Scribd is a pretty much popular document sharing site which has been around since a couple of years. Some fans state Scribd is for documents like what Youtube is for videos. But Scribd is sometimes disrupted due to javascript/adobe flash player restrictions on the client side. Viewing & downloading documents at such times becomes impossible. Here’s a shortcut to download documents from Scribd when you are logged in to the site:
Add the following to the end of the document url:
?autodown=pdf
For example, the following is the URL for opening a Scribd document:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6366850/DocTitle
Add the autodown parameter and open this url in your browser.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6366850/DocTitle?autodown=pdf
This will start downloading the document in pdf format. You need to be logged in to the Scribd for this to work. This will work even if Javascript is disabled, or Flash player is not available.
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The default Get Ubuntu page is giving links for the download of Live CDs, not the live DVDs. The direct download links for Jaunty DVD is not given anywhere else on the page… Upon a bit of googling, I found the following links:
For CD Images: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/
For DVD Images: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/release/
But the dvd link from above is a ftp download from Ubuntu’s servers and doesn’t support download resuming. I googled for more and finally found the following links useful for a resumable direct download of ubuntu dvd:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/dvd/
http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/ubuntu-releases-dvd/9.04/release/
These links are available from the official mirrors list of Ubuntu:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#dvd
Only the above two links (France, Greece) are pointing to Jaunty. Rest of the links there are pointing to Hardy release dvds.
Eagerly waiting for my download to finish…
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When you download Yahoo messenger, you actually download a Online installer which installs the Yahoo messenger. The next time you want to install messenger (say after a formatting and realoading of OS), you again have to connect to internet to download the messenger. Here’s a little trick which’ll download the Offline Installer of Yahoo Messenger:
Just add y before the filename of the online installer in the url and you can directly download the full messenger setup. When you click Download Yahoo Messenger,download starts and you have this in the page:
Right Click on click here to copy the link and this is your URL for online installer. Copy past the link into your browser address bar, and just before msgrxxx.exe, add ymsgrxxx.exe and press enter. Your offline installer download will start.
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