Diego's Rants » application http://blog.massanti.com Confessions from a Geek Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:22:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Download Thingy, a free Download Manager for the Mac http://blog.massanti.com/2009/09/19/download-thingy-a-free-download-manager-for-the-mac/ http://blog.massanti.com/2009/09/19/download-thingy-a-free-download-manager-for-the-mac/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:51:08 +0000 Diego Massanti http://blog.massanti.com/?p=990 Download ThingyIm 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.

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