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How To Download Photobucket Album Without Pro Account - New

I had earlier posted about how complete photobucket albums could be downloaded even if you did not have a pro account. However, photobucket removed one of the essential features that made that hack work.

A complete album can still be very easily downloaded following more or less the same steps. Incorporating some inputs from reader James Murphy, here's what you need to do-

As in the previous post, you will have to download and install Mozilla Firefox and an addon called Down Them All. Then proceed exactly as in the last post till the step where you check the "select all" option and click on "Generate HTML or IMG Code".

Now, copy the links in the Second Box in the page that appears. Paste these links in a notepad file, and save the file to a .html extension.


Next, open this file using firefox. On the page that appears, Right Click and select "Down Them All". Then simply select the "Pictures & Embedded" tab in the Down Them All window and start downloading your album. Voila!

New Hack For Downloading Photobucket Albums

THE NEW HACK HAS BEEN POSTED HERE- How To Download Photobucket Album Without Pro Account - New

Backing up photobucket albums had been much of a trouble for free users as the service only allowed the "Batch Download" option to Pro account users. However, things got changed when I posted some time back about how a simple hack could make things much simpler.

It seems like Photobucket noticed the bug after I started getting enormous traffic and high search engine listings on this particular post explaining how to download photobucket albums without a Pro account. Not only did they fix it by removing the "Preview" option, but also complemented it by deleting one of the pictures used in the tutorial.

Well, they may have thought I would do nothing about this and keep sleeping like their bitches. Sorry sirs, but I have found ANOTHER (yeah! You heard it right!) POSSIBLE EXPLOIT to do the same. For now, the new trick is working perfectly on Mac and Linux systems. We're still looking for a way to do the same on Windows and we're sure that in a few days, the post and the hack will be out in the open for you to enjoy. So keep checking this space regularly, because you're going to find what you came looking for really soon :D.

Bit Torrent Solutions For Linux

Utorrent has been indisputably the best Bit-Torrent client for Windows due to it's light-weight resource friendly interface and simple usability almost since the 1.5.0 release, or perhaps since even much before. When it comes to linux, selecting the "best" Bit-Torrent client has always been a n-sided affair. Bit-Torrent, Transmission and Ktorrent are some of the most popular torrent clients used across the Linux community. Azureus, which was the only reliable client for windows available before Utorrent, is also only a bit behind, mainly because it is Java-based. Other less popular clients include CTorrent, Deluge, Torrent Swapper etc. Of all only three worked comfortably on my system on PCLinuxOS Minime 2008. Somehow Bit-Torrent kept crashing and the others weren't even worth mentioning.

KTorrent

Often termed the "Utorrent for Linux", this client has much more to offer. It's light as a feather and has easily the sleekest UI out there. It's latest stable version is 2.2.5 for KDE 3 engines and 3.0 for KDE 4. The version 2.2.5 boasts of features including-

1) Efficient UI with no bloated features. Moreover, it even allows you to configure how much memory the software occupies according to a Slow/Fast CPU.



2) In-client search for torrents on torrent websites. The list pre-includes popular services like Bitoogle, Bittorrent, Bytenova, Isohunt, KTorrents, Mininova, PirateBay, TorrentSpy and Torrentz. Torrent Search Engines can be easily added to or removed from the list.

3) Bandwidth Scheduler allows you to schedule the bandwidth distribution according to time.

4) The RSS Feeds Plugin scans the RSS feeds for torrents matching regular expressions and loads them.

5) Partially/fully downloaded torrents can be imported from other clients

6) The Web Interface allows you to manage your downloads even while you're miles away from your computer through a web browser.

7) The ZeroConf Plugin scans the local network for users using KTorrent and allows sharing of torrents with them.

8) A user-defined IP or hostname can be sent to the tracker.

9) Although a minor feature, I was impressed with how carefully structured the "Torrent-Tree" was.



10) Then again, it comes with all the other commonly available features like IP Filter, Peer Exchange etc.

The 3.0 version updates include (source)-

IPv6 support
SOCKSv4 and v5 support
The network interface to use, can now be selected
Alternative flat list mode to display the files of a torrent
Reorganization of the config dialog
Individual files of a torrent can now be moved
New queuemanager gui

Azureus

I stopped using Azureus long ago when Vuze acquired it due to the memory-hogging interface and the irritating "On Vuze" integration. Almost after an year, I tried the 3.0.4.2 version and I must say, despite the yet-irritating UI, I was a bit (a teeny little ant-brain sized bit) impressed. Only because of its detailed customization. But first, to survive even looking at it, you must change the default interface to "Classic" from the Settings. Some of the features are-

1) Highly Customizable UI including Language, Colors and Splash Screen.

2) User selection of permitted Peer Sources and Peer-Peer Data Transmission Networks.

3) Includes IPv6 support, multiple connections from the same IP, transparency to bitfield based blocking and option for setting a separate speed for LAN based transfers.

4) Prioritization of files according to file formats can be set up.

5) Plugins include LAN Peer Finder (Similar to ZeroConf) and IRC (allows entering IRC channels through the client).

All in all, almost everything you do can be defined by you.

Transmission

There's nothing really "special" about this software except that it is perhaps the best option for the torrent-beginner being absolutely basic and small.


Besides torrent clients, several free torrent tools are also available for linux systems which are integrable in almost all popular clients. These include-

1) Torrent Episode Downloader (Ted)- It is a sleek Bit-Torrent tool developed by "two TV addicts" which downloads the latest episodes of your favorite TV Show through Bit-Torrent and RSS Feed searches and comes with a huge list of popular TV Shows.

2) Torrent Sniff- This is a useful tool that displays the current status of a torrent from a URL or from your own system. A sample outut (from the official website) goes as-

http://www.rpmfind.net/BitTorrent/shrike-i386-disc1.iso.torrent
info hash: 8a4c7a49fe5e8d7777b196b9ac2d8145160d49f5
announce url: http://www.rpmfind.net:6969/announce
full copies: 4 seeds
partial copies: 8 leeches
Bytes File
668,991,488 shrike-i386-disc1.iso