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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1216872"><p>This isn't my area of expertise, as I've never really needed a "download manager" but I would say that, given the wide reports on this and other forums of Speed Download causing weird issues, that you should avoid that particular product.</p><p></p><p>As for unzipping files, you just double-click them. Welcome to Macintosh.</p><p></p><p>For video files generally, you will want to download and install <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx" target="_blank">Flip4Mac WMV Player</a> and <a href="http://perian.org" target="_blank">Perian</a> (both free). These two components work together to enable QuickTime (and not just the app, I mean the entire embedded system of QuickTime, as in the web browser, iTunes et al) the ability to play *almost* any kind of file you might encounter.</p><p></p><p>Some people also like to have alternate players for various reasons (usually something QuickTime can't do, like playlists). Two of my favourites are <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html" target="_blank">VLC</a> and <a href="http://mplayerx.org/" target="_blank">MPlayerX</a>, which you may have run across in the Windows world as well. Always good to have around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1216872"] This isn't my area of expertise, as I've never really needed a "download manager" but I would say that, given the wide reports on this and other forums of Speed Download causing weird issues, that you should avoid that particular product. As for unzipping files, you just double-click them. Welcome to Macintosh. For video files generally, you will want to download and install [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx"]Flip4Mac WMV Player[/URL] and [URL="http://perian.org"]Perian[/URL] (both free). These two components work together to enable QuickTime (and not just the app, I mean the entire embedded system of QuickTime, as in the web browser, iTunes et al) the ability to play *almost* any kind of file you might encounter. Some people also like to have alternate players for various reasons (usually something QuickTime can't do, like playlists). Two of my favourites are [URL="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html"]VLC[/URL] and [URL="http://mplayerx.org/"]MPlayerX[/URL], which you may have run across in the Windows world as well. Always good to have around. [/QUOTE]
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