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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% [?]

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

Popularity: 9% [?]

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% [?]

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% [?]

Questionform is a online questionnaire application that allow you to create, publish and also analyze the statistics on your user response. It provide a very easy to use survey creation tools, you just need to double click or drag the component to create your question.

Questionform provide the field to include in the survey form:

• Text field
• Multiple choice
• Single choice
• star rating
• country selection
• Map selection
• file upload feature
• Video

Questionform have the pay subscript plan and also free plan, for the free plan, you may only create 2 questionnaire and with the limit of 5 question per questionnaire and a single page with max of 5 response.

There are various of subscription plan with difference features provided, the price is range from USD 9.95 to USD 49.00 per month.

Click hereto try out on my created sample survey

Click hereto go to Questionform home page

Questionform Homepage

click on new servuy to start the survey creation wizard

Questionform provide a various useful tools for you to create the form

Questionform survey creation tools

Various price plan with various features provided

Popularity: 1% [?]

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% [?]