Another news feed reader (with RSS and Atom feed support) has been added to the Free Standalone News Feed Readers and News Aggregators page. If you want to use a desktop program to keep track of the updates from various websites, such as thefreecountry.com and thesitewizard.com, the programs listed on this page might just be what you're looking for.
Tofrodos 1.7.13 has been released. This is a free (and open source) program that converts ASCII and Unicode UTF-8 text files from the Windows/DOS format to the Unix/Linux/Mac OS X format and vice versa.
The newest version of Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 has just been released. This free software lets you develop computer programs for the Windows desktop and Windows Store. It includes compilers for the C++ programming language, Visual Basic and C#.
If you are looking for a way to convert your PHP script into a Windows .EXE file, the latest addition to the Free PHP Compilers: native code, .NET and Java bytecode compilers page might interest you. As the title suggests, the page also lists compilers that can change your PHP program into Java and .NET executables. These compilers may be useful if you (say) want to write a program for the desktop but only know the PHP computer language.