ACDSee 9 Photo Manager

by zzillezz on September 29, 2006

ACDSee is one of those programs that seem to have been around forever. ACDSee is a picture organizer and editor, just like a zillion others. But there’s a difference: the ease-of-use is second to none. While I love XnView, which (…)

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Winamp 5.3

by zzillezz on September 27, 2006

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x (…)

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MediaCoder

by zzillezz on September 26, 2006

Ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to resize, crop or save a video file into a different format? Then you know it can be a tough job. MediaCoder tries to make things easier. But keep in mind, (…)

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Opera 9.02

by zzillezz on September 22, 2006

Opera is my trusty second choice when it comes to browsing. That’s just how it is. It’s free, fast, and has some very handy features that are not to be found in standard Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. And Opera (…)

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BitTorrent for Windows 4.22.1

by zzillezz on September 22, 2006

BitTorrent is a protocol for distributing files. It identifies content by URL and is designed to integrate seamlessly with the web. Its advantage over plain HTTP is that when multiple downloads of the same file happen concurrently, the downloaders upload (…)

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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.59

by zzillezz on September 21, 2006

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. It is designed as a user-friendly soluction for playing all your video files. (…)

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foobar2000 0.9.4 beta 2

by zzillezz on September 12, 2006

foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Latest Changes: * Fixed playlist writer crash * Other minor fixes (…)

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A Lucky cat

by zzillezz on September 11, 2006

Véro, my wife, was going to work the other day. She passed a car, and heared the moaning screams of a kitten … coming from under the hood of the parked car. She called 101, they found the owner of (…)

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I used to know a lot of people

by zzillezz on September 3, 2006

They partied at my house. They spent my money. I drove them around I my car. We had fun. I loved some of them. I helped a lot of them. They got second chances, even third chances. No I don’t (…)

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Onwards and upwards?

by zzillezz on September 3, 2006

As of tomorrow I’m starting off as manager of my own shop. I’m not as excited as I’d like to be. I hate leaving my old colleagues whom I worked with over the past two years. I’m nervous because I (…)

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