Tag Archive for 'filesharing'

How to Download From Rapidshare despite IP Bans

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by
Shypy
on August 3, 2008
in File Sharing and rapidshare
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Apparently Rapidshare.com has blocked certain Indian IPs. Here is the message that I get when I try to download files from rapidshare.

Call my ISP? Like they’re gonna do something about it.

Since they wont allow you to access their site directly, here are a couple of tricks that you can use to fulfill your filesharing needs:

1. Use a proxy. Not any proxy will work for downloading files with rapidshare though. You’d best use a CGI Proxy. Just google for “CGI Proxy” and you’ll get what you want. Here are a couple of good ones that I like to use:

http://youhide.com

http://url1.in

http://nocheck.in

Enter your download link in the page and you’ll probably be able to download the file at full speed. Make sure you select the checkbox that says “allow scripts” or disbale the checkbox which says “disable scripts”.

2. Alternatively, you can dump rapidshare altogether. There are plenty of reliable free filehosts out there. My personal favorites are Mediafire and SendSpace.

There you have it. Thanks to Shypy, rapidshare banning your IP range doesn’t affect you anymore.

Downloading Movies from IMDb.com | Hacking a Greasemonkey Script

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by
Shypy
on July 25, 2008
in Hacks
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Greasemonkey is a Firefox addon that allows you to customize your browsing experience using snippets of JavaScript code.

You can find a huge collection of different types of user-written scripts to install run on Firefox(with Greasemonkey installed) or Opera.

Movie Dude is a UserScipt that cross-links movie sites so you don’t have to search for a movie info on related sites.

e.g Say you’re browsing the imdb page for The Dark Knight. Now if you want to visit the wikipedia entry for the same movie, you’d have to open a new tab and run an independent search.

Now with the Movie Dude script installed, you’ll automatically see small icons for  related movie entries different sites including Wikipedia, RottenTomatoes, Google Video, YouTube, MetaCritic, etc.

You can also edit the script to make it display related link from other sites. Here’s a little hack to add ThePirateBay Movie Search and Mininova Movie Search to the list.

If you’re on Firefox you’ll need to have Greasemonkey installed. Then go ahead and install the Movie Dude script.

Open up the .js file for editing in your favorite text editor and add these lines to the code:


Mininova: {
name: "Mininova",
link: "http://www.mininova.org/search/{search}/4",
icon: "http://www.mininova.org/favicon.ico",
scanURL: "mininova.org",
},
ThePirateBay: {
name: "ThePirateBay",
link: "http://thepiratebay.org/search/{search}/0/99/200",
icon: "http://www.thepiratebay.org/favicon.ico",
scanURL: "thepiratebay.org",
},

Save the file and you’re good to go. Now whenever you’re browsing IMDb and feel the urge to *ahem* have a look at *ahem* the mininova listings, all you need to do is click on the link at the top of the page.

Have Fun!