Nithin Kamath's Weblog

Picasa3 for Linux is a good option for managing photos and for uploading photos to Picasa webalbums, but I am having problems with downloading the Albums using Picasa3, it generally downloads a couple of images from the album and then does not proceed. Even trying to close the download process hangs whole of Picasa and I have to kill the process to continue.

So I found a cool Add-on for Firefox called ‘DownThemAll!‘, it is basically a download manager which manages your downloads. You can follow the below mentioned steps to download Picasa webalbums using this plugin.

• Goto the photo album main page using either the public or the private link.
• Click on the RSS feed icon on the address bar.
• Once the RSS feed is loaded in Firefox, right click anywhere on the page and choose the ‘DownThemAll’ option and select the files you would like to download and where you would like to download them to.
• DownThemAll will do the rest of the work.

If you know of any better way of downloading the web albums let me know through the comments. Till then have a easy way out while downloading ablums from Picasa webalbums in Linux.

Guruji.com is a relatively new entrant in the search engine market and is being promoted as “The Indian Search Engine”. For the past 2 days I have been receiving quite a few hits from people using this search engine. So I though I will give this search engine a one week trial. You might be knowing the benifits of using the search toolbar, (it removes the need of first visiting the site and then entering the details). I searched for a Firefox Search Plugin for Guruji.com, and could not find any; hence created this one.

This Search Plugin will work only on Mozilla Firefox 2 or later.

Use the button below to install the Plugin. Once installed, click on the small download arrow in the search toolbar and select ‘guruji’ option.
Please note that this is a simple search plug-in, which anyone can create, even then I am including the source code for the plug-in. No licensing information is mentioned but it would be great if current commented header is retained and you mention the link to this page.

 

Here is the search toolbar before installing the plugin:

Here is the new search toolbar:

This is also my first attempt at this type of thing so please do report any bugs or improvements by commenting below.