If you haven’t heard yet, Xmarks is shutting down due to a lack of funding and profitable channels.

Things that we can learn from Xmarks.

I understand that people who start something expecting it is free have a hard time wanting to pay. If Xmarks were to have at some point converted to a pay-only service, I’m sure they would have seen their user base drop off the charts. Many would complain and go elsewhere, even the majority, however I am willing to be that a few users would have offered to pay, as many are now. (See any comments page on their blog post announcing the closure of their service).

What could they have done before this point? Xmarks started out only as a bookmark syncing service. Their user base which had signed up only expected their bookmarks to be synchronized. At this point in time, Continue Reading

Adobe Flash Player addon for Mozilla Firefox does not send HTTP referrers.

This is a public notification for web developers, something I discovered, tested and confirmed across multiple platforms and reproduced multiple times.

Behavior Observed: Adobe Flash Player addon for Mozilla Firefox does not send HTTP referrers.
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Updated: 2011-03-06. Please see the changelog below for more information..
So you’ve found yourself wondering why you can bypass the wait timer downloads, but haven’t had any success trying to bypass the HotFile.com hourly limit? This guide is for you. We will quickly go over how the HotFile.com hourly limit works, and then explain how to bypass the HotFile.com hourly limit.

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First, you will need to consider this. HotFile.com uses two methods of limitation for downloading on their site. The first, the download wait timer, requires you to wait a small number of seconds before the download link becomes available for submitting. This is controlled by JavaScript, and can be bypassed using my guide Hotfile.com Timer No Wait Hack. Continue Reading

Tired of waiting for files from HotFile.com ? This guide is for you.  You can learn how to quickly and simply modify and bypass the timer during runtime of the JavaScript timer for HotFile.com.

If you are looking for a hack for the HotFile.com Hourly Limit, please see my guide Hotfile.com Hourly Limit Bypass Hack.

The Background

Download sites have a simple business model. Get lots of visitors, make money from advertisers placing ads on their site. How to get lots of visitors, and therefore make lots of money? Simple. Provide content that everyone wants. Downloads which for the most part are unmonitored and unfiltered, and typically only removed if the copyright holder complains.

Back to the money. The more files you download = the more ads you see = the more money they make. If you don’t want to (wait) while seeing the ads, they still want their money, and they want to take it from you, providing you access to files that aren’t even their own property. An excellent deal indeed Sherlock!

So, if you don’t want to be a part of the More ads = More money (for them…) scheme, then you either better fork up the money, or hack up a solution. Unfortunately this guide will not help you do any forking, but it will help you with the later.
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A very popular addon extension for Mozilla Firefox, Video DownloadHelper, allows users to easily save and convert media originally embedded into web content into a file stored on their local machine for offline playback.

Typically when software publishers desire to make their works available online, whether for free or for a fee, they seek to publish legal documentation for inclusion of the application clearly indicating that the program is copyrighted, and to identify their terms and conditions of modification to their work by third parties, including any limitations or bounds set by them. Continue Reading