Speed Download, Yazsoft's powerful download manager for Mac OS X, has received an important update, delivering new optimizations and tweaks. Now at version 5.1.4, Speed Download is fully compatible with Apple's latest incremental update to Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.7.

According to Yazsoft, Speed Download 5 is now “optimized and turbo-charged” for Mac OS X 10.5.7, but also for Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5 betas. The company has also tweaked the SD plugin performance, and has enhanced the resuming functionality for an even broader compatibility with new servers. More tweaks have been made to the FTP connectivity and compatibility, according to the changelog. The notes also reveal that Yazsoft has been able to address an issue with saved FTP servers not remembering their local path in SD. Various other internal tweaks have also been incorporated in this release.

Speed Download 5 is optimized for any Internet connection (dial-up or broadband), and can collect and organize all your downloads. A clean interface with various view modes, a re-engineered “universal” download engine optimized for maximum performance, a powerful database to manage all downloads, uploads, and file transfers, Mac iDisk integration and auto-resuming file transfers are just some of the noteworthy features in Speed Download 5. A new, fully featured, built-in FTP client has been added in the first stable release of Speed Download 5. It uses encrypted file sharing between SD5 users.

Readers can download either the full or the trial version of Speed Download 5.1.4 using the link below. Trial mode restrictions include a shareware reminder screen and limited simultaneous downloads. A “lite” version of the software is also available – currently at version 1.0.7 (second link). Using Speed Download requires any Internet connection and a Mac OS X-compatible Internet browser. Speed Download is a Universal Binary, compatible with Intel and PowerPC processors.

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