Plextor Europe is proud to announce a new release of the PlexTools software. You can use PlexTools for instance to get more information on your drive, tweak its settings and besides that you can use it to play audio discs (with support for CD-Text) and of course you can use PlexTools to copy CD's or to make your own audio compilations with.

Add your hard-disk's led at your system tray with this cool FREE program ! NOW you can choose between 5 led colors and also the program can monitor 5 partitions on the SAME time ... Very good for the laptop users without leds or for people like me with a tower under the desk ;) Get it from HERE ~ 140 Kb

I just got it from the author site ,It's not yet available there... Monitox

This is the first universal BIOS editor for Radeon-based videocards. This program let you modify clock speeds and BIOS fonts for any videocard based on R100, RV100, RV200, R200 chips. Version 0.95 - was the first public release. Program accepts BIOS image file as input data and generates correct output BIOS image file as a result of processing.

TinyResMeter is a small (less than 100kb's) program that can display the time, date, local / network drives free space, CPU Speed and numerous other options quickly on your desktop. Get it here: Pesoft.fr.st

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.

Cdfreaks.com reports that Ahead, the german company behind the famous Nero Burning ROM software package, has today made available three new products. The company has introduced NeroROBO, NeroNET and an MPEG-4-AAC Audio Codec.

NeroROBO is designed for duplicators and NeroNET is a network-capable extension of Nero burning ROM, which can be used in an IP-capable Intranet. The Nero AAC codec is fully compliant with MPEG-2 AAC and MPEG-4 AAC, and features 16-448 Kbits/s bit rate, constant and variable.

FlashGet is specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: Speed and management of downloaded files. If you've ever waited forever for your files to download from a slow connection, or been cut off mid-way through a download - or just can't keep track of your ever-growing downloads - FlashGet is for you.

Asus has released the latest version of their Windows based utility which lets you view your motherboards BIOS, flash from internet or file, save to file and more. A must have for Asus owners.

PowerStrip 3.30 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 new version of TweakDB of the multi-pupose tweaking program is now available. Changes since Beta 2.0 include: Added Task Launcher 14 New Win NT/2K/XP Tweaks 6 Savage 3D/4 Tweaks Kyro 1/2 Overclocking Added 2 Kazaa Tweaks 3 Other New Tweaks Separate Explorer Processes Bugfix Update Website with DHTML Sweetness

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.

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.

Feeware CPU-Z is a program that provides some information on your CPU :

Processor name and vendor
Core stepping and process
Processor package
Processor current core voltage
Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier
Partial overclock detection
Processor features, including supported instructions sets.
L1 and L2 cache informations : location, size, speed, technology.
Motherboard informations : BIOS, chipset, memory, AGP.

jv16 PowerTools 11.1.0.162 has been released. 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.

A-tuner is a small tool for changing the following 4 settings on your Nvidia card and should work with Nvidia Detonators 23.11 - 41.03 and Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

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

Fresh Diagnose - your FREE System Information & PC Benchmarking software - just got better with the release of version 5.2! What's new: Windows Accessibility module contains information about FilterKeys, HighContrast, MouseKeys, SerialKeys, ShowSounds, SoundsEntry, StickyKeys and ToggleKeys status.

Nero InCD 3.51.61 has been released. InCD is Ahead Software's packet writing software for CD-RW's.

Filesize: 3.54 Mb (3.717.510 Bytes)
Current version: 3.51.61
Release date: November 13rd, 2002

Tech-critic.com reports that MSN Messenger 5.0.0540 Polygamy is out.

Polygamy let's you use multiple copies of MSN messenger at the same time thus allowing you to use multiple accounts at the same time.

A new version of Boot XP has been released: BootXP 2.30 RC1.

This new update of BootXP fixes one major bug in Windows 2000 and adds new options, here is the changes list:

WinAce 2.3 beta 3 has been released! WinAce is not just another archiving shell. With it's own powerful compression format ACE and built-in support for other popular compression types like ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB (to name a few), it's among the most popular. Changes unknown.