iGetter and RapidShare

iGetter is a powerful, full featured download manager and accelerator and is also known as RapidShare compatible.

iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, site explorer, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and shut down on completion, and much more.

However, lots of people (Mac OS X users) seem to have problem setting up iGetter that enable them to download multiple RapidShare files (.rar, .avi etc).

Below is a "step by step" guideline that will help you set up iGetter with a RapidShare Premium Account.

After downloading and installing iGetter, go to "Tools" and select "Integrate with Internet broswers" option. You will also need to install "Flashgot Addon" for Firefox.

• Go to "iGetter" Tab and select "Preferences" as shown in the picture below (Make sure you have your RapidShare "username" and the "password" in hand).

• Then you need to enter the following entries along with your user info in the Site Manager preferences of iGetter: "http://.rapidshare.com/" and "http://.rapidshare.com/files/"
  

(note that it's not "http://rapidshare.com/" but "http://.rapidshare.com/" which includes all subdomains)

• Once you finish with above configuration, you now go ahead and select as many rapidshare doawnlable files as possible and proceed as shown in the image below.

• Click "Ok" and...

• You should now be able see that the status of your download as shown below.

Please, kindly let me know if this helps!

Using Gmail Notifier with HTTPS

The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.

However, with the recent add of an option/security feature in Gmail to allow user to use HTTPS for the login and Gmail session, Gmail Notifier does not seems to cooperate well with this Gmail new security feature. Gmail Notifier constantly gives the following error message when users set their Gmail to use the "Always use HTTPS" option in Gmail Settings:

"An error has occurred.
Cannot connect to your mailbox.
Service temporarily unavailable"

Solution: Google has released a patch that fixes the problem (only for windows users. Mac OS X does not seem to experience this issue).

1. Download the patch: http://www.google.com/mail/help/downloads/notifier_https.zip
2. Open up the folder.
3. Double-click on the file called notifier_https.reg to install it.
4. Click 'yes' when you're asked to confirm if you want to add the information to the registry.
5. Restart the Notifier and you are all set.