With the new year comes the new resolution

KUALA LUMPUR    In the spirit of celebrating the new year, the owner of Zettai Freeware, Halfey Halphstein (not the one in the picture) promised that he will never abandon Zettai Freeware, and said he already has various plans to resume his job as a freelance freeware tester.

"For the past few months me and my colleagues were having some hardships as well  numbers of unexpected things came up. That is why the website has not been updated since September," said Halfey during the new year celebration just now. "You know, we are consisting of only 5 people using some aging computers. Imagine running today's software on an Intel Atom powered PC as well as a 1.4Ghz Pentium 4 machine. It's slow and sad."

Halfey said this new year things definitely going to change as he and some of his colleagues already get themselves some awesome computers to keep continuing their work. Most of the new computers are now powered by at least Intel Pentium D processors.

"My own PC is powered by an overclocked Core 2 Duo E7500 CPU, coupled with nVidia GeForce 9600GT. Yes, that means we are also going to test some 3D games too, if there are any freeware 3D games of course. For a starter, we might have to test some MMORPG for you since most of them now are free to play," he said, as he unveiled the detailed specifications of his new PC. "Unlike in the past, we even use a Pentium M laptop, not to mention we even have a Pentium III machine still 'running around' to make our jobs done. Luckily most of us managed to fork out some money we have saved since the establishment of Zettai Freeware and now we are back to give our service for those who needs them."

When asked about the identity of his other colleagues, Halfey refused to spill much words about it.

"We have a contract that we are not going to reveal much about each other except to say that we are exist as a group. I can only say that some of the hardships we faced are, one of us was getting married, another one was busy with his newly born baby, and there's one was on maternity leave... Yes, we have married couple too in our team. Me and another one were busy with our own work as government officers."

"However, like I said, you will see some changes soon, some are major changes and there will be some minor changes too. All that were done to bring the best from us to our 'customers'. I hope our 'customers' will accept and appreciate all the sacrifices, the sweat, tears, blood, and probably some saliva too that we have shed in order to get ourselves the better tools to do this job, despite the economic turmoil that affects our world now."

"We want everybody to be happy this year with more freeware reviews we will write. I also recently have received an application from an online friend who are willing to lend some hands. and now I am happy that we officially have at least 6 people in our team. Of course I would accept that and for your information, we are still looking for more freelance freeware reviewers and editors so anybody who are interested may drop a comment in the Zettai Freeware blog."