Downloading Picasa Albums or Photos

You can download entire albums and individual photos onto your computer from Picasa Web Albums.

What you need to download entire Picasa Album

• Picasa must be installed on your computer. Download Here.
• The album owner must enable ‘Allow any visitor to download my photos‘ on the Privacy and Permissions tab of the Settings page. Or you are the owner of Picasa Web Album.
• Picasa Web Album account. Sign up here.

To Download an entire album:

1. From Picasa web album, click the album you’d like to download.

2. From the Download menu above your photos, select Download to Picasa.
3. In Picasa, if you’re not signed in to your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums, you’ll be prompted to do so.

4. In the window that appears, click the Download button.

The downloaded albums photos could be found in the ‘Downloaded Albums’ collection. For Windows, they locate under “My Documents\My Pictures\Downloaded Albums“.

You could also download an individual photo:

1. While viewing the photo you’d like to download, click the Download button above the photo.

2. Select Download Photo.

3. In the window that appears, select Save File.

4. After select save folder, click OK.

You can follow this tutorial to burn Picasa photo to DVD and enjoy Picasa photos on TV using DVD player.

Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at blogulate.com Port 80

This message was plaguing blogulate two days back. Although it’s gone now, I was unsure what was happening as blogulate hardly even reached 10% of the 1500GB monthly bandwidth.
Curious to know what was happening, I mailed the Customer Support. This was their reply:

Thank you for contacting Online Support. Unfortunately I am unable to duplicate the issue you are reporting. Based on the error, the problem may be related to the number of visitors on the site. A maximum of 50 connections can be supported on Linux hosting accounts. If that amount is exceeded you may receive such an error. Unfortunately the only way to alleviate such a problem is with a dedicated or virtual dedicated server.

Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.

It seems that GoDaddy’s max. number of simultaneous connections at any time is 50 for the Linux Hosting account.
This is sort of bad as most browsers use pipelined simultaneous requests and 10 users accessing your site can easily take 50 simultaneous connections.
It would have been been better if the 51th connection wait for a connection to terminate and then connect. However, the visitor just gets a 503 Error message. If it is a visitor making his way to your site from a Search Engine, it would appear to him as if the site was down as the bandwidth had exceeded and he’d just go away w.o retrying.
However, blogulate.com has had the same amount of traffic for the past 2 days and the error never re-occurred.

Here are links to more resources on the topic
The Service Temporarily Unavailable Error on Godaddy Hosting

Godaddy 503 Error : DP Forums

Godaddy 305 error @Webhostingtalk forum

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I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype.  Lots of people have

been using similar things long before it became "AJAX".  And it really

isn't as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be.  Here is a

simple example from one of my apps.

First the Javascript:function createRequestObject()

 {

    var ro;

    var browser = navigator.appName;

    if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){

        ro = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

    }

    else{

       ro = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }

    return ro;

}

var http = createRequestObject();

function sndReq(action) {

    http.open('get', 'rpc.php?action='+action);

    http.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;

    http.send(null);

}

function handleResponse() {

    if(http.readyState == 4){

        var response = http.responseText;

        var update = new Array();

if(response.indexOf('|' != -1)) {

            update = response.split('|');

            document.getElementById(update[0]).innerHTML = update[1];

        }

    }

}

This creates a request object along with a send request and handle

response function.  So to actually use it, you could include this js in

your page.  Then to make one of these backend requests you would tie it

to something.  Like an onclick event or a straight href like this:

<a href="javascript:sndReq('foo')">[foo]</a>

That means that when someone clicks on that link what actually happens

is that a backend request to rpc.php?action=foo will be sent.

In rpc.php you might have something like this:

switch($_REQUEST['action']) {

    case 'foo':

      / do something /

      echo "foo|foo done";

      break;

    ...

  }

Now, look at handleResponse.  It parses the "foo|foo done" string and

splits it on the '|' and uses whatever is before the '|' as the dom

element id in your page and the part after as the new innerHTML of that

element.  That means if you have a div tag like this in your page:

<div id="foo">

  </div>

Once you click on that link, that will dynamically be changed to:

<div id="foo">

  foo done

  </div>

That's all there is to it.  Everything else is just building on top of

this.  Replacing my simple response "id|text" syntax with a richer XML

format and makine the request much more complicated as well.  Before you

blindly install large "AJAX" libraries, have a go at rolling your own

functionality so you know exactly how it works and you only make it as

complicated as you need.  Often you don't need much more than what I

have shown here.

Expanding this approach a bit to send multiple parameters in the

request, for example, would be really simple.  Something like:

function sndReqArg(action,arg) {

    http.open('get', 'rpc.php?action='+action+'&arg='+arg);

    http.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;

    http.send(null);

  }

And your handleResponse can easily be expanded to do much more

interesting things than just replacing the contents of a div.

-Rasmus

First, download the Patch for changing max TCP connections from here [ EventID 4226 Patcher Version 2.23d-english]. Change the value to a value between 50-100..

Next, uTorrent: Options > Preferences > Advanced options > net.max_halfopen and increase it from 10 to a decent value like 80..

1.  Open up notepad or a text editor.
2. Copy-Paste the following lines of code into a new file

   [Shell]
   Command=2
   IconFile=explorer.exe,3
   [Taskbar]
   Command=ToggleDesktop

3. Then, save the file as showdesk.scf and move it to some place like windows folder.
   
4. Then, Create a Shortcut to the showdesk.scf file.
5. Finally, just drag and drop the shortcut into your Quick Launch panel or  copy-paste it wherever you want it to be.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

If you have a decent anti-virus, it should throw out warnings..

Go to Start Menu > Run and type gpedit.msc  [Group Policy Edit]

Select Administrative Templates > System

Select “Turn off Autoplay” from right.

Set the radio button to Enabled, and change the “Turn off Autoplay on” to All Drives.

Want to ping multiple sites when a new post is made on you blog ? PingOmatic is the answer.

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