmark in all of our motherboard and memory hardware reviews. Today we are releasing the new overhauled V2, which offers full compatibility with V7 and the newest CS version. The V2 benchmark will be now featuring in our forthcoming reviews and is a fantastic real world test of cpu power and memory bandwidth. I have been using Photoshop since 1990 on the Macintosh and have taught many users how to unleash the versatility of this incredible application.

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.

OpenGL Extension Viewer 2.16 has been released! OpenGL Extension Viewer is a utility that reports information about the OpenGL driver of your 3D accelerator like OpenGL capabilities, OpenGL graphics contexts and display modes. The information can be saved to a report (TXT or XML).
New in this version: automated software update and database retrieval, revised Core revision checking, minor improvements, etc.

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.

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.

DVD Audio Extractor is a powerful software DVD audio extracting / ripping tool. It can help you to extract audio streams from your favorite DVDs and save them as OGG, MP3 or Wave files. DVD Audio Extractor can also demux audio streams directly to pcm, mpa, ac3 or dts files.