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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 10, 2002
- Total Downloads: 173,805,274
- Downloads last week: 183
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- Average user rating: stars out of 2756 votes
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Publisher's description
From StreamCast Networks :
Our editors say:
If you can get through the jumbled interface and avoid the distractions of its bundled community tools, the latest version of this file-swapping program offers reasonable search and download functions for the Gnutella network. After a simple installation, Morpheus opens to a cluttered home page featuring two rows of buttons, a browser window, and an advertisement. Upon start-up, as many as four additional ads pop up on the screen. The navigation button labels are baffling. The file-trading area is named Connect, and a button labeled Media Manager doesn't take you anywhere; it's a placeholder for things to come in a future release. Weirdly, both rows feature duplicate buttons called Shared Files and Transfers. Subscreens, such as the ones for Searches and Transfers, include more control buttons at the bottom of the screen that can be obscured by the banner ad if the window is too small.
When downloading files, you can view size, type, download speed, and the number of hosts, and you can right-click for other metadata, but Morpheus never displays song bit rates, leaving you in the dark as to a file's sound quality. We had good luck downloading files with more than two hosts, but anything less than that remained beyond reach. Overall, from a list of 15 files with numbers of hosts ranging from one to five, we were able to begin downloading eight within half an hour. While waiting for your downloads you can try the included chat client, a branded version of PalTalk that gives you access to hundreds of groups and offers audio and video streams. Morpheus also bundles a shopping utility from Wurld Media that lets users earn rewards for shopping with a selected set of online merchants. To participate in that program you will need to register and, of course, become the target of various direct marketing campaigns. Overall, Morpheus hides decent functionality under an atrocious interface. Hopefully its engineers will have a little more time to work on it before the next release.
Editor's note: This ad-supported software includes technology that will serve banner advertisements through the program interface. Morpheus also installs Morpheus Shopping (a branded version of BuyersPort.com powered by Wurld Media). If you register for this service, your information and purchasing data will be used in direct marketing campaigns. Wurld Media claims not to share your information with third parties. For more information, please refer to BuyersPort's privacy policy.
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