Here I am back again within a short span of time. Seems blogging is turning out to be my thing. Hopefully this won't become my main responsibility in my life and my responsibilities my pass time. Right now I am uninstalling Visual Studio 2008 in hope of installing 2010 (those who don't know Visual Studio please continue as if you didn't see this line. It's not worth Googling up) while writing this. So if you don't hear from me after sometime probably I crashed the system.
All right then continuing on trying to enlighten you all (not in the Buddhism way of course) on little tit bits of the computer world which will make your life a whole lot easier, in this post I will be talking about Download Managers. Some of you may have already heard about them and are using them but I have come to see that most are unaware of these products. This might not be that much handy for people using 24Mbps connections (I envy you !!!) but for us poor souls who have to put up with the 512Kbps or sometimes normal dial ups. But still these may come in handy for others also when managing their downloads or sometimes when you can't get the total bandwidth allocated for the download.
Download managers do basically what their names command them to do. That is manage our downloads. But here's the surprise. They speed up your downloads by utilizing your bandwidth to the maximum. So now you don't have to sit in front of the computer whole day praying for the download speed to increase and hoping that your connection won't crash as the download managers give you the ability to pause and resume your downloads at ease. Another unknown advantage that comes with these download managers is the ability to download videos and songs (like in youtube) directly (I have seen many begging to find a way to download youtube clips) .
So how do these work? I won't go into the details of their inner functionality (I myself am clueless about it) but will describe how it will work for you. Once you download and install a download manager it will integrate itself with your installed browsers (not with all of them as different managers support different browsers and please don't install a set of download mangers hoping to capture all the browsers !!!) and that's about it. After that what you have to do is continue roaming the internet as normally as you do and when you click on any link to download the manager would take it over from there. It will open a download window of it's own rather than the normal browser download window and all you have to do is set the destination folder and click OK. Rest will be managed by the download manager and you will be surprised to see downloads reaching speeds that you thought you weren't entitled to.
But one thing about download managers is that they won't be able to handle some types of files. So in case of downloading such a file the download manager won't activate and the normal browser download will take over. Some download managers like IDM (Internet Download Manager) will allow you to add file types that it doesn't know of so that it can take over them. But most of the file types are supported by all download managers so it won't be a problem.
So what are the download managers available? I have two favorites of my own and I have only used those two so far but there are few others that I can recommend as well. But these are not the only ones so you will be able to find many download managers available. But most good download managers will have to be purchased and only few will be available free and of those also be careful not to get caught for ones which have malicious programs running behind them.
My personal favorites are
IDM is not freely available and you will have to purchase it (of course there are cracks available that you can download from torrents but be warned that some cracks are infected). IDM is really fast and have great many features and handles the downloads very well and I my self use this. But for those who don't won't to pay or use cracks there's absolutely nothing to worry as they have FDM (Free Download Manager). As the name says it's absolutely free and is quite marvelous and really good for a freely available manager. It achieves speeds as much as IDM and is very user friendly (I'm wondering myself why I'm using IDM). So you can pick either of those.
Flash Get has been recommended as a very good download manger to me but unfortunately I experimented it in a very slow network which brought unsatisfactory results but it's something to say it was user friendly. So if any of you would like to try out I won't say no. Orbit Downloader is also well of in recommendations and both of these are available free. With Firefox though there are some add-ons that you can try out which will integrate with the firefox browser only and out of them DownThemAll would be a very good choice.
So there you are basically with everything you need to know about download managers and how to use them. Hope next time you won't go posting comments under videos asking ways to download a video. Wishing you great speed with your downloads and hoping to come back with some details on IDM me signing out.
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