ochDownloader - A Small & Simple Downloader Manager
The average Internet user will probably handle nearly everything they download online through their web browser. Some browsers do it right - Opera's built-in download management is the best in the field. Others, not so much. Firefox, despite being one of my favorite browsers otherwise, is very weak in this area. It shouldn't matter though, because (in my opinion) the best way to handle your downloads is by using a third-party manager.
Grab One Or All Of Your Downloads With Any Download Manager & FlashGot [Firefox]
Aah downloads! Probably the favorite activity we indulge in all day instead of shutting down the computer and taking a walk outside. Thanks to download managers, we can actually take a walk outside without us having to shut down the computer. If you haven’t been using a download manager then it’s high time you should use a dedicated one because the browser as a download manager just doesn’t cut it.
How To Filter & Download Multiple Files From A Webpage [Chrome]
After years of being a loyal Firefox user, I've finally made the switch to the same side of the river as many of my MakeUseOf colleagues and jumped to Google Chrome. Albeit late by most of your standards, I'm catching on quickly. The single thing that was keeping me with Firefox was their extensive library of add-ons. Being able to mass download within the browser is a big deal to me because I'm a bit of a hoarder.
Automatically Shut Down Your Computer After Downloading Has Completed [Windows]
Leaving your computer on to download files can be a smart move, but what happens when the download completes? Your computer will stay powered on, doing nothing but wasting electricity and costing you some money. If you want to leave your computer on to download files, you can have it automatically shut down after the download process completes.
Miro: An All-In-One Application To Manage All Of Your Media [Cross-Platform]
We have a lot of media that we need to keep track of before we forget that we even have them. We're also on a constant need for new, fresh media. Ideally, it'd be great to have an application which could do all of this for us, and become our "all-in-one media application". For a large number of people, iTunes fulfills this role fairly well, but some people may not enjoy iTunes for a number of reasons, including its very closed nature.
9 Ways to Speed Up Steam and Download Games Faster
Get the feeling that PC gaming with Steam is slow? Wonder why Steam downloads are throttled? Here's how to make Steam run faster.
Quick, Easy Ways To Download Photos From Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Google+ & More
With the amount of information we post online, we're putting an awful lot of faith in third party services to keep our content and photos safe. Between Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and Google+, there's no limit to the way we share our images online. And thanks to a few other third party services, there's no limit to the ways we can back up our online photos to our computers.
Use TED Downloader v3.0 To Download TED Talks With Ease [Windows]
If you spend any time scouring the Internet for videos of any kind, you’ll find that there are loads of different video sites that serve a number of different purposes: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc. Sometimes you’ll come across a particular video that you want to save for later. For the popular sites, e.g. YouTube, there are many downloader tools available. And then you have sites, like TED, that use their own web video formats.
Capture & Save Any Type Of Streaming Content Using Media Sniffer [Windows]
When we find something we enjoy on the Internet, we often want to hoard it for ourselves and keep it forever (be it legal or not). The most frequent and obvious of this type of behavior is when people are begging to know how to save YouTube videos to their hard drive. You've probably done that once or twice by now through means of browser extension or a third-party website.
3 Applications To Speed Up Your Downloads [Mac]
Browsers have much improved over the past few years. I remember a time when downloading large files in-browser was the chore of legends. Every modern browser now has a fairly decent download manager built in. I must be getting old. Things have improved, but we're not there yet. Download resume capabilities have been added in some of these browsers, but more often than not they only work haphazardly.
InstagramDownloader: Download All Images From Any Instagram User (Windows)
InstagramDownloader (v1.0) is a simple application. Simple in looks and simple in function. The simplicity is further bumped up by the fact that it is a portable freeware with a bulk of mere 665 KB. It does look like a weekend programming project, but let’s not deny its usefulness – especially if you are an Instagram devotee.
Mastering Wget & Learning Some Neat Downloading Tricks
Sometimes it's just not enough to save a website locally from your browser. Sometimes you need a little bit more power. For this, there's a neat little command line tool known as Wget. Wget is a simple program which is able to download files from the Internet. You may or may not know much about Wget already, but after reading this article you'll be prepared to use it for all sorts of tricks.
Download Web Videos With The Command Line Using Movgrab [Linux]
Use the command line to quickly download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Ted, Discovery and over 40 other sites using one simple program. It's called MovGrab and it's a great, free program for Linux. We've shown you a few easy ways to download online videos before but it's hard to match Movgrab, in terms of the sheer number of sites it supports. As of this writing, 45 different sites are supported.
How to Get Wget for Your Mac
Macs are great, with their neat UI and a Unix back-end. Sometimes you get the feeling you can do just about anything with them. Until one day you’re trying to do something simple and you realise what you need is just not available natively. In this case, I’m talking about wget, an incredibly useful command-line tool to download whole webpages, including media and as much link depth as you require.
4 Free Apps To Download YouTube Videos [Mac]
If you want to download YouTube videos to your PC, the options are seemingly endless. There are a huge number of options available that are simple and effective, including not only standalone software but also browser extensions. Mac owners have fewer options to pick from – but that doesn’t mean we’re out of luck.
My 3 Favorite & Easiest Ways To Download Videos Off The Web
It seems that every year a promising new video service emerges (most recently, perhaps Vevo) and another hits the dust (most recently, MegaUpload/MegaVideo). As the trend continues, we storage junkies must adapt. We've talked a lot on this subject in the past, but I'm confident that you'll find my ways to be the easiest and most effective. Storing remote video content locally is a challenge no more.
2 Ways To Easily Download TED Videos To Your Desktop
If any video site that gets talked about most after YouTube, its TED – at least amongst us who seek knowledge for the sake of it. Now, who wouldn’t want to preserve these idea capsules for posterity! The online videos available on TED can of course be streamed via the browser, but if you are like me, then you would like to keep the more inspiring ones close by.
How To Extract Links For Mass Image Or File Downloads With JDownloader
We've published lots of articles about download managers here at MakeUseOf. FlashGet, Free Download Manager, and Download Accelerator plus are some of the favorites among Windows users. DownThemAll is usually the pick when we're going for a mass downloader compatible with our favorite browser. One that we've yet to feature is JDownloader. Some would say that it's for the more advanced user.
Y PPA Manage: A GUI For Managing Ubuntu PPAs [Linux]
Do you want to avoid using the command line when installing bleeding edge software? Then manage your Ubuntu PPAs from a simple GUI with Y PPA Manager. Ubuntu users get their software from the Ubuntu Software Center, or the command-line based "apt-get". These programs, in turn, get software from online repositories.
Find Lots More Free Apps With Apps on Sale Lite [Mac]
Although there are pros and cons about Apple's App Store, it's still ten times easier to go there and discover new applications, displayed like a new clothing line in a storefront window. The App Store makes it easy to not only find Mac apps but also to download, manage, and add your purchased downloads to your other Macs.