Big thanks to Majorgeeks.com. ZoneAlarm is designed to protect your DSL or cable-connected PC from hackers. This program includes four interlocking security services: a firewall, an Application Control, an Internet Lock and Zones. No word on what's new.

Big Thanks to Tim @ Majorgeeks.com for this! Latest reference file for Ad-aware, a free multi spyware removal utility. With this reffile (042-24-09-2002), the detection+removal of Xupiter ToolBar, HuntBar,CoPilot, CnsMin (Chinese Keywords) some new browser Hijackers and some new versions of previous targets have been added to Ad-aware.

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 3.28 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest SiS Xabre and Radeon 9700. 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.

Fantom CD is a program for reading CDs and running CD programs without a CD by creating a virtual CD-ROM drive on the hard disk using software methods. This emulator allows you to run CD-ROM applications from your hard drive or network server. In your hard drive space, you can establish and access up to 31 different virtual CD-ROM drives.

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.

Freeware 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), more CDs stay 'readable' after problems (such as Buffer Underrun), read and extraction from CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, DVD, DVCD, mpg (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg 'in one', Short File-names Long File-names, recursive directory extracting, and more.

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.

Tweak-XP bundles more than 22 different utilities in one: it was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows® XP system. All settings can be done without having any former knowledge, since Tweak-XP informs the user in detail about each option.

PowerStrip 3.28 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest SiS Xabre and Radeon 9700. 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 of what's new yet. Click on Read More... for more information & download link.

Are you looking for a super easy tool to convert DVD to DIVX?

DVD-TO-DIVX integrates DVD copy, DVD decoder, DVD ripper with DIVX encoder and crack DVD. A powerful and high-efficient software to copy and compress DVD to DIVX format and easy to use.

Fresh Diagnose - your FREE System Information & PC Benchmarking software - just got better with the release of version 5.0! What's new: Windows Services module (for WinNT/2000/XP) and Virtual Device Drivers (VXDs) module (for Win9x/Me).

Cg Toolkit Beta 2.1 has been released, which fixes some problems with ARB_vertex_program support and array/matrix indexing in the vp20 and vp30 profiles. This version also contains some improvements to the documentation. You can get a patch, or the updated complete installer.

XtraWarp is specifically designed to optimize your application tuning time in real-time. It is monitoring your all running processes and Optimize them for your specific needs (Media, Games, Graphics applications). More Frames in games, no stuck frames when playing movies and less waiting time in graphics applications and if you are doing benchmarks you will get more points. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link.

Just spotted this one @ Theinquirer.net. Now all I need is a Intel Pentium 4 to test the utility out. All donations welcome. Hehe...

We had a small beer with Andreas Stiller from c't magazine in Germany and he told us all about a little utility he's written for the Pentium 4.

The utility will switch on and off some Pentium 4 configuration flags such as prefetch, fast strings and the like, so you can maybe play with the software and see how it works.

WinDVD Tweaker is designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback software to enable some hidden settings and allow for maximum playback pleasure. Now the tweaker supports WinDVD 4!

BiG Thanks to Xp-erience.org. 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.

And again Asus Germany released an updated version of the LiveUpdate utility which lets you view BIOS information, download BIOS files, flash directly from the internet and flash locally from within Windows. No changes known.

Freeware ATV2000 is new generation of TV viewing and capture application based on old ATV, but with reworked core. All is build around new control panel, witch provides tuning video and audio controls.

Savagenews.com reports that Hardware Sensors Monitor has been updated to version 4.1.1.1. This program is almost the same as MotherBoard Monitor but I prefer it because of the simplest interface. This new version has these changes: