Projects tagged ‘download’

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes.

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies ... [More] , cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks. [Less]

Unified OS X instant messaging platform

Azureus is a BitTorrent protocol implementation that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options, and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It includes an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.

Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.

KTorrent is a light and full-featured bittorrent program. It supports: - µTorrent compatible peer exchange - Zeroconf extension to find peers on the local network - WebGUI plugin - RSS plugin - Grouping feature to put torrents into groups ... [More] - UDP Trackers - Port forwarding with UPnP - IP blocking plugin - Importing of partially or fully downloaded files - Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version) - Protocol encryption - Bandwith scheduling - Directory scanner to automatically load torrents in certain directories - File prioritization and partial downloads for multi file torrents [Less]

SquirrelMail is a standards-based Webmail package. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages are rendered in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements, and is very ... [More] easy to configure and install. It has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation. [Less]

Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it's backend and PyGTK for it's user interface. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in ... [More] the form of plugins. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. It is our belief that downloading shouldn't be the primary task on your computer and therefore shouldn’t monopolize system resources. Deluge is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. ohloh notes: *deluge is written in python, but includes rasterbar-libtorrent, so it's recognized as written in C++. *ohloh doesn't register svn moves, commit-stats are incomplete. [Less]

KGet is a download manager integrated into the KDE desktop in particular: Konqueror, making it more efficient to download files from the web than with a web browser.

ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters.

DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can ... [More] refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want. DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400%, it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time and, last but not least, it's fully integrated into your favorite browser! [Less]

aMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the eDonkey2000 network and the Kad Network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client, including support for Kademlia. aMule shares code with the eMule Project and is ... [More] built upon the wxWidgets (formely wxWindows) toolkit, which enables it to support multiple platforms and operating systems. [Less]

Nexuiz is a fast-paced, chaotic, and intense multiplayer first-person shooter game, focused on providing basic, old style deathmatch. It is extremely modder-friendly. Nexuiz is built on the power of the Darkplaces engine, which is a heavily modified ... [More] version of the original Quake. Darkplaces features realtime lighting and stencil shadows, bumpmapping, gloss, bloom, and totally rewritten network code that supports up to 64 players on a single server. [Less]

XBMC is a multimedia player/jukebox for the Xbox from Microsoft. It can be used to play or view most common video, audio, and picture formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, and GIF directly from a CD or DVD in the Xbox DVD-ROM drive ... [More] or from the Xbox hard drive. XBMC can also stream files over a local network or from the Internet. Playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast, and many audio visualizations are also included. [Less]

Krusader is an advanced twin-panel (commander-style) file-manager for KDE 3.x, but with many extras. It provides all the file-management features you could possibly want. It also features extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support, FTP ... [More] , an advanced search module, a text viewer/editor, directory synchronization, support for file content comparisons, powerful batch renaming, and much more. It supports the following archive formats: tar, zip, bzip2, gzip, rar, ace, arj, and rpm. It can also handle other KIOSlaves such as smb:// or fish://. [Less]

Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its features include multi-language support, smileys, docking support for KDE 3 and GNOME 2 (FreeDesktop compatibility), logging, profiles support, email notification, customizable sounds ... [More] , group management, file transfers with NAT support, and proxy support. Some special features include the possibility of knowing who has deleted you from his/her list, connecting "silently" (appearing invisible), and so on. [Less]

Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation) ... [More] , meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand. [Less]

FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own Postscript, TrueType, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, and bitmap (BDF) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another, and has support for many Macintosh font formats.

Dillo is a very fast, extremely small web browser, completely written in C. The source and binary are less than 400 kilobytes each. It is built upon GTK+, and renders a good subset of HTML, excluding frames, JavaScript, and JVM support.

Scorched3D is a cross-platform 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players, and remotely across the Internet or LAN.

JabRef is a graphical Java application for managing bibtex (. bib) databases. It can import bibliographies in numerous formats, provides extensive searching, sorting, and grouping features, can automatically create bibtex keys, and can insert citations into LyX.

GNOME Commander is a fast and powerful graphical file manager for the Gnome desktop environment, it has a "two-pane" interface in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander.

MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. ... [More] Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding. [Less]

Grisbi is personal accounting software that can manage multiple accounts, multiple currencies, and multiple users. It manages third parties, expenditures and receipts categories, and also budgetary lines, financial years, and other information. It is adapted for personal use as well as for associations.

Axel is a command line download accelerator for linux. Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems.

Phex is a cross-platform P2P filesharing client which is based on the Gnutella network. It offers advanced functions and integrates all common Gnutella extensions like * the Download Mesh and Partial File Sharing for decentral swarming ... [More] downloads from multiple sources * Dynamic Querying and the Query Routing Protocol for improved search and network performance * UDP Host Caching for better connectivity and many other optimizations. [Less]

Streamripper records MP3, Ogg, AAC, and NSV audio and video files from Shoutcast and Icecast compatible streams. The streams can be recorded as a whole or in individual tracks. Streamripper also features a relay stream, which lets you listen or watch live from multiple clients while recording.

Linux version of the popular DC++ client