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Zipeg is a free alternative to WinZip, WinRar, or StuffIt where Ziped support most of the common archive file format such as Zip, RAR, 7z, ARJ, LHA and many more. Zipeg is build on top of the powerfully 7zip engine and it have much more features then 7zip.

The killing features provide by Zipeg is the pictures and photo preview instantly or open in external application without extract it, just mouse over the selected file, a thumbnails will be display in the tool tips. By using this features, you may view the and search the file before you actually export it.

In addition, Zipeg also support the filenames in national alphabets in UTF-8, Unicode and codepage encodings. There is no any limitation in term of the archive file size and Zipeg is fully supported by Mac OSX and also Window XP/Vista.

File that supported by Zipeg:

• .zip (Zip Archive)
• .7z (7-zip Archive)
• .rar (RAR: Roshal Archive)
• .bz2 (BZip2 Archive)
• .gz (GNU Zip Archive)
• .tgz (Same as tar.gz)
• .arj (ARJ Archiver Robert Jung)
• .lzh (LHA/LZH Archive)
• .z (Unix Compress)
• .cab (Windows Cabinet)
• .chm (Compressed HTML)
• .cpio (Posix CPIO/PAX Archive)
• .ear (Enterprise Archive)
• .war (Web Archive)
• .cbr (Comic Book Archive (RAR))
• .cbz (Comic Book Archive (zip))

Click here to download Zipeg
Click here to go to Zipeg home page

Mouse over the picture or images file to view the thumbnail

You may also view the picture and images file in any of the photo viewing application

Supported file list by Zipeg

Popularity: 3% [?]

Because of I need to handle a project in my comany which include the forum features, but the language is Chinese Simplify, so I manage to find out this 9 years old product.

phpBB is a free and open source forum application. phpBB was created in June 2000 as UBB-like forum solution using the PHP language and the latest version up to today is phpBB 3.0 ‘Olympus 3.5′ (Release at 31 May 2009). phpBB is available at no cost, released under the GNU General Public License.

I choose this as my forum in the new project is because it come with an intuitive adminstration system and extensive customisation capabilities. Besides that, it is capable to supporting hundreds of million of discussions in any language and boatst some of the largest forum communities on the Internet. phpBB is developed by six core developers, more than forty team members and is supported by a community of almost 300,000 users and developers up to today.

The lastest version support the UTF-8 encoding including the Simplify chinese , tranditional chinese encoding, Russian, Thai, Turkish and more. Besides that, it support most of the most common database in market such as MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Firefird, SQLList. The release of phpBB 3.0 is come with nearly 500 enhancements, modification and extenstion compare to the previous version.

phpBB also is a highly recomended forum application for those who like to customize and quickly integrate into any content management system or static web site because it come with very flexible framework, documented Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Click here for more phpBB forum features list
Click here to go to phpBB forum official page
Click here to go to phpBB forum download page

phpBB forum home page

phpBB sample forum backend admin control paner

Popularity: 14% [?]

Just working out on the phpBB3.0 on the user registration integration with the main web site. Because of I plan to write the main web site using the coldfusion + MS SQL, so the only way as I may thinking of to do the integration is write a web service a like page for my coldfusion application to call.

After read through some forum, blog, web site and finally find out the way for the integration and here to share my simple PHPBB 3.0 user registration integration code.

  < ?PHP
  define('IN_PHPBB', true);
  /* set scope for variables required later */
  global $phpbb_root_path;
  global $phpEx;
  global $db;
  global $config;
  global $user;
  global $auth;
  global $cache;
  global $template;

  # your php extension
  $phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
  $phpbb_root_path = "../";

/* includes all the libraries etc. required */
  require($phpbb_root_path ."common.php");
  require($phpbb_root_path ."includes/functions_user.php");
  $use-->session_begin();
  $auth->acl($user->data);

// username of the user being added
$username = 'david';

// the user’s password, which is hashed before inserting into the data base
$password = 'password';

// an email address for the user
$email_address = 'admin@david-cheong.com';

// since group IDs may change, you may want to use a query to make sure you are grabbing the
// right default group...
$group_name = ($coppa) ? 'REGISTERED_COPPA' : 'REGISTERED';
$sql = 'SELECT group_id
        FROM ' . GROUPS_TABLE . "
        WHERE group_name = '" . $db->sql_escape($group_name) . "'
            AND group_type = " . GROUP_SPECIAL;

$result = $db->sql_query($sql);

$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);

$group_id = $row['group_id'];

// timezone of the user... Based on GMT in the format of '-6', '-4', 3, 9 etc...
$timezone = '8';

$language = 'zh_cmn_hans';

// here if the user is inactive and needs to activate thier account through an activation link
// sent in an email we need to set the activation key for the user... (the goal is to get it about
// 10 chars of randomization) you can use any randomization method you want, for this example,
// I’ll use the following...
$user_actkey = md5(rand(0, 100) . time());
$user_actkey = substr($user_actkey, 0, rand(8, 12));

// IP address of the user stored in the Data base.
$user_ip = $user->ip;

// registration time of the user, timestamp format.
$registration_time = time();

// time since the user is inactive. timestamp.
$user_inactive_time = time();

$user_row = array(
    'username'              => $username,
    'user_password'         => phpbb_hash($password),
    'user_email'            => $email_address,
    'group_id'              => (int) $group_id,
    'user_timezone'         => (float) $timezone,
    'user_dst'              => $is_dst,
    'user_lang'             => $language,
    'user_type'             => '0',
    'user_actkey'           => $user_actkey,
    'user_ip'               => $user_ip,
    'user_regdate'          => $registration_time,
	'user_dateformat'   	=> 'D M d, Y g:i a'
);

$user_id = user_add($user_row);

echo 'userid' . $user_id;

?>

Click here for PHP Cross Reference of Architecture PHPBB3

Popularity: 11% [?]

Wannianli.net is a calendar web site where you can check the Lunar calendar, festivals around the world and also world time.

On the home page, it will show this month calender and also the date time at the left hand side, once you mouse over the day in the calendar, it will show all the detail in that particular date. The date is range from year 1900 to year 2100.

Besides visit to the wannianli.net, you may also download the small window application which work almost the same with the web site but without the world time.

Click here to go to Wannianli home page
Click here to download wannianli window application

Wannianli web version

Wannianli window application

Popularity: 2% [?]

Mail Passview is a small password recovery tool that help you to recover your passwords and other account detail for the email clients such as

• Outlook Express
• Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only)
• Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003/2007 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts)
• Windows Mail
• Windows Live Mail
• IncrediMail
• Eudora
• Netscape 6.x/7.x (If the password is not encrypted with master password)
• Mozilla Thunderbird (If the password is not encrypted with master password)
• Group Mail Free
• Yahoo! Mail – If the password is saved in Yahoo! Messenger application.
• Hotmail/MSN mail – If the password is saved in MSN/Windows/Live Messenger application.
• Gmail – If the password is saved by Gmail Notifier application, Google Desktop, or by Google Talk.

For each account, Mail Password will display the

• Acccount Name
• Application
• Email
• Server
• Server Type (POP3/IMAP/SMTP)
• User name
• Password

Again, please bear in mind that if this application is misuse by some body else, this can be the tools to hack your email.

Popularity: 10% [?]

I believe a lot of   who do not share their PC will just store the MSN password on the computer and turn on the auto log in whenever the computer start up.

But after long time, you may not remember your long saved password, now you can recover back your MSN password by the MessenPass application to recover the password.

MessenPass is a password recovery tools that reveals the password of the instant messenger application such as

• MSN Messenger
• Window Messenger (In Window XP)
• Window Live Messenger (In Window XP and Vista)
• Yahoo Messenger (Versions 5.x and 6.x)
• Google Talk
• ICQ Lite 4.x/5.x/2003
• AOL Instant Messenger v4.6 or below, AIM 6.x, and AIM Pro.
• Trillian
• Trillian Astra
• Miranda
• GAIM/Pidgin
• MySpace IM
• PaltalkScene
• Digsby

Please bear in mind that this is a helpful application that can help you to recover your saved password but yet it also may explore your password to the public if some one misuse it.

To use this application, there is no installation require, just download it and run it from the zip file. It only work if you currently log into your IM application or you chose to remember your password in one of the above IM application

After run the MessenPass, it will immediately disply the Software, Protocol, Username, and password

Popularity: 3% [?]