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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

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Video2MP3 is a free YouTube, MyVideo, Clipfish, Sevenload, Dailymotion, MySpace to MP3 converter. It allow you to convert and download a video to MP3 file online. The best of the Video2MP3.net is totally free, fast, and no signup is require. All you need to do is enter the video URL into the text box on the Video2MP3 home page, than it will transfer the video to the MP3 for you to download.

So you are able to listen your favorite tracks from the selected video hosting portal on any MP3 player.

Video2MP3 provide standard (64k MP3) and high quality (128k MP3) MP3, the higher quality the MP3 is, the slower the downloading speed because it need time to convert it and also the file fize will be bigger.

Click here to go to Video2MP3 home page

Video2Mp3 home page

Convert youtube video into MP3 and download it

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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

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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

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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

You may create the word clouds by copy and paste your bunch of text in the the text area, enter the url of your blog, blog feed or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed. After you get your word clouds, you may edit it by changing the font size, font type, font color, layout, or remove certain language from the wordcloud.

Currently Worlde supported most of the language but not Chinese and Japanese, base on the author, this is because they cannot reconize the word split for this 2 languages.

For more question, you may refer to the Wordle FAQ page.
Click here to go to Wordle home page

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Fuser.com puts you at the center of all the conversatinos you care about by letting you easily manage your e-mail, facebook, myspace and twitter communications in one secure place, so you’ll never miss another message.

I believe most of the internet user may have more then one email account nowadays, and we used to login to each email account through the web mail to check your inbox. But it maybe troublesome if you need to login more then one email account just to check your email. Here come the Fuser.com that allow you to check all the conversations and email at one place.

After you register and verify your email account, just login to the Fuser.com and add your webmail account into Fuser. You may add more then one email account into Fuser.com and you may also add the social network account into Fuser.

To add any new email or social networking account just click on the “Add/Edit account” link at the left bar, to edit your account configuration such as adding a new Avartar, changing the password, changing the registered email, just click on the “setting” link at the top right bar.

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