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charley said:

Have been trying to find a freeware to download adobe flash player. have good you tube from fod but can not find anything that will download flash.

Hi charley. I'm not sure I understand what you're after. Do you want to download the Adobe Flash Player plug-in? Or download flash files? If it is the latter, Firefox has some great add-ons that you might want to check out. I use NetVideoHunter. Very simple to use. Sits on the bottom status bar and you simply click and download. Then if you want to convert it to another format, use FormatFactory of iwisoft converter. Is that what you meant? Sorry if I have it round the wrong way.

If you're using Internet Explorer, check out the Flash Saving plug-in (http://www.unhsolutions.net/Flash-Saving-Plugin/). Or alternatively, I found this on the following site – http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/11/save-flash-from-firefox-and-ie.html:

a. Click Tools – Internet Options
b. In the General Tab, click the Settings button available in the Temporary Internet Files group.
c. Click View Files to open your Temporary Internet Files folder. Depending upon your IE settings, the Temp. folder can contain tens of thousands of files.
d. Click View – Details. Now click View – Arrange Icons By – Internet Address. Depending upon the webpage, there could one or more Flash files (Shockwave Flash Object) under the Inernet Address.
e. Once you find the right flash file, right-click and choose Copy. Then paste the swf file in any other directory. Be sure to
keep the page and IE open to avoid purging of the cache file.

Or check out this guide – http://www.davidtan.org/save-flash-files-in-internet-explorer-firefox-and-opera/

I hope this is in the ballpark.  

sean said:

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Ozzie

Then if you want to convert it to another format, use FormatFactory of iwisoft converter. Is that what you meant? Sorry if I have it round the wrong way.

/QUOTE

thanks for that ozzie, i'd been needing on of them for a while. Our network filter here is a bloody nazi, it taggs pages about IT as malicious. Anyway, i took it as a chalenge, and managed to get around it anyway :) Victory!

You're welcome, Sean.

I'm wondering how charley got on and whether this was what he/she was after.

PS. I can relate to the nazi network filter. A year or so back I was doing some consultancy work in the countryside – and that org's filter was uber-nazi. It was my other half's b'day while I was away, so the night before I was looking for an e-card to send. I was checking out various card sites, only to find that half of them were being blocked – complete with warning messages that I was trying to access sex sites! What the … ????? I was horrified! Completely mortified! I had images in my head that everyone would think I was some sort of deviant; that the word would spread like wildfire, and everywhere I went I would hear tut-tutting and snickering! I felt like going to the IT people and trying to explain that such sites as lovecards were categorically not of the pornographic variety. In the end, I was too humiliated to do anything but slink to my desk and hope no one said anything. Which they didn't, of course. But suffice it to say that no e-card was sent that year. 

@ Ramesh: Brother, I only wish I was half as appreciated in other spheres of my life!

Ramesh Kumar said:

Hi Ozzie!

I found a real ROFL thing! I discovered that in Mongolia there is actually a place called MORON!

I quote you, Ozzie said – " @ Ramesh: Brother, I only wish I was half as appreciated in other spheres of my life!"

Well what else can I say – If someone out there doesn't appreciate you I know not only what he is but also where he lives! So there!

Ramesh

LOL! Actually, that's a common mistransliteration of cyrillic. It's actually Murun and its the provincial centre of beautiful Khuvsgul province.

And don't worry, my friend! I say these things in jest! As you well know! I couldn't have a better or more loving bunch of people around me. To be honest, I feel incredibly blessed in this life. I live in this amazing country. I have an amazing partner whom I love heart and soul and everything in between. I have amazing friends. And I do work that I love, and that one day in the future might help make the world a better and safer place for everyone. What more could anyone ask for in life?