If you have a windows vista then the chances are, your windows explorer will keep on getting crash whenever you try to downlload .FLV (flash) files through Firefox. It is a well known bug about which nothing much has been done as the problem probably causes by lack of plugin for .flv in firefox which causes problem.

Anyway here are the two solutions to stop windows explorer getting crashed while downloading .flv files

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It seems the problems with paypal for Indian users are not going away, paypal is now asking every user to fill their PAN card details along with phone number so now all your paypal earnings are linked to your PAN number and RBI and Income Tax department can track all the incoming and outgoing money.

This also means end of the “tax stealing” which many were doing by not disclosing their paypal earnings properly, and though I can see lot of people complaining about this, I think its a right decision and really people have no right to complain to RBI and IT department, as every one is paying taxes so freelancers should pay taxes too on whatever they are earning through paypal.

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If like me, you also spend 14 hours a day in front of your laptop browsing lot of useless websites and feels you are not that productive as you should be, then you can start using a web service named rescuetime.

How Rescuetime Works ?

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It seems from last few days, paypal has blocked thousands of Indian paypal accounts for almost no reason and with no explanation, the only reason I can see is when the transaction happened between two non verified or one verified/one non verified account, they block all the unverified accounts and now asking for more proof about the validity of transaction and documents to restore the account.

Making all accounts limited is very unprofessional but then we are talking about paypal here so it doesn’t surprises me. The problem with paypal is, it seems while trying to solve problem, they completely ignore their users.

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In case you are not following the issue, paypal has updated their blog yesterday about the codes which all Indian paypal users have to fill now, you can check the post here which is self explanatory.

So from now on, while withdrawing money, we need to fill a code (thankfully, no Import export license as earlier I had thought), you can see all the codes either on thepaypalblog or at RBI’s site

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If you are looking to download a big file from Rapidshare of size 400 MB which is in parts of 50 MB each, you have to copy each link and paste in address bar to start the download, though the overall process is not that time consuming but if you are a regular downloader from rapidshare, this find-copy-paste thing can be really annoying.

Now here is a nice addon named RSLink (here is the plugin homepage though you should always download from mozilla’s site only) which removed the finding url, copy/paste process. Whenever you are on a page with rapidshare links, just click the R button at the bottom right side of firefox and it will show all the rapidshare links, select the links you want to download and click OK, all links will start getting downloaded.

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In my last post I had talked about how paypal has promised to start working in couple of days and since people have already waited for almost a month, I don’t think anyone is going to mind for few more days but still for those who want to know what is “Import Export license” in India, You can check this link http://www.infodriveindia.com/IEC-Code/Default.aspx to know more about it

Also for those of you are wondering that as a programmer/designer/seo/services guy, how can you be a exporter as you are not sending any tangible product outside India, but RBI calls services as products too (which makes sense) so everyone who is looking to avail direct bank transfer facility has to get the import export license.

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If you are a paypal user, you must have got this mail by now that paypal has almost resolved this problem and by 3rd march they are expecting to again offering direct bank transfer option. Though the Indian users do have to get export license and fill their number in paypal field. Here is the full mail they sent

Dear My_Name,

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This was ought to happen, Xoom.com has stopped Indian paypal users sending money to their own bank accounts in India. After paypal getting stuck in RBI regulations, lot of people were using xoom to transfer money from their premium paypal accounts to their local bank accounts through xoom which xoom do not allow as it is only meant to send money which is non business related and from different accounts.

As per one of the blog comment, this can take few months to get resovled, of course this is tentative time and they themselve are not sure and everything depends on paypal and how faster they can answer the RBI regulatory guidelines and questions.

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In my last post, I had talked about how the paypal problem is almost resolved minus the withdrawl to bank problem, now for those of you, who are too lazy to deposit a check in their bank or don’t trust indian postal services, they can use xoom.com which is a money remitting service, it is there for years in existence, I have used it many times and I am very impressed with the way they work.

You just need to fill your bank details and can initiate the transfer of money from paypal to your local bank in matter of 30 seconds and the overall transfer takes about 72 hours, which is still faster then paypal. They do have a high fees though but they offer much better exchange rate as compared to paypal so better exchange rate makes up for high fees. Anyway if you are withdrawing big amount, you won’t care about few dollars as fees specially if the transaction is going smoothly.

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