Monday, September 27, 2010

Tech Tools! Free Download Manager

So, as you have seen, there will be a lot of free music downloads on this blog. So what do I use in order to download music (legally of course)? Well, to start off, I use dial-up, but I wouldn’t recommend it . . .

A tool however that I have found that helps me to download more efficiently is the Free Download Manager. This software has several nifty features that help greatly.

- For one, FDM, on most downloads, allows you to start and stop, resuming from the same place. This is helpful if you need to get off the computer quickly where you can stop the download, turn the computer off, and resume the download from the same place later.

- There is also an option to schedule downloads (for example, start one download right after another one finishes).

- FDM downloads things quicker than regular browser downloading since it breaks down files into sections so you will be done faster.

- FDM allows you to preview music files right from the main window.

- What may be the best feature of them all is zip file previewing. Say you have a huge 50+ song sampler, but you only want one song from it. FDM will allow you to preview the zip file and check which files you want to download, thus saving a lot of space and time.

The Free Download Manager is a freeware download, and I’ve had very few problems with it. Enjoy!

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

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