Free Download Manager
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 Free Download Manager in Windows Vista |
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| Initial release | 2004 |
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| Stable release | 3.8 (Build 1173) (29 December 2011)[1] [±] |
| Preview release |
3.9 RC1 build 1194 (24 January 2012) [±] |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows XP SP1 and later |
| Platform | Hardware: IA-32 Software: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Apple Safari, SeaMonkey |
| Available in | Albanian, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese |
| Type | Download manager and BitTorrent client |
| License | GPL version 3[2] |
| Website | www.freedownloadmanager.org |
Free Download Manager is a free and open-source download manager for the Microsoft Windows.
FDM was previously proprietary software, but with the release of version 2.5 it has been open source.[2] Starting with version 3.0.850 (15 April 2010), source code is no longer provided as a packaged download, but is available in the project's Subversion repository.[3] Free Download Manager received a 2007 Webuser Gold Award.[4]
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[edit] Features
- The GUI presents several tabs that organise types of downloads and allow access to different features in the program.
- Download information view that shows each downloads progress bar, file preview, community opinions if any are written for that download and a log showing connection status.
- Drop box for file drag-and-drop.
- HTTP & FTP download support.
- Batch downloading support for downloading a set of files.
- BitTorrent support (based on Libtorrent).
- Metalink support, for easy downloading from mirrors.
- Flash video download from sites like Youtube and Google Video
- Resuming broken downloads, if permitted by server.
- Download throttling via three fully customizable traffic modes, light, medium and heavy.
- Import list of urls from clipboard.
- Remote control via Internet
[edit] Tabs
- Downloads - This is the focal point of the program, which is simply a download manager. Users can also create groups with folders to which files with specific extensions will be downloaded.
- Flash video downloads - This feature helps users to download FLV video files from Youtube, Google Video and many other site.
- Torrents - Allows to download torrent files.
- Scheduler - Users can create and manage lists of tasks to be executed at a preset time. Tasks include launching external programs, starting and stopping downloads, and shutting down the computer in all possible ways.
- Site Explorer - This feature is an FTP client.
- Site Manager - This feature allows users to tell FDM how to act with specific sites, such as websites that require authentication, or how many download connections a website can accept simultaneously from the user.
- HTML Spider - This feature can download a website by following and downloading links recursively.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Free Download Manager". Files. SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedownload/files/Free%20Download%20Manager/. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ a b "FDM 2.5 is released!". Free Download Manager blog. 15 April 2007. http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/blog/2007/08/15/fdm-25-is-released/. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ "Free Download Manager". SCM Repositories. SourceForge. http://freedownload.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedownload/. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ Andy Shaw. "Free Download Manager Review - Web-User". Webuser. IPC Media. http://www.webuser.co.uk/products/Free_Download_Manager_review_4184.html. Retrieved 2008-09-11.[dead link]
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