Mr. Cool is a nifty program that eliminates the sometimes long and exhaustive wait for a download from a busy site on the World Wide Web. It does this by sending you the specified Web page or file as an email attachment. When the program is active, a bright icon sits in the system tray waiting to capture any URLs sent to the Windows Clipboard. Mr. Cool can be configured to confirm all of your requests or simply the requests that contain .EXE and .ZIP files, which are likely to be larger files. System options let you choose from various servers for pages, binary files, and ftp files, which is good because if a server doesn't respond to the request, the "in process" notification window remains on your screen. Mr. Cool emails you only the target URL. An entire site would require individual URLs for each page. However, the text email message is quite detailed, avoids sending images, and clearly spells out the links in the page. Mr. Cool is a good tool for retrieving site content without making a time-wasting visit. Good documentation is provided for the program and for copying links from popular Web browsers.
Mr. Cool is a great concept, and if you are downloading small files, it works quite well. As you select copy link via a right mouse click, the file that you are after is sent to one of the main mail servers that are listed in the configuration setup of Mr. Cool and by the time you check your mail the file is there ready to download in an email message. One noticeable problem seems to happen when you are after a rather large file. Once you select the file you want, a small progress indicator appears on the screen and, after showing the file progress for some time, it seems to hang and refuses to go away until you exit your browser or end the task with the task manager. But with small files under 1 meg, things seem to work fine.
Mr. Cool is a great little utility for those days when the Web is just plain slow, but beware! A lot of ISP's out there limit email to 1 or 2 megs, and trying to send files larger than that will result in a message in your Inbox telling you that the file was not accepted because the size exceeded their limit on mail. Mr. Cool will allow you to split files into smaller pieces but this gets messy and can become annoying if you use the program often. All in all, the program functions as advertised and can be a great asset to your arsenal of internet utilities.
