If you didn't know, there is a way to download different parts from a website using Safari. Such as an image, .GIF animation, .SWF animation or even a video. If you click on "Window" in the top menu bar and then "Activity", you will see all of the contents of the website(s) you are looking at. It may not seem useful, but it is a great simple way to download a video from a site such as Youtube. When you are on a website with a video you want to download, you just go to "Activity" and look for that video file. Make sure that you are looking at the content of the page with the video because "Activity" will show every window or tab you have open. Now to locate the video, you just have to scroll down slowly and pay attention to the file sizes while you scroll. For the most part, everything should be a few kilobytes (KB) or bytes until the video. The video will normally be the largest file you see, that is in megabytes (MB). With Youtube you will have to wait until the video has fully loaded until you can download it. So it will look something like "4.0 of 11.0 MB", until it has fully loaded the video. Once it is finished you just double click the file in "Activity" and it should download to your desktop. I've noticed that some files download as a flash file (.FLV) or mpeg4 (.MP4), so you can use your own video converting software if needed. Now this wont work with every site, because some sites are more protected than others, so don't expect to download everything you see. I find this very useful instead of downloading some other software to just simply download videos from different web pages. What do you think? Did you already know this? Please leave any questions or comments below and thanks for reading.
Quick Tip For Safari Browser Users
If you didn't know, there is a way to download different parts from a website using Safari. Such as an image, .GIF animation, .SWF animation or even a video. If you click on "Window" in the top menu bar and then "Activity", you will see all of the contents of the website(s) you are looking at. It may not seem useful, but it is a great simple way to download a video from a site such as Youtube. When you are on a website with a video you want to download, you just go to "Activity" and look for that video file. Make sure that you are looking at the content of the page with the video because "Activity" will show every window or tab you have open. Now to locate the video, you just have to scroll down slowly and pay attention to the file sizes while you scroll. For the most part, everything should be a few kilobytes (KB) or bytes until the video. The video will normally be the largest file you see, that is in megabytes (MB). With Youtube you will have to wait until the video has fully loaded until you can download it. So it will look something like "4.0 of 11.0 MB", until it has fully loaded the video. Once it is finished you just double click the file in "Activity" and it should download to your desktop. I've noticed that some files download as a flash file (.FLV) or mpeg4 (.MP4), so you can use your own video converting software if needed. Now this wont work with every site, because some sites are more protected than others, so don't expect to download everything you see. I find this very useful instead of downloading some other software to just simply download videos from different web pages. What do you think? Did you already know this? Please leave any questions or comments below and thanks for reading.
