PowerStrip 3.73

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PowerStrip 3.73 has been released with improved support for Microsoft Vista RC2, as well as an assortment of small enhancements and optimizations. 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 Edition of Windows XP and Vista.

Backup4all 3.6.235 Released

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Backup4all is a backup utility that protects your valuable data from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password protecting (AES encryption supported) and compressing it to save storage space. Using Backup4all you can easily backup to any local or network drive, backup to FTP (with support for SSL encryption, proxy server, passive mode), backup to CD/DVD, or other removable media (such as USB drives).

Google Earth 4.0.2416 Beta

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Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.

LAME v3.98 alpha 6

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This is a newer but beta release of LAME. LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder. The Open source development model allowed to improve its quality and speed since 1999. It is now an highly evolved MP3 encoder, with quality and speed able to rival state of the art commercial encoders.

AC3Filter 1.11

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AC3Filter is a high quality free DirectShow filter designed for real time audio decoding and processing. It has a priority on wide functionality and convenient settings. Filter can decode following audio formats: AC3/DTS/MPEG Audio. It also supports multi-channel and digital (SPDIF) outputs.

Xvid 1.1.2

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The Xvid video codec implements MPEG-4 Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile standards. It permits compressing and decompressing digital video in order to reduce the required bandwidth of video data for transmission over computer networks or efficient storage on CDs or DVDs.

nLite 1.2 Final Released - Win XP Reduction Tool

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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.

Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.0.0

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Nero CD-DVD Speed is a benchmark which can test the most important features of an optical drive. These tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times, CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage, Burst rate, DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) quality & Spinup/spindown time. It can also check the CD (Compact Disk) and DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) media quality.

FRAPS 2.8.1

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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.

Browser Hijack Retaliator 4.5.0.471

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Browser Hijack Retaliator is an anti Browser Hijack Software. Real-time protection for your Internet Explorer Home Page, Search Page, Search Bar and Favorites.

ATITool 0.25 Beta 16

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W1zzard has released a new version of his popular ATITool software. ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI and Nvidia video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.

VideoLan 0.8.6 Beta 1

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VideoLAN main goals is MPEG streaming on a network, but it also features a standalone multimedia player. The VideoLAN Server can stream video read from a hard disk, a DVD player, a satellite card or an MPEG 2 compression card, and unicast or multicast it on a network.

Rivatuner 2.0 RC 16.1 Released

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Guru3D released Rivatuner 2.0 RC 16.1 today and Alexey has been busy for sure ! RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters. The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options, flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware access modes, unique diagnostic and realtime hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner's feature set absolutely unmatched.

CPUCooL 7.3.8

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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.

FRAPS 2.8.0

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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.

CCleaner 1.34.407

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CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool that removes unused and temporary files from your system, allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space.

EVEREST 3.50

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Upgrade to the latest version of EVEREST to own the most accurate and powerful system diagnostics solution by getting up-to-date hardware information databases, support for the latest graphics processors and motherboard chipsets.

Real Alternative 1.51

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Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player from Real Networks. Supported are: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt) and ReadPix (.rp). It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.

AutoPatcher XP October 2006

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AutoPatcher XP October 2006 has been released! AutoPatcher XP is an installation package designed to get your Windows system up to date quick and easily for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003.

Skype 2.5.0.151

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Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users. Not to share files, but to talk with them for free. The technology is extremely advanced, but very simple and easy to use. You will be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends all over the world in no time using your computers sound card, speakers and microphone.

OpenGL Extension Viewer 2.27

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Many OpenGL extensions, as well as extensions to related APIs like GLU, GLX, and WGL, have been defined by vendors and groups of vendors.The extension registry is maintained by SGI and contains specifications for all known extensions, written as modifications to the appropriate specification documents.

Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Computer Case Review @ Tweaknews.net

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Zalman's association with Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel has yielded yet another outstanding product. The FC-ZE1 Champion Series computer enclosure is a superb chassis with great aesthetics and the performance to back it up. The design, quality, craftsmanship and materials brought to bear in the creation of this chassis are second to none and culminate in a product that is, in my opinion, without peer.

DVD Identifier 5.0.1

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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.

BitComet 0.74

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BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.

SpeedFan 4.31

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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.

RightMark 3DSound 2.3

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RightMark 3DSound is a sound test, which has the following features: DirectSound-diagnostics: the conclusion is hardware supported functions for the selected DirectSound-device; check of presence of EAX1, EAX2, EAX3, EAX5 support; subjective test of DirectSound3D positioning, with vertical plane support; EAX2, EAX3 reverb, occlusions and obstructions;

Backup4all 3.5 released

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Backup4all is a backup utility that protects your valuable data from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password protecting (AES encryption supported) and compressing it to save storage space. Using Backup4all you can easily backup to any local or network drive, backup to FTP (with support for SSL encryption, proxy server, passive mode), backup to CD/DVD, or other removable media (such as USB drives).

novaPDF 4.2 Released

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novaPDF Pro is a pdf creator for Windows that allows you to easily create high-quality searchable PDF files. Using novaPDF, everyone from novice users to professionals, can instantly create high-quality PDF files, by simply selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application.

AGEIA RealityMark Released

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AGEIA RealityMark is a new tool which demonstrates the feature and performance value of AGEIA PhysX in a physics-intensive gameplay environment. It?s designed to illustrate how next-generation game design uses the power of the PhysX processor to enable leading-edge, physically interactive gameplay elements which were not possible until now.

Trojan Remover 6.5.3

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Trojan Remover was written to aid in the removal of Trojan Horses and Internet Worms when standard anti-virus software has either failed to detect the problem or is unable to effectively eliminate it.

ClockGen 1.0.5.0

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The ClockGen serie consists in a set of overclocking softwares, each of them being dedicated to one or several motherboards. A ClockGen software allow to dynamically overclock several devices of your system : CPU, memory, AGP and PCI bus. ClockGen is compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000 and XP.

AC3Filter 1.10b

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AC3Filter is a high quality free DirectShow filter designed for real time audio decoding and processing. It has a priority on wide functionality and convenient settings. Filter can decode following audio formats: AC3/DTS/MPEG Audio. It also supports multi-channel and digital (SPDIF) outputs.

DivX 6.4 Final

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DivX 6 is available through two new product bundles: the DivX 6 Play Bundle and the DivX 6 Create Bundle. The DivX 6 Play Bundle contains everything you need to playback all types of DivX video, including the new DivX Media Format. The DivX 6 Create Bundle contains the DivX codec and DivX Converter.

nLite 1.2 RC Released - Win XP Reduction Tool

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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.

CPU-Z 1.37

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CPU-Z is a diagnostic tool that provides information on your CPU, including: processor name and vendor, core stepping and process, processor package, internal and external clocks, clock multiplier, partial overclock detection, processor features, supported instructions sets, L1 and L2 cache information, location, size, speed, and technology.

SpeedFan 4.30

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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.

VistaBootPRO 3.1 Beta Released

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The PROnetworks Betas Team and Staff are pleased to let everyone know that VistaBootPRO, the original program developed by our PROnetworks Betas Team and the Beta Testing Forum, is now available for download! Thanks to all the suggestions from our members and users, we have completely redesigned VistaBootPRO version 3 to incorporate the features you have asked for, and due to some great feedback this latest version 3.1 includes some updated fixes. Written using Microsoft C# for added reliability and stability, VistaBootPRO 3 now includes built-in diagnostics to help find and correct errors in the BCD store, a more comprehensive view of current settings, and a number of new utilities and advanced options. VistaBootPRO 3.1 offers full support for the latest builds, including RC1 (Build 5600) and Build 5728.

Overclock, Benchmark, Diagnostic Software and Tools Roundup

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OCInside.de has a new roundup online with dozens of small Tools and programs to tune, benchmark and test the PC hardware. Beside important current programs to change the CPU multiplier or FSB there are also some selected older Shareware and Freeware Tools, which will help to overclock the PC hardware. The overview contains direct Downloads or links to the developers, a small description and the size of the respective software.

DivX Codec 6.4 Beta 1

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DivX 6.4 is almost ready and there are several cool new features coming soon to a codec near you, including: support for 1080HD encoding, faster multipass encoding, better compression when using the internal resize, adaptive noise reduction, and more.

MAME v0.109

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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:

ATI Tray Tools 1.2.6.940

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Ray Adams has released a new version of his tweaker for Radeon cards: ATI Tray Tools 1.2.6.940

NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v3.0a Released @ MVKTech

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MVKTech has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and defenitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts to have full control over advanced features and functionality found on firmware on supporting cards. This to gain some extra performance, enable hidden features and extra stability on the NVIDIA graphics cards.

nvFlash v5.38 Available @ MVKTech

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A new version of NVIDIA Firmware Update Utility (nvFlash) has been released and it currently available at MVKTech. This utility is made by NVIDIA and is used to backup and flash the BIOS of your GeForce 6 & 7 series graphics accelerators.

Skype 2.5.0.146

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Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users. Not to share files, but to talk with them for free. The technology is extremely advanced, but very simple and easy to use. You will be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends all over the world in no time using your computers sound card, speakers and microphone.

Daemon Tools 4.06 Released

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DAEMON Tools is an application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running backup copies of SafeDisc, Securom or Laserlock protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD.

nLite 1.2 Beta Released - Win XP Reduction Tool

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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.