{"id":640168,"date":"2013-01-25T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=126215"},"modified":"2013-01-25T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:45:37","slug":"manage-all-of-your-downloads-with-eagleget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640168","title":{"rendered":"Manage all of your downloads with EagleGet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Downloading is such a fundamental part of the online experience that you might expect every browser to include a quality download manager by default. The standard offerings are usually a little more basic, though, so if you\u2019d like some help in, say, downloading online videos more easily, then you\u2019ll need to install a specialist download manager like the new EagleGet.<\/p>\n

This kind of tool is notorious for trying to drown your PC in adware during installation, but EagleGet<\/a> is much more straightforward, for the moment at least: it\u2019ll install itself, and nothing else at all. This might be because the program is still in beta, of course, but at the moment it\u2019s safe to try.<\/p>\n

And the basics of the program seem easy to use, too. It installs add-ons for IE, Firefox and Chrome; intercepts regular download links, as you click them; and then claims its multithreaded approach can increase download speeds by up to 6 times. Any actual performance gains will be rather more variable, but it did work well enough in our tests, and of course can help you to resume a download if the connection has been broken for some reason.<\/p>\n

You need to download a video? That\u2019s straightforward, too. Just browse to it as normal (YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, all the main sites are supported), start playing, and hover your mouse cursor over the screen. Click the Download button when it appears, choose a file format and size if you\u2019re offered a choice, and it\u2019ll grab a copy for you.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re at a web gallery, or some other page with several files you\u2019d like to download, then right-click, select “Download all links with EagleGet” and the program will list them for you. Entering a keyword lets you filter just the links you need — MP3, say, or perhaps JPG — and then it can download them all with a click.<\/p>\n

And the program provides other conveniences, including for example monitoring the clipboard, so if you copy a URL there then it\u2019ll pop up and offer to download the file. (You can turn this off if it\u2019s inconvenient, of course.)<\/p>\n

\"\"EagleGet is also very new, and still in beta, so unsurprisingly it has its share of issues. And most are trivial, like the number of spelling mistakes throughout the interface, or the way it insists on displaying its tiny status toolbar all the time, even when the rest of the application has been minimized.<\/p>\n

More substantially, though, the program doesn\u2019t provide as much choice when downloading YouTube videos as we\u2019d like. (Sometimes it\u2019ll offer no choice at all, sometimes you\u2019ll get a few file sizes, but it\u2019ll never tell you which size relates to what resolution.)<\/p>\n

And in one significant beta bug, we found we were no longer able to use WordPress in IE with the EagleGet add-on installed; for some reason the browser no longer allowed us to complete multiline text boxes. The problem didn\u2019t seem to affect other browsers, but that\u2019s still totally unacceptable, and hopefully it\u2019ll get fixed soon.<\/p>\n

EagleGet<\/a> currently has some problems, then, but already it\u2019ll work very well for many users, and it looks like a very promising tool. If you\u2019re unhappy with your current download manager then this is certainly one to watch.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong> Colin Edwards Photography <\/a>\/ Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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Downloading is such a fundamental part of the online experience that you might expect every browser to include a quality download manager by default. The standard offerings are usually a little more basic, though, so if you\u2019d like some help in, say, downloading online videos more easily, then you\u2019ll need to install a specialist download […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}