The new 1.7.1 version of Groundhog Usenet Reader for Android has finally incorporated support for the most important international charsets, and also a lot of bugfixes.

As always you can download it on the Android Market for free.

I've just released rapidsucker 0.6. This version adds the most requested feature: support to limit the number of paralell downloads. By default the limit will be 8, but if you want to change it you can add the options "maxparalell = X" (being X a number) to your $HOME/.rapidsucker.conf file.

Another feature is that pasted urls will be extracted in a smarter way, for example if you paste a line like "Part1:http://rapidshare.com/blabls543543 (rar part)" the real URL (http://rapidshare.com/blabls543543 in this example) will be correctly extracted.

You can download it on usual link.

Update 08 january 2009: I've just released 0.6.1 which add a total of finished and pending files instead of printing a line for each so the output is not clodged when you are downloading have lots and lots of files. Also I'm using temporal file names for the cookies so you should have less problem running several rapidsuckers in the same directory (in this case you're also advised to use the config option "rememberurls=false".)

First things first: The download link
(scroll down for the changelog)

Info:

Rapidsucker is a rapidshare and megaupload premium links downloader/grabber/collector. Please note that this only works if you have premium accounts on those services, it will not work with the free accounts. The current version is written in Python and runs from the shell console, which is perfect to leave it running on those mostly idle company servers ;-)

La verdad es que la entrada para este programa la mantengo aquí por motivos sentimentales más que otra cosa. Este fue el primer programa que hice en C (lo estaba aprendiendo) para Linux. Es un pequeño monitor del sistema que indicará la carga de CPU o, alternativamente, de memoria RAM utilizando... las lucecitas del teclado a modo de barra de progreso. No funciona si se ejecuta desde X Windows (hay que ejecutarlo en consola, si después vamos a las X si funcionará). Puedes bajar las fuentes, el paquete Debian (del año catapún), o un RPM.

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