The WideStream was designed to be a download manager and FTP manager which main targets are speed, ease of use and rich functionality.
WideStream allows you to download several files at a time, open multiple connections (up to 20) to a single file in order to accelerate your download speed, to resume broken downloads, to download from servers that require authorization, capture videos, work with file sharing systems and much more.
Here are some key features of "WideStream":
· Multiple simultaneous downloads which are managed using a graphical interface
· Download from HTTP and FTP
· An ability to resume broken HTTP and FTP downloads, auto restart of failed downloads
· FTP explorer that supports authorization and allows to download files from browsed folders
· FTP explorer history with detailed log for downloads and FTP explorer
· Authorization for HTTP and FTP
· HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1
· Configurable HTTP auto redirections
· HTTP to FTP redirection
· Smart download acceleration with up to 20 connections per download
· An ability to change number of connections per download on the fly without the need to suspend a download
· Download priorities which are used to favor one download in the bandwidth over others
· Download adapter which is an extension engine that allows you to download from virtually any source such as YouTube, Google Video, closed file servers that require authorization and so forth.
· Total bandwidth management for an application
· Host manager with wildcard matching for host name that allows you to store credentials and other settings (including number of connections, downloads folder, HTTP and FTP options) for different sites
· Work with multiple queue definition files, auto save of queue definitions
· Customizable user interface, support for visual themes including system theme, Office 2003 and Office 2007 themes
· Minimize to tray feature
· An ability to run at Windows startup in a regular or minimized form
· Download notifications balloons
· A ticker style active downloads window that is transparent and displayed over other windows, and can be used to track download status when the program itself is minimized
· URL crawler that can scan sites and grasp all URLs from the web pages
· An ability to work with a huge download queue and to effectively filter downloads by date, status (i.e. Paused or completed) and file type.
· Download tags that allow navigation within download queue effectively and to easily find a require download
· User interface in multiple languages
· Browser integration (Internet Explorer, Opera and FireFox are supported)
· Plug-in support: you can add new protocols and new download adapters without changing the code of the application
Requirements:
· NET Framework 3.5
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· A bug fixed with wrong autosave interval calculation for 20 and 30 minutes setting.
· Now autosave is not executed for the first time right after the program starts and is invoked only after the time period configured through options dialog (5 mins by default).
· A bug fixed: UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path is denied (Tracker #2811574).
· A bug fixed: Load Config dialog is not localized (Tracker #2808671).
· A bug fixed: The process cannot access the file 'widestream_queue.xml' (Tracker #2811571).
· A bug fixed: Captions in About dialog/Release information (Tracker #2808669).
· A bug fixed: DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the.... (Tracker #2811572).
· A URL crawler was enhanced so it is able to capture more links from the pages.
· A RapidShare adapter was changed according to the recent RapidShare authorization changes. Now adapter is more intellectual and simulates a browser in our to obtain an authorization cookie.
· A new tags filter was implemented. Now it is p...
Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-suported application:
· Offers to install Facemoods Toolbar that the program does not require to fully function
· Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system
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