Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Does Orbit Downloader have a preference to limit the download speed?

Yes, in the Preferences-Limits. It allows you to set a download speed, and set it to Limit, or go full speed. The limit speed is the summation of all tasks.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Download vimeo video easily

When I watch the video 'Ubiquity for Firefox' in Vimeo, I find that I did not write a tutorial for how to use Orbit Downloader as a Vimeo downloader to download Vimeo video.

It is easy too. You can use Grab++ to grab the video url then download it or you can record it when you watch it in IE using Grab Pro toolbar. Now I introduce you how to down Vimeo using Grab++ first, then Grab Pro toolbar.

Download vimeo video using Grab++
1. Run Orbit Downloader's Grab++ first:


2. Then play the vimeo video. When the video is played, its url is grabbed by Grab++:


3. Check the video in Grab++ then click 'Download' button. The video will be downloaded.




Download vimeo video using Grab Pro toolbar
1. When vimeo video is begin to play, Grab Pro is grabbed it:


2. Click 'Download it', the vimeo video will be downloaded.

My Custom Folder 1.0



Are you bored to see the same folder icons on your computer drives ?
With My Custom Folder you can easily customize the icon for any folder you like.
Watch a demo on YouTube

Freeware by LeeLu Soft 2008

Download (single file no install+readme file) 607kb:

Sunday, November 9, 2008

How to set the default path of downloaded files?

Firstly, you can set it in preferences. As the picture shows, you can browse your local path, and choose it.


Also, you can choose the download path either when you downloading some files. Click the nail icon after choose the path, it will be defaulted next time.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Jango 2.0

Jango 2.0 is a simple and fast file encryption / decryption utility, that let you select the cipher (from 17 available ciphers) and the hash algorithm (from 10 available algorithms) .
Changes in version 2.0:
Ability to selecet the cipher
Ability to select the hash algorithm
Ability to save the encryption settings to a file
Freeware by LeeLu Soft 2008

Download (single file no install + readme file) 659kb:

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

How to update your Orbit Downloader?

Firstly, go to Help-Check for updates, it will show "There is no new version available at this time!" if you have use the latest version.



If there is a new version exist, it will show "A new version of Orbit Downloader is available.", please confirm. Then your browser would skip to the download webpage, you could download the latest version.


Also, you can go to our website http://www.orbitdownloader.com to download the latest version. It is no need to uninstall the prevenient one, you can install the latest one directly.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

How to use 'Getit' button?

On these following website: Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace and Google video, click 'Getit' button, the server will resolver it, and the video would be downloaded. As the pictures show:




On the other websites (except the above websites), click 'Getit' button will let Grab++ work.



Also, you can close the 'Getit' button by click the 'close'.
Go to the menuitem of Tools-Enable 'Getit' button for catching media, will let the 'Getit' button work again.