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RapidZuca Rapidshare Download Manager for Free Users

In past we have covered many interesting tools for Rapidshare which includes Rapidshare plus, Rapidshare Auto Downloader, Rapidshare Download Accelerator, MDownloader & RSdownloader. With availability of Rapidshare API more and more developer coming up with good rapidsahre tools.
download - comments - 19.8.2009

Tools to Automate RapidShare Downloading for Free Users With No CAPTCHA

RapidShare CAPTCHA has always been hacked no matter how tough they made it. Usually whenever RapidShare updates their CAPTCHA, it only took a few days for third party download tools to auto recognize it. One of the toughest CAPTCHA was with cats and dogs in them and it took 3-4 weeks to be cracked. A few days after the cats and dogs CAPTCHA has been cracked, RapidShare installed a new CAPTCHA system called TEABAG_3D.
download - comments - 8.7.2008

Rapidshare Search Engines to Search, Find and Download Files from RapidShare

Since 2nd of July, RapidShare has removed its download limits and captchas for free user. This means that we can continue downloading files from rapidshare without waiting for an hour when weve just downloaded a file.
common - comments - 15.7.2008

YouTUBE downloader 2.3

Thanks to kidkree1 for this download. YouTube Downloader is a free application that will download videos from YouTube and save them as Avi or Mpeg files to your computer.
download - comments - 4.6.2007

Hackers hijack Windows Update's downloader

Hackers are using the file transfer component used by Windows Update to sneak malware past firewalls, Symantec researchers said today.
windows - comments - 10.5.2007

Windows Updates Downloader v2.21 Final

Windows Updates Downloader is a small 3rd party utility that allows you to download all of the current Windows critical updates. All updates are downloaded directly from microsoft.com to your computer with a single mouse click.
download - comments - 18.8.2006

Windows Updates Downloader 2.24 Build 875

Windows Updates Downloader is a small utility that allows you to download all of the current Windows critical updates.
download - comments - 19.1.2007

All-In-One RapidShare Hacks

Several free RapidShare Hacks are combined into one and call it All-In-One RapidShare Hacks like the picture below.
download - comments - 9.6.2006

RapidWareX - rapidshare download manager

RapidWareX as a lot of handy features and imho its allready one of the best rapidshare managers out there.
download - comments - 24.8.2008

Happy Easter says Rapidshare - No Waiting Periods

To keep things sweet and brief. The next time you visit rapidshare you might notice that there is now, no longer a waiting period. Just choose your mirror and download.
common - comments - 7.4.2007

Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat?

Last week we reported on rumors that Rapidshare had, or was about to be, shut down, rumors that now look likely to resurface.
common - comments - 30.1.2008

Windows 7 Build 7201 Available on Torrent Rapidshare

Hype of the RC2 leak is increasing rapidly the time i m writing 503 peoples were active on a single thread over sevenforums.
download - comments - 3.6.2009

Download Bing Wallpapers & Set as Desktop Wallpaper with Wallpaper Downloader

In past we had reviewed Bing Downloader tool to download Bing background wallpaper and here is wallpaper downloader which is a small utility to download bing.com background image and set as desktop wallpaper.
download - comments - 18.9.2009

Microsoft: Some Free Vista (+SP1) to Go Along with the Free XP SP2 Downloads?

Free downloads of Microsoft's operating systems have been made available throughout 2007, and the Redmond company is ready to take it one step further.
windows - comments - 5.2.2008

A Mac user switches to Vista?

Say something critical about Microsoft and Windows and no one bats an eyelash. But write anything even faintly judgmental about the Macintosh and in comes a flood of hate mail from Mac users. The worst part is the tone of most, which generally tend toward religious zealotry. So before I begin, let me begin by saying any e-mails of that type that are sent in response to this story will be deleted, with no reply.
windows - comments - 3.2.2007

Windows 7 - Next Generation User Interface

One thing is clear, although starting from the summer of 2007 and ending in the first half of this year, the main focus for Microsoft has been building Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, in terms of the Windows client the company did much more than just service packs.
windows - comments - 28.5.2008

Next-Generation Windows 7 User Experience

With Windows 7 Milestone 1 released in December 2007, Microsoft managed to give a taste of the user experience that is coming with the successor of Windows Vista.
windows - comments - 18.7.2008

Windows 7 User Interface and Interaction

Windows 7 will undoubtedly take the graphical user interface and the interaction model to the next level not only as far as the Windows client is concerned, but also in terms of the content designed to integrate seamlessly with the operating system.
windows - comments - 11.11.2008

Vista's User Account Protection: one click and it's gone

Vista's biggest security enhancement is "User Account Protection" (or "User Account Control" ) which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system.
windows - comments - 9.9.2006

User paid to uninstall Windows XP

A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft's Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant. Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October, and the machine was delivered a few days later.
windows - comments - 15.11.2006

Office 2007 :: First impressions of an average user

OK, well perhaps I am not the average user, but I can say with my hand on my heart that I have never installed any of the Office 2007 Betas and, for what it's worth, not really followed the Office 2007 developement program with as much energy as others.
microsoft - comments - 2.12.2006

User reports shipping Vista is different from RTM

ONE OF our readers already bought Vista OEM from Overclockers. He installed it and got back with a few first impressions. And he reckons that the OEM Vista is not the same as the RTM (release to manufacture) he tried before.
windows - comments - 1.2.2007

Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface

Multilingual User Interface packs for Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional are not as easy to come by as Microsoft partners and customers would expect. The general presumption seems to be that the MUI packs are available as separate downloads from the Redmond Company
windows - comments - 22.6.2007

The First Look at the IE8 Beta 1 Graphical User Interface

Expect little and you won't be disappointed. This has got to be the rule for Internet Explorer Beta 1.
microsoft - comments - 3.3.2008

Windows Update automatically changing user settings - again

After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
windows - comments - 12.10.2007

Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Available for Download

With the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft has evolved the MUI architecture, breaking the intimate connection between the language resources for the user interface and the operating system's binary code.
download - comments - 3.1.2008

Windows 7 User Interface The Superbar - Enhanced Taskbar

One of the elements of the Windows graphical user interface that is evolving past what end users have come to traditionally associate with it is the Taskbar.
common - comments - 4.11.2008

Windows Vista Beta2 users to run as standard user

David Cross a Director of Program Management with Windows Security has posted today over at the UAC blog that the users accounts created on Windows Vista Beta2 will be standard users. Yep, thats right...not an Admin, not a Protected Admin, but a standard user.
windows - comments - 3.4.2006

Windows Aero Is Old News Introducing LucidTouch User Interface

If you think that Microsoft's journey into the development of natural user interfaces has stopped with the availability of Surface, then think again. The Redmond company is hard at work in a collaboration with Mitsubishi Research to produce LucidTouch.
windows - comments - 24.8.2007

Microsoft patent app shows off new user interface for mobiles

Just in time to my previous column if the Windows Mobile touchscreen interface is ready for single-hand use, the United States Patent and Trademark Office yesterday unveiled a patent which was given to Microsoft (Application Number: 11/765,684).
microsoft - comments - 14.10.2007

Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat?

The music industry in Germany has secured a legal victory over the hugely popular file-hosting service, Rapidshare. According to the rights holders, Rapidshare is going to have to stop its users from downloading infringing music tracks from its servers, or face the prospect of being shut down.



Last week we reported on rumors that Rapidshare had, or was about to be, shut down, rumors that now look likely to resurface. The company, one of the worlds largest one-click file hosting services, has lost a copyright infringement case against German performing rights outfit, GEMA. Representing a claimed 60,000 members and more than 1 million rights owners worldwide, GEMA has taken an aggressive stance in pursuing legal action against Rapidshare, trying to force it to be accountable for the infringing actions of its users.




winbeta.org - 29.01.2008

Google Chrome Nightly Builds Downloader

Google is releasing nightly builds of Google Chrome like crazy, up to 10 releases per day is a lot and it is hard to keep up with the releases because the nightly builds come without automatic update functionality.



Donation Coder user Dirhael developed a simple application that checks for new nightly builds of Google Chrome and download them automatically for the user.




winbeta.org - 08.09.2008

Facebook users targeted by botnet spam

Facebook users have been targeted by a large-scale spam attack that informs them that their password has been reset, and that the attached zip archive contains their new password. Instead of a new password, users will find a trojan downloader, dubbed "Bredlab" or "Bredolab" by anti-virus companies. The downloader then downloads additional malware from two servers, including fake anti-virus software, and joins the Bredolab botnet. This gives attackers full control of the PC, allowing them to steal user information or use the PC to send spam emails. One of the servers is based in the Netherlands, with the other in Kazakhstan, according to an alert on Websense, a security research company.

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neowin.net - 30.10.2009

BitTorrent 6.0 Beta Available

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol for distributing files. It makes use of the upstream bandwidth of every downloader to increase the effectiveness of the distribution as a whole, and to gain advantage on the part of the downloader. On average, the faster you upload to your peers, the faster you will be able to download.

"The new BitTorrent 6.0 Beta brings together BitTorrent's proven expertise in networking protocols with µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI to create a better BitTorrent client. As we continue to develop this new client, we'll be focused on innovative ways to simplify and improve the BitTorrent user experience."


winbeta.org - 26.07.2007

Windows Live Wave 2, Messenger 8.5 FINAL

Forget about countdowns and official release dates. Regular Messers should know by know that we at Mess.be can't just stand by and wait for a counter to reach zero. Regular Messers should also know that we usually get our hands on new Messenger releases well before anyone else (excluding developers, testers and Microsofties, of course). Last but not least, you should know that we don't like private parties, except if the beer supply is low.



Download (English): Windows Live Messenger 8.5 | Windows Live Installer



The other language editions can be found at Mess.be...




winbeta.org - 06.11.2007

Google whittles down free access to Apps

Google has been steadily shrinking the number of users it lets access a business' free Google Apps account. When the service first launched, it allowed up to 200 users per business. Then, Google announced its $50 per-user premier platform and the the user limit on free accounts was reduced to 100. Now, Techcrunch reports that the number has shrunk yet again, hitting the 50 mark. Google says there are over 1 million businesses using Google Apps for their collaborative online workspace...
betanews.com - 24.01.2009

Free Software Foundation releases GPL version 3

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most popular free software license.

Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom. The programs are in the GNU/Linux operating system, as well as personal computers, telephones, Internet servers, and more. Most of these programs use the GNU GPL to guarantee every user the freedom to run, study, adapt, improve, and redistribute the program, said Richard Stallman, founder and president of the FSF.

Version 3 of the GNU GPL strengthens this guarantee, by ensuring that users can modify the free software on their personal and household devices, and granting patent licenses to every user. It also extends compatibility with other free software licenses and increases international uniformity. ..
winbeta.org - 30.06.2007

Vista Transformation Pack 8.0 Released!

After much anticipation, Vista Transformation Pack 8 has been released to the public.



Improvements include the hotfix issue being eliminated, various software updates and a new feature in which users no longer need WindowBlinds to gain the 'Aero Glass' effect.



A full list of changes can be found at the link below, along with various official download links.




jcxp.net - 29.11.2007

As ISPs choke file-sharing, users look elsewhere

As ISPs constrict file-sharing services such as BitTorrent, new data shows that users are moving to file-hosting Web sites to avoid slow downloads.



RapidShare and MegaUpload are among the most used file-hosting services. Together, the two sites account for 9 percent of all Internet traffic in the Middle East and 4 percent in Germany, according to iPoque, a company based in Leipzig, Germany, that specializes in traffic-management appliances for ISPs.



The percentages are significant since over the last year usage of file-sharing sites, which number in the dozens, has surged, said Klaus Mochalski, iPoque's CEO. The sites offer potentially faster download speeds for sharing files than peer-to-peer networks.




winbeta.org - 29.11.2007

Symantec: Windows Update Downloader Can Spread Malware

Researchers at Symantec have published a report highlighting how the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) -- a main component of Windows Update -- is being used by Trojans to download malware that bypasses firewalls and security controls...
betanews.com - 15.05.2007

Turn one PC into two for free

How do you like the sound of taking one machine, and having two people logged into it simultaneously? Sounds pretty neat to me and its free too, which is always a tick in the right box.



Canadian company Userful markets Linux-based desktop multiplier and public access computing solutions effectively turning one system into an X Window server supporting up to ten terminals. Theyre giving away a free 2-user copy of their PC Multiplier software, which lets you have two people simultaneously connected to a single system, but running separate sessions.




winbeta.org - 29.12.2007

Microsoft Secure Content Downloader July 2007 CTP Available

The Microsoft Secure Content Downloader (MSCD) is a peer-assisted download manager capable of securely downloading specific files. MSCD is intended for consumers who are downloading from a home PC, or business users whose computers are not behind a corporate firewall. If you use MSCD from behind a corporate firewall, you may be unable to download content, and may adversely affect other clients' ability to download content.


Main features of the MSCD are:
This version of MSCD is a Community Technology Preview, and will only allow you to obtain current Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Since it is a Community Technology Preview, additional information related to MSCDs performance and network transactions -- including your machine name and IP addresses -- may be logged to help evaluate and improve MSCD performance.


The MSCD CTP is scheduled to run for no more than four weeks, expiring as early as 23-August 2007. After expiration the MSCD client will not be able to download content.



winbeta.org - 27.07.2007

Mozilla in hot water over use of EULA in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

The definition of just how free is "free" is once again the subject of debate, triggered this week by the inclusion of a typical-looking end user license agreement from Mozilla Corp. amid the setup for recent builds of Ubuntu Linux...
betanews.com - 17.09.2008

Lycos Launches VoIP, MP3 Offering

Lycos announced Monday that it would offer a VoIP product that would combine IM, Video Chat, Video-on-Demand, and an MP3 player. The application will provide free PC-to-PC phone and video calls, and allow the user to receive free incoming calls from landline and mobile phones...
betanews.com - 27.03.2006

Last.fm debuts free music service

Social music site Last.fm has launched what it describes as the world's biggest free music service. It is promising to pay unsigned artists royalties every time a user streams a track to their computer. The website has done deals with the four major record companies as well as more than 150,000 independent labels to offer access to their catalogues. Users will be able to listen to any track - streamed rather than downloaded - up to three times.


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neowin.net - 23.01.2008

Games for Windows Live goes free

We found a press release in an unexpected Inbox folder that gives a few more details on Microsoft's announcements. All of the user-matching, cross-platform multiplayer, and other formerly-premium services via the Games for Windows Live Gold Membership should now be free (effective today, says Microsoft). The digital distribution comes this fall, along with a revamped user-interface.



The release also features the official announcement from Microsoft of DirectX 11. Features include support for GPU computing, and better use of multicore CPUs, among others.




winbeta.org - 23.07.2008

Nokia revamps mobile map service

Nokia Corp. has added new features to its mobile mapping application, with a revamped user interface and a status indicator to alert users when they're connected to a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite.



The new version of Nokia Maps is free and became available for download on Tuesday. Other improvements include a more refined "nearby" search feature, which scouts out preprogrammed points of interest on the maps based on where the user is located.



Basic route planning is free, although users may incur data transfer fees from their carriers. Other navigation upgrades are available for a fee. Nokia charges for a voice-guided navigation feature as well as other city and travel guides. Guides contain information on local cafes, music and clothing stores, museums and Wi-Fi hotspots, Nokia said...
winbeta.org - 11.09.2007

Editorial: Three ways to a cleaner, brighter Mac

The presupposition that Macs are the choice for the user who wants a hassle free, take it out of the box and get on with it experience is simply a lie. This may very well be the experience Mac users get for a while, but soon enough the system (like every other computer) becomes a little sluggish, and not as speedy as it was in its younger days. Increasingly, it is becoming apparent that if a user requires their Mac for anything other than rudimentary tasks, it has to have a deep clean every now and again otherwise it will get a little sluggish.

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neowin.net - 19.05.2009

New service tracks missing laptops for free

Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music, and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach. But now, researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, have found a way to give you a shot at getting your life back. On Monday, they plan to launch a new laptop tracking service, called Adeona that is free and private.

Named after the Roman goddess credited with guiding children back to their parents, Adeona uses software that has been under development for the past year. Here's how it works: A user downloads the free client software onto a laptop. That software then starts anonymously sending encrypted notes about the computer's whereabouts to servers on the Internet. If the laptop ever goes missing, the user downloads another program, enters a username and password, and then picks up this information from the servers, specifically a free storage service that has been around for several years, called OpenDHT.


neowin.net - 15.07.2008

The Danger of Free

Everyone loves to get stuff for free. We line up to get a free drink, we sign up for free checking accounts, and we're happy to get a free gift with the purchase of our next car. We love free stuff, even though we all know and understand that free is an illusion. After that free drink, we pay for the next three. The bank is making money by investing what we put in that checking account. The car dealer can afford to give away a small gift because the profit on the car is large. But none of this seems to bother us - free things still have a certain allure. But is the concept of free taking us down a dangerous road?

Marketers long ago figured out the attractiveness of free. For decades companies have been playing tricks using free to lure naive customers. But recently, our obsession with free has given rise to a new phenomenon - where the customer is never asked to pay. How? Because the business makes their money on advertising. Marketers are happy to pay for access to customers, who in turn love not having to pay. So the web plays the glorious role of middle man. Are we heading into dangerous territory? The paths that we are taking lead to confused customers at best; and monopolistic practices at worst. A culture where consumers think that increasingly more and more services should be free is not healthy.


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neowin.net - 16.01.2008