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Often game files include game music, sounds, cut scene videos, images etc in a format incomprehensible to Windows. Sometimes they are embedded inside huge pack files. Dragon UnPACKer is an open source tool that can help you unpack such game files in an explorer-like interface and then extract the content at will.

More than 80 games are directly supported, meaning, Dragon UnPACKer knows the file format used by these games and you can open these game files natively. If a game is not supported, a tool named HyperRipper, included in the software, will search for known patterns in unknown file formats. If it is successful in deciphering the contents, you can extract texture, sounds, music and more from the game.

To extract any content from a game, you should know or at least have an idea of where that content like music and video could be. This means that you can’t simply point the game’s EXE file to Dragon UnPACKer and expect it to automagically reveal all contents within the game. Dragon UnPACKer is only an unpacker, that can look into ‘pack files’ used by games. So you have to identify those pack files or game files within the game folder. That isn’t so hard as it may sound. Games usually place these files inside folders named “main” or “scenes” or even easy to recognize folders like “sounds”, “movies” and “texture”. Inside these folders however, you will find files that Windows can’t recognize. Dragon UnPACKer will help you here. Use this software to open these files. Once Dragon UnPACKer successfully opens the file, extract the files you require.

Dragon UnPACKer isn’t perfect but still it is an incredible tool for gamers.

Most of you might have enabled wireless encryption, which is only one of the 6 steps mentioned in this article to make your wireless network safe and secure from hackers. The screenshots mentioned below are from Linksys wireless router. But, you’ll find similar options for all the 6 steps mentioned below in wireless routers from any other vendors.

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The Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar does the same thing but for the bookmarks toolbar. This addon allows you to have any number of rows of bookmarks. This is for those who likes to keep lots of bookmarks in front of his eyes, much more than the toolbar can accommodate. With this addon, space isn’t a problem. However, make sure that you have enough screen space left to read the web page.

You can limit the height of the toolbar by editing the userChrome.css file.
In case the height of the toolbars exceed the maximum height defined in
userChrome.css, a vertical scroll bar will appear. So you can have as
many rows of toolbars you want within the space you define. If you know
CSS you can also add your own styles by editing this CSS file.

The most annoying thing about Rapidshare is that downloads doesn’t
begin immediately. Users are first required to click on FREE and then
wait till the counter gets to zero, which can take up to a minute, and
then click on Download. Only then does the file download commence. If
you move away to other sites during the wait period and then forget
about it, after some time the session expires and you have to start all
over again.

But using userscripts in Firefox you can automate this entire process. A Greasemoneky script that does it is Rapidshare Flukke’s autodownloader (read the edit below) If you don’t already have Greasemonkey, then download it and install the script.

Now when you open a Rapidshare link in a tab, the script will automatically click on the FREE button, wait for the counter to finish counting and then automatically click on the download button and start downloading. No user intervention is required. These scripts make downloading from Rapidshare just like any other file download.

EDIT: Just found out about AIO Links Checker and not only is it a much better auto downloader but it also checks the links for you from many file hosts

Before:

After:

To speed up download on Miro do the following..

Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\Application Data\Participatory Culture Foundation\Miro\Profiles and you will see a folder with a name like “92t4yom9.default” enter this folder and edit the file named “prefs.js” in notepad and add the following to the bottom:

user_pref(”network.http.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(”network.http.proxy.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(”network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, 8);
user_pref(”content.notify.backoffcount”, 5);
user_pref(”plugin.expose_full_path”, true);
user_pref(”ui.submenuDelay”, 0);

and after that one of the following depending on your computer and your connection:

FAST COMPUTER, FAST CONNECTION

user_pref(”content.interrupt.parsing”, true);
user_pref(”content.max.tokenizing.time”, 2250000);
user_pref(”content.notify.interval”, 750000);
user_pref(”content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(”content.switch.threshold”, 750000);
user_pref(”nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 0);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections”, 48);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 16);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”, 16);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”, 8);
user_pref(”browser.cache.memory.capacity”, 65536);

FAST COMPUTER, SLOWER CONNECTION

user_pref(”content.max.tokenizing.time”, 2250000);
user_pref(”content.notify.interval”, 750000);
user_pref(”content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(”content.switch.threshold”, 750000);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections”, 48);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 16);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”, 16);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”, 8);
user_pref(”nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 0);
user_pref(”browser.cache.memory.capacity”, 65536);

FAST COMPUTER, SLOW CONNECTION

user_pref(”browser.xul.error_pages.enabled”, true);
user_pref(”content.interrupt.parsing”, true);
user_pref(”content.max.tokenizing.time”, 3000000);
user_pref(”content.maxtextrun” 8191);
user_pref(”content.notify.interval”, 750000);
user_pref(”content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(”content.switch.threshold”, 750000);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections”, 32);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 8);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”, 8);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”, 4);
user_pref(”nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 0);
user_pref(”browser.cache.memory.capacity”, 65536);

SLOW COMPUTER, FAST CONNECTION

user_pref(”content.max.tokenizing.time”, 3000000);
user_pref(”content.notify.backoffcount”, 5);
user_pref(”content.notify.interval”, 1000000);
user_pref(”content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(”content.switch.threshold”, 1000000);
user_pref(”content.maxtextrun”, 4095);
user_pref(”nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 1000);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections”, 48);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 16);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”, 16);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”, 8);
user_pref(”dom.disable_window_status_change”, true);

DIAL-UP

user_pref(”content.max.tokenizing.time”, 2250000);
user_pref(”content.notify.interval”, 750000);
user_pref(”content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(”content.switch.threshold”, 750000);
user_pref(”nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 750);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections”, 32);
user_pref(”network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 8);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”, 8);
user_pref(”network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”, 4);
user_pref(”dom.disable_window_status_change”, true);