An important part of prepping is gathering knowledge and skills. One of the great resources we have access to in this regards is the Internet - there are countless hours of instructional videos on just about anything a person wants to learn about (think YouTube, etc.) In years gone by I would find a good how-to video and have to bookmark it if I wanted to view it again in the future. At times I became frustrated when the links to videos that I had previously watched no longer functioned when I wanted to review the material. I solved this problem by purchasing the software below. It allows me to download the videos to permanent files on my computer so that I can review them at my leisure.
I now have accumulated a prepper library of how-to videos that is not dependent on being able to connect to the internet. I imagine that most of the younger generation already knows about this - but just in case there other "youthfully challenged" (i.e. older like me) folks who are not familiar with it I have posted the website below.
http://www.youtubedownloadersite.com/
If you use firefox, you can just add the Download helper extension and download the vids for free. Havent found one for chrome yet.
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I use Download Helper for Firefox too. It is a great little add-on that works great. Best of all it is free.
I use VDownloader a free program which can be downloaded from them or from Cnet.com
well for google chrome I use http://tubedown.net/ it's super easy, requires no install to work, it's FREE and gives you options for video download quality to pick from. Also I believe this should in theory work for almost every web browser you maybe using. you can also use it for other video's you find around the net as long as you get a good working url to copy and paste into the downloader search tool.
Never underestimate the power of free! If someone has deemed something valueless, yet U see value in it; Then you've already made a profit and savings!
Thanks coinzero, I'm going to try that one.
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It might be a good idea to take this a few steps further. Place all your contents on an external hard drive and place it in a faraday cage.
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Currently have a twack of vids that I have downloaded and am putting them on flash drives. I find external hard drives to be to fragile.
Currently have a twack of vids that I have downloaded and am putting them on flash drives. I find external hard drives to be to fragile.
That depends on the manufacturer make/model. They have some decent shockproof and basically waterproof 2.5's out there that are excellent IMO. But you are correct in that it would be easier to manage a flash drive compared to a hard drive (size). And technically it would be more fragile then a flash drive (internal components). If you use flash drives make sure it's a name brand like Kingston otherwise they could crap out for no reason one day with no signs leading up to it. The problem with flash drives is that once the die, that's it, they're dead. One of my expertise is in computer sciences and I can say that atleast with any standard hard drive there are sometimes signs leading up to failure but even more important, unlike flash drives, there are several ways to extract the data from a completely dead hard drive - and I have done this successfully many times. I have never been able to do this with a flash drive.
But good point nonetheless.
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For convenience use a brand name USB drive. For long term dependency and protection of your data use an external drive. There are many reasonably priced waterproof/shockproof drives available under $100 such as the Adata. I have a couple of them.