Engine Updates

Cheng3 1.01 (UCI)
Win32
- hotfix for time management
http://www.mediafire.com/?1s0co5p65f5kdjt (direct link)

Chess News

Xboard 4.5.1 Installer for Mac OSX
new update compiled by 'Darklord42'
- this is a release of the newest available Xboard for the Mac
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mzx3imljec35g6g/Xboard%20hgmaster%20beta4-macintel.zip (direct link)

UCI Engines for Android
Aart Bik's free chess products for Android phone
- added GreKo 8.0 chess engine
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html

XBoard alpha news
by HG Muller
- Loading and installing engines through the menu (XB) aka: Loading a new engine at any time
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html (homepage)
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html#tag-C9 (new section)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 11 days (404: page not found)
Bearded homepage down for 69 days
Darmenios homepage down today (502: bad gateway)
Firefly homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Frenzee homepage down for 244 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Grizzly homepage down for 4 days (homepage is moving)
Sorgenkind homepage down for 110 days
Typhoon homepage down for 36 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Usurper homepage down for 109 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Omar homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- removed ChessGenius, it is not a WB engine
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Play Chess Online List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Caissa's Web
- added chessed
- added chess.net
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:play_chess_online_list

Variants Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Carolus Chess
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:variants_engine_list

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Warnings:

- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

FreeFileSync 3.16
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
- a quick bugfix for yesterday's release
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

Ghostery for Firefox 2.5.3
free browser addon; alerts you about web bugs, ad networks and tracking widgets
on every web page you visit; "See who's tracking your web browsing and block them"
- only the FireFox version is updated
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609/
http://www.ghostery.com/download

Groovy++ 0.4.214
open source jvm language; it appears to be a superset of the Java language
this is an extension to the standard Groovy jvm language; it supports better runtime efficiency using static typing
http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/downloads/list

Miranda IM 0.9.20
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

NetBeans IDE 7.0
open source cross-platform IDE for many programming languages; many, but not all, are Java-based
(includes Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, JavaFX, JavaScript, Ajax, Scala, Groovy, etc.)
supports normal syntax highlighting, code completion, namespace completion, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/ (release info)
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB70 (detailed info)

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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