Publisher’s description of Internet Download Manager
From Tonec:
Internet Download Manager is a tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times, and for resuming, scheduling, and organizing downloads. The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages. The program features a full-fledged site grabber that downloads files that are specified with filters, for example, all pictures from a Web site, different parts of Web sites, or complete Web sites for offline browsing. The program supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and MMS protocols, and has an adaptive download accelerator for MP3 audio, FLV and MPEG video files. Internet Download Manager can be used to download Flash video from YouTube, Google Video, MySpaceTV, and other popular sites. It integrates into Opera, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Firefox, MSN, AOL, and into any application that uses FTP, or HTTP protocols. Internet Download Manager fully supports Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7.
Version 5.14 build 3 adds IDM Download panel for the Web players based on Windows Media Player in IE and fixes few bugs.
License: Free to try; $24.95 to buy (Buy it now)
Requirements: Windows (all)
Limitations: 30-day trial
Date Added: July 31, 2008
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Publisher’s description of iTunes
From Apple:
iTunes, the award-winning digital-jukebox software, is now available for both Mac and Windows. The iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store that Mac users love, with the same music catalog, the same personal-use rights, and the same pricing of 99 cents per song. With music from all five major music companies and more than 200 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 songs.
iTunes includes great features that make it the best digital-jukebox software for the Mac–a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3- and pristine-quality AAC-encoding from audio CDs, smart playlists, more than 250 free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, to burn content to DVDs to back up an entire music collection, and to share music via Rendezvous over any network, cross-platform. Version 7.7 added support for the App Store. Version 7.7.1 includes minor enhancements and bug fixes.
License: Free
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5
Limitations: No limitations
Date Added: July 31, 2008
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Top internet accelerator (according to PC Magazine), a network settings optimizer to speed up your existing Dial-Up Modem, DSL, Cable, Wireless, LAN, High-speed internet connections.
SpeedConnect Internet Accelerator is a powerful Windows application designed to optimize your network connection and speed up all your internet activities. This translates into a faster internet connection, faster browsing and email, faster downloads, faster online gaming, improved Skype connection.
The speed of your network connection doesn’t just depend on the speed of your hardware. Windows is an operating system that is designed to work on a variety of different hardware and network setups. Because of the abstract nature of the operating system, it cannot be optimized for user-specific hardware setups.
Depending on the type of network connection you have, you might be able to tweak your connection so that the speed of your Internet, as well as your local area network, will be faster. By changing the System Registry and optimizing the TCP/IP parameters, SpeedConnect can fine-tune the values to take advantage of more reliable, faster Internet connections.
SpeedConnect Internet Accelerator is designed to optimize the network tcp/ip settings and speed up all your internet related activities including browsing, downloading, uploading, streaming, online gaming, sending and receiving email. SpeedConnect Quick Optimizer mode provides the fastest way to speed up your connection. Experienced users get total control in advanced mode, which provides manual access to all settings.
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MetaProducts Download Express is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 program that allows you to download individual files from the Web and FTP sites at the maximum possible speed. Multiple channels technology significantly reduces download time. MetaProducts Download Express is a small (about 680 Kb) application. Currently it supports Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox browsers. MetaProducts Download Express has the auto-learn feature. It will ask you about including filename extensions when you add files with a new extension using browser click hot keys. When you cancel, MetaProducts Download Express opens a file window for unwanted file types and asks if you want to exclude this extension from its file types list.
Internet Explorer clicks monitoring hot keys:
- Please hold the Alt+Control keys down when clicking to add any link to MetaProducts Download Express;
- Please hold the Shift key down when clicking to have MetaProducts Download Express ignore a link.
Mozilla FireFox 1.x - 2.x, Netscape 8.x, SeaMonkey, Flock browsers plug-in
Click here to download MetaProducts Integration plug-in for Mozilla FireFox and Netscape browsers.
To install the plug-in, please drag and drop the file to FireFox browser window using Windows Explorer. Then please restart FireFox. Now you can use the link right-click menu item “Download Express: download this file.” Also, FireFox will offer you to use Download Express to download files.
MetaProducts Download Express is free for non-commercial use.
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