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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 98
- Date added: June 17, 2009
- Total Downloads: 644,189
- Downloads last week: 2,394
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 96 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on May 13, 2009
Download Accelerator Manager from Tensons is a free, highly customizable application for users who want to download many things, fast. Unfortunately, it didn't work for us.
In the main application view, DAM categorizes downloads as All, Unfinished, and Finished; within those categories, the application automatically organizes files by type (e.g., Music). The interface, while not gorgeous, follows standard Windows conventions and is easy to understand. It's easy to add URLs for downloading, and you can pause and restart downloads with one click. We liked the option to choose the order in which files are downloaded.
DAM does, indeed, offer a long list of tools for power downloaders, including scheduling and automation options, site-connection settings, and general interface tweaks. Sadly, the Help file is sparse; among other things, it fails to explain what MediaGrabber, a quasiseparate application that gets installed along with DAM, actually does.
Adding download targets to DAM is easy, thanks to its integration with several browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. The window that pops up when you click on a link lets you choose to open a file with DAM. You can also right-click a target or drag it to the icon the program places in your system tray.
Our first download attempt was a 1.7MB executable. DAM worked fine. We next tried downloading a 400MB .mov and the application hung. We Ctrl-Alt-Deleted out, restarted, and tried again. The application hung. Just for fun, we tried downloading several files at the same time to observe the promised "manager" features. Hung. We tested with a 60MB file, but DAM choked on that as well. Each time, Task Manager identified DAM as the CPU culprit. Then, we tried downloading both the 400MB and 60MB files straight from Firefox. Each attempt worked fine.
The verdict? If you are a heavy downloader, DAM may be worth a try--it is free, after all--in the hopes you get better results than we did. But you may want to keep doing research in the more likely case your test runs turn out like ours.
Publisher's description
From Tensons :Download Web video and music, accelerate, schedule, resume, recover, and manage Internet downloads. Download Accelerator Manager (DAM) is made for Internet file and social video, music, and more, downloading, from most media sites, like YouTube, etc. DAM is fast, light, easy to use, free and safe. DAM v4 releases MediaGrabber, so you can easily download media files from sites, like YouTube, MySpace, etc. This tool works with all browsers, such as IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.
With DAM downloader, you can download with maximum possible speed using a smart download logic accelerator, schedule, recover, resume, and manage downloads. DAM uses dynamic-download-segmentation, no-file-part-assembly logic to achieve best download speed. Unlike other products of its kind that split download in parts only before download begins, DAM dynamically segments download throughout download process, reuses connections without extra connect steps, and maintains connections busyness. Plus, DAM eliminates file-part-assembly stage to achieve optimal download process. DAM will recover downloads due to unexpected events or errors, such as lost connections, power outages, or network problems. It can connect to the Internet, download files, then disconnect or shutdown computer when done. This downloader can get files from protected sites and support Web cookies, proxy, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, and redirects. Other features include connection, sites, and sounds managements. DAM supports Vista and all popular browsers. Version 4.1.3 resolves Internet Explorer integration problems.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.1.3 resolves Internet Explorer integration problems.
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Version: Download Accelerator Manager 4.1.3
Pros: If you have Google chrome this is the Download Accelerator For You. Free and simple to use good for just about all connections
Cons: Nothing Yet
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Version: Download Accelerator Manager 4.1.3
"Not once have i had any problems with this application."
Pros: Very handy when your reaching your G'B's limit with your IPS ,Also easy to use and manage your downloads and easy access to them.Im a newbie in the ways and means of using my PC , I would rate myself as still quite illiterate as why i've rate it high
Cons: I have no real con's to to inform , then there maybe other more software savvy that will disagree.
Summary: Over all I would be lost without this software also other software available from the same maker is just as good easy to use. I really like the Download Accelerator , I also would recommend other's to try it best of all because it's free , whether y... read more >>
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