ZoneAlarm barricades your PC with immediate and complete port blocking. And, then runs in Stealth Mode to make your PC invisible on the Internet - if you can't be seen, you can't be attacked.

Blindwrite Suite is a set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD even protected ones. Blindwrite Suite is the more powerfull tool to create a perfect copy from your original CD for personal backup purpose. Blindwrite Suite can create CD audio from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, monkey's audio and be use with an cd-rom emulator like Daemon Tools.

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. Note: At this point there is no changelog or download available.

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.

Geeknewz.com reports that AVI Preview 0.20a is now out. This is a great tool that can preview any of your movie downloads before they are finished. So before you go ahead and download 1gig movies you can make sure it's the right language/quality/movie. Definitely a recommendation to have for 42kb.

Fresh Diagnose - your FREE System Information & PC Benchmarking software - has been upgraded to version 5.3! What's new: BIOS module contains information about your BIOS (Basic Input Output System) capabilities.

Just got an email from DriverHeaven and TC that they have got their grubby hands on ATI's new Multimedia Center Version 8! Here's what you get...

DVDcdr, the hardware codec for playback Hvision for monitor support MmcDvd8 the newest version of the DVD player MMCENTER, the multimedia center for playing all kinds of media And more...

If there was ever a program Play&Burn, this is it. NeroMIX creates or copies anything you throw at it, in the slickest possible way. Just grab any data and burn it. NeroMIX is the emperor of style in Multimedia CD creation, combining dynamic CD burning (data, audio, copying) with the newest Internet audio technology all in one customizable interface.

Cyberlink has released a new version of their PowerDVD software players called PowerDvd XP DVS which incorporates Dolby's new Virtual Speaker technology. This release is only available on Cyberlink's Japanese website.

Dolby Virtual Speaker technology is a proprietary process that can be included in a wide variety of products (such as DVD players, TV sets, PCs, personal speaker systems, and home theater systems) to provide a true-to-life 5.1 surround-sound experience with just two speakers. Working in conjunction with Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic II decoding, it enhances the playback of any program material, from 5.1-channel DVDs and satellite programming to stereo music CDs and MP3 files.

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.

Visual Boy Advance is a Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows system.There are two version DirectX and SDL!

SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. It is a cross platform library for graphics, input, audio, threading, etc... that can be used for games, emulators, etc the SDL version on Windows may be faster than the DirectX version.

Nero CD Speed is a utility that tests various parameters of your CD-ROM performance, including, of course, its speed. The tests are: Transfer Rate Test, DAE Quality Test, Seek Times Test, CPU Utilization Test, Burst Rate Test, Spin Up/Down Test and Disk Eject/Load Test. All the test results are shown in appropriate fields on the main program screen after the test is over.

This Freeware program will measure the MFLOPS and MIPS of your CPU which is useful for making a comparison between different kinds of CPU`s.

Thanks to Tim @ Majorgeeks.com for sending in these Freeware Tools. Fujitsu Diagnostic (SCSI) 2.0 Verify your Fujitsu SCSI hard drive is operating properly Fujitsu Diagnostic (IDE) 6.01 Verify your Fujitsu IDE hard drive is operating properly. Western Digital Data Lifeguard 10.0 Webbased diagnostic utility to test any EIDE hard drive. Samsung Diagnostic 1.25 Diagnoses Samsung disks when you think it is having failures.

Just got word from Betas.intercom.net about a new MSN Messenger tweaking tool!

Tweak Msgr is an application that allows you to change hidden settings for MSN/Windows Messenger. Settings commonly used by network/systems administrators in schools, or business?s using or want to use Instant Messaging as a communication tool. These settings do not exist with MSN Messenger 5. If MSN Messenger has been disabled at your school or work then this will most probably enable it....

Freeware Scope is a multi-tabbed browser which displays web pages using either the IE or Mozilla engine - or both if you want to compare pages side by side. In addition to being extremely fast, Scope is very, very lightweight.

Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the average framerate between two points.

The new Powerstrip beta available on the Entech site.

PowerStrip 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. It's 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 Asus PC Probe v2.19.00 is out!
ASUS has again released a new version of their PCProbe monitoring utility. This new version includes no notes yet about updates.