RS Downloader 2.1- Easy Downloading from Rapidshare

RSDownloader is a batch downloading tool dedicated for the Rapidshare.com and one of the the easiest and most functional available yet. The original Rapidshare.de service came with an easy tool for batch downloading links, but rapidshare.com has now enabled direct downloads for their Premium users. Configuring your credentials in other batch downloaders can be quite hard so here is the download manger for all RS fans.

RS Downloader 2.1

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Time Travel! - Search Google in 2001

Yeah, you read me right. Google has setup an exact replica of their index from way back in 2001 where facebook or myspace or youtube doesn’t exist! Google setup all this as part of their 10th anniversary celebrations.

The old school looking logo is the first thing to catch your eye. The other differences are minimal like missing ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button and the Google account linkbar at the top. Take a look at the screenshot below:

Google 2001

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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

Microsoft unveiled the next installment of it’s leading developer tools and development platform. The Visual Studio 2010 ( code named “Rosario”) and .NET Framework 4.0 promises all new frontiers for developers and end users. The announcement was made at PDC which proclaims and all new simplified application life-cycle management ( ALM) and core architectural improvements to cope with tomorrow’s client/server/cluster model application development requirements.

VS 2010

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Auto-Resize Large Images in Wordpress

I was looking for an easy way to automatically resize the images in the blog posts, so that large images won’t break the Wordpress theme. A few plugins are available, but most of them are either outdated or with lots of other functionalities which I do not need.

Finally I stumbled upon a blog entry describing an easy way of doing it with a single stylesheet edit. So, this what you need to do to get it done.
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One million downloads in just 4 hours - It’s Firefox 3 Download Day!

The much awaited Firefox 3.0 is released with a bang. Mozilla expects to set a World Record for maximum downloads in a single day, with a target of 50 million downloads in 24 hours. The Firefox download page announces FF 3 as:

The Best Firefox Yet
With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.

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