Review: Internet Download Manager 6
TechDeville is pretty down to earth when it comes to exploring and revealing good software for the new generation to use. Download managers have been in the market since the early Internet Explorer glory days, when there was no such thing as a fox eating the earth, when people got too fed up of the slow and below-par downloading speeds they were getting out of their default downloader. People today look for bundles, all-in-one software packages that could do all,if not, most of their work for them. Internet Download Manager is without a doubt the very best downloading client out there.
Ever since it’s launch seven years ago, Internet Download Manager (also known as IDM) has gained a tremendous amount of success when it comes to the best and simplest download managing programs. It doesn’t have all the RAM eating spoofs all the mainstream managers carry with them, Download Accelerator was one of my favorites during the olden days but it managed to slow my PC down if I used two or more downloads at a time. IDM doesn’t scare its users with a steep learning curve, it’s pretty easy to understand at a glance. It is currently at it’s sixth milestone, version 6 brings a lot of new and exciting features to the table.
INTERFACE
The user interface of IDM is probably the simplest out there. It doesn’t have any nasty gimmicks or pop-ups along the way. A simple tip screen shows up which you can turn off. The rest is smooth sailing. IDM automatically creates folders for the data we are downloading. It sorts them accordingly. This makes it easier to search for our downloaded data. If we download any video it will be automatically downloaded to the video folder. We can manually specify our own directory as well.
CROSS-BROWSER COMPATIBILITY
Since the increasing number of the users rely on Firefox for their browsing needs, IDM has an integration system for the latest Firefox builds. Not just Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, even our old but forgotten friend Internet Explorer can be have IDM integrated in it for faster media accessibility and downloading.
Automatic Media Detection
The usage of browser integration truly reveals itself whenever you visit a site that has any (and I mean ANY) sort of media file in it, be it a video file streaming live on Youtube or a song playing in the background. IDM sniffs out the media available on the page for its users with ease. Save videos from Youtube, Vimeo and other big video sharing sites in a wide variety of formats including .FLV, .MOV and .MP4. The type of format that is downloaded depends on the video which is being played, if we are playing a regular 360p or 480p video from Youtube, they are usually in .FLV format. 720p and 1080p videos are mostly in .MP4 or .MOV format.
GRABBER
IDM is not only limited to these features. It also has a slightly unknown but very helpful feature called IDM Site Grabber. This allows us to download audio files, video files, pictures and even whole websites with scripts. We can choose any site and then simply select what we want to to download from it.
It gives a wide variety of options from downloading only a specific page to all the sub-domains of the website. It will then automatically search the whole site and then will individually analysis each page according to our given requirements. If we have selected to download pictures from any page then it will give us a choice of all the pictures from that page. We can select any one that we want and download it. This is a pretty handy feature, if you want to download and save a lot of pictures or other content at once.
FINAL VERDICT
Internet Download Manager, with its plethora of awesome features, deserves to be the best downloading client in the market today. The final version is not that expensive, for around a one-time fee of $29 you could buy a license to use the program with. The trial version could be downloaded to experience the list of amazing features we’ve listed above. We recommend everyone to use this program as it enable the fastest downloading and the easiest interfaces.
Download the trial version from here: Click Here
The official IDM website: Click Here