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How to download YouTube videos and limewire music, videos, etc. on Mac

How to download YouTube videos and limewire music, videos, etc. on Mac?

Part 1. How to download YouTube videos on Mac (method 1)

1. Download and lauch iSkysoft free video downloader for Mac (Intel version, Power PC Version). It's totally FREE!

2. Open the web page of the video you want to download, and when it starts to play, the program can automatically detect it and begin to download it. You can open multiple web pages to download several videos at a time.

2. All the download tasks will be under Source list. Under the source list you can have a clear view of the Thumbnail, Object File Name, file Length, Download status and Source File of the videos.

  • Start: Click to start to download the file selected.
  • Stop: Click to stop a download task.
  • Delete: Click to delete the selected download task.
  • Rename: Click to input a name. The name will be used as its output name. You can only rename a file after it is completely downloaded.
  • Open: Click to open the folder where the downloaded videos are saved.

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Part 2. How to download YouTube videos on Mac (method 2)

1. Find your favorite video. This step is pretty self explanatory. Be sure to use Safari and search for your favorite YouTube Video. It's as easy as that!

2. Next, you need to go to 'Window' and down to Activity. Click on 'Activity' to bring up the next dialog box.

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3. Once the dialog box has popped up you need to look for the YouTube page among all the page titles and files listed in the window.

4. Once you locate it and expand all the activities going on in the page, look for the largest file size (this is shown in the right hand corner). Most of the files found in a YouTube page are small files while most FLV files are several megabytes.

Once you locate the largest file, double click on it. This should cause another window to open and a download to ensue after that called "get_video".

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You can also use these free online downloader sites:
www.videodl.org/      
keepvid.com/      
www.downthisvideo.com/

www.kissyoutube.com/       
www.kcoolonline.com/

Part 3. How to download free music, video, etc. using limewire on Mac OS?

1. Download Limewire software, Open http://www.limewire.com/download/version.php
Click 'Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard)', The basic version is totally free.


download free music, video, etc. using limewire on Mac OS


2. Install and run the Limewire, Just type in some words that you may be interested in, choose the type, and press search, then you can get a lot of files to download.


download free music, video, etc. using limewire on Mac OS


Find the just file and click download to get it. You can also download multiple files in one time.
After you download the file, then click 'explore', then you can locate your download files on your computer.


download free music, video, etc. using limewire on Mac OS

If you want to download limewire videos and music on PC, just download the Windows version.

If the YouTube videos and limewire videos and music are not the format that you need, read the guide to learn how to convert videos to other video format files.

Tips: How to get/record videos from video sites for free?