Rclone
Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors’ web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone… as well as standard transfer protocols.
One Thing Well
A weblog about simple, useful software.
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flickr-set-get
A simple command line app to download photos from a Flickr set.
qurandownloader
This is a tiny utility to download MP3 quran recitations from web sites. I have included my personal reciters (in the reciterList dict object), however the user is free to add his or her own list from a file when executing the script.
clamz
Clamz is a little command-line program to download MP3 files from Amazon.com’s music store. It is intended to serve as a substitute for Amazon’s official MP3 Downloader, which is not free software (and therefore is only available in binary form for a limited set of platforms.) Clamz can be used to download either individual songs or complete albums that you have purchased from Amazon.
Via TUAW
Steadyflow
Steadyflow is a GTK+ based download manager that aims for minimalism, ease of use, and a clean, malleable codebase. It should be easy to control, whether from the GUI, command line, or D-Bus.
NoteTote
NoteTote lets you remotely tell your Mac at home to download files. That’s it. Just leave NoteTote running in the menubar on your home Macintosh and when you’re out and about, use Simplenote on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, any Mac or PC Simplenote client, or any internet-enabled computer to give your computer files to download. Your Mac at home downloads the files, and they’re ready for you when you get home. Simple, secure, no technical wizardry required.
If all that sounds familiar, NoteTote used to be called MobileDL, which I wrote about last June, and have used on a near-daily basis ever since. This new incarnation has been rewritten from the ground up, and it shows: MobileDL was always a wee bit temperamental, but NoteTote is, going by a week’s testing, rock solid.
And it’s on sale this week, priced at $4.99 (down from $8.99) until February 14th. My advice? Snap it up. NoteTote is one of those ‘How did I get by without this‽’ apps, bridging the gap between your desktop and mobile device.
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MobileDL
A very useful bit of kit. Set it running on your Mac, Linux or Windows machine, and it will keep an eye on a specific SimpleNote note–add a URL to that note, and MobileDL will download the file it points to.
So, if you come across a nifty desktop application while browsing on your ‘phone or iPad, make a note of the download link, and it’ll be ready to check out when you get home. Or tell your Bittorrent client to watch your MobileDL download folder, and launch downloads remotely.
Add a file organizer like Hazel to the mix, and things get really interesting…
Via Minimal Mac
aria2
aria2 is–deep breath–‘a lightweight multiprotocol & multi-source, cross-platform download utility’.
After using it for a fortnight, it’s become my first choice for downloading large files, on the Mac and my Linux machine, whether they’re served up with BitTorrent or over HTTP.
It’s a powerful, sophisticated bit of kit, with all the options you could ever need, but for everyday downloading, the big draw is its simplicity.
aria2c http://example.org/examplefile.dmg will download a file from a URL, while aria2c /path/to/a/torrent.torrent will start a BitTorrent transfer, or you can supply a list of URLs in a text file.
Launch it in a screen or tmux session, and it will happily download away in the background, without using too much of your precious memory or CPU cycles.