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July 30, 2011

FOSS GUI File Downloader

Application: Multiget

What it is

MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI file downloader.It's programmed in C++ and has a GUI based on wxWidgets. It supports HTTP/FTPprotocols which covers the requirements of most users. It supports multi-taskwith multi-thread on multi-server. It supports resuming downloads if the Webserver supports it, and if you like, you can reconfig the thread numberwithout stopping the current task. It's also support SOCKS 4,4a,5 proxy, ftpproxy, http proxy.

More Feature:

It also support a feature called P2SP, or in other words, get file from
multiple servers, and combine the data from different site into one file. This
makes downloads complete much faster.

MultiGet also supports switching language dynamically, you can choose Chinese
or English interface.  Generally it will automatic choose a proper language
for you.

To know more about:

http://multiget.sourceforge.net/

To install in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install multiget