BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.

If the previous Converter Labs release gave you happy joy joy feelings you should really like this beta update! We've been chugging along and making some more improvements over these past few weeks, and stay tuned as there are more to come, but we couldn't resist the pleasure to share current enhancements...

DivX Labs

We ended last year in style with the launch of the DivX 6.1 codec, including better performance and full support for HT, SMP, and dual core processors. Today, we're happy to announce the release of a new codec update with fixes for a handful of issues discovered since the original release.

Mainly, it's a little bit of a slipstreamer, customizer, reducer and iso creator all in one package. Works for every version of Windows XP installation, tested with SP2 build 2180. To avoid confusion, this is for pre-installation, not like XPlite which is post installation customizer.

Ray Adams has released a new version of his tweaker for Radeon cards: ATI Tray Tools 1.0.5.815

novaPDF Pro is a pdf creator for Windows that allows you to easily create high-quality searchable PDF files. Using novaPDF, everyone from novice users to professionals, can instantly create high-quality PDF files, by simply selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application.

DC++ is an open source client for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the internet without restrictions or limits. The client is completely free of advertisements and has a nice, easy to use interface. Firewall and router support is integrated and it?s easy and convenient to use functionality like multi-hub connections, auto connections and resuming of downloads.

Driver Cleaner Professional Editon is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI, nVidia, Creative, Realtek, SIS, 3Dfx, S3 and more drivers.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

FlameRobin is an open source, lightweight and cross-platform GUI administration and management tool for Firebird

KeePass Password Safe is a free/open-source password safe or manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

Beta Intercom

There's a new beta of nHancer available. This test version adds support for the new anti-aliasing modes introduced with the 7800GTX (transparent AA and gamma corrected AA). In addition, the new options nVidia added to their profiles in the latest drivers are also supported now. This enables SLI users to fine tune games with the new OpenGL option bits and the new "Dynamic Tiling Mode" option.

nHancer 2.0 first beta

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and currently runs 1800+ classic (and even some not so classic) arcade games! There are two version of MAME:

DAEMON Tools is an application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running backup copies of SafeDisc, Securom or Laserlock protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD.

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.

XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let's you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP.

The HardwareOC Quake 4 Benchmark is an easy-to-use tool, that makes video card benchmarking fast and easy. You can select different resolutions, detail levels and much much more by one click. After that, you can sit back and relax, while the computer does its job, there is no need for any intervention. When all the tests are completed, you get the results prepared and ordered in HTML format in a second.

XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec. It's no product, it's an open source project which is developed and maintained by lots of people from all over the world.

W1zzard has released a new version of his popular ATITool software. ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI and Nvidia video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.

IsoBuster lets you explore a CD's File System while by-passing Windows. This way you get better Error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the data anyway (or at least partially). Starting with version 1.2, the program has some PRO features for which you must pay. The classic functions can still be used for free, though.