Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Opening books by Pawel Sekowski
Morphius_2012.9C
- Polyglot opening book
http://sekoschess.blogspot.com/p/chess-books.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 439 days
Mizar homepage down for 10 days ("domain has expired")
PolarChess homepage down for 4 days (404 error - not found)
Tornado homepage down for 18 days (programmer has purposely removed his page)

Wiki Changes

Mobile Chess List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Chess Champ for iPhone / iPad
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_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

Calibre 0.8.68
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/

Firefox 15.0.1
popular, free, open source browser; recommended!
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Ghostery 2.8.2 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

MariaDB 5.5.27 Stable
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra db engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5527-release-notes (release notes)

Notepad2 5.0.26 Beta 1
open source Win32/64 Notepad replacement based on Scintilla w/ syntax highlighting for many languages
- this is a *beta* version (32 bit only)
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html (homepage & downloads)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad2/ (project page)

VirtualBox 4.1.22
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install several guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog (changelog)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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