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CPU-Z Wants To Kill GPU-Z Supremacy By Adding Graphics Card Information?
HWiNFO32 3.0 System Information Utility For Windows
Notepad++ 5.4 Code Editor Available
OCCT 3.1 Available With an Improved GPU Stress Test
HWMonitor 1.14 Available
Notepad++ 5.3 Available
GPU Transcoders: NVIDIA Badaboom vs ATI Avivo
GPU-Z 0.3.0
Know your REAL Processor Speed with CPU Speed Pro
Notepad++ 5.1
Full Hard Disk? Immediately Identify the Problem with HDGraph!
TimeCube: a Cool Useless OpenGL Demo…
TimeCube is an OpenGL demo that renders a small rotating cube, displaying the current date and time, directly on your desktop. Common effects are used: specular highlights (trop fort les gars!!!!), realtime bump mapping (le truc qui tue!!!) and cube map reflections (là ça explose tout!).
You can grab this software gadget here: TimeCube Demo.
The demo does not eat cpu cycles so you can leave it runing somewhere in your desktop….
Parallels 4 Will Support DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0
The upcoming version of Parallels Desktop, the virtual machine for MacOS, will add the support of DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0. Parallels allows to run Windows on a Mac.
More information on Parallels: www.parallels.com.
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FastPictureViewer – Ultra Fast Image Viewer
Need a very fast image viewer? Just try FastPictureViewer. FastPictureViewer helps you work faster by taking advantage, when available, of the power of multicore processors and the speed of DirectX (Direct3D) graphic accelerators, all working in concert to speed up viewing experience to unprecedented levels.
InteliShade Beta v3.0
InteliShade is a Visual Studio plugin allowing you to have code outlining and intellisense when editing HLSL code in your projects. InteliShade 3.0 supports Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and is available as a free download.
Notepad++ 5.0.2
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.
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Notepad++ 5.0 Released
Notepad++ 5.0 is now available. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
More release notes HERE.
CPU-Z 1.46 and HWMonitor 1.10
CPU-Z 1.46 and HWMonitor 1.10 have been released.
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.
Firefox 3.0
Firefox 3.0 is available. You can download it HERE.
Related links:
– Release Notes
– Firefox 3 FAQ
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. This new platform includes more than 15,000 changes to improve performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 is built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.