http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/15/download-zip-and-media-contents-partially/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/15/download-zip-and-media-contents-partially/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:34:10 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9919 Load Scout is a free software program that can be used to download zip file contents and media snippets from the Internet. The two main uses of the software program are therefor to download files out of zip files and to preview media files. The main interface can be used to load urls directly into the software program or by using the Internet Explorer integration which can be used to send urls directly to the software.

The url will be loaded into the software and a connection log will be displayed from that process. The next step depends on the type of file (zip, rar, avi or mp3) loaded into the software. The contents of rar and zip files will be shown in the interface with the option to download selected files or the full archive to the local computer.

A click on the extract button will open a different menu that provides the means to extract and download a certain time range of the media file to the computer. This provides an excellent way of previewing those mp3 and avi files before downloading the completely. Both methods works not only with web urls but also on ftp servers.

Load Scout is compatible with most versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 95, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Tags: avi preview, internet-explorer, load scout, media preview, mp3 preview, rar archive, rar files, windows software, zip files, zip-archive

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/15/download-zip-and-media-contents-partially/feed/ 15 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/09/zip-file-recovery-with-object-fix-zip/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/09/zip-file-recovery-with-object-fix-zip/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:49:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/09/zip-file-recovery-with-object-fix-zip/ It happened to me more than once that I was not able to unpack a zipped archive and recover the files within because the zip file was broken. Reasons for this can be numerous: Read errors, scratches on CDs or a system crash. Object Fix Zip is a zip tool that tries to repair corrupt and partially damaged zip files. It is possible to extract files from zip archives that have CRC errors or have only been partially downloaded. The free software creates a new zip archive while trying to recover the contents of the damaged zip archive

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Using Fix Zip is pretty straightforward. You add all the zip archives that you want to check to the queue. After that you can choose which actions should be performed. You may select to test the zip file for data integrity, fix / repair the zip archive and create a new working zip file and extract the contents of the zip to a destination on your hard drive.

The test simply checks if the zip file is not corrupted and writes all information discovered into a log file. The other options should be self explanatory I guess. You should be aware that Fix Zip is not able to recover files that are not there. If you have downloaded a 700 MB movie file in many zip archives and some of those zips are missing you will not be able to recover the whole movie.

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