Im working in a new piece of software called “Download Thingy” (at least for now).
It is basically a Download Manager for Mac OS X. The main reasons why I am doing this are simple: There seems to be not a single Download Manager for the Mac that complies with the following:
- It is Free.
- It doesn’t have a lot of features that i will NEVER use.
- Comes with a simple UI putting the main focus on the Downloads and not on other stuff I don’t care.
- Allows segmented / multi threaded downloads.
- Allows limiting the download speed in a “per download” or “overall” basis.
For this project I’m using the amazing libCurl library as the download engine backend.
Anybody who is interested to participate in a private alpha testing of this (yet prototype) app feel free to comment on this post and i will get back to you when an alpha version is ready for testing.
Cheers, Diego.
Oh man! This looks awesome! I would love to get in on the private alpha for this if slots are available. I’ve been using Speed Download and just wishing for something… better. Which this looks like.
by Aktariel, October 26th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
At last, well i am a Windows user and i used to the Amazing Internet Download Manager and now i am using iMac and tired for searching for such software…
by Atheer, January 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm