Download of the Week

FireAlpaca is a free, easy-to-use painting tool with customizable brushes, layers, and animation features. Version 2.13 introduces a new Brush Store so you can download a wide variety of brushes, expanding creative possibilities.

Steam Families consolidates the management of your family's games in one location, while introducing new parental controls. The latest Steam client also improves library performance.

VirtualBox's refreshed UI brings a more modern feel, including a switch from simplified controls for beginners to full settings for experienced users, and more.

Kali Linux 2024.3 introduces several new tools, including gsocket for communication between machines on different networks, mxcheck for scanning email servers, and hekatomb for extracting and decrypting credentials.

SpeedFan comes in handy for adjusting your system fan speeds based on internal temperatures, allowing you to improve cooling while reducing noise and power consumption.

Visual Studio Code is offering improved test generation and chat history with GitHub Copilot, full project Intellisense and package typings on vscode.dev, and various other improvements on its latest release.

A new MS PowerToys utility called Workspaces lets you create, save, and launch sets of applications with a custom layout and configuration on your desktop with one click.

VMware Workstation has been updated with support for Windows 11 23H2, Server 2025, Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40. Also, the vmcli command-line tool allows users to create new virtual machines, VM templates, power on VMs, and more settings through direct access to the hypervisor.

Despite its early stage, Zen includes useful features like split view, a sidebar, and a compact mode for more screen real estate. It is compatible with most desktop operating systems, including older ones.

DLSS Updater automatically scans your installed games and updates them to the latest Nvidia DLSS DLL version available. It supports games installed via Steam, Epic store, Ubisoft, GOG, EA and Battle.net.

Shotcut is introducing a new subtitle panel for adding subtitles to a project. Subtitles can be imported in SRT, VTT, ASS, and SSA formats.

The newly revamped PlayStation Accessories app lets you create and switch between different custom profiles for your DualSense Edge controller on Windows PCs. Additionally, you can update DualSense's firmware via a wired connection or Bluetooth.

Minecraft 1.21.22 Bedrock Edition solves several gameplay crashes, improves add-on loading in the marketplace, and fixes a bug where all custom blocks were rotated 180 degrees.

Among the changes in Visual Studio 2022 17.11.1, we find AI breakpoints to help you debug more efficiently, improved symbol recognition, and other productivity enhancements.

Geekbench AI uses real-world machine learning tasks to evaluate AI workload performance on your CPU, GPU, or NPU usage. It provides three scores: full-precision, half-precision, and quantized data.

GPU-Z 2.60 also includes support for AMD Zen 5 CPU temperature monitoring and several bug fixes.

The VPN service has a goal of "defeating censorship"

This 90s classic has been modded to include ray tracing giving it a whole new feel. For those nostalgists, you can download Doom 2 with Ray Tracing, as well as the classic version, right here.

VMware Workstation lets you run Windows, Linux, and a host of other operating systems side-by-side on the same PC. Switch between OS instantly, share files between VMs with drag-and-drop functionality, create clones and more.

New Display settings let you modify the resolution, refresh rate, and monitor orientation. There's also a new RTX Video enhancements section for converting SDR video playing in your browser into HDR.

GeForce graphics griver 560.81 adds DLSS support for Hunt: Showdown 1896. Additionally, introduces profiles for Chained Together, Dungeonborne, Once Human, Stormgate and The First Descendant.

Until now, Chrome has used the Data Protection API (DPAPI) to protect sensitive data on Windows. However, with Chrome 127, they are introducing app-bound encryption, similar to how the Keychain operates on macOS.

Amuse is an AI image generator that runs locally on your PC and employs AMD XDNA Super Resolution technology to upscale images to twice the resolution compared to Stable Diffusion. It currently runs only on modern AMD hardware.

Fluid Motion Frames 2 leverages frame generation tech to increase frame rates and gameplay smoothness across a vast array of games. AFMF 2 works with OpenGL, Vulkan, DX11, and DX12 games that support AMD HYPR-RX on Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 series GPUs.

Steam is introducing standalone pages for game demos, complete with demo-specific screenshots, content and reviews. Users can now receive notifications for demos, add them to their library, and easily manage them.