Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 59 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 74 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 50 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 74 days (502 error: bad gateway)
Hamsters homepage down for 38 days (not found)
Houdini homepage down today (commercial site)
Kiwi homepage down for 38 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 74 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 58 days (a multimania site)
Spark homepage down for 50 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 5 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 59 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 139 days (not found)

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

MySQL Community Server 5.6.14
free (Community Server Edition only!), cross-platform, very popular open source SQL database
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)

NetBeans IDE 7.4, RC 1
open source cross-platform IDE used primarily for Java-based programming languages;
(supports 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
- this is a *release candidate*
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)

PHP 5.5.4 Stable
PHP is a very popular and practical open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
http://php.net/ (homepage)

Tails 0.20.1
Debian-based Linux32 distro; GNOME desktop; #36 in popularity
distro has the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user
https://tails.boum.org/

USBDeview 2.27
free Win32/64 utility to list all USB devices ever connected to computer; can uninstall any USB drivers local or remote
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html (homepage)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip (direct download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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