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Firefox 3.0 downloads surpass 7 million: Seems that Mozilla's Download Day has a fair amount of traction behind it! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Tags: Download, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Download Counter, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Download Statusbar (xpi): Download Statusbar is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar. View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar--without the download window getting in the way of your Web browsing.Version 0.9.6.3 adds support for Firefox 3.0.; Tags: Download, Web Browser, Devon Jensen, Web Browsers, Internet; Software downloads 2008-06-18
iGetter Download Manager (dmg): iGetter is a powerful, full featured download manager and accelerator. iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering, site explorer, searching of mirrors, FileAvenue.net integration, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial...; Tags: Download, Mozilla Firefox, Presenta, iGetter, Web Browsers, Internet; Software downloads 2008-05-29
DownThemAll (xpi): DownThemAll or just dTa is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a Web page and you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you...; Tags: Download, Web Browser, DownThemAll, Web Browsers, Internet; Software downloads 2008-03-11
ReGet Pro (exe): ReGet Pro is a lightweight but fully functional download manager for everyday download needs. It is designed for average downloaders who need a small, fast and user-friendly downloading tool with a bunch of essential settings. It has a very small size and is easy to configure. ReGet Pro dramatically accelerates...; Tags: Download, Web Browser, ImageSkill, ReGet Pro, Web Browsers, Internet; Software downloads 2006-05-16

ReGet Deluxe (exe): ReGet Deluxe is the powerful download manager for downloading from the Internet with unmatched speed. Improve your downloading experience for three to five times faster downloads, resuming, and seamless integration with all popular browsers. Unmatched Scheduler, Site Manager, and History features help to fully automate and organize your downloads. With...; Tags: Download, Category, ReGet Deluxe, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Browsers; Software downloads 2006-02-07
Star Downloader Pro (exe): Star Downloader accelerates your downloads by splitting files into several parts and downloading them simultaneously. Speed is increased further when it chooses the fastest mirror sites. You may automatically resume broken downloads if your connection is lost or if your computer accidentally shuts down. With the scheduler, you can download...; Tags: Download, Speed, Star Downloader, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Browsers, Internet; Software downloads 2004-12-14
Download Boost (exe): Download Boost is a special utility designed to help you manage and boost the speed of your downloads up to 400 percent faster. This tool has the ability to pause and resume broken downloads, and features multiple connections (up to 8 connections) for one file, download scheduling, and browser integration.; Tags: Download, Web Browser, Download Boost, Web Browsers, Internet; Software downloads 2004-04-27

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Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy: No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...; Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-08-29
Top Web sites in Germany in June 2008: Property June 2007 June 2008 % Change Total German Internet Audience 32,857 34,986 6% Online Gaming 9,609 10,502 9% Zylom 1,977 2,492 26% Spill Group 1,521 1,542 1% Gameforge Sites 1,224 1,446 18% SPIELAFFE.DE 498 1,173 136% ...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Games, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Internet, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-08-29
Mobile access to your SIS: Several student information system SIS vendors offer to sync data with a Palm Pilot or Windows Mobile PDA. This is a handy feature for teachers on field trips, assistant principals stalking the halls, etc. It's fairly limited in it's utility, though since it generally only provides a static...; Tags: Mobile, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-08-29
Comcast sets 250GB ceiling: Now, it's official. Comcast will impose a 250GB monthly cap on its Internet customers, as the SF Chronicle reports. Violators will get a notice and a warning. If you do it twice in a six-month period, they may terminate your account. What's more, Comcast...; Tags: Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-08-29
Question about Gov. Sarah Palin: Is it just me or can anyone get into the official web site of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? Have been trying for the past hour to get in. No word yet from the Governor's Office in Anchorage on the site's ability to handle a sudden surge...; Tags: Governor, E-mail, Web Site Development, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-08-29
Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition: Microsoft said Friday that it will acquire Greenfield Online, which owns Ciao, a price comparison, shopping and reviews site in Europe, for $17.50 a share, or $486 million. The goal: Expand Live Search in Europe. Greenfield Online, which also owns an Internet survey business, will be split...; Tags: Acquisition, Europe, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Ciao, Survey Business, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-29
News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies; Blog posts 2008-08-29
Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?: Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?Beef it upWhy Comcast should beef up their network:Imagine its 5:00 PM on a normal Friday evening, you get home hoping to relax in front of the TV to watch a movie or two. You turn on the TV only to discover that...; Tags: Broadband Internet, Strategy, Web, Comcast Corp., bandwidth, network; Discussion threads 2008-08-28
Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?: The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...; Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-08-28
Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash: On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2008-08-28
Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow: Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...; Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., broadband cap, broadband, stat; Discussion threads 2008-08-28
The depressing future of the Internet: A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...; Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-08-28