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EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC.

EVEREST Ultimate Edition BETA 5.50.2169

ZoneAlarm makes it easy. Unlike other personal firewalls, ZoneAlarm protects automatically from the moment it’s installed – no programming required. 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.

ZoneAlarm delivers simplicity without compromising your security. A getting started tutorial explains controls and alerts to get you up and running quickly. And, to keep you confident that you’re always protected, intuitive color-coded alerts rate security risks – in real time.

For basic, “no frills” firewall protection, ZoneAlarm® is the popular first step for many home PC users. And it’s still FREE* for individual & non-profit use.

Editors Note: Be sure to check the box for the free firewall from the installer or you will download the 15 day trial version.

ZoneAlarm Free 9.2.044.000

Just been playing with GMAIL to setup my Wife’s new Blackberry.
Now all her accounts come together to her GMAIL account and is so easy to manage from her phone and Notebook.
Really impressed how it works and it’s a really powerful tool that costs nothing, well done Google.
IMAP email is the bees knees (good) for keeping all devices in sync.
Being able to POP other accouts to suck the data into GMAILS IMAP, a great feature.
There a tonne of feature that can be adjusted to your needs.

I’ve seen GMAIL around for years, but always thought that spammers and fraudsters used to get free email.
I am very much wrong regarding this.

Anyway, very impressed with GMAIL

Latest DirectX, full download.

This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory.

This package is localized into Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and English.

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 2000 Advanced Server; Windows 2000 Professional Edition ; Windows 2000 Server; Windows 2000 Service Pack 2; Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Small Business Server 2003 ; Windows XP; Windows XP 64-bit; Windows XP Embedded; Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 1; Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 ; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional N; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Additional Information:
The DirectX redist installation includes all the latest and previous released DirectX runtime. This includes the bi-monthly D3DX, XInput, and Managed DirectX components.

The DirectX runtime cannot be uninstalled. We recommend Windows Me and Windows XP users create a “System Restore” point before installing.

This update is recommended for those user that do not have internet connection during installation

DirectX End-User Redistributable 9.28.1886 (February 2010)

All Platforms
[r33999] Fixed an issue which caused html5 audio/video content to not load. (Issue: 25859)
[r34122] Fixed a bug where content scripts would get run twice in some cases. (Issue: 29644)

Windows
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Mac
IMPORTANT: Use this build to switch back to the Dev channel. If you were running Chrome Dev builds before you must manually install this build to get back on the Dev channel. Previous 4.0.249.x builds are on the Beta channel and will not auto update to new Dev channel releases.
Extensions are enabled
Bookmark sync is enabled. Please note issue 31015 below.
[r34585] Add Learn more link to “Aw Snap” crash page. (Issue: 27212)
[r34942] Add Esc as another keyboard shortcut for “stop page load.” (Issue: 20916)
[r34757] Don’t show location bar in devtools and other popup windows. (Issues: 13148, 20244, 26757, 29103)
[r34762] Implement “Pin Tab” tab context menu item

Linux
Scrollbars in GTK theme mode now use some of the GTK colors.
[r34915] Fix a hang on many sites using custom fonts. (Issue: 29861)
[r34222] OOM killer should now kill runaway tabs before it kills the browser. (Issue: 29752)
[r34234] Accelerator tweaks: in particular, GTK-configured Emacs keybindings in web content should now work. (Issues: 26131, 26054, 28839, 24479)
[r35390] New optimized drawing path — please let us know about any new drawing glitches! (Issue: 31301)
Many bugs fixed particularly around extension handling.

Known Issues
Issue 31015 [OS-MAC] Crash on adding new folder when bookmarks sync is enabled

Google Chrome BETA 4.0.288.1

Mozilla Firefox 3 3.5.7

What’s New in Firefox 3.5.7
Firefox 3.5.7 fixes the following issues:

Fixed a common stability issue.
Fixed a problem with how updates were being presented to users.
Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5.6 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

7-Zip 9.10 Beta

What’s new after 7-Zip 9.09 beta:

The BUG in 7-Zip 9.09 beta was fixed: 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.

ATI Tray Tools 1.6.9.1449 Beta

Great little testing tool for those overclocking their rigs to the max.

CPU-Z 1.53

CPU
Name and number.
Core stepping and process.
Package.
Core voltage.
Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
Supported instructions sets.
Cache information.

Mainboard
Vendor, model and revision.
BIOS model and date.
Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
Graphic interface.

Memory
Frequency and timings.
Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.