Category: internet hacks & tips

I have received lots of questions from my friends who want to download various types of files but they see a message files is blocked at their office due to firewall restrictions.

Many corporate offices setup firewall and other networking monitoring applications to restrict the download of certain types of filetypes, some times restrictions are imposed on the size of the file to be downloaded, as they limit the maximum size of the file that can be downloaded.

Download At Work is one such free tool which lets you download any blocked file types at your office, download at work is quite easy to use.

Let’s see how to use Download At Work to download blocked blocked file types.

Rapidshare is an amazing resource for downloading any kind of stuff from movies, songs, you tube videos, software’s or any shared files. Rapidshare provides one click web hosting as you can put your files online with in just one click.

Note: You can easily delete the uploaded files using the delete link, or it will be deleted after 90 days if it is not accessed or downloaded.

Rapidsearch is a free tool which lets you search video’s , files, audio files, documents, images, programs and applications which are uploaded on the rapidshare servers.

This is a freeware rapidshare searching tool from rapidshare.net which lets you search any type of files which you can decide form the file types dropdown box.

Google chrome has been widely accepted after its released, some of our readers reported that they are not able to install google chrome as due to some restrictions or internet connectivity problems they were not able to install google chrome.

So, we posted about how to download full offline installer for google chrome ( full setup ) which does not require internet connectivity.

Today, we have come up with firefox 3 theme for google chrome which will make google chrome look like firefox 3 to some extent.

Let’s see how to install firefox 3 theme for google chrome.

Most of my fellow friends blogger’s written a lot about Beijing Olympics 2008 already, So I also thought of writing some thing new and unique about Beijing Olympics 2008.

Yesterday, night I found a cool Olympic Stadium 3D Screensaver for all windows edition including windows XP and vista.

These Screensaver provides a realistic 3D environment of the stadium of Olympic Stadium.

Feel the spirit of Beijing Olympics 2008 by installing Olympic Stadium 3D Screensaver on your computer.

It happens, when we forgot our email passwords after sometime configuring your email accounts in pop3 email client, as the most of the application like ftp clients, pop3 client offers the feature to remember the password.

Just as all these applications offer to remember passwords which makes us lazy and set the option to remember it. Now, the main problem occurs when you may need to reconfigure these type of application some where else or on the same system for any reason.

SinffPass is small nifty freeware by Nirsoft which comes to rescue in these type of situation. It listens to your network and capture the passwords that pass through your network adapter.

There are numerous ways to download youtube videos but most of the methods either require downloading software or some user script to be installed at the user end.

At the end using the software or the user script becomes tedious for a layman user, but there can be a simple way out also to download any youtube videos.

You can simply download any youtube video just by clicking a bookmark in firefox or opera

It involves a simple link which you need to make a bookmark in the toolbar by dragging the link to the bookmarks toolbar.

I remember one of my friend was facing a problem some time back, when some application start using the internet bandwidth on his computer because of some unknown reason, due to which the limited bandwidth usage in his mtnl broadband plan got exceeded.

NetLimiter, is a software which comes to rescue in these types of situation as you can know how much internet bandwidth is being used by any program on your system.

NetLimiter is useful program which allows you to monitor each application on your system which connects to internet, it also allows you to easily manage your internet connections bandwidth and share it among the different applications on your system which connects to internet.

Some other features of NetLimiter

If you are a laptop user like me, who needs to configure network settings every now and then to connect to your internet at your home place and at your office, you will definitely love this application called net profiles

Net Profiles is a freeware which help you configure the internet connection with a single mouse click, it allows you to switch in between the various network profiles you create through the application.

Net Profiles saves your network settings as profiles,you can easily activate different profiles to change the network connection settings.

As shown in the image above you can create a network profile, after selecting your network card you need to specify IP Settings and click Save button.

Automatically change your profile via program shortcuts,

Some other features includes: