The majority of file hosting websites make use of captchas when free account users or guests try to download files from their servers. For me, that’s more of a way to make the downloads less convenient to convince more users to upgrade to a premium account. Still, there is not much you can do if [...]

Categories: The Web

When I’m downloading files from file hosting websites I often use JDownloader for a more convenient download experience. While it still does not automate the captcha entering process before downloads start, it ensures that I do not have to keep the websites open until the countdown reaches zero. And, I get to keep the downloads [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

JDownloader is one of the most popular programs to download files from file hosting services like Rapidshare, Megaupload or Filesonic. It offers several advantages over downloading files directly from the file host’s website. Among the advantages are a download queue, comfortable integration of premium accounts, link verifications and the option to unpack downloaded files right [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I occasionally use JDownloader to download files that are hosted on free file sharing hosts like Rapidshare, Filesonic, Oron or any of the other ten thousand file hosting sites on the Internet. I usually copy a link to the clipboard which gets then automatically picked up by JDownloader’s Linkgrabber. That’s comfy for single links on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Have you ever been to a website with lots and lots of file links that are hosted on file hosting websites like Rapidshare, Hotfile or Megaupload? Downloading multiple files from hosters that are linked on the page can be quite problematic and strenuous unless they are posted directly next to each other. The file hosting [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Downloaders for the popular file hosting website Rapidshare seem to be very popular software development projects. They usually come with the same feature set allowing Rapidshare users to queue up downloads, setup Rapidshare premium accounts and import text links pointing to Rapidshare downloads. RapidWareX was recently updated with the ability to stream audio and video [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A visitor was asking me a while ago if there were really download managers for websites like Rapidshare and I simply told him at that time that they would exist. JDownloader is a Rapidshare Download Manager that comes with a lot of functions to make downloading files from Rapidshare and dozens other file hosting websites a breeze.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows