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Ok first things first, I’m back..from the dead..again..after a hefty battle with term projects and presentations. Sorry for all the, err.. ‘disappointments’ when you found that your feed reader didn’t contain fresh new content from ‘Bunch of Me’. I promise to be a good boy from now on.

Now onto my new post. Some of you are already familiar with Imageshack’s o-so-awesome torrent downloader service, right? If not, let me explain in short what it is then. “Tor”- is the answer to the prayers of many internet users out there whose bandwidth scales never venture into the Mbit/sec mark. Who have to wait for hours, or even days to download a single..AHEM! “New Movie Release”. Anywho, TOR brought sanity back into the world of torrent downloads. With imageshack’s fast servers, it would download any big torrent file in and instance and then offer you a nice, high speed, resumable http link. Sounds oddly humble right?

Wrong.

There are always catches with things that glitter. TOR too had (or still ‘has’ to be precise) its downside. After going through the delusional phase when you are just getting ready to stop praising the CEOs of Imageshack and start your first actual download, the service presents you with a screen that I’d like to call “The insanely irritating Nag-screen no 1”.

What this window basically tells you is that, your ‘free’ account has limits, you should realize that and wait for a decent/off-peak hour to start your downloads when the paid members aren’t busy downloading you know what. Offcourse a fast solution to your headache is to buy an actual ‘Paid Monthly Package’’ that would, in their words ‘Prioritize your downloading needs’.

But hey, we are cheapskate, blood-sucking nerds, right? Why spend when we can bend the rules of the consumerist cy-economists ? If you believe in the same, then hop on.

The trick to bypass this screen (not really, ‘bypass’ .Its more in the line of ‘get rid of’) is to keep refreshing the page until grumpy gnomes in charge of keeping the servers tidy give up and lets you in (meaning, allows your download to start). However, at times it can take over 20~22 reloads/refreshes to get er’ done, which to be frank, becomes quite annoying after a awhile. What to do ? Why not take help from our good ole’ extendible buddy , “Firefox’? As it turns out, FF has an extension called “Reload Every” that lets you automatically reload any given page after a preset time. You can customize the “Time to wait before a reload”. Just install the extension and when the so called ‘ Insanely Irritating Nag-Screen no 1” appears, simply right-click > select reload every___ (fill in the blanks with the time-lag you wish) > sit back and relax. (see the screen-caps below for reference)

In due time your downloads would resume :) Everyone’s happy now right ?

E.T.A of death for this trick, “VERY SOON!” Hope no one from Imageshack reads my blog.

Links:

Download Reload Every 3.0.0 [ Direct link ]

Reload Every on FF Addons page.

Explanation of Imageshack’s Torrent Downloader [ via :TorrentFreak ]