Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

WinBoard 4.7.0 (WB/UCI)
XBoard 4.7.0 (WB/UCI)
open source Chess GUI maintained and improved by HG Muller
this version has spectator support for pending CCT tournament
- exclusion of moves from analysis
- analysis with two egines at once
- annotating multi-game files with analysis results
- use of external piece bitmaps possible
- support of board themes for more fancy graphics (e.g. board rim)
- can be started by dropping a file on it (PGN, FEN, tourney, settings)
- pause function
- converting PGN files to opening book (experimental)
- building a book from scratch by Monte-Carlo play (experimental)
http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.7.0/index.html (more info)
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (source code for compiling binaries)
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.7.0.exe (latest exe direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Akkad homepage down for 65 days (not found)
Bestia homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
ChessPad homepage down today (not found)
Deep Saros homepage down for 65 days (not found)
JavaRival homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Lyapko Utilities page down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)

Warning: Inmi site has been hacked and is unsafe to visit
AVG antivirus: 'Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit [type 2371]'
Kaspersky antivirus: 'object is infected'

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

Adobe Reader 11.0.02
free PDF viewer
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows (Windows download)

Avant Browser 2013 Build 12
free Windows web browser designed to expand Internet Explorer features
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Blender 2.66
free, open source, cross-platform 3D content creation suite
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
http://www.blender.org/

FrostWire 5.5.4
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

Komodo Edit 8.0.0c1
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

MINIX 3.2.1
independent Unix-like distro; Desktop: EDE, JWM; #164 in popularity
- primarily a reference implementation, small enough for tiny computers, somewhat beta in nature
http://www.minix3.org/

NetBeans IDE 7.3
open source cross-platform IDE used primarily for Java-based programming languages;
(supportss C/C++, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, Groovy, etc.)
supports syntax highlighting, code completion, object browsing, refactoring, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
- latest release has some dark themes available
http://netbeans.dzone.com/articles/new-netbeans-dark-laf (dark themes)
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/73/ (new features info)
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB73 (highlights)
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)

PHP 5.4.12 Stable
PHP 5.3.22 Stable
PHP is a very popular and practical open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
http://php.net/ (homepage)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
independent distro; desktop: GNOME, KDE; #35 in popularity
http://www.redhat.com/

SeaMonkey 2.16
open source, all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

SystemRescueCd 3.4.1
bootable image for CD or USB stick to rescue data from HD; mount and read data from any disk;
features disk partitioning, LVM management, data copying, remote backup, more
http://www.sysresccd.org/

Thunderbird 17.0.3
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

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