A while ago I blogged about Free Download Manager. While it is good at….downloading, it is still unable to capture some downloads (flash downloads) from sites such as Metacafe or any non-video flash like Newgrounds-style animations. So the program to use, in that case, is Orbit. Orbit is essentially Free Download Manager except it is able to monitor all your browser’s downloads, and so from that can ‘read’ the address of anything you see on your screen (which is flash-related…) (but it doesn’t do torrents!!). While i know a manual way of doing this (letting the video run through, going to the Firefox cache) it is quite annoying, so i suggest you do this to download the most ultimate flash videos ever, Metal Gear Awsome and Metal Gear Awsome 2 (won’t make sense unless you have actually played Metal Gear Solid).
So I’ve only used Orbit once, but it didn’t crash, and works as advertised, and is free, so here is the link:
Orbit Download – How to download stuff after the break.
On a side note, for free software “http://www.freewaregenius.com/” is a great site
Downloading
To acutally use it to download these things, on the installer you have to let it install into your browser, and then when the prgram starts go to tools->grab++. Press ok, so that the monitoring window appears. Then anything you see which is flash related on the browser will also appear as a thing on the program. Make sure you get the right one, or else you’ll download some random vid (look at file size to get a guesstimate)
Extra – list of what it can do
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Hmm…embarrassingly enough, this could be the time to get The Ultimate Showdown, complete with animation.