{"id":64,"date":"2008-04-09T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/04\/09\/faster-downloads-with-internet-download-manager\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T12:38:29","slug":"faster-downloads-with-internet-download-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/2008\/04\/09\/faster-downloads-with-internet-download-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster Downloads with Internet Download Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that you know how to hide<\/a> the annoying Firefox downloads status window, it’s time to make your downloads really scream. <\/p>\n

IDM<\/center><\/a><\/p>\n

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Enter Internet Download Manager<\/a> (IDM) — the great little utility with the ugly logo. Once you start using IDM, you’ll never want to go back. Downloads are so fast — I get nearly 2 MB per second<\/em> download speeds<\/strong> — that I actually had a hard time capturing this screenshot of an 18-megabyte download in progress:<\/p>\n

Internet Download Manager<\/center><\/p>\n

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Sure, part of all that speed is due to my rockin’ Road Runner Turbo cable Internet connection, where I’ve clocked<\/a> up to 15 megabits per second download times, but believe me when I say that you’ll notice a huge difference with IDM. <\/p>\n

It also gives you all these cool features:<\/p>\n