Just got this from BetaNews.com! Freeware n.player is a versatile media player that plays DVD, audio CDs, MP3, WMA, AVI, DiVX, or any media with the preisntalled DirectShow decoder. It also supports enhanced features for playing video and audio.

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.

Here's another free tool from the peeps over @Majorgeeks.com Tool for enabling/disabling Windows XP Built In ZIP Support

Just got this from Tim @Majorgeeks.com! Freeware QRes is a Command line utility to change screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate.

DVD Region-Free is an unique, effective and easy-to-use DVD tweaking tool. It allows you to watch all region DVDs on any DVD drive( especially RPC2 ) even if it has been locked.

You don't need to flash any firmware which is dangerous or unavailable. DVD Region-Free also disables region check for popular software-based DVD players such as PowerDVD, WinDVD and CinePlayer. Other features include Region-Free for RCE DVDs, Macrovision-Free, Operation-Free and run self at DVD players startup automatically.

Geeknewz.com has posted that FreshDevices has released another version of the popular freeware tool Fresh Dwownload. You do have to supply your real email to receive the key but its free after that.

Stardock LogonStudio allows Windows XP users to edit, change, and apply new logon screens. LogonStudio comes built with a visual editor to make it easy to create your own logons which can then be uploaded to websites to be used by others users. LogonStudio is free!

Windows Media Player 9 Series introduces an exciting new plug-in model for adding new features such as audio and video effects, new rendering types, visualizations and much more. Get a sneak preview with the Windows Media Player 9 Series Beta plug-ins.

SRS CircleSurround II CircleSurround II? delivers great 6.1 matrix virtual surround sound on compatible decoders such as Dolby Pro Logic and Dolby Pro Logic II receivers.

Cinemaster DVD Decoder Pack for Windows XP Windows XP users have the ability to add DVD decoding support to their PCs based on Sonic's? DVD playback for Windows XP. Supports a variety of VGA cards.

MP3 PowerEncoder Copy music to your PC into MP3 format with Windows Media Player.

addons for Nero :

NeroPlugin-FXMPG Encoder
NeroPlugin-mp3PRO Encoder
NeroPlugin-MPEG2SVCD v1.3
NeroPlugin-Nero ASPI Layer
NeroPlugin-Nero Mix v1.3.029
NeroPlugin-WMA Encoder

aTuner is a highly compact tweak tool for all GeForce cards and can change these settings:

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

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Ahead have released a new updated version of their InCD product version 3.37!

TMPEGenc converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPEGenc, you can compress your video file in high quality. It enables you to adjust bitrate, qantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropreate movie file depends on your purpose. TMPGEnc 2.58 is now available

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.

Big Thanks to Betas.intercom.net! Kazaalite.tk will show you how to install Kazaa Lite without all the spyware that comes with Kazaa, that means no more.

No Adware
No Spyware
No banners
No bitratelimit for mp3 files
No irritating websites loaded into KaZaA
No crappy BDE Viewer
No f***ing Bonzi Buddy
Set up multiple users with the included PseudoTrack tool

Majorgeeks.com reports of a program to display the DMI (Desktop Management Interface) and SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) information in your computer. The System Management BIOS/Desktop Management Interface provides a mechanism to display a wide variety of information about the current system including serial numbers of component parts (to the extent that they are machine-readable), BIOS information (capabilities, version, etc.), CPU information (capabilities, version, etc.), Slot information, Physical memory and Cache information, Port connectors, Motherboard information, and numerous other information.

Here are three tools for detecting wireless LAN access points (AP) that haven't been secured by the IT department:

IBM Distributed Wireless Security Auditor
AirDefense security appliance
AirMagnet Handheld

savagenews.com reports RightMark Audio Analyzer is an independent audio measurements open-source project developed by iXBT.com / Digit-Life team.

The test suite performs various tests of electroacoustical performance of sound cards and other real-time audio devices. Testing is accomplished by playing the test signals and recording them after they pass through the testing chain.

Asus PCProbe is a convenient utility to monitor the computer's vital components: fan rotations, voltages and temperatures.

aTuner is a highly compact tweak tool for all GeForce cards and can change these settings: Vsync Anti-Aliasing (including all unofficial modes) Anisotropic Filtering MipMap LOD Bias In addition it features a profile manager to create game related settings. The programm works with all GeForce cards on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP with a Detonator driver up from 23.10. Read More for changes and download

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.