How to Download Apple.com Movie Trailers
1. Pick the movie trailer you want to download by just clicking on it. I'll use the Transformers movie as an example.
2. On the page of the trailer, pick the largest version your computer can display properly (some slower computers may require using the smaller formats).
3. Off to the side near the edge, RIGHT-click the mouse and select "View Source" (for MSIE) or similar option for other browsers.
4. A text editor with the web page's code appears. Use the menus to find the search function.
5. Type in object and tell it to search for that. What comes up should be the first find.
6. Highlight the URL (address that starts with http:// and ends just before the single quote mark.) Copy the selection to the clipboard (in Windows, hit CTRL-C).
7. Go to the text editor's menu and make a new document.
8. Type in <a href="">download</a>
9. Place the cursor between the two double-quote marks and paste the address inside (CTRL-V for Windows users).
10. Save As the document and call it something, such as download.htm. It is important to make the extension .htm, not .txt, and save it to the desktop or somewhere easily accessible.
11. On the desktop (or wherever you saved it), double click it to open it in the web browser.
12. When opened, RIGHT-click the link you just made and choose to Save Target As or similar, and save it to the Desktop.
13. Once downloaded (should be really fast), RIGHT-click the file you just downloaded, and choose "open with" and select "Notepad". If your OS doesn't have this function, just open a new text editor program and load the .mov file you just downloaded with it.
14. Highlight only the movie's filename (no other symbols) and copy it to the clipboard as before (CTRL-C).
15. Go back to the source of download.htm and highlight only the filename (from between the last / to just before the last " in the address) and paste in the new filename.
16. Save the changes, and go re-open the download.htm file (or just refresh (F5) if you still have the browser open from before).
17. RIGHT-click the link again, and choose Save Target As (or similar) again...
18. And save the new file to the Desktop.
19. This is the actual movie file, and should take a few minutes if it hasn't already been cached.
19. Now just open the movie from the desktop and resize it as you please. You can now delete download.htm and the other .mov (the one that only took a few seconds to download), as you don't need them anymore. Enjoy!
This tutorial was made with Corel PhotoPaint 6.0 and Windows Notepad. It is free to distribute
as long as this credit line remains intact. Originally found at: http://www.thehomeland.org/apple/apple.htm