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Downloader tools can be quite unpleasent. It is often a choice between overcomplicated adware, or you have to use the vendors software that may not be very goo
by 7952 11y ago
Downloader tools can be quite unpleasent. It is often a choice between overcomplicated adware, or you have to use the vendors software that may not be very good. Downloading large files should be as simple and reliable as small files for the user. Perhaps Metalink[1] support would help?
[1] http://www.metalinker.org/ http://www.metalinker.org/
- icebraining 11y agoThere's plenty of uncomplicated, adfree software. For Windows, I'm partial to Miniget (which supports both HTTP and Bittorrent): http://www.miniget001.com/ http://www.miniget001.com/
- arm 11y agoYes. On OS X, I find myself using Leech¹ quite a bit. ―――――― ¹ — http://manytricks.com/leech/ http://manytricks.com/leech/
- AYBABTME 11y agoaria2 is a pretty killer tool, no ad or anything. Just a CLI. http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
- toomuchtodo 11y agoAria2 is incredible. +1 for it! Should be standard install on everyone's workstation if you need a download manager.