Braid Art Labs LLP announces the availability of a beta x64 version of GroBoto, its 3D modeling and animation software, for the 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista and XP. GroBoto creates complex, dynamic, lyrical forms and animation with ease. The x64 version of GroBoto distinguishes itself in its ability to render large image files very fast. It can typically render many times HD resolution (5-10K squared!) images in a minute or less and HD resolution morph sequences with ease.

I've had my Dell XPS 420 six months now so I thought I'd give you an update on my impressions of the machine and changes I'm made to it since the initial purchase. In reality, it just now does everything I want correctly. Windows Vista SP1 fixed the last issue I had with the machine. So once again for all of you that want to stick with Windows XP, this machine is a really good reason to go with Windows Vista.

Update to disk-based backup and disaster recovery solution supports 64-bit operating systems

DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, today announced the release of StorageCraft ShadowProtect™ 3.2.

New version! - OpenAFS is the world's foremost location independent file system.  With OpenAFS for Windows, users of Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, XP64, Vista (32-bit and 64-bit editions) and Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit editions) can make the most of this proven data sharing solution.  The OpenAFS Project provides binary installation packages appropriate for both individual users and organizations with thousands of members.

Overtone GEQ is a freeware 7-band equalizer plug-in in VST and AudioUnit formats for Windows, Windows 64 and Mac OS X platforms

Overtone GEQ is 7-band harmonic (overtone) graphic equalizer with multi-channel support (supporting up to 8 input/output channels, host setup-dependent).  Overtone GEQ offers extensive internal channel routing capabilities, and supports mid/side channel processing.

New version! WinQuota Corporate is a fully automatic and real-time disk and folders quota management software for Windows. It was designed especially for administration in large and huge companies, hosting platforms. WinQuota Corporate provides quota management for folders and files separately for any kind of users and groups. It provides support of Active Directory complex structures, including forests and sites, and support of any kind of network users and groups.

(DS filter for capture to ASF container in the iuVCS utility) Version: 1.5.2.21

New version! - ASF Direct Writer filter is intended for capture and/or network broadcasting video and audio using the Microsoft ASF file container with most of the third-party codecs installed on your system. Using ASF container is guarantied for audio-video streams synchronization (in contrast to AVI container). To play captured file you can use various software players such Microsoft Windows Media Player and so on.

New version! - DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more.

Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers. For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB948016.

New version! - Ashampoo WinOptimizer is an easy-to-use suite of tools for maintaining and optimizing your Microsoft Windows® computer. It keeps your Windows® installation free of unnecessary garbage and running smoothly while other computers just get slower and slower.

Stratesave provides the intelligent organized, most reliable, strong performance, easiest to use and to install, most costs -effective, automated data backup solution for Windows standalone or client/server network. Stratesave's backup organization, a key capability, presents an overview of executed backup process, frees the user from the daily brain work of backup management and makes it easy to define the backup plan and run backup and recovery tasks.

Slackware Linux has stood strong for more than a decade by refusing to compromise. There was a time when people used to say, "If you want to learn Linux and learn it well, give Slackware a try." Attila Craciun, a Romanian software developer and Linux enthusiast, has ported the Slackware tree to the AMD64 architecture to create the Bluewhite64 distro. We spoke with him to find out about Bluewhite64, where it came from, and where it's going.

New version! - Vista Manager is a system utility that helps you to optimize and tweak, clean up your Windows Vista. It will increase you system speed, improve system security and suit your idea!

New version! - Query Tool (using ADO) 7.0 is a Universal Data Access (UDA) tool. It lets you query OLE DB data sources, author SQL scripts and queries, return query results to a grid or free-form text, retrieve provider properties, execute multiple SQL scripts or stored procedures simultaneously, and more.

New version! - Those wishing to view PDF files on their Windows PC's now have a choice when it comes to Viewing PDF files - the PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than the Adobe Reader which has until now been the Reader of choice for PDF files - we think that's about to change!

Exchange Server 2007 is a native 64-bit application that includes 64-bit management tools. You can use the management tools to administer your Exchange Server environment remotely. If the remote computer is running a 32-bit operating system, you will need to download the 32-bit management tools.

New version! - GDIView is a unique tool that displays the list of GDI handles (brushes, pens, fonts, bitmaps, and others) opened by every process. It displays the total count for each type of GDI handle, as well as detailed information about each handle. This tool can be useful for developers that need to trace GDI resources leak in their software.

New version! - The NTFS file system implemented in NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows XP-64 supports a facility known as hard links (referred to herein as HardLinks). HardLinks provide the ability to keep a single copy of a file yet have it appear in multiple folders (directories).