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Free Download Manager and FlashGot
DonationCoder article- FlashGot Website - Free Download Manager - Freeware
reviewed by BrotherS, Dec 2005
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From BrotherS at DonationCoder
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Free_Download_Manager/1090197761/1
Publisher's Description:
Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured freeware downloading program. It allows you to download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
This is a really nice alternative for GetRight etc.! It also has a drop-box you can place on the desktop - which hides when you run another program in full-screen mode (guess who suggested that feature ). It has a great rating on the FileForum page, and while it's not perfect it's great for its price (0.00)!
In combination with the FlashGot 0.5.9.99 it's even better! If you haven't already, get this great Firefox extension from http://www.flashgot.net/
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FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox/Flock/Thunderbird extension (compatible with Netscape too), meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads with several external Download Managers.
Free Download Manager - a great addition to my browser
review from ClifNotes, Sept 2006, permalink
Back in December of last year, an associate of mine at DonationCoder posted a nice review of Free Download Manager. I didn't try it out until last week.
What do I think? It's great! I've never been real crazy about FireFox's download manager and Internet Explorer doesn't even have one. FDM (Free Download Manager) does a great job and will even form multiple connections to the download site so that you can download the files as fast as possible. The other features are too numerous to discuss here, but I'm happy with what I've tried so far. Other people here have recommended FDM to me as well. (Thanks AdriaanR)
Recently, the folks at FDM have added a social download commenting service to the download manager so that you can see other people's opinions on the specific files you may be thinking about downloading.
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Quote from the website
Free Download Manager (FDM) offers you a vast variety of options to control and schedule your downloads. This is a light-weight but powerful download manager.
FDM can resume your broken download so that you needn't start it from the beginning after casual interruption.
FDM allows you to limit the downloading speed. There are 3 modes of network usage: Light, Medium and Heavy.
Capability to split download into several sections allows you to increase download speed up to 600%.
FDM can connect to the Internet at a set time, download the files you want, launch any program, disconnect or shut down your computer when it's done.
This download manager allows you to specify the settings of network usage, such as login and password, maximum number of connections, default group, etc. So you can avoid adjusting these settings every time you need to create new download from the server.
Also you can download the whole web sites from the remote server. You can adjust FDM to download files with the extensions you have specified.
NEW! FDM 2.1 gives you a new opportunity - you can now request other users’ opinion on the file you are going to download as well as write your comment on the downloaded file - right in the download window! In this way you will always be warned against useless and corrupted files or malicious content. Read more about this opportunity on our Community Features page.
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