Download Managers

Ever increasing size of internet downloads and internet speeds means one need a good download manager.  Some of internet browers like Opera has in-built download manager.

Why is download manager necessary?

- To optimize internet download speed
- To manage downloads easily like pausing and resuming downloads at will
- To be able to schedule a download at specified time
- To be able to allocate bandwidth to download and be able to browse internet at the same time
- For finding mirror sites that provide the same download content which inturn help in choosing the best server

Some popular free downloads managers

Free Download Manager (FDM)

Free Download Manager is a popular download manager. Apart from usual download features like pausing and resuming downloads, FDM also provides a user review system.  Users can ask for users opinion who download the same will get an idea of the popularity of the download. It also includes a FTP explorer and the ability to download entire website for offline browsing. FDM allows you to limit the downloading speed. There are 3 modes of network usage: Light, Medium and Heavy.

Download: Free Download Manager

[http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/]

FlashGet

FlashGet can call anti-virus automatically to clean viruses, spyware and adware after finishing download. It supports HTTP, FTP, BT, eMule and other various protocols. You should download and install a add-on to integrate FlashGet to Firefox and Opera. The add-on is available at http://www.flashget.com/en/addons.htm. However it integrates into Internet Explorer straight away out of the box.

Download: FlashGet
[http://www.flashget.com/index_en.htm]

Fresh Download

It supports FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols.  It integrats into almost all Internet browsers.  It has built-in Zip file extractor. It can call anti-virus automatically to clean viruses, spyware and adware after finishing download.

Download: Fresh Download

[http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html]

Orbit Downloader

Orbit Downloader supports HTTP/FTP/HTTPS/RTSP/MMS/RTMP protocols. You can download music and video from social music/video websites including Pandora and YouTube. It also supports many file popular file sharing sites.

Download: Orbit Downloader

[http://www.orbitdownloader.com/index.htm]