Downloading the Internet with Free Download Manager

While I was impressed with the features of Internet Download Manager, I didn’t agree with the cost to features ratio. It seemed a bit excessive to me, so the search began to see what else I could find. It was a nice program, but there are plenty of other apps that resume downloads, spawn multiple threads and organize files as they’re downloaded. That feature set just isn’t worth $24.95. I went through plenty of apps and finally arrived at what I think is a damn nice one that not only has almost all the same features, but actually comes with a price tag of free. Let’s have a look at Free Download Manager. It’s not the most awe inspiring name, but it packs a lot of punch and the first thing I noticed, it actually looks a lot like IDM. Looks aside, how does it work? I threw a couple of files at it, and had no issues with multiple […]

Putting Internet Download Manager through it’s paces

When you start looking for video download tools for YouTube or download accelerators it’s almost inevitable you will end up with links to Internet Download Manager. With all these links going around I figured I would download it and give it try in my Video Download Gauntlet of Death. Ok, there really is no gauntlet of death, but I did have several video and download tests that IDM didn’t handle so well. IDM is free to try for 30 days with a price of $24.95 to keep using it. Seems a bit expensive considering all the free tools out there. First off, IDM is supposed to speed up, resume and schedule downloads. After trying it with several different network connections I didn’t really see any difference. On a big connection it downloaded at high speed, but then again, so did everything else. On a slow connection, it was still slow, just like everything else. It does organize files into categories […]