Engine Updates
Nothing new today

Chess News

Chess for Android 3.0.3 (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android phone
- bugfix release
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html

Scid On The Go 1.22 for Android
Scid database browser ported to the Android by Gerhard Kalab
http://code.google.com/p/scidonthego/

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Asterisk homepage down for 39 days
ChessMaster homepage down today ("website is currently undergoing maintenance")
Damas homepage down for 78 days ("Free Web Hosting Discontinued")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 168 days

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

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

Audacity 1.3.14 Beta
popular cross-platform, open source sound editor/recorder
this is a *beta* release
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Avira AntiVir Personal 12.0.0.870 Free
free; highly-rated antivirus product (nagware); recommended
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

BitComet 1.31
free peer-to-peer file-sharing for Windows32/64; compatible with BitTorrent
http://www.bitcomet.com/

Puppy Linux 'Slacko Puppy 5.3.1'
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
Puppy is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution for Windows users. Recommended.
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
- Slacko Puppy "binary compatibility with Slackware 13.37 packages, and access to the Slackware package repositories"
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-5.3.1/release-Slacko-5.3.1.htm (details)
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news & download)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)

WordPress 3.3
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/ (homepage)
http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/ (announcement)

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

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