Geek to Live: Supercharge your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll


	Geek to Live: Supercharge your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll
ragendem
3-1-2007 4:13 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#e5e5e5;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d45c51a8-440d-4dbc-a5fd-e333a7c19d6d/15F59F07-D31F-4385-A5F8-D600F111E526/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php" href="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php" style="font-size: 11px;">lifehacker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><P>When it comes to heavy duty download jobs, Firefox's default Downloads manager just doesn't cut the mustard.  If you often need closer control of multiple, large downloads, you need the <A href="http://lifehacker.com/software/download-manager/download-of-the-day-downthemall-165021.php">DownThemAll!</A> Firefox add-on.  This extra-strength download manager can speed up, queue for later, and batch download sets of files from the web based on patterns you define in one click.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><H4>Using filters:  Download all the MP3's on a page</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><B>Define your filter.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/73DED067-D4F3-4DE4-9C6D-555D07C0D675" alt="dta-mp3-filter.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><B>Select all the MP3's with your filter.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/BFDDDAA3-7944-4F40-A6F0-F205463EBA55" alt="dta-idolator-mp3s.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><B>Custom rename files.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/379852AB-E859-4E97-AAE3-5063B79E675B" alt="dta-rename-tags.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><H4>One-click access to dTa settings</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php"><P>Once you've got a set of dTa preferences set up that you want to reuse over and over again - say, if you want to download several Flickr sets on different pages - you want to use dTaOneClick!, also available on your right-click context menu.  From the help:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--supercharge-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-239561.php">The one thing you can't do with dTa that you can with my beloved command line <A href="http://lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--mastering-wget-161202.php">wget</A> is schedule regular, recurring downloads (like all the MP3's from Idolator every day at noon).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/15F59F07-D31F-4385-A5F8-D600F111E526/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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