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11th May 2006

How To Use Rapidshare

A quick and painless guide to how Rapidshare works and how to quickly download files from Rapidshare links. The images are clickable to bring them to full size.

Begin by simply click the link or by copying the link into your web browser.

-Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
-Press the FREE button to start the download.
-Upon click the FREE button, a second, similar page will load.

-Scroll down to the bottom of the second page. -Find the download counter; you must wait until the counter finishes before the download will begin. There is a trick to getting around this counter, as explained below.

-After waiting for the counter to finish or by using the trick, a third page will appear.

-Scroll down to the bottom of the third page.
The file name will appear as a clickable link. By clicking (or right click, save) the link, the download will begin, prompting the user to save the file.

11th May 2006

How to take and post screenshots from Video files

How to take and post screenshots from Video files


This may be very basic but i see many people asking for help on this. This is the proper way of taking screenshots from a video . I hope this helps many
If you have the K-lite codec pack along with the Quick time and real alternatives installed , this works for all video files .

Software used:Windows Media Player Classic

To take a screenshot , still the video to get a good screen of your choice and then click on "save image" under "file" as shown and save it as a jpg file .

Upload the jpg at ImageShack or as attachments and post the screenshots