Engine Updates

Deep Junior 13.3 (UCI)
commercial; mp; limit strength; Win32/64, Mac32/64
- free update for DJ 13 customers
http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-deep-junior.htm

DiscoCheck 3.6.1 (UCI)
C source; Win64, Linux64
- do_eval_pawns: do not apply the storm bonus to a blocked pawn
- parse_go: handle the "movestogo" parameter to the "go" command; now plays at tournament time controls
- gen_msl: for quiet moves from the main search and with a zero history score, postpone the ones that fall on squares attacked by enemy pawns
- search: increase the move count condition for double reduction at low depths
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/DoubleCheck.html (Leo page)

Chess News

Chess Engines for Android
- added DiscoCheck 3.5.1
- added DiscoCheck 3.6
- added PosForAndroid 1.2
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html

Chess for Android 3.3 (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)

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- updated PGN program: tagClean
- updated PGN program: ecoExtract
- reinstated program: eloRemove (formerly cleanElo)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Crafty down today (webkikr site: domain ownership has lapsed)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 372 days
DeepDuke homepage down today
Gaia homepage down today (server misconfigured)
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)

CookieCat & Myopic homepages are now considered dead, they will no longer be tracked.

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

Adblock Plus 2.1
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

AIMP 3.10 Build 1061
free audio player with audio converter, recorder, and tag editor; Internet radio & more
http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=lang&lng=en

Aptana Studio 3.2.0
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git intergration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/

Audacity 2.0.1
popular cross-platform, open source sound editor/recorder
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Autoruns 11.32
displays programs configured to run during system bootup or login, & the Windows processing order of these programs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

Avast! Free Antivirus 7.0.1451
free antivirus for Win32/64; the program is registerware: you must divulge your email address
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012.2193
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2012

Calibre 0.8.58
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

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)

CDBurnerXP 4.4.1.3243
open source CD / DVD / Blu-ray burning software for Win32/64; recommended
this program requires .NET framework; Media Format 9.0 update required if using WMA format
- be careful, you will want the version *without* the 'Open Candy' advertising
http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download (homepage)
http://cdburnerxp.se/download?more-options (download)

Cobian Backup 11.2.0.578
free multi-threaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

FreeFileSync 5.5
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

GCC 4.5.4
open source Gnu C/C++ Compiler for Linux
includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages
- this is a bugfix update to an older version
http://gcc.gnu.org/ (homepage)
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/ (announcement)

Ghostery 2.8 for Firefox
free browser addon; alerts you about web bugs, ad networks and tracking widgets
on every web page you visit; "See who's tracking your web browsing and block them"
http://www.ghostery.com/download

Groovy 2.0
open source jvm dynamic scripting language; it is a superset of the Java language
http://groovy.codehaus.org/ (homepage)

IKVM 7.1 RC 2
Java VM for Mono/.NET; enables Java code/libraries to be called by Mono/.NET languages, or develop Mono/.NET apps in Java
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.ikvm.net/ (homepage)
http://weblog.ikvm.net/ (announcement)

KeePass Password Safe Classic Edition 1.23
open source password manager; manage your passwords securely
Professional Edition requires .NET or Mono framework
Classic Edition has fewer features but is adequate; does not require .NET framework
http://keepass.info/
http://keepass.info/compare.html (compare Classic vs Professional)

MySQL Community Server 5.5.24
free (Community Server Edition only!), cross-platform, very popular open source SQL database
- the 5.5.25 release from May 30 has been reverted back to 5.5.24; most likely a serious bug has been discovered
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)

NetBeans IDE 7.2 RC 1
open source cross-platform IDE primarily for Java-based programming languages;
(supportss C/C++, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, Groovy, etc.)
supports normal syntax highlighting, code completion, namespace completion, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
- this is a *release candidate*
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)
http://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1558.html (annoucement)
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/72/ (new features info)

Oracle Linux 6.3
based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; #59 in popularity
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2012-June/002881.html (announcement)
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html

Process Explorer 15.21
displays information about which Windows handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

Task Coach 1.3.17
open source cross-platform desktop todo manager with task or calendar viewing, project tracking, etc
http://www.taskcoach.org/

TightVNC 2.5.2
cross-platform open source remote control software package;
you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard
http://www.tightvnc.com/

Ultimate Edition 3.4
based on Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME desktop; #12 in popularity
http://ultimateedition.info/

µTorrent 3.2 RC 8 (build 27547)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=115806 (3.2 forum thread)

VLC media player 2.0.2
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video)
http://www.videolan.org/

Wise Registry Cleaner 7.33
free registry cleaner; cleans incorrect or obsolete registry information
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html

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

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