Speed Download combines four amazing products into one small and easy to use application:
A turbo-charged download manager with auto-resuming downloads
A fully featured secure FTP client
A file sharing utility with full encryption
And complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity.
Speed Download 5 also introduces a stunning new user interface option that feels right at home in OS X and is designed to help you be even more productive with fewer mouse clicks hence, completely redefining what you can do with your time online. Introducing SD Minimized mode; a serious upgrade to the Speed Download floater. Fully supports drag n drop, completely resizable, customizable, and a whole lot more. In minimized mode, SD is even more discrete on your Mac. Save screen space, but not power!
Key features:
Turbo-charged downloads
Auto-resuming downloads
Browser Integration
RSS newsreader integration
MobileMe integration
Built-in FTP client
Encrypted file sharing
Download YouTube videos!
Full Rapidshare integration
Version 5.3.0:
New: Speed Download Extension to restore CMM functionality.
New: Speed Download is now Intel only.
Updated: Many performance tweaks.
For anyone who still wishes to use this app on a modern system, follow these steps to get it installed properly:
Download from the web archive (as listed below, just resisting it here for convenience): https://web.archive.org/web/20131208094749/http://mirror.nscocoa.com/~yazsoftc3/files/sd5/sd5.zip
Install as usual by dragging the folder from the mounted DMG to your /Applications folder. (The remaining steps rely on it being installed in this location.)
Run Speed Download and enter your password when prompted. When it is done installing the Safari Extension and the beach ball cursor goes away then close SD5.
Open the Terminal application from the /Application/Utilities folder.
Become root by typing: "sudo su -" Enter your user password when prompted.
Run these commands (as root): cd /Applications/Speed\ Download\ 5/Speed\ Download.app/Contents cp -r Speed\ Download\ Contextual\ Menu.plugin /Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items/ cp -r SpeedDownload\ Browser\ Plugin.plugin /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/ cp -r SpeedDownloadLoader.osax /Library/ScriptingAdditions/
Restart your browser(s).
Enjoy!
This should fix the error where SD5 continuously asks you to update its components and should allow it to work with all currently existing releases of OS X (up to and including Yosemite Beta 3).
I hope this helps some of you out as it did me. I really prefer SD5 to Folx and I just wasn't ready to let it die just yet...
.5 star due to lack of development and incompatibility. This was a superior product several years ago.
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