Thursday, February 17, 2011

Don't let low bandwidth waste your time



Some of you out there may have the worst bandwidth, and have a bad time when it comes to watching streaming videos. Here's something to try. Orbit Downloader is free software that allows users to download any content from a website. The most obvious application would be to download videos.

Orbit Downloader can pretty much go to almost any site and download the .flv file, a standard in streaming videos. What this means is that if you have a slow internet connection, you don't have to wait on the video player to load. Just download the video and watch it at your own convenience. At a time when the internet seems to be extremely convenient, a limiting factor still seems to be bandwidth. Orbit Downloader could be a solution for that.

I do have a problem with this program however. I suppose through no fault of Orbit Downloader, Youtube has worked very hard for users to not download their content. So one main flaw in the program is that they cannot download Youtube videos.

Using the Downloader might take some getting used to. One of the easiest ways to download would be to enable the Orbit plugin for your browser. Whenever you load a page, an icon will appear for you to click on.

The icon will then give you options for the content page, particularly video files. If you choose one of those files, the downloading process should be pretty straight forward from there.

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