Mastering Wget & Learning Some Neat Downloading Tricks
Sometimes it's just not enough to save a website locally from your browser. Sometimes you need a little bit more power. For this, there's a neat little command line tool known as Wget. Wget is a simple program which is able to download files from the Internet. You may or may not know much about Wget already, but after reading this article you'll be prepared to use it for all sorts of tricks.
Download Web Videos With The Command Line Using Movgrab [Linux]
Use the command line to quickly download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Ted, Discovery and over 40 other sites using one simple program. It's called MovGrab and it's a great, free program for Linux. We've shown you a few easy ways to download online videos before but it's hard to match Movgrab, in terms of the sheer number of sites it supports. As of this writing, 45 different sites are supported.
4 Free Apps To Download YouTube Videos [Mac]
If you want to download YouTube videos to your PC, the options are seemingly endless. There are a huge number of options available that are simple and effective, including not only standalone software but also browser extensions. Mac owners have fewer options to pick from – but that doesn’t mean we’re out of luck.
My 3 Favorite & Easiest Ways To Download Videos Off The Web
It seems that every year a promising new video service emerges (most recently, perhaps Vevo) and another hits the dust (most recently, MegaUpload/MegaVideo). As the trend continues, we storage junkies must adapt. We've talked a lot on this subject in the past, but I'm confident that you'll find my ways to be the easiest and most effective. Storing remote video content locally is a challenge no more.
7 Classic Free Charlie Chaplin Films [Stuff To Watch]
Charlie Chaplin is by far one of the most recognizable faces of cinema, and this is surely due to the sheer volume of well-received films he was involved in during his lifetime. Chaplin starred in more than 80 films, most of which were silent and 40 of which were filmed in 1914. Nearly all of Chaplin’s work involved very visual comedy routines, so it’s silent films and slapstick comedy we’ll be focusing on today!
5 Easy Ways To Download & Convert Online Videos
Streaming video websites are such a big part of our lives, it’s hard to remember a time when they didn’t exist. These websites revolutionized our computer video experience - no longer do we have to download every single video we want to watch – it’s all right there! But the opposite is also true. Sometimes sending a link or embedding a video is not enough.
How To Extract Links For Mass Image Or File Downloads With JDownloader
We've published lots of articles about download managers here at MakeUseOf. FlashGet, Free Download Manager, and Download Accelerator plus are some of the favorites among Windows users. DownThemAll is usually the pick when we're going for a mass downloader compatible with our favorite browser. One that we've yet to feature is JDownloader. Some would say that it's for the more advanced user.
The Pros And Cons Of Streaming vs Downloading MP3s
I've been a long-time user of streaming music services – from Pandora, to the now defunct online music locker Lala.com, and now as a monthly subscriber to Rdio.com. If you have a computer and a good Wi-Fi connection, streaming music services are arguably a better way to listen to music than downloading MP3s. Allow me to make my case.
5 Different uTorrent Add-Ons You Should Try Out
The most popular torrent client, uTorrent, has been getting a lot of extra effort put into it to simplify its use while expanding its feature set. I must say that the uTorrent developers have done an excellent job to do all of this while still keeping the program lightweight. One of the newer features that you'll find is called add-ons.
One-Third Of Americans More Willing To Give Up Sex Than Their Mobile Phones [INFOGRAPHIC]
New research has suggested that British people are becoming even more addicted to their mobile phones, with more than half of adults and two-thirds of teenagers saying that "they have used their smartphone while socializing with others". But American mobile users love their phones even more with one third saying they would rather give up sex than part with their phone.
6 Free Full-Length Hollywood Films You Can Watch on YouTube Movies [US Only]
Nowadays, there are plenty of movies you can rent or catch on YouTube Movies. Finding freebies on YouTube Movies isn’t hard, but finding good and recent ones may take a bit of time. Here’s a list of 6 Hollywood films which have received generally favorable reviews and are fairly recent.
Two Chrome Browser Add-ons For A Better YouTube Viewing Experience
Few things online can be as fun as YouTube. I can lose myself for hours watching videos. But the basic YouTube experience could use some improvement. Wouldn't it be nice if videos could buffer as soon as a tab opened, and did so at exactly the quality I liked? And wouldn’t it be refreshing if YouTube was a tad less cluttered?
The 3 Best Alternatives to Steam for Downloading Games
For PC gamers, Steam’s digital download service has insane deals, offers excellent customer support, an easy-to-use interface, and provides a wonderful selection of games. There is very little to find fault with. With that said, Steam can’t do everything or provide every game made, so there is room for competitors to survive or in a few cases, thrive. These three services should help you blow off Steam.
5 Ways to Increase Your Torrent Download Speed
For many people, the distributed peer-to-peer download power of torrents isn’t all it’s made out to be. If you’re feeling drowned in fake files, choking from ISP speed throttling, and sick of being told you’re unconnectable - this guide is for you. We'll have your torrent downloads in tip-top shape in no time. If you follow everything I show you here, your torrent overview screen should soon be capable of looking like this.
Download, Clip & Convert Web Videos With The Help Of Clip Converter
A slow Internet connection is one of the reasons why people prefer to watch downloaded web videos instead of streaming the content to their device. With so many video sites on the web today, we can never get enough of web video downloaders. But Clip Converter is no ordinary web video downloader, because it also allows users to clip and convert web videos before downloading them.