Rage3D have updated their tweak tool again. Here's what they're saying.

Well, it's been quite some time since our last tweaker release, but we have implemented some massive updates to the tweaker. I won't list all the updates here as you'll find many of them on the Rage3D Tweak web page. However, I will say that we've rewritten some of the OC code, added numerous tweaks, vastly updated the custom display and refresh rate interface and support, and flushed all the bugs out of overclocking cards within XP... and that's just a few of the updates.

Here's some tools. 1) Vopt XP 7.02 Why you should use VoptMe - when there are other disk defraggers? Fast - Saves more time than it spends. Safe - Builds a new copy of your valuable data before it unlinks the original. Easy - You can ask it to defrag automatically, daily or weekly. Powerful - Includes great tools for checking your system and cleaning-up unwanted trash. 2) DriverMAGIC Lite 1.0.0.0 is an unique and innovative solution to almost all driver problems experienced by PC hardware consumers. 3) pcInternet Patrol 17 is a managed Internet security subscription program, a product supported with service, that provides real time security solutions 24/7. It provides maximum protection with minimum user involvement. 4) SpyStopper 1.75 Block intrusive spyware, Web bugs, worms, cookies, advertisements, and scripts. Protect you from being profiled and tracked. 5) R-Studio 2.0 is a family of powerful and cost-effective data recovery and undelete utilities. Empowered by the new unique data recovery technologies, it is the most comprehensive solution for data recovery from FAT12/16/32, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by Windows 2000) and Ext2FS (LINUX file system) partitions.

CPUCooL is a program that monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards. It works with all chipsets from Intel, ALI, VIA, AMD, and SIS 5595 motherboards.

1) This is a newer version of the XMPEG, but still in early stages of development. XMPEG is a modification version of FlaskMPEG. This program decodes MPEG1 (Audio & Video) and MPEG2 streams and offers you the possibilty to reencode theses streams in the format you want. Actual evolutions makes this XMPEG faster, more stable, and add a lot of options.

2) BSPlayer v0.84 beta build 481 is a Windows player for playing back avi/asf/wmv/mpeg video files or any other file for which you have a codec.

3) Exact Audio Copy v0.9 beta 3 is an audio grabber that works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly.

PowerStrip 3.15 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP. A simple menu that pops up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including sophisticated color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls.

Found some tools: 1) CPUBENCH 2.2 This program will measure the MFLOPS and MIPS of your CPU which is useful for making a comparison between different kinds of CPU`s. 2) Get IP 1.00 is a small program which easily shows your hostname, IP address and port when you are connected to the Internet. This information can also be copied to the clipboard for future use. 3) MemStat XP 1.6.0.0 is a utility that monitors physical memory in Windows systems. With this little tool you can track usage of memory in your system and easily free it if needed. It has also some unique features like memory status logging or customizable tray icon. 4) Download Express 1.2 is a Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP program that allows you to download individual files from Web and FTP sites at the maximum possible speed. Multiple downloading channels technology significantly decreases time necessary to download files.

A new version of GeForce Tweak Utility has just been released: 3.2 t28.

This utility allows you make a lot of modifications to the registry settings of any GeForce videocard. GeForce256 DDR, GeForce2/MX/Pro/Ultra, GeForce3, Quadro, Quadro2/Pro/MXR, Quadro DCC.

No word on whats new yet. Big thanks to Brownie.

Radeonator is a tool for tweaking your ATI Radeon 8xxx/7xxx/64DDR/LE/VE/32DDR cards. This tweaker only works on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP for now but there will be 9X/ME support soon.

Radeonator 1.1 LE has been released. This simplified version allows you to overclock ATI cards; nothing more, nothing less.

This handy utility let's you set custom refresh rates for D3D and OpenGL. Very useful if you don't want to play your games @ 60Hz. Win 2K/XP only. Various changes are included in this version. Read more...

Here's some free tools. 1) dRAMatic 6.1 is one of the best memory optimization tool you can find. It allows you to optimize (not just free) your system memory with its advanced defragmentation and garbage collection algorythms. 2) Winnow Optimizer Beta 1 Winnow A suite of tweaking and cleanup utilities. Optimizer not only cleans Internet Cache, Cookies and History including the index.dat files securely, but also displays the contents of index.dat files. Exhaustive System Optimization Tweaks; CPU, Cache. 3) pcTuner 1.8 Beta 2 is a special utility to configure Windows 9x/ME/2K. Using easy to use graphical user interface. You can configure hundreds of Windows 9x/ME/2K hidden settings, from the Start Menu, Desktop, Accessories, Windows Explorer. 4) Matrox Technical Support Tweak Utility 4.03.002 A Tweaking tool for Matrox Video cards. 5) Asus Tweaking Utility 3.50 This utility is provided for fine tuning your ASUS display card.

BlindWrite suite is a tool designed to perfectly reproduce most CD. RAW mode is needed to produce perfect backups of some protected CDs! DAO mode is even better. Almost all protected CD can be perfectly backed up using with DAO. Blindread / Blindwrite are perfect tools to produce backups in RAW and DAO mode.

Rage3D.com This is the first universal BIOS editor for Radeon-based videocards. This program let you modify clock speeds and BIOS fonts for any videocard based on R100, RV100, RV200, R200 chips. Version 0.95 - was the first public release. Program accepts BIOS image file as input data and generates correct output BIOS image file as a result of processing.

Outer Technologies, the creators of Cacheman and Linkman have released a new freeware tool.

Have you ever faced a situation where you have waited for a program to complete and had the feeling the program may have crashed? Wouldn't it be nice if you could always see if your CPU is really working? Well, you could have the task manager window in front, but how about a program that doesn't waste valuable screen space? CPUUsage System Service is a free tool that displays the cpu load as a tray icon image. It's very easy to use and utilizes minimal resources.

Just out of beta, WebSite-Watcher 3.40!
Use this one to track your favourite websites or software for changes.

Lots of changes
Get it here or here (955kb)
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Freeware DriverManager is a tool designed to allow System Administrators, Power Users and Driver Developers an easy means to view, modify or remove drivers and their information on Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP platforms.

A new version of GeForce Tweak Utility has just been released: 3.2 t24.

This utility allows you make a lot of modifications to the registry settings of any GeForce videocard. GeForce256 DDR, GeForce2/MX/Pro/Ultra, GeForce3, Quadro, Quadro2/Pro/MXR, Quadro DCC.

No word on whats new yet. Big Thanks to Brownie!!

Customizer XP is an integrated suite of programs that can help you to tweak your Windows 2000/XP to its fullest potential performance or just keep it running like new. It offers a wide range possibility to customize and optimize your Windows program. Whether you want to tweak your Windows registry, cleanup your harddisk, or increase your multimedia and 3D games performance, Customizer XP will does it all for you!

Rage3D.com have got hold of some new ATI stuff. So here goes:

ATIVX player: This player is not like the others players, because it's the first player capable to extend itself the desktop when you start it and cancel this extension when you close it!
This function is very useful when you have a dual head card like Radeon VE / 7500 / 8500, because you have the video only on the second screen (the tv or the second monitor). However, if you have a mono head card like Radeon 7200 / ViVo / AIW, it works on the first monitor.

Radeonator 1.0 LE has been released. This simplified version allows you to overclock ATI cards; nothing more, nothing less.

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HyperSnap-DX 4 is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games. HyperSnap-DX 4 can capture frames from many software DVD players and other video playing software.

Freeware VirtualDub is a video capture and processing program. It features fast capturing, process files larger than the 2 gigabyte limit, optimized for linear editing, support for Motion-JPEG, MPEG-1 video and layer 3 audio, real-time and near-realtime video processing, video job queues, and much more.