Rapidshare Links Checker
Yesterdays post about a new Rapidshare Search engine seemed to have caused that much load on the reviewed website that it was taken offline. One of the interesting features of this new search engine was that it was able to check the validity of links. Everyone who ever used Rapidshare before knows that links come and go and that it happens many times that links have expired and lead into Nirvana.
Rapidshare Tool is a Rapidshare Links Checker for Firefox that can do the same thing and more. It adds a subtle button to the Firefox status bar which shines in light green whenever Rapidshare links have been discovered on a website. The link checker can then be activated by pressing the keyboard combination [ALT F9] or by right-clicking the Rapidshare status bar icon and selecting Link Checker from the available options.
The Rapidshare links checker works pretty fast. It never took longer than a few seconds to check all links on a website. Valid links will be shown with a green dot while expired links can be identified by a red dot. Encrypted http links are also identified and checked by the tool. Encrypted meaning basic encryption like changing http to hxxp or hyyp.
All links - or only the valid ones - can be copied to the clipboard or saved in a file which is excellent for users who use a Rapidshare download manager of sorts to download files from Rapidshare.
Rapidshare Tool for Firefox works surprisingly well even though it is an experimental add-on meaning that only users with an account at Mozilla can download and install the add-on at the moment.
The Firefox add-on provides an interesting option for hardcore Rapidshare users who regularly download files from the file hoster.
Yesterdays post about a new Rapidshare Search engine seemed to have caused that much load on the reviewed website that it was taken offline. One of the interesting features of this new search engine was that it was able to check the validity of links. Everyone who ever used Rapidshare before knows that links come and go and that it happens many times that links have expired and lead into Nirvana.
Rapidshare Tool is a Rapidshare Links Checker for Firefox that can do the same thing and more. It adds a subtle button to the Firefox status bar which shines in light green whenever Rapidshare links have been discovered on a website. The link checker can then be activated by pressing the keyboard combination [ALT F9] or by right-clicking the Rapidshare status bar icon and selecting Link Checker from the available options.
The Rapidshare links checker works pretty fast. It never took longer than a few seconds to check all links on a website. Valid links will be shown with a green dot while expired links can be identified by a red dot. Encrypted http links are also identified and checked by the tool. Encrypted meaning basic encryption like changing http to hxxp or hyyp.
All links - or only the valid ones - can be copied to the clipboard or saved in a file which is excellent for users who use a Rapidshare download manager of sorts to download files from Rapidshare.
Rapidshare Tool for Firefox works surprisingly well even though it is an experimental add-on meaning that only users with an account at Mozilla can download and install the add-on at the moment.
The Firefox add-on provides an interesting option for hardcore Rapidshare users who regularly download files from the file hoster.
