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Imagine this, you are in a store having a look at music, movies and game DVD's, you like something and instead of buying it you simply photograph the product barcode using your phone-camera and press a few buttons, within seconds the CD/DVD starts downloading on your computer at home.

Now, this scenario is very much possible if you own an Google Android powered phone with help of yet to be released Google Android application "Torrent Droid", the application allows users to scan barcodes and then launch a torrent search for the scanned media, once the correct torrent file is selected by the user it can then be pushed to user's home computer running uTorrent with Web GUI for instant downloading.

There are numerous automated download managers for Windows supporting major file-hosters like Rapidshare, Megaupload and Mediafire, but if you are looking for something which gets the job done on other platforms like Linux, open-source utility "Tucan Manager" would be the answer, developed in Phython the cross-platform utility lets users upload and download files on Rapidshare, Megaupload, Gigasize and Mediafire supporting both free and premium account functionality.

The fast and simple to use utility supports plugins making it easily extensible with other services, the application is in ALPHA stages and definitely posses a lot of potential considering its open-source multi-platform nature.

In an interesting development leading one-click file-hoster Rapidshare.Com announced public release of Rapidshare Application Programming Interface (API) meant for developers to create Rapidshare based applications, As per the official statement the Rapidshare API is now completed and will get released to public for external beta testing soon once comple

Despite being the third most popular one-click file-hoster after Rapidshare and MediaFire Megaupload does not have many file-search engines meant to search files hosted on their network, compared to the vast amount of dedicated third-party Rapidshare Search Engines there exist only a few meant for Megaupload, most of these file search-engines work on similar scripts which scrap results from specially crafted Google search queries, We can use the same Google search queries directly as discussed earlier to search files on Mediafire changing the query from site:mediafire.com to site:megaupload.com gets the job done, if you are looking for something automating this process here is a list of some of the best free megaupload search engines.