Weekly Freeware » Featured http://weeklyfreeware.com Another free program every week! Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:37:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 7-Zip http://weeklyfreeware.com/2010/04/7-zip/ http://weeklyfreeware.com/2010/04/7-zip/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:05:50 +0000 Christopher http://weeklyfreeware.com/?p=11 Chances are you deal with zip files all the time. And they can be so annoying if you use them with the Microsoft extractor because it takes so long. 7-Zip is a great, free alternative program.

7-Zip is able to compress and extract 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR files and only extract ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z files. It is faster than the Windows extractor, especially if you are still using Windows XP. In Vista and 7 the speed became better, but for large files it is still not as fast as it can be. Different compression ratios can be used as well as the ability to password protect an archive.

7-Zip integrates into Windows Explorer, letting you compress and decompresses files from the context menu.

7-Zip

]]> http://weeklyfreeware.com/2010/04/7-zip/feed/ 0 The Pale Moon Project http://weeklyfreeware.com/2010/04/the-pale-moon-project/ http://weeklyfreeware.com/2010/04/the-pale-moon-project/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:15:22 +0000 Christopher http://weeklyfreeware.com/?p=12 You may have heard of a browser called Firefox. It is an excellent alternative to Internet Explorer. There are disadvantages though, one of them being that Firefox is created with multiple platforms in mind. The Pale Moon Project effectively minimizes the performance hit.You’ll notice significant speed increases and lower resource usage for pages that use JavaScript. It also uses slightly less memory than the original Firefox as they disabled redundant and optional code. But you don’t loose hardly any Firefox functionality. If you need parental controls or accessibility features this is not for you. Automatic update checking is also disabled. Most addons should work without a problem.

Pale Moon will run right alongside a Firefox installation. It also uses your Firefox profile so if you don’t like it switching back isn’t a problem.

The Pale Moon Project

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