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Wimpy - Flash player Nov 25, '07 4:03 PM for everyone Category: Other Wimpy is a nice and very small program (ca 2MB )of the second ‘flash video’ generation . The program is a standalone player – ie without any installation required – and can be downloaded from this site : http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html and is available in both Mac and Windows versions AS you may see from the picture the player is very tiny with nearly nothing special except its drag and drop capabilities. However comparing to the K-lite codec and its MP classic program as well VLC as most of the flash files are of variable bitrate . the program can still seek the file without being stuck or stopping playing Next as with all previous wimpy can have more than 2 instances so that more than 2 files can be played instantly . See here: (at the top right picture you see the singer playing a buzuki , it is a Greek music organ ) The nicest points for ...

7zip Mar 9, '08 11:43 AM for everyone Category: Computers & Electronics Product Type: Other Manufacturer:   7zip 7 zip a nice archiver   file manager and free program This is a fast written   blog. Looked to download a file   and it required   the 7z file format in order to be downloaded in its 'zipped' format otherwise i could download the excitable   with installer. This made me look a bit in the 7zip   web page   located on : http://www.7-zip.org/ The above picture is from thier web page On that page there was   also a handy reference between 5 packagers showing 7z   as the winner in compression over firefox and   Google earth   files But is the format capable as best compressor    in between   the most common formats? I made a new directory , adding    several different formats   of files, compressed each file separately by 7zip , winrar and rar's zip, adju...