Rapidshare a top notch file hosting website is one of the best file downloading sites if I should recommend. However, its current file sharing and download limitation are very upsetting to many. After downloaded a file from RapidShare, users will usually gets message like you have reached the download limit for free users or please try again in about 2 minutes.

How do we bypass this frustrating time limitation without premium account?

RapidShare DownloadHelper which is a free Google Chrome Browser extension is able to assist with download time limitation. It basically auto detects Rapidshare countdown and auto start the download once it’s complete.

With its automation in downloading files, we can save more time to do valuable stuff than to monitor frustrating countdown mechanism.

RapidShare DownloadHelper Setup:

• Download latest version of Google Chrome if you don’t have it. (or get Chrome Plus here)
• Open this link here with Google Chrome or Chrome Plus to install the extension.
• Restart Google Chrome or Chrome Plus after finish installing.

You may now enjoy its useful function.

It is usual for us not able to copy protected, damaged or partly corrupted files from computer. While we backup and transfer personal data, some files which is partly corrupted will also cause the whole copying process to abort.

Playable video files with some corrupt or bad sector area could also cause the whole media file unable to perform copy or transfer.

How do we correct this copy error? And bypass whatever copy protected or partly damaged file successfully. We are going to explore some free tools to help you achieve your desired option.

Copying Damaged Corrupted Files

BadBlocked FileCopier is a free and useful application to make it possible to copy damaged and corrupted files or folders. This freeware is very lightweight, easy to configure and with user friendly interface which makes copying task and troubleshooting much easier than it looks.

You may also select copying speed, method, priority and its copying block size to maximize the copy performance through the freeware option tab. With this soft, you can even set your PC to shutdown once your copying task is done while copying large files.

BadBlocked FileCopier allows copying of normal and uncorrupted files as well which I should recommend as you can make use of its many copying functions and features.

This useful freeware was initially developed in 2007. I recently tested it with Windows 7, to my amaze it works completely fine.

Download BadBlocked FileCopier v1.08 here

Copying Protected File

Power Copy 1.6 is a free software that helps in copying protected files. It’s able to accomplish copy process through a specialized copy environment which makes it possible to transfer and backup of any data or file smoothly.

With Power Copy there’s no need to take ownership of protected files or folders before copying even if explorer can’t access the file. Power Copy will get past Windows security and copy the file for you, so there’s no worry about having proper permissions for protected files to be transfer.

Files which are damaged will also be automatically skipped with the whole copy process continue. An onscreen alert will inform you of the issue it encountered.

Power Copy is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Download Free Power Copy 1.6 here

Speccy is a free software that display detail information on what is inside your computer like type of processor in use, ram size and usage, version of operating system, motherboard model, temperature  of different components, graphic cards, sound cards, hard disk…and basically information of every piece of hardware you owned.

To know what is in your computer is important, type of model on every piece of hardware with information for upgrading purposes, for driver updates or to add on the correct memory (ram). The best thing I like about this freeware is it displays temperature information which is crucial for maintaining a good system and avoiding future breakdown.

In a nutshell Speccy displays a list of your computer specification and its crucial information right in your very hand.

Please note that Speccy is currently still in beta version and while we wait for the final version to launch you can download the freeware from the link below.

Speccy works with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 2000 and 2003.

Download Free Speccy here

Things you should know of computer deletion process is when we deleted a file, the initial file space will show as empty for new file to overwrite its space. The file is actually still intact (if we did not fully optimize disk space with newer files). We just need the right tool to find and recover the deleted files.

DiskDigger is a free tool which specializes in recovering files in your computer includes from USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc) and your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers includes photos, videos, music, documents, and many other formats.

DiskDigger can even scan formatted or badly formatted disks and even disks with bad sectors. It bypasses the Windows file system drivers and scans your disk directly. It’s also a standalone software, you just need to run the tool there’s no installation needed.

How to Use it:

• Run the DiskDigger
• Select Media or Drive which you want to recover deleted file or files and click Next
• Select Scan option and click Next again
• A list of deleted file will display now, highlight your preferred file and click on Restore selected file(s) to restore.

You may also click on Search Criteria tab to type in name of files you wish to recover. DiskDigger is also with user friendly interface and tool navigation is direct.

DiskDigger works with Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows 2000.

Download Free DiskDigger here

We are going to explore on how to successfully delete and remove these file using free tool.

LockHunter is a free tool which main task is to delete access denied or blocked file. The uniqueness of this free tool is it deletes unwanted file right to your recycle bin so that you may restore it if there’s any deletion mistake.

To use it is easy, browse to whichever file or folder you want to delete, select Unlock It! to unassociated any programs from linking to the file or just select Delete It!

LockHunter Key Features:

• Shows processes locking a file or folder
• Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file
• Allows to kill locking process
• Allows to remove locking processes from hard drive
• Integrates in to Explorer menu
• It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake
• Supports both 32 and 64bit Windows

Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows 2000 and 2003.

Download Free LockHunter 32 bit here and 64 bit here

“Although we are just at the beginning of this process, we have reached an exciting milestone,” said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer “I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo! will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers as well as to advertisers and publishers.”

“Success in search requires both innovation and scale. With our new Bing search platform, we’ve created breakthrough innovation and features. This agreement with Yahoo! will provide the scale we need to deliver even more rapid advances in relevancy and usefulness. Microsoft and Yahoo! know there’s so much more that search could be. This agreement gives us the scale and resources to create the future of search.”

Microsoft claims that the search agreement was announced in late July 2009, but the company has been flirting publicly with Yahoo for a total of over two years, but there’s no way of telling just how much time had Ballmer actually spent on this deal ahead of the start of 2008. The debut of February 2008, brought with it an unsolicited offer of $44.6 billion from Microsoft, which at the time was trying to acquire Yahoo. Making sure that the deal fell through was Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, then occupying the position of CEO.

“Microsoft really has room to throw money at this,” said Kim Caughey, senior analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group. “I think it can work. If they can make inroads in specific target areas, they could have something positive to report.”

As per release by comScore January 2010 on search engine ranking, Google dominated the market share by 65.4% while Yahoo and Bing combine of 28.3%. There’s still a vast gap against the search engine king.

To Access Hidden Regional Theme follow steps below:

• Go to Start
• Copy and paste the following text C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT
• Enter to access hidden theme
• Go to its theme folder and double click thumbnail to add it to your windows theme selection menu.

Your now have option to choose theme from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, US and South Africa.

Feel free to select your preferred theme and you may download More Free Theme provided by Microsoft here

Windows 7 God Mode is actually a new created folder with content of all windows functions and options. Within this single folder you can basically change and alter settings in Windows 7 from personalization, windows security, partition size, user account, parental control, startup menu, restore option…to basically everything!

With the God Mode folder, there’s no need find any hidden options or navigate control panel again.

To create God Mode folder in Windows 7, follow the simple step below:

• Create a New folder
• Rename it as GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
• You change the GodMode text to anything you prefer but not the period and text string.
• Once God Mode folder is successfully created you will notice the folder icon change to it’s God Mode style.

Please note that God Mode works with Windows 7 and Vista 32-bit. It has been reported to crash 64-bit versions of Vista.