Download Managers

As browsers download capabilities got better, and Firefox download add-ons flourish, people just don't feel like using stand-alone downloaders - remember good old GetRigth?

In my experience there is nothing like stand-alone download managers to pull files faster and to recover from communication failure and restarts.

Nowadays I'm using Free Download Manager. Here's what they say about FDM:

What is Free Download Manager? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
Increase your download speed and resume broken downloads FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption.	HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent support FDM lets you download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. You can also download files using BitTorrent protocol.
Flash video download Download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.	GNU General Public License Free download manager is now open source software released under GNU GPL.
Enjoy easy file sharing A built-in Upload Manager lets you upload your files easily to share them with other people. Upload manager can be easily integrated with your system (Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express).	Enjoy safer and more rewarding downloading You can read what other community members say about the file you are going to download, and also leave your own opinion about the file you downloaded. In this way FDM users are always warned against useless or malicious files.
More In addition, Free Download Manager allows you to: adjust traffic usage; to organize and schedule downloads; download video from video sites; download whole web sites with HTML Spider; operate the program remotely, via the internet, and more! For full features list, see the features section.