With BeSweet, you can backup your DVD's audio into MP3 / MP2 / OGG / AIFF / WAV & CD. All the amazing quality of your favorite tools : Azid, SSRC, WaveBooster, Lame, MP2enc, Vorbis, SupreEQU. Now, in one comprehensive tool !

PowerStrip 3.29 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.

Cdr-zone.com report that Ahead Software have released a new version of Nero and it's 5.5.9.13. Hit Read More for your download

Big thanks to Tim @ Majorgeeks for this! Freeware Radeonator is a tweaker developed for Radeon based videocards. The tweaker makes it easy to manipulate driversettings to squeeze out the last bit of performance. But Radeonator offers more, it allows you to use profiles for games and benchmarkes. Other features of Radeonator include overclocking, adding custom resolutions and fixing the 60Hz problem in Windows XP and 2000

PowerStrip 3.29 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. Update: There is an official final version released Click on Read More... for more information & download link.

WCPUID is the program that displays the CPU information of your personal computer. Shows Frequency, Multiplier, Chipset Info. etc ...

After the Kaaza 2.0 comes and the lite version..

Differences with the original KaZaA:

No Adware
No Spyware
Includes a tool for accelerating downloads (Speed Up version 1.3.1)
Includes the Sig2Dat tool (version 3.11a)

Welcome to the OpenGL Geometry Benchmark 1.0. I implemented that benchmark to test the geometry Transform & Lighting power of misceallenous video cards under OpenGL. I tried to be as exhaustive as possible, so it's possible to test many combinations of technics, vertex formats, primitives, etc... This test does not benchmark any kind of fillrate or texturing capabilities, which explains the small window and the lack of textures.

The program can test many combinations of geometry formats, and also use the NVidia and ATI extensions that provide access to video or AGP memory.

This just in from Tim @Majorgeeks.com. Freeware CPU ID displays all the available information about your computers current processor. The information given includes model number, processor family, cache size, clock speed, and manufacturer codename plus much more. The information is obtained by querying the processor itself aswell as performing test on it. Some information displayed such as processor codename, transistor count, socket type and die size are listed from internal lookup tables.

Just got word that RivaTuner 2.0 RC12 has been released! do I need to say any more.

HardOCP have released a new version of their UT2K3 benchmarking utility v1.001 to help you to benchmark the UT2K3 Demo right! All of the utilities needed to benchmark with the UT2K3 Demo were already in the demo, all we did was create some files that will ease the process of benchmarking to make it easier for the reviewer and end user. Most importantly this scripting utility will allow for people with DX8 compliant VidCards to compare results on a "fair" basis. The creators of UT2K3 explain that vertex and pixel shaders use in the game minimal at best. So comparing cards that are pre-GF3 and pre-8500 might be considered, but we are not going to argue that here and now.

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.

This just in from the master leaker Candyman .

Many people have been asking for it and now it is finally here.... ATI's very own MultiMedia Centre (MMC) 7.8. This is the released version found on the 9700 CD and it works on all Radeon cards. Approximate size it about 48MB.

A-tuner is a small Tool for changing the following 4 settings in your Nvidia card and should work with Nvidia Detonators 23.11 - 40.72 and windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

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

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!

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.

XPTuneup is the software developed to help you apply many of the tips listed on xptuneup.com via a simple interface. It is implementation of about 50 tips listed on that web site. Latest release of this system tuning utility tool now integrates process status, registry analyzer and admin options along with everything else that was available in previous release.

For the Matrox Parhelia under Windows 2000/XP. Optimizes games in Surround Gaming and non-Surround Gaming mode. Please read the Apptimizer readme before downloading this utility.

The Final BootXP 2.25 version is out before passing the beta test process sucessfully. The full new features list is the next:

HardOCP have released a UT2K3 benchmarking utility to help you to benchmark the UT2K3 Demo right. Here's a snip.

All of the utilities needed to benchmark with the UT2K3 Demo were already in the demo, all we did was create some files that will ease the process of benchmarking to make it easier for the reviewer and end user. Most importantly this scripting utility will allow for people with DX8 compliant VidCards to compare results on a "fair" basis. The creators of UT2K3 explain that vertex and pixel shaders use in the game minimal at best. So comparing cards that are pre-GF3 and pre-8500 might be considered, but we are not going to argue that here and now.

By using the same ut2003.ini file in each quality test ensures that the game is setup the same for each test making comparative reviews a reality. Of course writing the batch files was not an issue but a certain amount of subjectiveness creeps in when we start defining the quality levels utilized. I had to figuring out what D3D settings needed to be adjusted and to what values. I looked at how they effected the game on an IQ and performance level to judge what needed to be set for a High Quality setting, a Medium Quality setting and a Low Quality setting. Then I edited the appropriate lines in the ut2003.ini file for each quality setting. The last step was to make batch files that made it all work.