Orbit Downloader: the ultra file & social media (YouTube etc..) download manager

Orbit Downloader: the ultra file & social media (YouTube etc..) download manager


Ok, I have just stumbled onto this download software on a membership site. Jumped over and had a quick read of the site to make sure as possible it's safe. Downloaded it, virus checked it and installed. Done a quick test download with a large file using 'Orbital Downloader' software.


Tested a 200mb file which came screaming down at 1.06mbs and stayed their, no peaks n troughs, hmmmm, I likey :-)

That was a straight download from a software site of tutorials (video files) but 'Orbital Downloader' say on their website that you can also download from Youtube and other video sites. It also has a scheduling feature, that's cool too.

I will do some more testing soon but happy to recommend it as a test piece for anyone who needs a functional fast downloader.



Anthony Roger

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Xippee Firefox Extension :: Firefox Add-ons

Xippee Firefox Extension :: Firefox Add-ons


This plugin adds a somewhat useful feature whilst doing market research.

You can add or remove keywords from your search box, just double click a word on your page.

'Xippee' pops up a tiny tool, gadget, with a plus & minus sign. Simple. Just add or delete as you need. Be aware though it has ads displayed in it.

It clearer and makes more sense on the addons site so best read more over there.
Xippee Firefox Extension :: Firefox Add-ons


If you do a large amount of comparison searching (shopping) or keyword research of competitor's, you could just leave the keywords in the browser search box as they accumulate and then just copy and paste into your a text file. You will have to remove the quote marks though. Read more about it here ... Xippee Firefox Extension :: Firefox Add-ons

You can do this with find & replace in your text editor or a specially designed tool like 'Keyword Elite' (my favorite)


I like it, l hope other's find it useful too.

Anthony Roger

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WebMynd :: Firefox Add-ons

WebMynd :: Firefox Add-ons

I just put the power back into my search activities. Keeps track of your search activity, like recording a movie!


Excellent for personal use:
* school projects - track your resources visually, efficiency at it's best.
* , - track product searches without having to bookmark every page, done for you automatically!


For Business power searching:
* Numerous Benefits, all of them Time Savers!


* I do lot's of market research and can see the day (once this proves itself to be stable, has been so far) where l won't need to stop and bookmark important sites as it's done automatically.

* Excellent Work Flow Benefit.
* Visually reviewing where you've been does something powerful to the mind, l think anyway. I't reinforces and builds stronger memory points of the data (sites and resources you've visited)


I have been using this tool just over a week. I didn't like it at first as it was a little slow to load. Things have changed though. Now it has a lot more of my searches collected I see just how powerful it is. A little patience and letting It load in it's own time, pays off with the benefits it produces. About 8+ seconds to load with my current searches, somewhat frustrating but the results are well worth it.

There are a some negative comments on this tool about how it records everything you visit so be ready for that.
That's exactly what it's designed to do., so if that's a bother you can turn it off. That's easy to do or just don't use it at all. You'll be missing out though imho.

My experience tells me that just because someone talks negative of something, doesn't mean it's bad, that's just someone else's point of view.

It took me a bunch of time to figure that one out by the way, about 20years, too much information there, no, I'm not thick, just toooo trusting ...

So it is 'Very Important' to keep that thought at the top of your mind when doing research, many negative comments are out there, many valid, many not. Remember it's a competitive world in Business. Some competitors will happily post negatives to sway your market closer to them, beware.

After all, if your reading your market research incorrectly you will find it effects your Business decisions as a whole, not good. So read the good and the bad but LISTEN to yourself only.

Here it is again

WebMynd :: Firefox Add-ons

Anthony Roger

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Leopard Time Machine, Files Lost in Space....

WARNING:
Leopard Time Machine Files 'Lost in Space', Data locked in Black Hole, can l get it back by ...


Internet Marketing Resource Notes:
Mac Leopard Time Machine, my recent experience with my all so trusted app.



Anth, you gotta make the time to do a full report about this, as there's a bit of detail. Just jot down the most important things here.

* With Time Machine, have a 'Big hard drive for the backups' ...

that was my main thought, my main consideration was about having a big hard drive for the back ups. What l didn't consider as time went on and the backup became larger was,

HOW BIG MY SYSTEM DRIVE SHOULD BE, my main drive that is. * Make sure you have a fair amount of extra space on your main drive. If you do have to do a restore and make the mistake l did ( l tried to restore my whole drive after a hang, of apx 30gb)

Back to the begining.

I hadn't turned my machine off for some 8-9 days but l like to reboot it occasionally, so l did.
It restarted with the good ol earth logo, oh no. So l ended up restarting, all good BUT it somehow reverted to some 6 weeks prior, I just lost 6 weeks of data, aaaaagh. No To WOrry gGood Ol Trusty Time Machine to the rescue.

Problem was when TM went thru its paces it said l needed 29gb to do a restore. Not realizing there was only 22gb free (long story, I use this as a test machine as I just moved to mac 10 months ago so bought a small drive, macmini with 300gb data usb drive and 500gb usb Time Machine Backup drive)

But l already pushed the OK so it was already backing up, hhmmmm, this is a problem.

So l furiously started to move files off the main drive to make more space, it was a Race....

see l didn't realize all this till it had some 5gb left (The process did not warn me there would not be enough space, it just said that l needed 29gb) so at 5gb of drive space left here l am moving deleting panicking....

then a thought comes to mind, I know in Windows, once you have a small amount of space left on the operating system drive 'watch out' .... see the problem was, l was moving and deleting files, but mac master was not freeing any of the space up, don't know why... and it was using up space quicker than l could delete it...

it's coming, my thoughts were clear, not knowing how TM would react to such adverse situation. Did the design such a event in mind,,,, The vision was really getting clear, days of data retrieval coming my way.

DID THEY DESIGN THIS AROUND A NOOB LIKE ME WHOSE DELETING DATA AS ITS RESTORING...

ohh l forgot, really you 'd think it should have told me there was not going to be enough space, darn whats all that processing power for then, the machinery is more than capable of reporting such matters.

So eventually it warns 'Not Enough Drive Space' to continue abort abort abort, so it stops, from memory it asked me to delete stuff and make space. Hello, l just deleted 15gb as it was going but it didn't release it.

Now for the Bazar yet cool thing l suppose, my data was 'Time Warped' yeah really 'Time Warped' my data was stuck in two dimensions. On the macmini desktop and through finder was my data as it was some 6 weeks ago, YET when l accessed this mac from my other macbook all it could see was my data as it was the day before.... this is getting to be a long story.


I will finish it in a another post.

The short ending is, went bought a 1tb drive and spent days reconfiguring everything, cloning the data that was missing 6 weeks to a larger drive for my main system. This was my existing 300gb. Then tried many ways to use the time machine system to restore from backups, from just plugging it in to booting from cds. This had stopped in between a backup so l couldn't get it to work even after plugging it back in and letting it do a current backup to itself.


To really test TM out, l even tried to access my original TM data through another TM data store l created. waaahhh, l know. Let me explain. After installing and cloning the new drive, a usb external drive, naturally l backed it up with TM. once l did that l connected my old TM drive, so now there were two TM drives connected at once. So then l went into TM mode on the new data set and accessed the drive with the other TM data and ....... it actually saw the data ok , but only had one restore date which was of no use, oh well worth a try. That was my last option until my next one, as u can read below.


WHAT I DID FIND, ALTHOUGH SLOW & PAINFUL, was l could just access the data in the TM archive and manually copy the data out, the short of a bad story is, Time Machine did actually save my data albeit in a strange fashion, being fairly new to mac's and TM this maybe was apples way of dummy proofing Leopard.


So l'm back up and running with much more space all round, UNTIL NEXT TIME 'Time Machine!'

If any such or similar things happen to you there are lots of cool people online who have written much about the normal way of fixing similar issues, one is just installing your Leopard Disc and then doing a restore l think from Disk Utilities, search on those words.

Man one experience worth having for the experience but never want to repeat.

signing off at 3.37am ...

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Downloads | Evernote Corporation

Downloads | Evernote Corporation


Dang golllllly gee,
this is fantasabulouslymagnificent, sorry.

That again,
fantastic, fabulous & magnificent.

Evernote, EVERYWHERE!
Web notes & clippings thru pc , mac & mobile.


Can see myself capturing so much more of that info,
but whose gonna create the 28hour day.

hmmmmmmmmmm,

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Audio Recorder for Mac's

Three months ago I looked everywhere for a simple push button recorder for my Mac to capture quick voice notes.
Audacity is great but not quite what I needed.

Wonder if this fits the bill.
Have to revisit this Anth & test it.


Ambrosia Software, Inc. -- utilities/WireTap Studio

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Productivity in Gmail & Blogger & Offline Use

Productivity Tools "Getting Things Done" In Gmail


plugin & addon mean the same thing here :-)

Been testing this GTD addon for Firefox, actually also in Flock, testing both. Needs Firefox 3 from memory which is where I am testing it.

In both Flock & FF3 it plugs in but not without having to set the "options" labels manually. No biggy once u know how.

I went into the GTD box that appears telling me there are errors, it is down below the Gmail labels. I reset the default labels with a underscore "_" so as to bring them higher in the gmail label system in case any future problems do arise with the plugin. I will still make sense of the labels that way.

Also if logging into gmail with another pc without the plugin you will only have the gmail labels, so again this underscore _ brings all labels to the top.

Just reading further into it to get behind the whole "Getting Things Done" philosophy.

found these few important references ....
My main concern is, this works very well but! as it is a addon/plugin in a browser, there are browser code changes/updates, will it brake the workflow, obviuosly, hmmm.

It's crucial then the developers are onto changes quickly for me and many l assume. There is a manual way to do this, see the references below.


using labels in a more productive way... with or without add ons/plugins ...
ninja-like-productivity-with-gmail.


About Gmail offline. I have to read up a little more on this, there are rumors Google may develop an offline client for gmail, this could save them a ton f bandwidth, so it's believable.
for now look here ...
SitePen Blog » Offline Gmail and Blogger Using the Dojo Offline Toolkit


ok now, going to GTD (get things done)

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