Go! Zilla! MONSTAAA Downloadz!

“Up from the Depths,
Thirty Storey High,
Breathes Fire,
HIS HEAD IN THE SKYYYY!
GO! ZILLAA, GO! ZILLA, GO! ZILLLLAAAAAAAAHH!!!”

Ooops. My apologies for any copyright infringements or cases of mistaken identity.

But a MONSTAA util deserves a MONSTAA introduction. And that was it.

No, it’s not a pet hundred-foot behemoth. It’s better and infinitely more useful.

Whereas the common, good-for-very-little GoDzilla is used for the sporadic dose of wantant destruction, GO! Zilla is far more constructive.

I’d go as far as saying that this is one of the gems of the download crown.

For frequent downloaders of large files, this little app is capable of downloading things for you. Gone are the days when you click on a link to await the “save file as” box, followed by the default windows progress bar. Gone are the days when you’ve gotta start downloading FROM SCRATCH as the link that you so desperately craved and spent hours sorting after turns out to be the least stable in the galaxy.

Go! Zilla changes all that.

You can drag and drop links into it’s relatively easy to use interface. This means you can allow Go! Zilla to download all the things that you want, without you having to oversee all the operations. If Go! Zilla does encounter a faulty link or is disconnected prematurely, Go! Zilla will automatically try to re-establish the connection. And it even resumes the file that was partially downloaded (though this ‘resume download’ facility depends on the parent server’s ability to support resumption – most do).

If you have a particularly good bandwidth in terms of bps, you can configure Go! Zilla to download as many files simultaneously as you want. If your bandwidth is poor, you can opt for one download at a time, and queue the rest for automated download – it
’s entirely up to you!

You can even configure Go! Zilla to automatically disconnect upon completion of downloads. It can also shut the whole computer down if you want it to.

You can schedule downloads for particular times and dates – useful to catch off-peak or free hours.

Another useful aspect is Leech. No not a blood sucking worm, but Go! Zilla’s ability to ‘leech’ or download all the files (or those you select) from a particular ftp site.

A really useful aspect of Go! Zilla’s function is a summary window that appears just after you drag a link into Go! Zilla. This gives you a verdict on the server quality – whether it has a sluggish, poor, good, average, or excellent response time with respect to downloading. It means that, where you have a choice of servers, you can easily make a good decision as to which is the most effective site from which to download.

Additionally, this window provides you with the name and type of file associated with your link. It’s annoying to follow a link to a movie file, or an mp3 file or an exe file, only to be confronted with another html (web) file. In dragging the links to Go! Zilla, you can instantly get an analysis on the linked file. If you’re after mp3’s, and find that the link is in html format, then you know you’ve got to probe a bit deeper to find the desired file.

{This is notably important if you are downloading a few files in queue and have your Go! Zilla configured to disconnect or switch off after completing downloads. In this case study: if you want 3 mp3’s, but you have inadvertently dragged links that are to html files, with html files being very small, the 3 files that you THOUGHT were mp3’s will be download within seconds and then all of a sudden Go! Zilla will disconnect and threaten to switch off in 20 secs.}

Go! Zilla produces partial download files on yo desktop – i
dentifiable as they encompass the ‘eye’ logo of Go! Zilla. They may make a bit of a mess of yo desktop, but if you get the file you craved, then it’s worth it. The partial files become complete (i.e. the file and the designated icon of your download) upon successful completion of download. You can then put it wherever you want on your drive. (Go! Zilla finds it difficult to find partial downloads if placed anywhere but your desktop – so it’s better off leaving them there until downloadz complete – even if you desktop looks like a bloody mess).

This app is downloadable FREE from the Go Zilla website, and is an absolute gem.
The only downside is that the free version is shareware and has adverts built into it. You can’t escape them from the free ware version, and the ad’s update periodically, detracting from the downloads that you want (in terms of bandwidth and time taken for your downloads).

You CAN purchase the full version, but, I’m sure most would gladly live with the ads to save the odd bob or ten. If you search hard enough, I’m sure you find registered versions at unscrupulous sites – if you do then luck for you. But any way, you can’t help but appreciate this app that has a valid and substantial use – it really DOES make LIFE EASIER.

DON’t DOWNLOAD WITHOUT IT!

For you closet mp3 downloaders, or even for people that occasionally download apps, utils, patches, or files of Virtually any kind, Go! Zilla is a must have. If it even saves you the hassle of starting a download from scratch ONCE, with the prices of phone calls today makes Go! Zilla worth the effort of getting!