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X-Mouse Button Control 2.0 With X-Mouse, a user can customize buttons for each and every application. This is useful for games which do not inherently support the extended mouse buttons, because you can map keys to each button. You can also define ... up to 5 layers of different button configurations per profile. http://www.highrez.co.uk Blender 2.57 RC Beta Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Discover the wide toolset available in Blender, defining a complete pipeline (from modeling to sequence ... (view more)

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC1 Beta Mozilla's Firefox 4 web browser contains huge performance enhancements, including a brand new JagerMonkey JavaScript engine. From faster start up times and graphics rendering to improved page load speed, Mozilla says ... you'll notice the difference instantly. http://www.mozilla.com AdapterWatch v1.05 AdapterWatch displays useful information about your network adapters: IP addresses, Hardware address, WINS servers, DNS servers, MTU value, the number of bytes received or sent, the current transfer speed, and more. In addition, it displays general TCP/ IP/ UDP/ ICMP ... (view more)

Panda Batch File Renamer 1.3 RC Beta Panda Batch File Renamer is an easy to use utility for changing the names of multiple files. The intuitive interface provides a flexible way to quickly alter file names. The current and final file names are shown ... side-by-side on the screen and any changes are displayed on screen immediately. http://animalsoftware.kodingen.com Cain and Abel 4.9.38 Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of passwords used by networks, password boxes, and more. Cain and Abel has been developed in the hope that it will ... (view more)

DriveImage XML 2.20 DriveImage XML is an easy to use program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista and Windows 7 only. The program will backup, image and restore ... drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS file systems. http://www.runtime.org Gpg4win 2.1.0 RC1 Beta Gpg4win is a secure email and file encryption for Windows (2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 7). Both relevant cryptography standards are supported, OpenPGP and S/MIME. http://www.gpg4win.org This freeware software program is brought to you by ... (view more)

WinContig 1.00 RC 1 WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone hard drive defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the ... whole disk. http://wincontig.mdtzone.it CleanMem 1.6.1 CleanMem is a program that frees up memory by closing unused resources. It does so by grabbing a list of running processes, then calls the Windows API EmptyWorkingSet for each process. Once all the processes have been cleaned, CleanMem closes itself. Please note that a few antivirus programs ... (view more)

OpenOffice.org For Windows 3.3.0 RC 1 Beta OpenOffice.org 3 is a full Office Suite (similar to MS Office), but based on Java technology. It's easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org 3 ... straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language. http://www.openoffice.org Google Chrome Beta 8.0.552.5 Google Chrome is an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated ... (view more)

Wireshark 1.4.0 RC2 Beta Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of ... networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. http://www.wireshark.org Sysinternals Suite The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools ... (view more)

SpyBHORemover 2.1 SpyBHORemover (previously called BHORemover) is the advanced tool to explore and eliminate malicious Browser Helper Objects (BHO) from the system. BHOs are plugins written for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser originally ... designed to enhance capabilities, but are often exploited by malware authors and used to send advertisements to your PC. http://majorgeeks.com Wireshark 1.4.0 RC1 Beta Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development ... (view more)

UltraDefrag 4.3 RC2 UltraDefrag is an open source disk defragmenter for Windows NT 4.0 and later operating systems. It makes use of the same defragmenting API (application program interface) used by many other windows defrag utilities, both open and ... closed source. However, UltraDefrag has many features that makes it unique. Firstly it has a kernel mode driver that does most of the work, secondly is the ability to run the application at boot up time in a manner similar to chkdsk. This allows for faster defragmentation time and the ability to defragment all files including system files. It can ... (view more)

Don't delay too long if you're thinking of downloading the highly sought after Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC). According to a recent statement from Microsoft, it plans to shut off the downloads on August 15. Installation After Cutoff Date The ... August cut off date -- about seven weeks from now -- doesn't mean that those who've downloaded the Windows 7 RC will all of a sudden lose the ability to use it. In fact, Microsoft says that it can still be installed even after that cut off date. "The [Release Candidate] download program closes August 15. After that, you won't be able to get the ... (view more)