If you want to share large files online through the Internet with your friends or relatives, one of the most popular ways is Dropbox. Dropbox allows to share 2GB data using its free account. Well for many users, sharing documents and images it might be enough, but what if you want to share large videos or some other huge data? Then Dropbox service will not cut it. Also, for the Dropbox you have to first register for the service and setup. Although, its true that Dropbox (or other similar services) ...

Today, just noticed an interesting application in iTunes App store called Download Accelerator that is in essence a download manager, that can be used to download files from the web straight to your iDevice. Of course, there are already many download managers available in the App store. But this one I think is easily one of the best. The reason is that this one has few twists in the pocket  that no other one supports. For example, it’s downloading method is much more sophisticated as it downloads ...

This happens to be a very common scenario that you initiate a big download on your Windows machine such as big video file, a large Linux ISO file or maybe you are downloading some big torrent file. You don’t want to sit and stare at the screen for a long time just to see the download progress. So, you go away, and come back after some time (i.e. few hours) only to learn that Windows has gone to sleep mode halting any download session you initiated earlier! This can get very annoying. I know that ...

       deviant Art is considered as the largest online showcase of the user generated artistic content most notably artwork produced in the form of images. It has been there for more than a decade now, and it’s popularity has increased substantially over the last couple of years. It is a treasure island for the users interested in any kind of artwork. deviant Art website works quite well if you are casual surfer, and say views only a couple of pages there, and may ...

How many times it happens that you download  a lot of files from the Internet via some download manger such Orbit or some other and all of these different kind of files start to buildup in you downloads folder? At least this is a common scenario for me as I download a lot of files via Orbit and this includes software, videos, mp3 files and even documents etc. All of these different kind of files start to get mixed up in the downloads folder without any organization. It would have been nice ...

Normally in Firefox if you want to download a file, it presents an on screen file download dialog with the options to open the file directly with a program, or to save the file. But unfortunately there is no option to show the file size that you are going to download. This small but important feature is missing from even the latest Firefox 4.0 betas. Information about the file size can be very useful sometimes if available in advance. For example some people stuck with slow connections might want ...

If you are using BitTorrent for downloading stuff even if it is legal there is a high probability that your privacy is going to be compromised by monitoring of some nasty anti P2P peers waiting out there in the wild for you. Only fool proof option to avoid these issues is of course to disconnect from the P2P networks. But if you refuse to take that route then you can still reduce your chances of compromised privacy significantly by using a tool called PeerBlock. This is simple tool that you need ...

These days online video sharing sites are exploding in popularity particularly after the success of the YouTube. Other public video sharing sites are trying to capitalize on this new medium. There is a large set of utilities available for Windows these days that will allow you download the videos from these video sharing sites including Youtube. Aside from these utilities you can also use some specialized extensions for the Firefox to download the video files in case you are a Firefox user. But ...

Bit Torrent is the dominent P2P protocol for dowloading files these days after the fall in the number of users for Kazaa(FastTrack) and eDonkey2000 network. These days you can find almost anything that you are looking for via BitTorrent ranging from software, movies, TV shows, animes, music albums and to documents of different kinds. But not all of the stuff that is available for download is legal, so caution must be taken by the users to download only the stuff that is indeed legal. A number of ...