tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73124348161578752652012-02-16T02:24:51.484-08:00A blog about freeware, non-restrictive shareware/trialware, open-source software & other technological things related to it.Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-19350377420543385902010-04-21T09:51:00.000-07:002010-04-21T09:51:34.257-07:00

We have agreed to merge Zettai media Player project into halfey's own previous project, Open Media Player (OpenMPlayer) which has been hosted at SourceForge.net since almost a year ago (you may visit the project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmplayer). At this development phase, the player can be referred to as either Open Media Player or Zettai Media Player (ZMP). With this merger,

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-90694117875411425622010-04-14T08:17:00.000-07:002010-04-14T08:18:57.857-07:00

Following our previous initiative on working on our first software, we feel moved to go to the next step, to make our own internet forum software. This is not a new project since it is a revival of halfey's old project, "Project Ophirus" which was before hosted at Watermark Project Forum (now inactive) and it will keep the same goal with some additions. For the time being we are planning to name

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-74092738874087129902010-04-01T11:11:00.000-07:002010-04-02T09:47:31.162-07:00

Since Zettai-Freeware has been around for quite sometime, we have finally decided to release our own media player software under the Zettai Media Player (ZMP) branding. Although we are aware that we have yet to have strong enough presence in the media player branding, we hope that with the release of our own media player, it will become a catalyst to make our presence even stronger in the near

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-18449591745484949812010-02-15T23:46:00.000-08:002010-02-17T03:32:22.905-08:00

SRWare Iron is a free and open source browser based on Chromium, which Google Chrome is based on. In fact, it behaves exactly like Google Chrome with a few exceptions. Iron is designed for privacy.Read more...The difference between Chrome and Iron is that, according to their website, Iron doesn't send data silently to Google as Chrome do. That also means it doesn't check for updates as well.

sharif-strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562159533781982964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-87984692586036790972010-01-25T06:57:00.001-08:002010-02-17T03:31:11.482-08:00

This is the first time for us to write a review-cum-comparison. Our victims now are some media players and we are talking about emphasizing on the audio capability of those software. We decided to write this article after all of us here grown tired of Winamp. Initially we would include Yahoo Musicmatch and RealPlayer too but in the final editing those two were dropped because the former was way

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-58087179628302980342010-01-17T22:20:00.000-08:002010-02-17T03:32:40.459-08:00

If you're looking for a free and highly flexible audio player, nothing beats foobar2000. It may not be as popular as Winamp or MediaMonkey, but it is the choice of many audiophiles out there. Why? It's wide range of DSPs available allows it enhance its output, add functionality, support exotic file formats, give some eyecandy, and many more. Its the Firefox of audio players.Read more...Yes, the

sharif-strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562159533781982964noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-47816973261406544102010-01-01T00:01:00.000-08:002009-12-31T05:06:14.283-08:00

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

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-34843466293166676722009-09-15T15:15:00.000-07:002009-09-18T11:02:20.138-07:00

Mozilla Firefox (otherwise known as just Firefox) is a free open source internet browser originally developed by Mozilla Foundation. Currently Firefox is available for 3 major operating systems, namely Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, as well as several other UNIX-like operating systems.Read more...We have reviewed the Flock browser before and now we feel it is time to review the mother of all

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-88902092085502617382009-09-09T09:09:00.000-07:002009-09-16T20:30:00.297-07:00

SmartDefrag is a free hard drive defragmentation tool from IObit for Windows. It is designed to simplify and automate the defragmenting process with very little system resource utilization.Read more...As we have mentioned before, this time around we will review another freeware from IObit. Just like the GameBooster we previously reviewed, this tool may also be integrated into Advanced SystemCare

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-85975512302378663692009-09-03T05:53:00.000-07:002009-09-03T06:37:08.076-07:00

Game Booster is another freeware from IObit, the people who brought to you the Advanced SystemCare we reviewed before. As we had mentioned before, Game Booster can be integrated seamlessly into Advanced SystemCare, giving you the ultimate set of tools to uleash you PC gaming capabilities to its fullest.Read more...Game Booster is a system utilities for Windows. It does just what its name bears;

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-40848893353987595362009-08-21T06:00:00.000-07:002009-08-21T18:53:03.015-07:00

Songbird is a free and open source audio player for all major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is part of the Mozilla Foundation project and the current stable release is version 1.2.Read more...We finally urged to put Songbird under a series of tests for a review after informed that the latest version comes with equalizer, a sound enhancement we have been longing for

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-49259200058106789252009-08-14T12:30:00.000-07:002009-08-15T19:15:24.444-07:00

Server2Go is a 'donationware' by German-based Server2Go software group. It comprised of a complete WAMP server-stack package (Apache web server plus additional PHP, MySQL and Perl components) that runs natively from virtually any portable media (USB drives, memory card, etc.) as well as write-protected media like CD-ROM, without the need of installation.Read more...The idea of having a complete

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-80056025028907558442009-08-01T06:27:00.000-07:002009-08-01T07:12:58.428-07:00

Lingoes is a desktop multi-lingual text translation software for Windows. There are 2 versions of Lingoes, namely the freeware version and the paid version. As usual, the paid version offers more features but the free version does too restrictive either and still provide users with numbers of great translation functions.Read more...At a glance, most people would have an impression that Lingoes is

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-75656217243095275552009-07-18T21:13:00.000-07:002009-07-18T22:04:03.800-07:00

Flock is a free open-source Firefox-based web browser developed by Flock Inc for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Just like any other Mozilla-derived software which is always named after animal-centric words, Flock is probably named either after the word that represent a group of birds or perhaps after a genus of flower plants. As an open source software, it is mainly licensed under GPL, while some

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-45479833144260331582009-07-15T07:15:00.000-07:002009-07-15T07:55:14.476-07:00

Advanced SystemCare Free is a system optimization package for Windows. It is developed by IOBit.com who is known for their award winning optimization tools.Read more...Advanced SystemCare Free offers a basic optimization options for Windows system. This 'free' version offers some basic options to optimize the system. More optimization options are available in the Pro version but for average home

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-41716351986516550742009-07-14T07:09:00.000-07:002009-07-14T20:30:24.673-07:00

Avira Antivir Personal is a free antivirus software developed by Germany-based Avira GmbH. It is available in various major computing platforms like Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris. Avira Antivir Personal is currently in version 9. From version 9, the free Personal edition comes available with antispyware and antiadware which was only made available in Premium and Security Suite

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-50798440553715969702009-07-09T06:48:00.001-07:002009-09-16T20:30:30.265-07:00

Safari is a free web browser for both Mac and Windows PC. It is developed by Apple Inc. and is currently in its 4th version. THe browser is made based on Apple's own WebKit webpage rendering engine, of which was developed based on Konqueror's KHTML (in the form of WebCore) and KJS (in the form of JSC). Since both KHTML and KJS are open-source, WebKit also has been made open-source as well (under

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-15442025960490240812009-07-05T05:59:00.000-07:002009-07-09T08:01:13.805-07:00

StorYBook is a free book authoring software. It is mainly developed by Intertec but being an open-source software, many parts of this software are also jointly developed by the open-source community.Read more...StorYBook is pretty much a book authoring software for beginner as it offers adequate assistance for new authors. The interface is neat and clean, almost resembling some other professional

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-54132952141148759002009-06-29T05:25:00.000-07:002009-07-09T08:06:32.996-07:00

SUPER is a video encoder software for Windows. It is developed and distributed for free by eRightsoft.Read more...SUPER is not an encoder by itself. It is just a GUI front-end for real encoders beneath. These encoders include FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora, musepack, Monkey's Audio, True Audio, WavPack, libavcodec, and the Theora/Vorbis RealProducer plugIn projects. SUPER is meant

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-57129263292989808592009-06-27T01:09:00.000-07:002009-07-09T08:02:37.602-07:00

Apple iTunes is a free media player for both Windows and Mac OS X. It was a media library made by Apple for Mac OS X only until a Windows-ported was launched since version 4. It was a hit since then.Read more...Initially as a proprietary digital music organizer for Mac computer and iPod, iTunes is now regarded as one of the best media player of all time. Despite the criticism it received for not

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-64969583463646054712009-06-21T18:13:00.000-07:002009-06-27T13:41:55.497-07:00

Beo Player is a free mp3 player made by Bang & Olufsen for Windows. The program is currently in its 5th version, now with support for picture management since the 4th version. There is no video playing capability yet, and it is likely that Bang & Olufsen won’t include video playing at least in the near future.Read more...Despite in version 5, the program has not much changes since the very first

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-69213014660739879842009-06-18T20:38:00.000-07:002009-07-09T08:04:46.425-07:00

Paint.NET, as its name bears is a free digital painting software for Windows. It is built based on the existing Microsoft Paint by some college students in US. The development project itself is advised and assisted by Microsoft as a mean to be an extended version of Microsoft Paint. Again, as it name bears, the software is built on Microsoft .NET Framework, thus requires the .NET installed to use

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-33364050178820859362009-06-18T16:41:00.000-07:002009-07-09T08:05:23.583-07:00

Artweaver is a free digital painting software for Windows. It has been around for about a year and is currently in version 0.5.Read more...Artweaver is one of the best available alternative for Microsoft Paint, as it offers more brush control as well as layering capability, great for those who like to paint separate and manageable elements. The interface shares much similarities with Photoshop,

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-91430900103852882522009-03-03T15:03:00.000-08:002009-07-09T08:07:29.729-07:00

Since September last year, Google has released a brand new web browser to compete head to head with other rivals in the browser war. Named Chrome, the browser is made open-source, making it playing on an even field with Firefox. As of time of writing, no OS X and Linux version is available, however, being open-source, we can expect them real soon. OS X user should not complain much though. Even

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-21005984022536446262003-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:002009-09-03T07:03:41.718-07:00

This website (blog) is created in place of an actual computer magazine. I have always dreaming of having my own published computer magazine. However, I am just another commoner with neither money nor related academic qualification. I am actually more into computer hardware but it is next to impossible for me to review them since there is no such thing s 'free' hardware, even for the second hand

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-72496931950804853452002-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:002009-07-12T17:54:05.354-07:00

Here are the list of some questions frequently asked to us, together with the answer for each questions. Click "Read more..." to expand it. You may also ask any question by replying to this article.Read more...1. Q: What's with those ads? It looks like your website is infested by ads.A: Our website are not that 'infested' since there are only 3 ad banners here. We need those ads to generate

Halfey Halphsteinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312434816157875265.post-88286246408440608552001-01-01T01:00:00.000-08:002009-06-27T02:08:29.914-07:00

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