NiBiTor (NVIDIA BIOS Editor) is a free utility to tweak your nVidia GPU bios and change the sign-on message text & color, GPU & memory clocks, hidden features like SBA (Side Band Addressing) and much more.

NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) supports all BIOS's on Geforce5, 6 and 7 GPU series cards, the software does not require any .dll, and will work under any version of Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.

SimpleOCR is a free OCR software for windows for easy conversion of non-editable text on scanned images from various sources into editable text, SimpleOCR is able to accurately read and convert documents and files in standard fonts into editable electronic formats.

SimpleOCR recognition is 99% accurate, there is no better OCR application for the price. This increased accuracy greatly reduces the need for post-recognition proof reading and correction.

Process Lasso is an advanced task manager with ability to keep tab on resource hoggers resulting in system lockups and crashes, this small utility sits in your system tray and kicks in when certain user defined conditions are met like an application eating up more than 60% of your CPU cycles, Process Lasso will then avoid system lockup or crash by dynamically lowering process priority of the particular process.

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Process Lasso is a unique new technology intended to automatically adjust the allocation of CPU cycles so that system responsiveness is improved in high-load situations. It does this by dynamically temporarily lowering the priorities of processes that are consuming too many CPU cycles, there-by giving other processes a chance to run if they are in need. This is useful for both single and multi-core processors. No longer will a single process be able to bring your system to a virtual stall.

In addition, Process Lasso offers capabilities such as default process priorities, default process CPU affinities, termination of disallowed processes, and logging of processes executed. With Process Lasso you essentially create rules to manage processes running on your system. For example:

1. Examples Make notepad.exe run at below normal priority each time its launched.
2. Make firefox.exe run only on CPU #1 each time its launched.
3. When any process is consuming 35% or greater of the CPU for 1.5 seconds or more and the total system CPU usage is 95% or greater, lower that process's priority until it returns to 5% CPU utilization.

Speedbit - the makers of popular software "Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)" have came up with an interesting free software to speedup video loading of 60+ popular video websites like YouTube & MetaCafe, The new offering named SpeedBit Video Accelerator makes your videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or "hiccups".

The software assigns a proxy to your web browser and all connections to the video are routed through SpeedBit servers, utilizing multiple connections resulting in videos without breaks and pauses.

Check Point Software are giving away free license of there popular "ZoneAlarm Firewall with Anti-Spyware" until Nov 14 (05:00 PST).

This software bundles ZoneAlarm firewall and a spyware scanner with one year of free updates, so dont wait hurry and download via the special link at the end of the post (click Read more)

Maxthon is a feature packed powerful IE based tabbed browser, Besides general browser functions, Maxthon provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience. The most notable being the Anti-Freeze functionality - The emergence of Tabbed Browsing Mode and the increasing usage of Ajax Technology in websites might cause frequent freezing while browsing, Maxthon Browser has developed a new technology to solve this problem, makes your surfing more fluently. Test the freeze test here.

• Tabbed Browsing - All the web pages are arranged as tabs inside main window to ease your navigation.
• Anti-Freeze - Maxthon Browser has developed a new technology to solve this problem, makes your surfing more fluently.
• Maxthon Smart Acceleration - Boost the browsing speed of your frequent visit websites.
• Undo List - Closed a tab by mistake? There is always a chance to get them back with the Undo List.
• Magic Fill - Fill all the forms with Magic Fill by a single click. It can recognize almost any form fields automatically.
• Online Favorites Service - Access your Favorites content anywhere with Maxthon Online Favorites Service. The encrypted stand-alone Favorites file format can help you protect you privacy on a shared computer.
• Super Proxy - Supports connect to internet with HTTP, HTTPS, Socks4, Socks4a, Socks5 proxy servers, also supports proxies that requires authentication. Maxthon Browser can switch between proxies automatically base on your Advanced Proxy Rule setting.
• Ad Hunter - Ad Hunter can efficiently clean up the web pages by stopping Popup Windows and removing Ad Content Blocks. You can add content block to the filter with the "Block Page Content..." command in the Right-click Menu.
• And much more...

Yahoo! released the latest beta of their upcoming messenger update to version 9, featuring a completely new user interface with skinning capability and quite a few interesting new feature additions.

• New look for contact list with detail view to see larger Avatar images of your friends or the compact list view also allowing to just hover and click to IM, SMS or call a friend.
• Brand new skins and emoticons! Click the dot near the top of your Messenger window to choose a skin, and check the emoticon menu for the new ones that were inspired by user entries in our Emoticon test earlier this year (more on our winners in a future post).
• New Flickr integration in the photo sharing feature. Easily share photos from your Flickr.com account, or save photos shared with you directly to Flickr.
• A new in-line media player that makes it easy to view maps, photos and videos from sites like Yahoo! Video and YouTube right in the IM window. No plug-ins needed, no extra downloads — it’s built right in. Just send a video, map or photo link to another friend who’s also on 9.0 to try it out.
• New features for voice calls. You can have your incoming Phone In or free PC calls forwarded to another number like your mobile, home or office phone, even if you’re signed out of Messenger (Phone Out account required). Plus there’s a new way to get voicemail. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached.

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This new version of messenger might crash while starting up as reported by many users, specially the crash related to nspr4.dll, as in error message specified below.

Appname: yahoomessenger.exe AppVer: 9.0.0.797
Modname: nspr4.dll ModVer: 4.6.5.0 Offset: 00004944

Crysis is a sci-fi first-person shooter from the award-winning developer Crytek, the developers of the critically acclaimed Far Cry.

Earth, 2019: A colossal asteroid crashes down to Earth. The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain, claiming the mysteries of the asteroid for themselves. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation and report back to the Pentagon. Amid rising tensions between the US and North Koreans, the asteroid suddenly bursts open, revealing a massive, 2km high alien ship. The ship generates an immense force sphere, freezing a vast portion of the island and drastically altering the global weather system. The invasion of Earth has begun. The two rival nations unite to stop the aliens and save mankind. The newly formed alliance fights epic battles against the marauding Aliens. With hope rapidly fading, the player must lead a crack squad through lush tropical jungle, harsh frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G encounter with the aliens.

Crysis offers players a highly immersive FPS experience in which they will have to adapt their tactics, weaponry, armour and gameplay style to survive and defeat the alien invasion.

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Stardock's freeware utility LogonStudio allows Windows XP and Vista users to create, edit, change, and use custom logon screens. LogonStudio comes built with a easy to use visual editor to create your very own custom logon screen, you can also share your creations with other users. Using LogonStudio is pretty easy and you can use your own images to create different sections of your logon screen.

System Requirements:

* Windows XP for XP edition, Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) for Vista edition
* 10MB free drive space
* 512MB total system memory