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

I’m usually not writing about paid services here on Ghacks unless I’m personally using them or combine the review with a giveaway so that my readers can benefit from it directly. Recently I stumbled upon two commercial web services called DownloadNow located at downloadnow.net and Leechget, which is available at leechget.com. These services are interesting [...]

Categories: The Web

Rapidshare has been pressured from several angles in the past years. Law enforcement agencies that called for the shutdown of the service, or better controlling and filtering of uploaded files, rival file hosting sites that gained lots of ground due to attractive and more powerful disk space and traffic limits, and users who were fed [...]

Categories: The Web

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

Mipony is a file hosting download manager just like our favorite tool for the job JDownloader. One could say it is a less complicated but also less feature rich file host downloader that does not require Java to be installed on the computer system it is running. Mipony supports downloads from a total of 20 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Free file hosting downloaders are programs that make it more comfortable to download files from file hosting websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, SaveFile or Mediafire. These programs usually offer a handful of advantages with the most important ones being the ability to bypass all the advertisement that is posted on those websites and to queue files [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

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

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

Many websites, like many of the popular file hosting providers, display pages during the process of selecting a file for download and the actual downloading that are usually skipped by most of the users. Take the popular file hoster Rapidshare for example: They always display the free user / premium user page even after starting [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox