Originally Posted by
eighty+
Hi Cap'n Mac Thanks A question I keep meaning to ask you how do I save those links you send Me ??? ok Ive just listoned to Clapton and Woodward? Fantastic makes me
Whish when my dad tried to teach me the Paino haveing taught my two oldie brother's and got them passed into the school of Music but he gave up with Me I never Did blame him
I just was a late starter ok CIAO KIA ORA POZDRAWSKI
Aye, I know the feeling about being a late starter to playing music. Didn't really start learning the guitar till my mid-fifties. Now I'm hooked on it like you're hooked on art. Thank goodness it's never too late to appreciate it all, and we're blessed when we can dive in and start generating some of our own.
As to saving the links that I send you, what you could do is that when you look at them in YouTube, you bookmark it in your browser when it's playing. That way you can click on the bookmark and it will take you back to that page if it's still up. Another way is to just bookmark the pages of your thread with those links. The bugger of it all is that they're now running adverts in far greater proportion to the amount of time that many of the clips are. But the good side is that it's up there to look at, which basically an archive of all human recorded expression in the public arena.
As to saving the actual file, depending on your browser, there are plug-ins that allow you to grab the file while you're watching it and save it to your My Documents, or Desktop or Movies, or Downloads folders (ie any folder you assign it to download it to.) I don't know your computer, and browser, so I can't say. But I use Mozilla Firefox and there are a couple browser plug-ins (tools) for that called "FlashGot", and also "DownloadHelper". Your browser can have different plug-ins available for it. They're free, but they ask for donations once in a while and you can either donate something or not. It can get tricky about which movie clip version you're downloading. Some work in your computer, some don't.
Anyway, that's all I really know about it. I know it works, and I know it is a boon to watching without slow speeds stopping it midway to load more etc. When I had a PC long ago, I recall that there was a cache that had all the files that I had been looking at when surfing, which included video clips and stills and all that. And you would go into that folder, locate it, and put it elsewhere on your computer.
Just be warned that some files really add up in disk space and you can start filling your hard drive up. So if you're apt to grab these files, just keep an eye on your disk space so you have enough for your paintings.
If you lived near me, I could give you a disk with all this stuff on it. But I can't quite frisbee the disks and hit Brighton. . . not without eating me cornflakes and sultanas first.
Good luck with it all. Once you've got the knack, it's a lark to do.
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream