Engine Updates

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Chess News

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Down/Problem Chess Websites

Chad's Chess homepage down for 33 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 340 days
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Tony Mokonen download page down for 4 days (404 Error: not found)

Wiki Changes

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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)

Eclipse 4.2 RC 3
Eclipse 3.8 RC 3
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- these are *release candidates*
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.8RC3-201205310600/ (3.8 RC 3)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.2RC3-201205311500/ (4.2 RC 3)

FreeFileSync 5.4
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

Groovy 2.0 RC 2
open source jvm dynamic scripting language; it is a superset of the Java language
- this is a *release candidate*
http://groovy.codehaus.org/ (homepage)

Jython 2.7 Alpha 2
Python language for Java platform (runs on jvm)
- this is an *alpha* release
http://www.jython.org/

Maxthon 3.3.9.1000
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/

µTorrent 3.1.3 stable (build 27237)
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)

Visual Studio 2012 RC 1
- most of the new improvements are intended for web development
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudio2012RCIsReleasedTheBigWebRollup.aspx (announcement)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=240160

Meaning of Colors

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

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