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(hx) 12:28 AM CEST - May,27 2002
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- Ice reservoirs found on Mars - Water-ice has been found in vast quantities just below the surface
across great swathes of the planet Mars. The finding by the American space agency (Nasa)
is undoubtedly one of the most important made about the Red Planet. It solves one of its
deepest mysteries, points the way for manned exploration and reignites the question of
whether life may exist on the planet. Insiders suggest that, partly as a result of this
finding, Nasa may now commit itself to a manned landing within 20 years.
- Astrorix Gold v2.3 - Astrorix is (homepage) a
traditional bat & ball game like Breakout or Arkanoid. Use the mouse to move your bat.
You must prevent the bouncing ball from falling off the playfield, so it can destroy the
blocks. As soon as all of the blocks are destroyed, the game proceeds to the next level.
The random items which appear on the screen can have a very useful effect, or be quite a
pain in the neck, too.
- Windows XP Tweaking Guide - Mods4ME has updated their Windows
XP tweaking guide.
- The Lord of the Rings 3D Screensaver - The
Lord of the Rings screensaver stands out from the variety of similarly themed versions,
since it is highly entertaining and will keep you looking at your screen.
- IE6 SP1 Build Released To Testers - New Build Announcement For
IE 6 SP 1 Build 2800.1041 (mirror#1
/ mirror#2) in English The Internet Explorer Team is pleased to deliver
the second beta release of Internet Explorer 6 SP 1! As always, we recommend that you
uninstall any beta versions of Internet Explorer before installing Internet Explorer 6
SP1.
- Microsoft Updates JavaVM to Build 3805 - Microsoft has updated the Java VM
to build 3805. It addresses the security fix (MS02-013) and
some bug (Q280062).
- DirectX 9 End-User (Beta 1) + Presentation + Benchmarks!
- This is the Beta 1 Release of Microsoft's DirectX 9.0 (mirror#1, mirror#2) Software Development Kit (SDK). It contains all DirectX
software required to create DirectX 9.0 compliant applications. Major components include:
DirectX 9.0 system components (runtimes); DirectX 9.0 Application Programming Interface
(API) Documentation for each of the DirectX core areas (written for C++, C#, or Visual
Basic developers); DirectX 9.0 headers & libraries; Sample applications and source
code; miscellaneous tools and utilities. In addition, here is Microsoft Power Point Presentation
(big thanks X-perience.org) - it
tells of all the new features and technologies of DirectX9, and finally here is a
link to the benchmarks.
- Windows XP Plus! SP1 - This update includes new Plus! CD Label Maker templates and Plus!
Speaker Enhancement speaker profiles. It also fixes minor issues with Plus! MP3 Audio
Converter and Plus! screen savers, discovered since the release of Plus! for Windows XP.
This will update your version 1.00.00.0554 of Plus! for Windows XP to version
1.00.01.0732.
- Virtual CD v4.3 - Virtual
CD copies your favourite audio-, data- or video-CD/DVDs as compressed image files on
the hard disk and emulates up to 22 CD drives to access and to run the CD applications.
- Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility v4.61 - The Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility was developed by Intel
Corporation to enable consumers the ability to identify and, in some circumstances,
determine if their Intel processor is operating at the correct and rated frequency
intended by Intel Corporation. Beginning with the Pentiumr processor, this utility
provides consumers with the ability to determine standard CPU identification of Intel
processors. In addition, supported processors can utilize the Frequency Test feature of
the utility to help determine if a processor has been overclocked.
- System Mechanic 3.7c - System Mechanic
includes 15 Powerful utilities for your PC: Clear junk files from your PC, clean your
Registry, speed up your Internet connection, ensure your privacy, fix broken shortcuts,
find and remove duplicate files, and lots more.
- Tweak-XP v1.32 - Tweak-XP is the tweaking and optimizing software for Windowr XP.
Unlike other tweaking utilities, Tweak-XP bundles more than 22 different utilities in one:
all you need for WinXP.
- ATI Radeon BIOS - I haven't even looked at them yet...however, if
someone wants to check them out, please post findings for others. They are dated March
23rd.
- NVRefreshTool 1.0 - NVRefreshTool
is a utility used to fix the problem in Windows 2000/XP that sets your refresh rate to
60Hz when you play ANY game.
- Generic Kyro Drivers v1.05.15.0084 - PowerVR has released some
new generic Kyro Drivers for all Kyro / KyroII based video cards: Windows
9x/ME / Windows
2000 / Windows
XP.
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