Engine Updates

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Chess News

Crafty Chess Interface 9.0 (WB)
VB source; chess GUI for Crafty with nice wood board (requres VB6 run-time library)
- includes latest version of Crafty
http://nightmarechess.com/crafty/

Chess Programming Blogs

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Wiki Page Changes

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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 Flash Player 13.0.0.182
free cross-platform flash video player
- fixes some important security vulnerabilities
- Flash is the most common avenue of infection when computers become compromised
http://www.adobe.com/

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2014.4569
free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2014

DragonFly 3.6.2
a cutting-edge Linux distribution based on FreeBSD 4, enhanced with a high performance
HAMMER journaling filesystem; virtual kernels that are inherently deadlock-free;
desktops: Awesome, Fluxbox, JWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #87 in popularity
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ (homepage)
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/ (unique features)
http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/ (iso download)

FileZilla Server 0.9.44
open source, cross-platform ftp server
- most people do not require the server, just the client
http://filezilla-project.org/

Ghostery 5.2
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

Git 1.9.2
distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

Gosu 0.10-3
a Java-like programming language for the jvm featuring: OO, closures, inference, simplified generics, etc.
http://gosu-lang.org/

LibreOffice 4.2.3
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
- LibreOffice (Document Foundation), OpenOffice (Apache), and Lotus Symphony (IBM) are essentially the same
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

Network Scanner 5.5.9
Windows free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS & SNMP scanner; scans for listening TCP/UDP ports & displays shared network resource types
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

Trillian 5.4.0.16
open source instant messaging program
http://www.trillian.im/

Ultimate Edition 3.9
Ubuntu/Mint-based Linux distro; desktops: Awesome, MATE, GNOME, KDE; #19 in popularity
http://ultimateedition.info/

WordPress 3.8.2
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/ (homepage)

XAMPP 1.8.3-4 for Windows
XAMPP 1.8.2-5 for Windows
open source web-server (Apache), SQL database (MySQL) w/ admin, PHP, ftp server, Tomcat, & more
this is probably the easiest way to install a working, web-aware PHP into Windows
- silent update, version numbers unchanged but software bundle is updated
- there are important security updates included
- v1.8.2 runs on all versions of Windows since Win2003
- v1.8.3 will not run on Win2003 or WinXP
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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