RealPlayer Free Version Offline Installers for Version 14.0.1.609

Do you have a hard time to locate RealPlayer Free version installer for offline use? Let me share some standalone installers URLs that I discovered for specific regions and languages. How to discover the offline installer download URLs is presented at the end of this post.

English - United States
English - United Kingdom
Traditional Chinese - Taiwan
Simplified Chinese - Mainland China
Japanese - Japan
Deutsch - Germany
French - France

RealPlayer Version:	14.0.1.609
Installer File Version:	12.0.1.609

If you don't care the latest version of RealPlayer and don't mind using a version older, you can simply go RealPlayer old version page for download. This page offers older standalone installers for offline use including all supported languages.

URL Patterns

Looking at the URLs, I found that only the first two query strings are the keys for getting offline installers.

http://switchboard.real.com/player/installer.html?cd=backup_download&distcode=R61R03&prod=RealPlayer&ver=14.0&li=en&oem=rp14_en_us

http://switchboard.real.com/player/installer.html?cd=backup_download&distcode=R61UKD&prod=RealPlayer&ver=14.0&li=en&oem=rp14_en_uk

http://switchboard.real.com/player/installer.html?cd=backup_download&distcode=R61TWD&prod=RealPlayer&ver=14.0&li=tw&oem=rp14_tw

http://switchboard.real.com/player/installer.html?cd=backup_download&distcode=R61CND&prod=RealPlayer&ver=14.0&li=cn&oem=rp14_cn

http://switchboard.real.com/player/installer.html?cd=backup_download&distcode=R61JAD&prod=RealPlayer&ver=14.0&li=ja&oem=rp14_ja

http://switchboard.real.com/player/installer.html?cd=backup_download&distcode=R61DED&prod=RealPlayer&ver=14.0&li=de&oem=rp14_de

http://switchboard.real.com/player/installer.html?cd=backup_download&distcode=R61FRD&prod=RealPlayer&ver=14.0&li=fr&oem=rp14_fr

Every URL straightly follows the same pattern (except for English US. The main difference between them is the distcode, which consists of the version (i.e., R61) and the language or region code (i.e., UK, TW, CN, JA, DE, and FR) and plus a character D. Anyway, you should get what I mean and go figure out for other regions if you're interested.

How to Find out Where to Download Offline Installer

• Go to the Real Website in your region
• Download the Web version. Free version won't ask you for email address. If so, you're downloading the wrong version. Some regions may say a basic version instead of free.
• Ensure no Internet connection and then run the Web installer.
• Wait until its error out. It will take a while, possibly about 3 minutes.
• As soon as the Web installer gives up, it will offer you a re-download RealPlayer option. Click that button and then the Web installer will bring up the download URL at the browser.
• Grab the URL and go Internet for download

Adobe Reader Offline Installers

The easy way to download an Adobe Reader standalone installer for offline use is to get it from Adobe FTP site. And then choose your OS, your desired Adobe version, your language and then download.

Note that sometimes browsing/accessing to the Adobe ftp site is a bit slow.

As of today, the current version is still Adobe Reader 10 (as known as Adobe Reader X). The followings are some links for Adobe Reader v10.0.0 in some languages used on Windows.

• English - United States, also for United Kingdom
• Traditional Chinese - Taiwan, also known for Hong Kong, Malaysia
• Simplified Chinese - Mainland China, also known for Singapore
• Japanese - Japan
• German - Germany
• French - France
• Spanish - Spain (Traditional)
• Basque - Spain

Major Adobe Reader Supported Platforms

Windows offline Adobe Reader Installer
Apple Machintosh offline Adobe Reader Installer
Unix/Linux offline Adobe Reader Installer
Android mobile device offline Adobe Installer

For Adobe Reader news update, you can visit their blog.

Free calls to US by gmail is NOT available to anywhere yet!

In Aug, 2010, I was very excited to learn the newly added gmail's phone call feature and wonder I could make use of it when I travel to Asia in September. Unfortunately, this feature is not available when I was out of the USA. Luckily I have my MagicJack around.

Re-visiting the gmail official blog, I found that they have an update on Aug 26 saying this feature is only available in the US. Thus, this feature is not useful to me.

Free long distance calls including International calls

Free International Long Distance Calls Talkster or FreeRinger

Note that Talkster is no longer free beginning of the year of 2010.

Talkster provides free International phone-to-phone calls including landlines and mobile phones. As of today, it supports 38 countries. I have been using it for a year already. You don't have to sign up before use. Simply go register your phone and your callee number in exchange for talkster numbers and then you both are ready to call each other.

Each call seems to be limited to 2 hours.

If you don't use the talkster number for a while, you may not be able to use it and call. In this case, you may get a busy signal saying the line is not available or something. Simply go to Talkster again and re-input the numbers; the problem should be cleared itself.

FreeRinger uses Talkster service to provide free calls. With FreeRinger, you don't have to use a physical phone to make calls. You can make calls via Computer-Phone and send/receive calls via your SIP phone. There is absolutely no software download and it is completely online. However, you have to create an account with them first. This feature is great for off-country traveling, or you don't want to use a physical phone to make calls.

Free Fax: Please see my another post

Free WiFi Locator: JiWire
It lists all available free WiFi hot pots in 140 countries. The service will be no use if you don't have an Internet to access it first. Thus, you would be better to do the research of the location while you are being connected.

Free Fax

Oh, no, I cannot send fax. I did in the past when I still had my land line. Not any more now. Traditional fax can't work well with VoIP. Why? See this for why faxing over IP network doesn't work. I am currently using MagicJack which sends data/voice via VoIP protocols. What can I do?

I tried quite a few products but there is only one which actually works. The service can send fax internationally. I also tested this out and it worked like a charm. The other important thing is that it is free!

You can use their service either by your mobile phone or directly at their site : qipit

• You need to create an account with them first.
• All documents must be in picture format, not PDF or any other kinds of format. Apparently, the service only operates on pictures. It will convert a picture file into a PDF file for email or fax.
• You can upload pictures to your account by MMS or email to either copy@qipit.com or color@qipit.com.
• The detail instructions could be found here.
• It supports a multiple-page document.
• For free service, the fax limit is 5 per week counting from each Sunday at 12:01 am in Paris, France.