To answer my own question, iGetter looks accessible, and it makes the downloads go like a rocket. Nice little app. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 24/09/2015, at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > > There are a bunch of them, and I'll happily test each one if necessary, just > hoping someone has already come up with one that works. > On my fibre connection, download managers make a hell of a difference to the > speed. I'm sure my few extra connections won't bother Apple one bit when > downloading a 2GB iOS build or7GB of XCode. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> >> On 24/09/2015, at 7:04 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com >> <mailto:listse...@me.com>> wrote: >> >> Can I ask you to reconsider your need for a download manager? Safari >> already knows how to resume downloads if the server supports it, and using >> multiple connections to retrieve a file or files from a server is both >> inconsiderate and unlikely to produce meaningful results with today’s >> operating systems (which make efficient use of TCP) assuming that the >> problem isn’t that the server is imposing artificial limits per connection >> which your download manager could theoretically bypass. About the only cool >> thing about download managers like those on Windows was that one could >> download simultaneously from mirrors of the same file, which certainly made >> great use of resources. >> >> This having been said, I don’t personally know of a graphical download >> manager for OS X. You can script a command-line download tool, but that’s >> probably not what you’re after (I used GetRight back in the day on Windows >> myself). >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
