Saving Downloading FLV Files using the Safari Activities Window

If you have a YouTube video you covet, you can save it to your hard drive using the videodownloader Firefox extension, or using other websites such as KeepVid. For sites that do not work this way, you can grab the file from Safari's "Activities" window. Here's how:

1. Load the page with the video and let the video start playing.
2. Select Activity from the Window menu.
3. In the list of all the URLs referenced in the current page, you will see one file that is indicated as being larger than the rest. Press and hold Option, then double-click on this listing to download the file to your Downloads folder.

Now you can use FFMPEGX or the like to convert the FLV to another format, or, extract its audio.

Have fun but don't fill up your boot drive, kids. :-)

Open Source Project Management Software - OpenProj

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Emacs GUI Version for OS X - Aquamacs

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SproutCore - Apple's Open Source Javascript Development Platform

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O'ReillyMaker - Roll Your Own O'Reilly Book Cover

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TextMate Japanese Input Bundle

I use TextMate for text editing in OS X and love its clean interface and features, but the defaults do not allow Japanese input and choosing Fonts has been problematic. Never fear. Hetima san, the developer of SafariStand, released a bundle called CJKInput for TextMate to allow Japanese input, and has a font to boot. I searched a few times for this in English and Japanese, but for some reason never came across it despite its having been around for quite some time.

At any rate, you can download CJKInput, and unzip and copy the tmbundle file into:

~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/PlugIns/

Hetima's Font-Forged, Mono-Space Japanese font ForMateKonaVe.ttf is here, so you can install that in the normal way. Enable it in TextMate Preferences, and away you go. The font is an amalgam of a Japanese font and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, so it looks good too.