Engine Updates

Mephisto Gideon Professional 1993 (WB/UCI)
old DOS program is newly ported to Windows by Ed Schröder
- a small donation is requested
http://www.top-5000.nl/rebel.htm (old DOS version)
http://www.top-5000.nl/donationware.htm (new version)

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 418 days
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Dabbaba: added a comment
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

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

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.5.0.5
free, extremely fast and effective disk defragmentation & optimization program; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

Auslogics Registry Cleaner 2.4.0.5
free Windows registry optimizer/cleaner; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/

Calibre 0.8.65
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/

.NET Framework Version 4.5
Microsoft .NET framework has been updated
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2012/08/15/visual-studio-2012-and-net-4-5-now-available.aspx (announcement)
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

PostgreSQL 9.1.5
open source SQL database for high performance and high availability applications
http://www.postgresql.org/ (homepage)
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1407/ (announcement)

ROSA 2012 RP 1
Linux distro based on Mandriva; choice of GNOME, KDE or LXDE desktop; #27 in popularity
http://www.rosalinux.com/

SolusOS 1.2
Linux distro based on Debian with Gnome 2 desktop; #23 in popularity
http://solusos.com/

Visual Studio 2012 Express
Microsoft's free compiler and IDE
- this version is aimed at web and Win8 development
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

Wise Registry Cleaner 7.43
free registry cleaner; cleans incorrect or obsolete registry information
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html

Meaning of Colors

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

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