Engine Updates

Chesley the Chess Engine 282 (WB)
no build for this version yet
latest builds: 278(Win32/64), 241(Mac)
- Implement very simple Knight outpost eval
- Implement very simple pawn shield eval
- Use gcc popcount builtin
- Bump version number to 1.11
- Fix error in previous commit
- Minor optimization when looping over pieces
- Make some static members of Board global
- Bump version to 1.1.2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/

Tiffanys 0.5 (WB)
with Java source
no download yet, need to grab source directly from repository
old version had built-in GUI that could not be disabled, this might still be true
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiffanys/
http://tiffanys.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tiffanys/trunk/dev/ (browse source)

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 48 days
Blitzter site down today (hosted by Microsoft Office Live Small Business)
Pierre site down for 81 days
BabyChess site back up
Dann Corbit site back up
ZebraChess site back up

Bonus Notifications (free stuff)

Google Earth 5.1.3506 Beta
Free. "Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery,
maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of
the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places,
and share with others. "
http://earth.google.com/

QuickTime Player 7.64.17.73
Free. Apple media player. Download with or without iTunes software.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/

Puppy 4.3 Beta 3
Open source, easy-to-learn Linux distribution. Boots from a CD.
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
http://puppylinux.org/