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Founded in 1993, ESTsoft is a South Korean application software development company. Its software ranges from desktop to business software for enterprises. Products There are several products marketed under the "ALTools" product line. In Korea, "Al" means "egg", and numerous products under this category have egg-themed icons and mascots. ALTools products include: * ALZip - a compression and archiving utility, supporting several archiving formats, including ISO * ALFTP - an FTP client and server * ALSee - an image viewer and photo editor * ALPass - a password manager for web sites (update service end) * ALGIF - a GIF animation program (update end) * ALSong - an MP3 player which supports online content * ALShow - a media player * ALMap - a family of digital map viewers and GPS (both software and hardware) (update end) * ALX - digital rights management software * ALToolbar - a toolbar for Internet Explorer * ALYac - an antivirus based on BitDefender engine Other ESTsoft prod ...
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ALFTP
ALFTP is an FTP client and personal FTP server utility from ESTsoft for Microsoft Windows. It is part of ESTsoft's ALTools product family. While it has been available in Korean since 2000 as freeware (commercialized in 2002 for government and corporate use), it was first made available in English in 2004, and has since been made available in over ten languages. Translations for ALFTP are provided by members of the ALTools user community. The software received positive reviews in South Korea for its simplicity, and for having a Korean language interface, illustrating the importance of localization for software. ALFTP is free for home use and may be freely redistributed. Personal FTP Server The personal FTP server in ALFTP requires no configuration, although several configuration options are available. The FTP server is intended for personal use by non-technical users to casually transfer files for home use. It is a single user interface, permissions, and user connection limit ...
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Cabal Online
''Cabal Online'' (, stylized as ''CABAL Online'') is a free-to-play, 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by South Korean company ESTsoft. Different localizations of the game exist for various countries and regions. Although free-to-play, the game makes use of the freemium business model by implementing an "Item Shop", both in-game and via web, allowing players to purchase special premium coins using real currency, in order to acquire exclusive game enhancements and features, useful items and assorted vanity content. ''Cabal Online'' takes place in a fictional world known as Nevareth, nearly a thousand years after its devastation by a powerful group of idealistic men, the CABAL. Hoping to turn their world into a utopia, they inadvertently fueled the forces and laws of nature to rebel against them, causing the event known as the Apocalypse. After the destruction, only eight members of the CABAL survived, including their leader, Faust. Prophesying the future ...
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ESTsoft
Founded in 1993, ESTsoft is a South Korean application software development company. Its software ranges from desktop to business software for enterprises. Products There are several products marketed under the "ALTools" product line. In Korea, "Al" means "egg", and numerous products under this category have egg-themed icons and mascots. ALTools products include: * ALZip - a compression and archiving utility, supporting several archiving formats, including ISO * ALFTP - an FTP client and server * ALSee - an image viewer and photo editor * ALPass - a password manager for web sites (update service end) * ALGIF - a GIF animation program (update end) * ALSong - an MP3 player which supports online content * ALShow - a media player * ALMap - a family of digital map viewers and GPS (both software and hardware) (update end) * ALX - digital rights management software * ALToolbar - a toolbar for Internet Explorer * ALYac - an antivirus based on BitDefender engine Other ESTsoft prod ...
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ALZip
ALZip is an archive and compression utility software application developed by ESTsoft for Microsoft Windows that can unzip forty different archive file formats. ALZip can also archive files into eight different archive formats. Introduced in ALZip version 8, their own proprietary ALZ and EGG archive formats can be used, which supports Unicode, compression and other features. History ALZip was developed in 1999 as an internal application by the South Korean software company ESTsoft in response to employees' frustration using the English interface in WinZip. The Korean interface was immediately well received and later that year, ALZip was publicly released as freeware. In just over a year, ALZip became the most popular archiver program in South Korea and by December 2001, was the top downloaded softwareMaeilkyungjae IT Internet (2001-12-03) in the country. By 2004, it had reached a 70% market share in South Korea. The popularity of the software and the ALZ and EGG archive format ...
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Software Development
Software development is the process of designing and Implementation, implementing a software solution to Computer user satisfaction, satisfy a User (computing), user. The process is more encompassing than Computer programming, programming, writing source code, code, in that it includes conceiving the goal, evaluating feasibility, analyzing software requirements, requirements, software design, design, software testing, testing and software release life cycle, release. The process is part of software engineering which also includes management, organizational management, Software project management, project management, configuration management and other aspects. Software development involves many skills and job specializations including software programmer, programming, software test, testing, Technical writing, documentation, graphic design, user support, marketing, and fundraising. Software development involves many software tools, tools including: compiler, integrated develo ...
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. It does not require the user to transmit any data, and operates independently of any telephone or Internet reception, though these technologies can enhance the usefulness of the GPS positioning information. It provides critical positioning capabilities to military, civil, and commercial users around the world. Although the United States government created, controls, and maintains the GPS system, it is freely accessible to anyone with a GPS receiver. Overview The GPS project was started by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1973. The first prototype spacecraft was launched in 1978 an ...
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Companies Established In 1993
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity, was created by the state which granted the privilege of incorporation. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is to generate sales, revenue, and profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duties according to the publicly declared incorporation ...
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Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a Player character, character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from Online game, single-player or small Multiplayer online game, multi-player online RPGs by the number of players able to interact together, and by the game's persistent world (usually hosted by the game's video game publisher, publisher), which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game. MMORPGs are played throughout the world. Global revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and the western world's revenues exceeded a billion dollars in 2006. In 2008, the spending on subscription MMORPGs by consumers in North America and Europe gre ...
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Instant Messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of synchronous computer-mediated communication involving the immediate ( real-time) transmission of messages between two or more parties over the Internet or another computer network. Originally involving simple text message exchanges, modern IM applications and services (also called "social messengers", "messaging apps", "chat apps" or "chat clients") tend to also feature the exchange of multimedia, emojis, file transfer, VoIP (voice calling), and video chat capabilities. Instant messaging systems facilitate connections between specified known users (often using a contact list also known as a "buddy list" or "friend list") or in chat rooms, and can be standalone apps or integrated into a wider social media platform, or in a website where it can, for instance, be used for conversational commerce. Originally the term "instant messaging" was distinguished from " text messaging" by being run on a computer network instead of a cellula ...
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Internet Service Provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned. Internet services typically provided by ISPs can include internet access, internet transit, domain name registration, web hosting, and colocation. History The Internet (originally ARPAnet) was developed as a network between government research laboratories and participating departments of universities. Other companies and organizations joined by direct connection to the backbone, or by arrangements through other connected companies, sometimes using dialup tools such as UUCP. By the late 1980s, a process was set in place towards public, commercial use of the Internet. Some restrictions were removed by 1991, shortly after the introduction of the World Wide Web. During the 1980s, online s ...
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Online File Storage
A file-hosting service, also known as cloud-storage service, online file-storage provider, or cyberlocker, is an internet hosting service specifically designed to host user files. These services allow users to upload files that can be accessed over the internet after providing a username and password or other authentication. Typically, file hosting services allow HTTP access, and in some cases, FTP access. Other related services include content-displaying hosting services (i.e. video and image), virtual storage, and remote backup solutions. Uses Personal file storage Personal file storage services are designed for private individuals to store and access their files online. Users can upload their files and share them publicly or keep them password-protected. Document-sharing services allow users to share and collaborate on document files. These services originally targeted files such as PDFs, word processor documents, and spreadsheets. However many remote file storage servi ...
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BitDefender
Bitdefender is a multinational cybersecurity technology company dual-headquartered in Bucharest, Romania and Santa Clara, California, with offices in the United States, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. The company was founded in 2001 by current CEO and main shareholder, Florin TalpeČ™. Bitdefender develops and delivers cybersecurity products and services, including antivirus software, endpoint security, identity protection and online privacy for consumers and enterprises. Bitdefender products are distributed through partners in over 150 countries, and the US market is estimated to generate more than 40% of its revenue. As of 2025, the company employed more than 1,800 people worldwide. History Bitdefender software was originally developed by SOFTWIN, a company founded in 1990 in post-communist Romania. It was originally sold as AVX (Antivirus Expert) from 1996 until 2001, when the Bitdefender subsidiary was created, and AVX was rebranded under the Bitdefender name.In 2 ...
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