How to download videos onto your iPad

This is an iPad video tip on how to download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, or any HTML5 video online onto your iPad. I seen a post yesterday on Macstories about a YouTube downloader 'hack' that looked like an interesting way to grab videos. In the article Mr. Viticci mentions that he was using GoodReader with this method of downloading videos. Well GoodReader already has the ability to download movies from sites like YouTube built right into the application, well not built into the app but a way to add a Safari shortcut that works similar to what was written on Macstories.

Who knows how long before this stops working or maybe even Apple will force GoodReader to remove this from the app? I hope not as I use all the time but mostly just for my own videos I have uploaded on YouTube. I have a lot of personal family videos videos that I keep private and sometimes I like to mashup those videos using vjay on my iPad.

Don't own GoodReader on your iPad? You can grab it from the iOS App Store for $4.99:
GoodReader for iPad - Good.iWare Ltd.

Works great on the iPhone as well:
GoodReader for iPhone - Good.iWare Ltd.

(If video will not play you can watch it on YouTube)

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Downloading files in Safari on the iPad

To download a file in Safari you will need a 3rd party application to download it to as well as unzip it if it is a zipped file, in this video I am using GoodReader for iPad by Good.iWare Ltd.. Simply click on the download link, wait for the file to download in Safari, once it has downloaded you will be prompted to choose to "Open In" or as seen in this video "Open in Good Reader". Please note that you must already have Good Reader open (or whatever application you are using), I have noticed that if you select an application that is not open in the dock Safari seems to crash, even though the application is not technically open as it is suspended in the dock, this still happens a lot, or at least it did for me when choosing Good Reader. Other applications may not have this problem though, maybe it was the file type? Either way, this is a quick tip to help those that may not have realized this was possible. Another thing to note is this does not work with torrents, and you can only open files that the 3rd party app you selected supports.

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