Engine Updates

Butterfly 0.5 (UCI)
C++ source; own GUI (Windows only); Win32/64, Linux32/64; perft with source also available; requires pthreads dll (included in download)
- added version with own chess GUI (Tarrasch)
- no update to engine
http://code.google.com/p/butterfly-chess-engine/downloads/list

Chess News

WinBoard 4.6.2 (WB/UCI)
the original Chess GUI
- this is a bugfix for the recently released 4.6.1 version
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html (new features)
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528 (Winboard forum download)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BBChess homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Bestia homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 296 days
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

Online Databases / Game Collections List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added 365Chess.com
- added a link for ChessBase Online Database
- added Chess Problem Database Server
- added Chess-Results.com
- added ChessTempo Chess Database
- removed Ed Schröder´s site Million Base (dead link)
- modified link for ICOfY Base
- added Lars Balzer´s website
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:online_databases_game_collections_list

Software For Solving Chess Problems / Puzzles / Endgame Studies
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added ICOfY CheckMate
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:software_for_solving_chess_problems

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

FreeBSD 8.3
BSD is the direct descendent of Unix; it comes with Gnome, KDE, LXDE and XFCE desktops
currently rated #13 in popularity at DistroWatch http://www.distrowatch.com
- this is an update to an older release
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.3R/announce.html (release announcement)
http://www.freebsd.org/ (homepage)

FrostWire 5.3.5
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

HWINFO32/HWINFO64 3.95-1600
free system hardware information tool for Windows, system health monitoring, and benchmarks
http://www.hwinfo.com/ (homepage)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html (download 32-bit)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download64.html (download 64-bit)

USBDeview 2.10
free utility to list all USB devices ever connected to computer; can uninstall any USB drivers local or remote
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html (homepage)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip (direct download)

µTorrent 3.1.3 stable (build 27081)
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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