Go!zilla is one of those little programs that have become part of my “must have” utility programs. This has got to be one of the best little programs of its type, useful, easy to use and best of all – it’s FREE!

Go!zilla is a download utility program – which means that it helps you get the most of your online time and resources. Go!zilla captures requests for program downloads, checks the current download conditions (speed, data loss, etc), checks to see if there are mirror sites that you can download from and what their current download specs are, let’s you assign the download to a category and assign a directory to download the file to, resumes interrupted downloads (on servers that support it), and lets you schedule downloads to a time you are not needing the bandwidth. Wow! What a cool program…

Go!zilla is normally free, but then you do have to put up with some ads within the program itself (which I see as no problem because the ads are fairly small and out of the way for the most part), or you can register the program and get rid of the ads. <shrug> I put up with the ads.

There are more options within Go!zilla then I could cover here – including the ability to “leech” the files / links from an FTP or web site. A useful feature in certain circumstances. But it has a lot more besides.

Is Go!zilla perfect? No – it does have a few slight problems. The biggest is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn down or off its sound effects. The very loud roar when it finishes a download can be annoying – especial in certain environments. Also – it doesn’t always get the download requests correct. Sometimes it sees a new page as a download and then you have to click on a dialog box to send it back to the browser, and sometimes it totally misses a normal download request and you end up using the old browser download. But these do happen few and far between – and to be fair – it may actually be the web server that you are on that is actually the problem.

It you download any amount of files off the web on any kind of a regular basis, then you owe it to yourself to download and use Go!zilla.




Recommended: Yes