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I had some harddrive problem and that made my Adobe Professional 7 not to work properly. So i had to uninstall and use Adobe Reader as it was a urgent need for me. So i went to the official Adobe Site and downloaded the latest Adobe Reader 8. Its Free to download and free to view and print Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files, which is widely used as a way to present information.

You can always download latest version of Adobe Reader 8.0 from Adobe website. However, the setup file that you download is actually a download manager which has a small download size(533kb). The Adobe download manager will be launched later for configuration options and then the actual installer setup files for Adobe Reader can be downloaded once you have finished selecting the components you want. This small download manager is not really necessary.

If you download this direct download, even when you are offline, you will be able to install it without any hassles .

The Official direct download links to various localized language editions of Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 are listed below:

Visit [ Adobe Acrobat 8 ]

Its an amazing firefox extension . Really cool and nicely done. thanks to Anish Sane for giving everybody this nice plugin for firefox to make our life easier with our favorite Orkut.

You know this right..this is some security thing the Google people have put up. If You Have Logged In To Orkut With "Remember Me On This Computer" Checkbox Checked & While Closing The Browser Window You Have Not Logged Out, Still The Next Time You Open Browser & Open http://www.orkut.com, You Are Asked For password ..but now with this plugin its possible..

This plugin has some deadly features like Autologin Feature, You Can Login, Without Entering The Password Again, View "My Scrapbook" Link On Each Of Orkut Pages, Not just On Your Profile/Home Pages,New Scrap Alert ,You can send a common scrap to all of your (or in general any profile's) friends or members of any community to name a few good features..there are many more.. have a look at the plugin page for details….

Fantastic thing this plugin has is : It Removes Google Ads From Orkut Pages…  ( maybe google will make this feature not work very soon )

Works with Firefox 1.5 - 3.0a1 ALL

[ Download ] via [ Mozilla Plugins ] thanks Prasad Chubachi for the info.

Mozilla Corp. late yesterday updated the Firefox browser to patch a single security vulnerability and fix several bugs it unintentionally introduced in earlier versions.

Mozilla currently supports two branches of the open-source application, and the upgrades — Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Firefox 1.5.0.11 — are now available, according to the release notes posted on the company's Web site.

New for Firefox 2.0.0.3 is a single security fix that patches up a hole in the browser’s FTP PASV functionality. A malicious web page hosted on a specially-coded FTP server could use this feature to perform a rudimentary port-scan of machines inside the firewall of the victim.

The main purpose of the update, however, was to fix several "regressions" — unintended flaws introduced by changes to previous versions. Earlier this month, Mozilla said it was working on a fast-turnaround for 2.0.0.3/1.5.0.11 to correct regressions in the browser's password manager, automatic security certificate authentication feature and other areas.

The last time the Firefox was updated was less than a month ago when 2.0.0.2 was released to address issues with AutoComplete, how the "Save" dialog box displays for known file extensions, a bug where a mouse's scroll wheel would stop working, two memory leaks and a number of security-related concerns.

Firefox 2.0.0.3 can be downloaded from the Mozilla Web site in versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in 40 languages. Users can also update the browser using the Check for Updates command in the help menu.

[ Firefox 2.0.0.3 ] via [ Mozilla ] 

Windows only: Bandwidth monitor NetMeter graphs shows how much data is going out and into your pc.

NetMeter is a small, customizable network bandwidth monitoring program for Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP. As per the author "NetMeter is and will always stay freeware". The program has been tested extensively on Windows 2000 and XP, but it should work just as well on all other Win32 operating systems.

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Easily Convert RPM, Deb and tgz package formats using Alien- Portable Package Power

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it.

Licensed under GPL, this tool converts between the rpm, Debian deb,stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats.For example, if I want to install Inkscape which is in a binary RPM format in Ubuntu (or any other debian distro), I use the following command:

    # alien -i inkscape-2.1.3.rpm

The above command will unpack the rpm package into a directory, create a deb package and then install it on your system. And to uninstall the package at a later date use the relevent dpkg command.

Note : Alien should not be used to replace important system packages, like sysvinit, shared libraries, or other things that are essential for the functioning of your system

Other things which are required :

- perl version 5.004 or greater.

- Red Hat Package Manager; get it from its website.

- If you want to convert packages into debian packages, you will need the dpkg, dpkg-dev, and debhelper packages, which are available on the Debian packages site. You'll also need gcc, and make. 

Despite the large version number, alien is still (and will probably always be) rather experimental software. It has been used by many people for many years, but there are still many bugs and limitations.

Although no one officially recommends using Alien as a solution for business, I have found it to be a very effective tool. 

Download via [ Alien ]

Britney Spears - Hottest Shots - Set 3 35JPG | 300×700…1920×1200 | 6.8MB Download : Britney_Spears_-_Hottest_Shots_-_Set_3.rar or Mirror Link

PimpFish is an download manager, site ripper, file sharing tool through which we can easily download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Myspace.

With PimpFish, we can save pictures and Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media and other embedded video in a single click to our computer, from any webpage. The extension is available for both IE and Firefox and it's free!.

[ PimpFish]

WinRAR trick: how to PREVIEW video files without downloading all parts!

Guys, many movies posted are broken into many pieces using WinRAR. usually you have to download all parts before unzipping.

Now here’s a simple method to watch the movie without downloading all parts. First, download the first few parts (even
just the first part is enough) and start to unzip as normal (but
remember to check the ‘keep broken files’ check box first in the dialog
box !!!).

Now use VLCPlayer to watch the movie!!! (of course, only the downloaded part will be watchable

In the mayhem of "Da Vinci code " movie many ppl downloaded 700++ MB
documentaries which were named as davinci.part1.rar etc etc .After horrible hours of downloading the only thing they got was extreme frustration(some stepped ahead breaking the monitors).

Bottom Line : This is just a trick to know wether u r downlading the right thing or not.

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.