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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: DownloadStudio 3
Pros: It's just quite good. Lots of useful features and easy to use. But the speed is a bit slower than Internet Download Manager's.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: DownloadStudio 3
Pros: Its download is really faster.
Cons: Not the best
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5 out of 7 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: DownloadStudio 3
Pros: Includes an uninstaller
Cons: A pathetic, bloated, inept mess. WAY too overomplicated, and has an incredible amount of unnecessary redundancy built into it (for instance, it lists a line for every type of file known to mankind in its quickstart menu, but each line opens up the very same window to proceed). Wouldn't download a flash vid if its life depended on it. I "integrated" this piece of idiotic junk into Firefox and Opera, only to realize it wasn't about to get along with either one of 'em in any kind of efficient manner (read "download a file easily"). Then I "integrated" it into IE, and thought it might work nicely, because it provided a right-click context menu, which they didn't bother to include in FF or Opera. No luck there, either.
Who wants to go through 14 frickin' mouse clicks just to download one lousy file? This thing is like a car stereo with 200 buttons. We are not impressed. A tiny little free plugin for Firefox - "Videodownloader" - works much easier to save a flash vid than this thing - and it actually *works*.
There are way easier programs to do screen captures for sure, and in Opera, you can easily queue up files to download, pause them and finish downloading them later, and easily be done with it, without going through an Act of Congress.
If you enjoy a frustrating challenge dealing with a non-functioning Rube Goldberg invention, you'll love this number. I just didn't feel like spending three weeks trying to get it to do stuff that should be straightforward, intuitive, simple, and easy (despite the included "wizard" - now that's one stoned wizard).
Oh, and did I mention? -"this product sucks."
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: DownloadStudio 3
Pros: Easy to install.
Cons: Not so easy to uninstall.
Won't necessarily download what you tell it to.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: DownloadStudio 3
Pros: None
Cons: Used it twice, first time it crashed my computer, second time it recorded exactly what was on my screen, ie my Screen saver, not the streaming video it was meant to record!
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