Happy New Year!

Engine Updates

EveAnn 1.72 (WB)
Win32
http://webs.ono.com/a.valverde/eveann.htm

Raffaela 2.1.3 (WB)
own GUI; Win32
http://www.linformatica.com/index-scacchi.php

SmarThink 1.50 (WB/UCI)
Win32/64; formerly commercial
genes1s.net/smarthink.html (homepage)
http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm (SDChess download)

Chess News

Arena 3.5 (WB/UCI)
free Chess GUI with glitzy appearance, w/ 6 engines, GUI opening books, GUI egtb, & more
http://www.playwitharena.com/ (homepage)
http://www.playwitharena.com/?Download:Arena_3.5 (download)

Rodent opening book
- new Polyglot book is released
http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/rodent_download.htm

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Lucas Chess: updated link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Endgame Tablebases and Bitbases List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- RobboBases: added another link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:egtbs_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

BitComet 1.37
free peer-to-peer file-sharing for Windows32/64; compatible with BitTorrent
http://www.bitcomet.com/

FreeFileSync 6.1
open source Win32/64 & Linux folder comparison and synchronization tool; recommended
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

Jenkins 1.546
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Kingsoft Office Free 2013 v9.1.0.4480
cross-platform office suite composed of word processor, spreadsheet and presentation manager,
PDF converter; spell check; imports Word doc & docx files
http://www.ksosoft.com/product/office-free.html

Notepad++ 6.5.3
open source programmer's editor (Windows only)
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

phpMyAdmin 4.1.3
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Puppy Linux "Quirky 6.1"
Puppy is a popular (#10) and easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
- Precise Puppy is binary-compatible with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1
- Wary Puppy is intended to run on older hardware
- Racy Puppy is a mod of Wary Puppy, supporting the newest machines
- Slacko Puppy can use Puppy, Slackware, Salix, or Slacky software repositories
- Quirky Puppy is built from Wary and Racy and is very experimental
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00036 (about)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91086 (discussion)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/x86/quirky-6.1/release-Quirky-6.1.htm (announcement)

Siduction 13.2.0
Linux distro based on Debian (Unstable); desktops: GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, Razor-qt, Xfce; #84 in popularity
http://siduction.org/

USBDeview 2.28
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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