I like the services that Rapid Share offers – the site is popular , many people use it and you can easily find an abundance of files there.What I do no like about Rapid share is that their limits for free users are too high. Let face it -having to wait an hour or two just to get the next file you want to download- that really insane. I know what would you say – get a premium account. Well I would but the prices of Rapid Share are too high -. The other option they offer for earning premium account is sharing files and getting 10 000 points – right now it seems that I will need another year or so to be able to do just that.Internet is full of articles about ways to avoid some of the limits – most are either with java or the use proxy servers. I have tried a lot of thing – and nothing seemed to work. Until recently – I discovered Universal Share Dowloader.

When you use the program you will be able to load several rapid share links and download them one after another without the need to be present in front of the computer .In other words the program queues multiple files and download them all one by one, as the service allows. It even waits for the download ticket to be reserved and then starts downloading the file automatically!

Universal Share Downloader is configured to work with more than a hundred free hosting services. It can also be integrated into Firefox (with the FlashGot extension) and Internet Explorer, plus monitor the Windows Clipboard for copied download links. Now rapid share don’t support resuming broken for its free users, so Universal Share Downloader is also unable to resume from the files from it. But it does have resume support built in, so if there is a service out there that supports resuming and Universal Share Downloader is aware of that, it will resume the file.

Universal Share Downloader supports “proxy lists”, which are essentially collections of various proxies which are used randomly to try and bypass IP address based bandwidth limitations imposed by the service.

I have tried out this program and could not manage to get it working – so until recently I thought that it was a piece of garbage . Then I met someone who told me that the program does work – but you have to use it along with ABBYY FineReader – as that is the only way through which the captcha can be scanned and entered. Basically what you have to do is download ABBYY FineReader install it in its default folder and then install Universal Share Manager in the same folder – that is what I did and it works as a charm.

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