Expert’s Rating
Our Verdict
Any internet browser worth its weight unit in HTML these days will offers its own download manager . But these built - in Indian file wranglers are passably basic , and they only track their own downloads . If you often find yourself download even a smattering of files each Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , or you switch over web web browser like you switch apps , a real download coach like Many Tricks’sLeechmight be a undecomposed companion for your Internet travels .
hirudinean uses a plugin to hook into Safari , Camino , OmniWeb , and Firefox , then play like The One Download Manager To find Them All ( sans the flare eyeball or icky world domination stuff ) . No matter which of these browsers you use , Leech will snag your download and give you better tools to manage all those files you gather .
Besides the rudiments like a single window for viewing progression and break end downloads , Leech lets you puff in universal resource locator from source other than your browser app ; hold the number of concurrent downloads ; make rules for placing sealed files in specific folder ( think : place all movies in ~/Movies , but all PDFs and DOCs in ~/Documents ) ; break and resume downloads on an individual basis or en masse ; and more .
Leech even makes its Dock image useful , filling up the arrow as downloads get on and display number badges for current and ruined downloads . For bonus points , you could opt to keep a retentive history of all your downloads , re-create a download ’s URL to the clipboard , and set Leech to keep out down your Mac once all downloads are finished .
For all it does , Leech is pretty Aries - conscious . While download three prominent files at once , it ’s take less than 35 MB on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.4 . A few of Leech ’s feature could practice some tweaking , however . The dominion function for filtering downloads by file eccentric into certain folders is hide under the File menu , and when all downloads are finish , your only alternative is to shut down your Mac — Sleep is strangely not on the carte du jour .
underage bitch aside , I ’ve discover Leech to be a very useful download companion . It fills out its distance quite nicely between build - in download director and everything - and - the - kitchen - cesspool apps , like Yazsoft ’s Speed Download , with a concise interface , a small footprint , and just the right feature film .
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