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Multiget is a multi-threaded download manager for any OS
by Lee Mathews Oct 8th 2009 at 11:00AM
Once installed, Multiget monitors your clipboard for download links -- or you can start putting the app to use via its floating drop box. Find something you want to download in your favorite browser, then click and drag a link onto the box to initiate the transfer. Downloads can also be started via Multiget's task menu.
Multiget supports multiple simultaneous threads per download, FTP and HTTP resuming (as long as the server supports it), and it works through proxies.
The developer provides binaries for Linux and Windows - as well as the source code, of course. Those of you running a Linux distro with apt-get can likely do a simple sudo apt-get install multiget. Mac and BSD users have to jump through the additional hoop of compiling from source, but Multiget will work for you, too!
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Kris120890 said 12:14PM on 10-08-2009
Free download manager does all that doesn't it.
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polobunny said 12:33PM on 10-08-2009
Yup. And it has FlashGot add-on compatibility in Firefox.
The downside is that I don't think it's available for anything other than Windows, but that's a moot point, unless you're not under Windows that is. :P
shibathedog said 12:32PM on 10-08-2009
sounds a lot like JDownloader but without support for rapidshare-type-sites.
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MacroPheliac said 3:03PM on 10-08-2009
This app hasn't had a new release since 2007...
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Trevor said 3:40PM on 10-08-2009
I personally love DownThemAll. It's a Firefox add-on so it's completely cross-platform, lightweight, powerful, and free. Everything I need in a download manager.
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