Test Drive the Palm Pre
Featured Freeware: Download Accelerator Plus
This download manager brings much more to the table than fast file transfers, but it definitely delivers those, too. Upon installation, Download Accelerator Plus asks for your e-mail address in hopes of sending you special offers, but you don't actually need to submit any information.
Increased download speeds are the program's bread and butter, speeding up downloads by almost 200 percent in most cases. Besides splitting files into smaller pieces, it automatically seeks faster mirrors. It also can get a file simultaneously from several sites, which is useful if a particular site limits the download speed, it can resume downloads, and it can preview some media files while downloading. There's a blacklist for sites that you never want to accept downloads from, too, and categorized folders and filters to keep your downloads organized.
The nag panels have been woven into this freeware fairly innocuously, and they don't clutter the tabbed main window or the download windows as much as they could. They also make the UI feel similar to LimeWire and other file-sharing clients. DAP installs a toolbar in Internet Explorer and integrates with Firefox and other browsers, which can be both useful and annoying depending on your preferences. All things considered, this feature-rich program will prove valuable for those with massive downloading habits.
One feature of DAP that the description failed to mention that I love is the tabbed downloading. Which means that if you are downloading more than one item at the same time, you can click on the tab of any of your current downloads to check their progress. Much better than the default Windows downloader, which has a different downloading dialog for each item you are downloading. You can download up to 20 items max at one time, which does slow the downloads a little, but not much. Even then, DAP is still faster than anything else.
Another great feature in DAP is it keeps a history of all your downloads. So, in case you ever need to check to see something you have downloaded before or even download something again for whatever reason, it's easy. And of course, there's a resume feature, in case something happens, you can resume a download right where it was stopped.
Oh, and one more thing I want to mention. In the options, you can set up to scan any downloads automatically with your antivirus program. I've had trouble with this, trying to find out which file is the correct one, but it doesn't matter since you can just scan the file manually after it's downloaded. DAP does have its own built-in security scanner, but it's still best to use your own program.
There are quite a few options, so be sure to go through them.
these settings ,, those are preciously worked for me, Also there is software called speed connect xp that one also doing good adjustment and speed up internet connection from good percentage
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by masterz13
September 1, 2008 4:22 PM PDT
- Is this spyware or what? I downloaded it this afternoon and it works well. Please tell me.
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