SoftAtlas Download Accelerator (SDA) 1.60

Publisher's description of SoftAtlas Download Accelerator (SDA)

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SDA accelerates your downloads saving your time, traffic, and money. It provides resuming, download size counting, up-to-date download management with tags, categories and filters. SDA provides file-splitting, built-in RSS/ATOM/PODCAST feed reader, scheduling, built-in file searching. The SDA has advanced robust multithread download algorithm implemented with high quality.

Version 1.60 improves RSS reader. Now password protected feeds are supported (use right-click context menu of the feed to set the login and password). Now you can use right click on RSS feed group to download all feeds of the group. Quick search of feed in the group by keyword has been added (use Ctrl+F shortcut to activate search box). ATOM support improved.

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Editor's review of SoftAtlas Download Accelerator (SDA)

This accelerator is simple to use, improves download speed, and offers an extra or two, but it suffers slightly from a couple of peculiarities.

SoftAtlas Download Accelerator (SDA) opens like a spreadsheet/flight simulator hybrid--with columns, buttons, gauges, and a file tree. If you're not overwhelmed by the interface, spend a few minutes with SDA and everything comes together. To download a file, simply click a button and enter the URL. Of course, you can get more complicated by adding tags to identify the type of download, marking the file to download to a specific directory by file type, or forcing SDA to use a proxy. Oddly, what you can't do is easily edit an incorrect URL; you must delete and start over. SDA has these little irritants elsewhere.

It offers an RSS or Atom feed reader. That's unusual for this type of application, but it makes perfect sense, as feeds are simply scheduled downloads. However, though SDA doesn't schedule feed downloads, you can update all feeds with a single click. Also, SDA's simple feed-reader only opens Internet Explorer to finish summary entries. If its download speed and the odd extra or two fit your needs, you'll get used to this application's quirks.

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  used once so far solved headache

  by: mikee17 on 29-Jun-2007 02:09:48 PM

  Pros: having only used once i havent explored all features yet...but it was simple and straightforward and made my day

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