List of Internet download managers

WHAT IS A DOWNLOAD MANGER?

Download Manager is the software program dedicated to the task of downloading (and sometimes uploading). Some download managers can also be used to accelerate download speeds by downloading from multiple sources at once. So these download accelerator actually increases the speed of download up to 5 times more than the normal speed of downloading any file.

Download Managers provide many features like scanning for viruses, accelerating speed, resuming broken downloads, browsing integration, mutli-section download, sorting file type and placing them in the correct folder and many more.

You can pause and resume If you are downloading any file according to your convenience. Download managers automatically identify the files downloading and place them in right folder.

Download Accelerator Plus is a freeware download manager that increases the downloading speed 3-4 times more than the normal speed that makes it one of the fastest Download Managers.Download Accelerator Plus features Download and Video converter by which you can convert a Video file to any other format including Mp3 music file. DAPshows the information before downloading any file like video preview with which you can play your video. It gives you the best of your internet connection.

 Click here to download Download Accelerator Plus

FlashGet is the fastest download managers which is easy to install and safe that provide downloading speed upto 6-10 times more than the normal downloading speed by the internet browser. It supports multiple downloading protocols like HTTP, FTP, BT, MMS, RTSP and other protocols. FlashGet It supports unlimited categories. Each category is assigned a download saving directory. The powerful management feature can support drag and drop, adding and description, search, rename, etc.

Click here to download FlashGet

Free Download Manager works much the same as the other download managers, offering increased speeds and support for tons of download protocols like BitTorrent and FTP. This software is open source and available under the General Public License, meaning a community of developers can always improve it. The app even has a remote control feature that lets you view the list of active downloads from any computer.

Download Free Download Manager for Windows

Internet Download Manager (IDM) can increase your download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download managers and accelerators Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.

IDM integrates into many popular web browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser and MyIE2, to automatically handle your downloads. You can also use drag and drop files.

Click here to download Internet Download Manager(IDM)

 

GetRight helps users with an unreliable internet connection continue their downloads where they left off, instead of having to start over from the beginning. Sometimes downloads can take hours, and having to restart from the beginning can be devastating. GetRight has automation tools to let you turn off your computer when downloads are done, saving you on your power bill. The app quickly hunts for items on the webpage for you to download.

Download GetRight for Windows

 Website Ripper Copier is unique in that it lets you download entire websites for offline browsing or archiving. WRC offers pop-up free browsing and speeds up general browsing as well. The app is paid, but you can download a free trial before you make the commitment.

Download Website Ripper Copier for Windows

WebZIP is light on resources and basically runs on any computer. Save images, music, and other media files to keep for offline use. The app even downloads entire websites like Website Ripper Copier.

Download WebZIP for Windows

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The history of email

Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it evolved from very simple beginnings.

Early email was just a small advance on what we know these days as a file directory - it just put a message in another user's directory in a spot where they could see it when they logged in. Simple as that. Just like leaving a note on someone's desk.

Probably the first email system of this type was MAILBOX, used at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965. Another early program to send messages on the same computer was called SNDMSG.

Also Read: Top Best Free Email Service Providers

Some of the mainframe computers of this era might have had up to one hundred users -often they used what are called "dumb terminals" to access the mainframe from their work desks. Dumb terminals just connected to the mainframe - they had no storage or memory of their own, they did all their work on the remote mainframe computer.

Before internetworking began, therefore, email could only be used to send messages to various users of the same computer. Once computers began to talk to each other over networks, however, the problem became a little more complex - We needed to be able to put a message in an envelope and address it. To do this, we needed a means to indicate to whom letters should go that the electronic posties understood - just like the postal system, we needed a way to indicate an address.

This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of nominating name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. Internet pioneer Jon Postel, who we will hear more of later, was one of the first users of the new system, and is credited with describing it as a "nice hack". It certainly was, and it has lasted to this day.

Despite what the world wide web offers, email remains the most important application of the Internet and the most widely used facility it has. Now more than 600 million people internationally use email.

By 1974 there were hundreds of military users of email because ARPANET eventually encouraged it. Email became the saviour of Arpanet, and caused a radical shift in Arpa's purpose.

Things developed rapidly from there. Larry Roberts invented some email folders for his boss so he could sort his mail, a big advance. In 1975 John Vittal developed some software to organize email. By 1976 email had really taken off, and commercial packages began to appear. Within a couple of years, 75% of all ARPANET traffic was email.

Email took us from Arpanet to the Internet. Here was something that ordinary people all over the world wanted to use.

As Ray Tomlinson observed some years later about email, "any single development is stepping on the heels of the previous one and is so closely followed by the next that most advances are obscured. I think that few individuals will be remembered." That's true - to catalogue all the developments would be a huge task.

One of the first new developments when personal computers came on the scene was "offline readers". Offline readers allowed email users to store their email on their own personal computers, and then read it and prepare replies without actually being connected to the network - sort of like Microsoft Outlook can do today.

This was particularly useful in parts of the world where telephone costs to the nearest email system were expensive. (often this involved international calls in the early days) With connection charges of many dollars a minute, it mattered to be able to prepare a reply without being connected to a telephone, and then get on the network to send it. It was also useful because the "offline" mode allowed for more friendly interfaces. Being connected direct to the host email system in this era of very few standards often resulted in delete keys and backspace keys not working, no capacity for text to "wrap around" on the screen of the users computer, and other such annoyances. Offline readers helped a lot.

The first important email standard was called SMTP, or simple message transfer protocol. SMTP was very simple and is still in use - however, as we will hear later in this series, SMTP was a fairly naïve protocol, and made no attempt to find out whether the person claiming to send a message was the person they purported to be. Forgery was (and still is) very easy in email addresses. These basic flaws in the protocol were later to be exploited by viruses and worms, and by security frauds and spammers forging identities. Some of these problems are still being addressed in 2004.

But as it developed email started to take on some pretty neat features. One of the first good commercial systems was Eudora, developed by Steve Dorner in 1988. Not long after Pegasus mail appeared.

When Internet standards for email began to mature the POP (or Post Office Protocol) servers began to appear as a standard - before that each server was a little different. POP was an important standard to allow users to develop mail systems that would work with each other.

These were the days of per-minute charges for email for individual dialup users. For most people on the Internet in those days email and email discussion groups were the main uses. These were many hundreds of these on a wide variety of topics, and as a body of newsgroups they became known as USENET.

With the World Wide Web, email started to be made available with friendly web interfaces by providers such as Yahoo and Hotmail. Usually this was without charge. Now that email was affordable, everyone wanted at least one email address, and the medium was adopted by not just millions, but hundreds of millions of people.

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Why do we use the '@' symbol in email addresses?

The '@' symbol is used to distinguished between the User ID 'n Domain name (like hotmail,yahoo,rediff etc).

Some more facts about Email was invented in 1971 by a computer engineer,called Ray Tomlinson, who worked for Bolt Bernek and Newman(BBN)-- the company chosen by the United States Defense Department to build the first internet,way back in 1968 The '@' symbol in email addresses was chosen by Tomlinson because he wanted a keyboard character that didn't occur in people's names.It is said that he just spent just 30-40 seconds to think up the choice of symbol.

You Know the first mail which was sent (between two computer that were actually sitting besides each other),bore the text 'QWERTYUIOP'. the first row alphabets on a QWERTY keyboard

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How to Track the Original Location of an Email via its IP Address

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender.

Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.

Also, note that if you receive an email sent from a Gmail account through the web browser, you may not be able to find the real IP address because Google hides the real IP address of the sender. However, if someone sends you a mail from his/her Gmail account using a client like Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail, you can find the originating IP address.

Find Email Sender IP in Gmail

• Login to your Gmail Account
• Open the mail, for which you want to view the IP address of the sender
• On the right side of mail Click on down arrow and click on Show Original (As shown in Screenshot)

• Search for Received: from and IP address of the sender would be between [] braces. IP address can be in IPv4 or IPv6.

Find Email Sender IP in Yahoo

• Login to your Yahoo Mail Account
• Open the mail, for which you want to view the IP address of the sender
• On the top of mail there is More option, Click on More and Click View Full Header
• Search for Received: from. If you do not find that instance than you search for X-Originating-IPinstance in the Full header. IP address is likely to be between [] braces.

Find Email Sender IP in Hotmail

• Login to your Hotmail Account
• Open the mail, for which you want to view the IP address of the sender
• On the Right side of the mail Click on Actions and click View message Source

• Search for Received: from and you will likely to get IP address in the same line within [] braces.
• By using above tutorial you can easily find the Email Sender IP address. IP address is like to occur in IPv4 or IPv6. Here after I am sharing the guide for How to trace the IP address of the Email Sender. Tracing could be easily done from some online utilities or websites.

  How to trace Email Sender IP address

  TraceIP

  TraceIP.net is works with tracing of both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address. It provide you with full details of the IP address along with geographical location and much more interesting information that you would love to have it.

  IpTrackerOnline

  This utility is likely to work with only IPv4 version IP address. It pops up the categorized information which you would like to go through. Other than these utility there are much more available. Explore more.
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List of usefull websites

Useful Websites

Here is a list of websites we have featured in the past that might come in handy. 

Educational/Learning

1. favoriteandforget.com – Useful and educational links updated daily. Set it as your homepage and forget about it.
2. khanacademy.org - video lectures on just about any subject
3. ted.com - lectures by smart people
4. internetisuseful.com - for every educational website or useful web app out there
5. academicearth.org - classroom lectures
6. freerice.com - expand your vocabulary while feeding the hungry
7. lizardpoint.com - a collection of geography quizzes
8. mathrun.net - timed math quizzes
9. classicshorts.com - the best short stories
10. erowid.org - learn about drugs
11. qwikia.com - turn a Wikipedia article into a video
12. unplugthetv.com - a collection of intellectually stimulating videos
13. factsie.com - a place to learn amazing and unusual historical and scientific facts

Learn Skills

1. highercomputingforeveryone.com - learn to program in C
2. thechesswebsite.com - a bunch of chess tactics, tutorials, and puzzles
3. htmldog.com - learn html
4. codecademy.com - learn to code through interactive lessons
5. cookingforengineers.com - learn to cook
6. digital-photography-school.com - learn photography
7. memrise.com - learn a foreign language
8. justinguitar.com - guitar video tutorials
9. livemocha.com - a language learning community
10. musictheory.net - learn music theory
11. investopedia.com - learn and practice investing

Useful Web Apps

1. mint.com - for budgeting your money
2. billshrink.com - compare cell phone and credit card plans
3. duckduckgo.com - a search engine that isn’t following you
4. padmapper.com - maps out possible apartments/homes that fit your criteria
5. zillow.com - another great source for finding your next home
6. printfriendly.com - make any webpage print friendly
7. printwhatyoulike.com - print precisely what you want from any webpage 
8. privnote.com - write a note to someone that will self-destruct after they read it
9. freecycle.org - a network of people giving away free stuff in their towns
10. couchsurfing.org - crash on someone’s couch anywhere in the world
11. recipepuppy.com - search for recipes based on the ingredients you have
12. pipl.com - a search engine for finding people
13. donorschoose.org - donate to a classroom in need
14. charitynavigator.org - evaluates various charities
15. govdeals.com - find cheap stuff the government is getting rid of
16. newsmap.jp - popular news headlines
17. radioreference.com - listen to radio channels across the nation
18. jimmyr.com - link aggregator
19. msworddit.com - Reddit in Microsoft Word form
20. wepay.com - like paypal but less scummy
21. thefuckingweather.com - a more profane look at the weather
22. wolframalpha.com - a computational knowledge engine
23. heavens-above.com - follow satellites and constellations
24. whatismyip.com - figure out you I.P. address
25. spreeder.com - improve reading speed and comprehension
26. simplynoise.com - listen to white noise
27. camelcamelcamel.com - tracks prices for any product
28. ptable.com - an interactive periodic table
29. retailmenot.com - find coupons for just about anything
30. searchtempest.com - search all of craigslist with one search
31. join.me - peek in on somebody’s computer screen
32. thistothat.com - find out the best way to glue this to that
33. woorank.com - find out what your website is missing, how you can improve it, and how to make Google recognize it better
34. scribblemaps.com - draw on maps then share them with friends
35. mailvu.com - video email
36. rhymer.com - online rhyming dictionary
37. homestyler.com - design your dream home
38. wetransfer.com - an easy way to send big files
39. mapofthedead.com - shows places around you to help you survive the zombie apocalypse
40. pastebin.com - a place to paste text
41. idlekeyboard.com - make it sound like you’re hard at work
42. wherethefuckshouldigofordrinks.com - find somewhere to get a drink in your area
43. dropbox.com - backup your sensitive document online
44. seatguru.com - find out where the best seats are on your plane flight
45. unlistmy.info - find out which websites store data about you, and tell them to unlist your info
46. ifoundyourcamera.net - a collection of lost cameras
47. sizeasy.com - check the size of items you buy online
48. sleepyti.me - plan out your sleep schedule better
49. ninite.com - download all the free software you want at the same time
50. ripetrack.com - find out when certain fruits are ripe 
51. compassionpit.com - talk out your problems with others, or help others yourself
52. paperbackswap.com - swap books with others
53. reddpics.com - a look at Reddit’s favorite pictures
54. swole.me - plan out your meals better
55. weatherspark.com - a graphical look at the weather
56. network-tools.com - network tools
57. amazon.com - the best place to buy things online
58. writecheck.com - correct grammar and check for plagiarism
59. wakerupper.com - send yourself a wake-up call
60. pcpartpicker.com - plan out your next pc build
61. nophonetrees.com - talk to an actual person instead of a machine when you call customer service
62. theuselessweb.com - visit random useless websites
63. loads.in - find out how long it takes websites to load

Entertainment - Music, Movies, Sports, Books

1. redditunes.com - Reddit’s favorite music
2. grooveshark.com - great place to listen to tunes
3. isitback.com - find out when your favorite television shows come back on air
4. literature-map.com - type in an author and they will show you others of a similar style
5. runpee.com - find out the best time to run to the bathroom during any movie
6. songkick.com - searches your music library and tells you when your favorite musicians play in your area
7. midomi.com - sing or hum a song you don’t the name of and it will identify it for you
8. slashfilm.com - the best movie news blog on the internet
9. nanocrowd.com - find out what movie you should watch next
10. page99test.com - read page 99 of a book
11. bookseer.com - get recommendations for your next read
12. sbnation.com - awesome community of sports blogs
13. justthefirstframe.com - just the first frame of today’s webcomics
14. music-map.com - find similar musicians
15. iwl.me - find which famous writer your write like

Other Interesting Blogs

1. spruuce.com - find cool gift ideas for every type of person
2. artofmanliness.com - learn man stuff
3. listcrack.com - lists to get you addicted
4. insult-blog.com - all of your favorite not-so-nice insults
5. getrichslowly.org - personal finance advice
6. thedatingspecialist.com - seduction tips
7. brainpickings.org - a human-powered discovery engine
8. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com - a look at politics through the numbers
9. hackaday.com - a new DIY project every day
10. shorpy.com - old and interesting pictures
11. boston.com/bigpicture - amazing pictures covering the latest news around the world
12. newscientist.com - science news
13. uncrate.com - a place for stuff men love
14. tastespotting.com - pictures of delicious food
15. zenhabits.net - take a breath and read this blog
16. foodgawker.com - more pictures of delicious food
17. theburninghouse.com - a blog cataloging which possessions people choose to save from a burning home
18. dwellinggawker.com - check out how amazing the inside of some homes look
19. thesimpledollar.com - more personal finance advice
20. veryquiet.com - world news and analysis
21. mentalfloss.com - where knowledge junkies get their fix
22. mrmoneymustache.com - financial advice through badassity
23. studyblue.com - study tips
24. lettersofnote.com - personal letters written by famous people

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