Update Information: June 4, 2012 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Delphil 2.9d (UCI)
Win32; mp
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdelp...
Chess News
Checkers for Android 2.6
from Aart Bik
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (download)
Chess for Android 3.2 (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)
Protools 1.3 Beta
by Ed Schröder
- for programmers or high-tech testers only
- this is a DOS only release
http://www.top-5000.nl/prodeodos.htm
Reversi for Android 2.5
from Aart Bik
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (download)
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Chad's Chess homepage down for 36 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 343 days
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Tony Mokonen download page down for 7 days (Tony's engine site is fine)
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
C Containers Library
C library to perform STL-like duties (containers, iterators, etc) with nice usage syntax
this is a proposed addition to the standard C library
- silent update, no version change (no version numbering at all)
http://code.google.com/p/ccl/downloads/list (download)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ccl/ccl.html (usage doc in html)
http://code.google.com/p/ccl/downloads/detail?name=ccl.pdf (usage doc in pdf)
Firefox 13.0
popular, free, open source browser; recommended!
- not 'officially' released until tomorrow
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-13.0&os=win&lang=en-US (direct link)
NetWorx 5.2.3
free network traffic (bandwidth) monitor & usage reporting w/ real-time graphs
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/
PostgreSQL 9.1.4
open source SQL database for high performance and high availability applications
http://www.postgresql.org/ (homepage)
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/ (announcement)
µTorrent 3.1.3 stable (build 27327)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=115600 (3.1.3 forum thread)
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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