Most users who download files regularly from popular file hosting site Rapidshare use a program like JDownloader to make the downloading more comfortable. All it usually takes is to add all the urls of the files to download in the program and let the program handle the rest. Users who frequently or rarely download from [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Users who download regularly from the popular file host Rapidshare usually use a download manager like JDownloader or Cryptload to do so. These download managers provide several benefits over downloading files from Rapidshare in a web browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer. The most important benefit being the ability to queue an unlimited number of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

We have covered Rapidshare search tips and Rapidshare tools like Rapidshare Download Manager or Rapidshare Links Downloader before and the Rapidshare Download Accelerator adds itself to the impressive list of useful tools to make the most of the file hosting service. The software program is portable but requires the Microsoft .net Framework to be installed. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Rapidshare is still offering one of the most popular file hosting services on the Internet despite the recent changes to the core system that have capped the downloads for premium users at 2.66 Gigabytes per day. Rapidstack (via Download Squad) is a realtime Rapidshare Search Engine. What does that mean? Unlike many other Rapidshare search [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

Rapid Download is a fast, portable and lightweight Rapidshare download manager that can automatically download a batch of files from Rapidshare. It will automatically fetch all download links that are contained in a file called download.txt that has to reside in the same directory. While that procedure might seem uncomfortable as it requires copying and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you are in the position to have access to a network that has banned Rapidshare but is otherwise pretty lax when it comes to restrictions you might want to bypass the ban to be able to download from Rapidshare. I would not advise doing that at work or school because it can have serious [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Rapidshare Links point to files that are hosted on the Rapidshare file hosting site. We have already shown you how to validate those links with the Rapidshare Links Checker without leaving the page the links are listed on. Many downloaders for Rapidshare have been developed and are currently available on the Internet. One of them [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Rapidshare is one of the biggest file hosters on the web and has a remarkably confusing interface and system that confuses many users at the same time. This could have been designed to be this way on purpose to up-sell premium accounts to users who do not want to wait before they can download a file from Rapidshare.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

I wrote an article about the software Rapget yesterday which could be used to queue downloads for files that are hosted on file hosting websites such as rapidshare or megaupload. Rapget had the problem, that the download from rapidshare for instance was not working if you did not have a premium account.

Categories: Online Services, Operating Systems, The Web, Tools, Windows