Engine Updates

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Chess News

Chess for Android 4.1 (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free gui + chess engine for the Android
- ability to send SMS messages (PGN, FEN, UNICODE, engine analysis)
- ability to enable/disable built-in book (useful when imported engine book should be preferred)
- larger engine analysis font
- further localization and internationalization
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)

Friendly Chess 2.0
own GUI + native engine
http://www.vioreldarie.ro/Sah/FriendlyChess3.zip (direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 50 days (a 110mb.com site)
CCCP homepage down for 14 days (not found)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 535 days
GreKo homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 9 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 50 days (a 110mb.com site)

Wiki Changes

Engine GUI List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- re-alphabetized an out-of-order entry with multiple names
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_list

FACE Tournament
- Gerhard has updated the participants page
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

Native Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- new link to Garbochess-JS source code
- removed Drafty Chess Engine
- added Friendly Chess
- removed Myopic
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:native_engine_list

SMP Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added RyanFish
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:smp_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

Avant Browser 2012 Build 193
free Windows web browser designed to expand Internet Explorer features
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Avira AntiVir Personal 13.0.0.2890 Free
free; highly-rated antivirus product with very annoying pop-up ads accompanying virus signature updates
http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

BurnAware 5.5
CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc-burning software for Windows
- silent update, version number unchanged
http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html (info)
http://www.burnaware.com/downloads.html (download)

CDBurnerXP 4.5.0.3661
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)

Flash Player 11.5.502.135
free cross-platform flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/

GPartEd Live 0.14.1-1 Stable
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

Java 7, Update 10
Java 6, Update 38
update of Java runtime and development kit (JRE or JDK)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

LuninuX OS 12.10
Ubuntu-based Linux distro; customized GNOME desktop; #39 in popularity
http://luninuxos.com/

PDFCreator 1.6.1
free Windows tool to create PDF files from nearly any application
http://www.pdfforge.org/

qBittorrent 3.0.6
open source cross-platform Bittorrent client
http://www.qbittorrent.org/

SpiderOak 4.8.3
cross-platform online backup, file sync, and cloud-based sharing
- 2 GB of space for free
https://spideroak.com/

SQLite 3.7.15
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "is a regularly scheduled release"
- enhancements and bugfixes
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_15.html (changelog)

WordPress 3.5
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/ (homepage)
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/12/elvin/ (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

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

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