Plextor Europe is proud to announce a new release of the PlexTools software. This in-house written utility has proven to be stable, precise and useful.

Just got word from Rage3d.com that ATi have updated their RenderMonkey to version 0.52 Beta! and before I forget Rage3d.com have moved home and have a new site design! so check them out.

RenderMonkey is a suite of open, extensible shader development tools for both current and future hardware that allows programmers and artists to collaborate on creating realtime shader effects. ATI showed these tools publicly for the first time at Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, on the ATI booth and in a number of partner sessions.A Beta version of the RenderMonkey IDE is currently available for free download to anyone interested in working with programmable graphics shaders.

Global DiVX Player allows for a much more efficient movie watching experience. Consuming less memory and CPU Cycles than Windows Media player, this player provides a better looking, familiar interface to watch movies on your Windows PC. Designed Originally for DiVX Movies, now supports VCD, MPEG, AVI, WMV, and ASF Video. Featuring Scalable video playback, fullscreen movie playback, and all the features that media player provides

iuVCR is a Windows 2000/XP intended video recording program. Have a TV tuner or a video capture card installed on your Windows 2000 or XP system? Now you can easily record your favorite TV programs and videos in *.AVI or *.WMV format. iuVCR has got a simple and plain interface, allows to capture video of any format, resolution and duration, can automatically start when scheduled and has a number of other useful features.

Cloudmark SpamNet saves you time and frustration by automatically stopping spam. The service is free and easy to use. Spend time reading your email not deleting unwanted spam messages.

Not only do you protect your own Inbox, but you also shield the entire community from spam each time you block a message. Help others and join SpamNet now.

Freeware DrvImagerXP creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS partitions for the Windows 2000/XP operating systems. It makes backups of your partitions, but does not copy file-by-file, it doesn't know anything about files!. It creates a mirror image (but not reversed) of a partition by coping the sector bytes on the partition. And it does this very fast! You can create images of different operating system setups and swap them out in just minutes!

WinMX is a FREE file-sharing program like no other. It allows you to connect, download, and share files with MILLIONS of other users through the decentralized WinMX Peer Network. Once WinMX is installed, you'll have access to one of the largest and most diverse networks of shared media files in the world. And unlike many other 'peer to peer' software providers, we respect your privacy and will never sell you out to spyware. When you download WinMX, you're getting WinMX and only WinMX, no bundled spyware, no ads, no B.S.

Hot CPU Tester Lite is a system health and stability tester. It tests CPU, and virtually all parts of motherboard for errors/bugs and defective parts. It is a burn-in test with uniquely designed state of the art DefectTech engine. DefectTech is a technology developed by OpusWare Enterprise to diagnostic systems regarding its stability and in general computer's health. Hot CPU Tester is currently being used in many labs and governmental organizations around the world, as a reliable stability testing utility.

See what this program offers: the original Tweak-XP Pro - unlike other tweaking utilities, Tweak-XP Pro bundles more than 37 different utilities in one: it was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows® XP system. With Tweak-XP Pro v2.0 we've added lost of new useful features to improve the performance of your Windows XP system

CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive.

Cdfreaks.com reports that the final version of this cool program is out now.

Freeware DVX is a powerfull and userfriendly program that automates popular video tools in order to create DivX or XviD videos out of DVB or DVD sources.

Just got word from Tim @ Majorgeeks.com that he's upload Drive Image 2002 v6.0 for you to Test Drive. Drive Image helps keep the data on your hard drive safe. With its new Windows® interface and improved performance, this new version maintains its position as the premier disk imaging utility for the proficient PC user. Whether you want to create an exact image of your hard drive for easy recovery, or upgrade to a new system, you can depend on the proven technology of Drive Image.

yet ahead Homepage is NOT updated but nero is available at the official FTP servers!

EnTech Taiwan released a new version of PowerStrip with the following changes/fixes:

Fixed compatibility problem with Detonator 5
Added workaround for R300 pixel clock
Fixed shareware bug in 3.25

Two weeks ago Techsmith realeased SnagIt 6.1.1. Capture screenshots of games, regions, objects, texts, menus, shapes, and large web pages or documents.

HyperSnap-DX 5 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 5 can capture frames from many software DVD players and other video playing software.

This Freeware program was created to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies. It can rebuild or strip the index part of the movie, which is at the end of the file. There are also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video stream.

A-tuner is a small Tool for changing the following 4 settings in your Nvidia card and should work with Nvidia Detonators 23.11 - 40.xx.

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

Windows Commander is a file manager program for Windows. It offers multiple language support, search, file comparison, directory synchronization, quick view panel with bitmap display, ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling plus plugins, built-in FTP client with FXP, HTTP proxy support, and more.