Freeware WM Recorder (WMR20) allows you to record Windows Media stream video and audio clips from the Internet and save them to your hard drive or CD. The program provides two recording modes. In Browse Mode you can record media clips while browsing the Net. WM Recorder detects the beginning, the end, and names of different media so that multiple clips can be recorded in a row without exiting recording. In URL mode you can download media files from their Internet locations. WMR20 supports HTTP Windows Media Player video and audio stream formats.

A-tuner is a small tool for changing the following 4 settings on your Nvidia card:

Anti-Aliasing (including all unofficial modes)
Anisotropic Filtering
Vsync
MipMap LOD (Level Of Detail) Bias

seems that XP antispy 3.61 has been released! 12.08.2002 v3.61.

This tool allows you to disable most if not all suspicious home call functions in Windows XP.

no release notes :-(

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jv16 PowerTools is the next generation of RegCleaner. A full set of tools to keep your computer and your LAN up and running. jv16 PowerTools is basicly the Tool to control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control. The program contains all the tools needed for monitoring and cleaning the Registry and the file system. In addition to that, you can control all the computers in your LAN.

PowerStrip 3.21 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 9000 Pro 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! No word on what's new

PowerStrip 3.21 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 9000 Pro 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.

No word on what's new.

Just got word from Tim @Majorgeeks that he just upload CPUBENCH 3.3.0.1 to his servers ready for download. This Freeware program will measure the MFLOPS and MIPS of your CPU which 1is useful for making a comparison between different kinds of CPU`s.

Geeknewz posted the latest zoom player v2.80 Beta 1 Zoom Player is a Media Player replacement.

Zoom Player provides special zooming functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating overscan. Zoom Player's scaling system allows you to exactly match the video area to your screen's dimensions in real-time with adjustable background color in order to test for brightness bleeds. You can also fast forwarding (even on MPEG4 type formats such as DivX), 10 Keyboard accessible presets to automatically adjust the video area to pre-defined settings, customizable control bar with graphical time-seek controls, keyboard mapped controls, aspect ratio support for correct playback of anamorphic video and out of aspect-ratio content.

Just got word from our good friends @Neowin.net that they have got their hands on new versions of Nero InfoTool 1.01.4 and Nero Ping 1.07!

Nero InfoTool 1.01.4 Nero InfoTool is very usefull for getting a quick overview about your system configuration. It will display important Information for the purpose of discovering error sources.

Nero Ping 1.07 This handy utility list all SCSI and ATAPI devices on your system, and works under Win9x, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP.

Raystorm have released a new Realtime Raytracing benchmark software that can bring your PC to it's knees. check out this cool screenshot

Diet Kaza (formerly KaZaA Tap) v1.03 has been released. Diet Kazaa is a utility that removes all advertising, speeds up searches, gives more results and takes out useless icons (i.e. Shopping). There is a TON of new stuff, but most importantly:

Download Accelerator controls added
New DK:// hyperlink searching added
Pictures, Documents, and Everything media searches added
Re-vamped the system tray menu (more useful now)
Added 9 new translations, total 17 different languages
Found and fixed many bugs and technical limitations

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds and temperatures in computers with a known monitoring chip. Its main feature is that it can control the speed of the fans according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption. Currently the only recognized (and useful) chips are WINBOND W83782D, which is found in ABIT BP6, and WINBOND W83627HF. If you've got any other motherboard with the same chip, this program is for you.

The tool helps with the TV ouput of Nvidia graphic cards. The main problem is the black borders around the picture on the TV screen. They are very annoying for most applications like e.G. DVD-playback. This tool helps getting rid of those bars...

jv16 PowerTools is the next generation of RegCleaner. A full set of tools to keep your computer and your LAN up and running. jv16 PowerTools is basicly the Tool to control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control. The program contains all the tools needed for monitoring and cleaning the Registry and the file system. In addition to that, you can control all the computers in your LAN.

10.08.2002: v3.6 is ready to be downloaded.

This tool allows you to disable most if not all suspicious home call functions in Windows XP.

With a modern easy-to-use interface, PowerArchiver provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. Version 8.0 has been completely rewritten from the ground up and is leaps and bounds above the rest. For the changelog and download link read more.

News Interceptor allows you to be instantly notified when your favorite web sites emit news of interest. It displays the news title and you can, with a simple mouse click, read the entire news in your Web browser. The News Interceptor runs in the system tray and only requires an Internet connection.

Update: the Download Link has been Fixed! Sorry for the mistake.

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.

Seems that some sites are reporting that XP Antispy 3.51 has been released or may be it's been updated? Well I had a quick look @ the author's site and unless I am going blind, I don't see any changes but if you haven't already downloaded this great tool, well here's your chance.

This tool allows you to disable most if not all suspicious home call functions in Windows XP.

Just saw this @ Winoscentral.com

Seems Wetty and his dream team have done it again with this little jewel called Reset 4.10. This baby weighs in at a mere 15k and will reset any Win XP/.NET (tested on xp oem, retail, pre and post sp1, .NET 3657 and 3663) into thinking its on the first day of activation every day.

This patch has to be applied in SAFE MODE. When in safe mode, run the patch, reboot and you're ready to reset.