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From: AES on 18 Jan 2010 11:59
Apologies if this is something every Mac user should already know, but:

If I'm looking at a link to an individual PDF in a website window using
Safari, I can download that PDF to my desktop (or wherever else I may
want it) by double-clicking on the link itself; waiting a few moments;
and doing a Save As to the desired location.

That's all �� exactly two simple steps. And so far as i can tell, no
other apps are opened or left open afterwards (except maybe a Safari
plugin), and I'm right back in my initial position in Safari.

Is there any way to accomplish this same simple download of an
individual podcast seen as a clickable link on a Safari-viewed web page,
with two similarly simple steps?

[Just want to download the mp3, not play it; don't want to subscribe to
the podcast; don't want to open iTunes and have to navigate through it
and close it afterwards.]

So far as I can see from its opening screen, iPodderX can't do this ��
requires subscribing to the podcast.

Shouldn't Safari's Help page give some kind of hit on "podcast"?
From: Steven Fisher on 18 Jan 2010 12:09
In article <siegman-F24066.08584018012010(a)news.stanford.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> Is there any way to accomplish this same simple download of an
> individual podcast seen as a clickable link on a Safari-viewed web page,
> with two similarly simple steps?

Option clicking any link (including PDFs and MP3s) will download rather
than navigating to it.


Steve
From: dorayme on 18 Jan 2010 15:05
In article <sdfisher-5EC156.09092118012010(a)mara100-84.onlink.net>,
Steven Fisher <sdfisher(a)spamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <siegman-F24066.08584018012010(a)news.stanford.edu>,
> AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to accomplish this same simple download of an
> > individual podcast seen as a clickable link on a Safari-viewed web page,
> > with two similarly simple steps?
>
> Option clicking any link (including PDFs and MP3s) will download rather
> than navigating to it.

That is what I do, option click and save as to where I want. Works well.

--
dorayme
From: dorayme on 19 Jan 2010 01:04
In article <vilain-3C824B.20475218012010(a)news.individual.net>,
Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> Podcasts aren't handled by Safari-

Podcast files are like any file and can be downloaded fine with any
browser.

--
dorayme
From: D.F. Manno on 19 Jan 2010 17:30
In article <siegman-F24066.08584018012010(a)news.stanford.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> Apologies if this is something every Mac user should already know, but:
>
> If I'm looking at a link to an individual PDF in a website window using
> Safari, I can download that PDF to my desktop (or wherever else I may
> want it) by double-clicking on the link itself; waiting a few moments;
> and doing a Save As to the desired location.
>
> That's all �� exactly two simple steps. And so far as i can tell, no
> other apps are opened or left open afterwards (except maybe a Safari
> plugin), and I'm right back in my initial position in Safari.
>
> Is there any way to accomplish this same simple download of an
> individual podcast seen as a clickable link on a Safari-viewed web page,
> with two similarly simple steps?

Depends on who's providing the podcast.

Before you could subscribe to podcasts in iTunes, I would download
"Coverville" podcasts from its Web site <http://coverville.com/> For
each show there was and is a "Download" button. If you Control-click on
the button and select "Download Linked File," the MP3 file will download
with no problem. (I just now verified it).

--
D.F. Manno | dfmanno(a)mail.com
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would
have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His
existence. (Bertrand Russell)
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