Engine Updates

BlitzKibitz (WB)
source code update(s), no new builds
http://code.google.com/p/blitzkibitz/

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Brutus site down today
Chaturanga geocities site down 9 days, maybe gone forever?
Crafty Chess Interface site down for 8 days
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Fianchetto site down for 11 days
Fimbulwinter site taken down today (fixing viruses?)
Frenzee site has no content for 15 days
Heracles site down today
KnightX site down today
NSVChess site down today
TheCrazyBishop site down today
WJChess site down today
Zebra Chess down for 16 days

Note: GEOCITIES is closing on October 26, 2009.
There are a lot of free engines hosted there that might disappear forever!

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

ATI Catalyst 9.10 Drivers
Free. For those with ATI graphics card (Radeon) or ATI motherboard/integrated chipset
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

BitTorrent 6.3
free BitTorrent client; comparable with Azureus/Vuze, µTorrent, etc.
http://www.bittorrent.com/

Google Chrome 4.0.223.9 beta
free web browser, this is a new *beta* release
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/

Miranda IM 0.8.9
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

Sysinternals Suite
free trouble-shooting utilities suite from Microsoft
new releases 2 days in a row, probably bugfixes for new Windows 7
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

VLC media player 1.0.3 RC1
open source multimedia player (audio/video). Recommended.
this is a *beta* release
http://www.videolan.org/

Windows 7
big day for Microsoft!
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ (info)
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/buy/default.aspx (buy)

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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