Tag: DOWNLOADMANAGER

The popular Firefox download manager DownThemAll has finally hit version 2.0, and the new release brings a number of important changes. Not least among them is out-of-the-box support for Firefox 4, which is currently slated for a February 2011 release. DownThemAll 2 offers even greater control over your Firefox downloads than its predecessor. Speed limits can be specified on a per-server or ...

In just three weeks, DownThemAll! version 2 has moved from supporting just one language in beta 4, to 14 languages in beta 5. Well, kind of -- the Japanese option is "English," and American English is much the same thing. But still, the addition of any new languages is sure to please its millions of users. If you currently use Firefox 3.6 and DTA 1.1, version 2 represents a massive and awesome ...

There's only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already. I'm not quite sure what to make of the screenshots, nor the Google translation. The Developer Previews (Internet Explorer Test Drive) are not meant to have a user interface -- they're just there to show off the Trident rendering ...

With the number of apps I'm downloading steadily on the rise, I'm always on the lookout for tools to simplify the process for me. QWinApt aims to give us poor Windows users a utility with the same killer functionality of Linux's Synaptic package manager. It's a great idea, and an improvement from Win-get (which Brad reviewed in 2007), but it's still not quite up to par with its Linux cousins. ...

When it comes to download management, it seems like Windows has always been ahead of OS X. That might still be true, but it's definitely up for debate, thanks to a very smart app called Leech. It's got the basic features that all good download managers provide: you can use it from within the browser, and it allows you to pause downloads, or resume them after a crash. Good start, but Leech really ...

Helpful Firefox download-manager addon DownThemAll (DTA) recently released a long awaited version 1.0 which now works in Firefox 3. In addition to being faster and more stable, DTA also now supports Link Fingerprints and metalink. Link Fingerprints are basically a way to embed download information in the download's URL. For example, a download's checksum could be embedded directly into the URL so ...

Halogenware has just released an update to their Retriever Download Manager, freeware designed to give you greater control over your downloads. Before you write it off as just another download manager, take a closer look; you'll find Retriever has a few tricks up its sleeve. Retriever allows you to easily pause, resume, or schedule your downloads from the web. It can capture downloads directly ...

When I installed the OS on my laptop I let Ubuntu pick the BitTorrent client for me. That wasn't a mistake; Ubuntu's default, BitTornado is no slouch and I've been happily using it for quite some time. This weekend I started downloading AMD 64 images for my much anticipated new machine. As I blissfully piled up simultaneous torrents I was reminded again that, as happy as I was with BitTornado, ...

A couple of weeks ago we asked you what download manager you preferred, and you answered. Some said they were antiquated, and many folks use p2p or built-in browser tools. But being a fan of tiny, single-purpose apps, I had to give Wackget a try. I see download managers almost as a batch file application— cue up all the stuff you need and forget about it until it's done. That's exactly what ...