Hello in this video I want to talk about
give a couple tips on
downloading software from the internet and
finding safe free software, you know, you can use some of these for commercial software too, but
Some tips I use are
I'll go into the web
Search engine so I'm on google here and say I want to I don't have Photoshop and I want to do something like Photoshop
So you can type Mac
Photoshop
Versus and then you'll see here it says virtues aperture riches GIMP
So I can assume that aperture and GIMP are
Similar software to Photoshop so I do know they are but even if I didn't I know that now so
Now I can go in and say Mac GIMP
versus
And it says Photoshop - sometimes you have other suggestions
Here I have top
14 free alternatives to GIMP for Mac so I can click on that and
You'll see different
Software here so I can use this to research things and now you'll see like download links. I
Rarely would click on these I will just Google this
And now that goes into my next tip and I have a good example of this next tip
I show you so say I want a piece of software and I don't want to click on the wrong download link
I don't want to go to some weird spammy site
what you can do here is
There's something called handbrake which is used for converting video, so if I type handbrake in
Well, I actually might want to type of like Mac handbrake software
So you'll see here the first thing that comes up is a handbrake software for Mac which is like well that's what I want, okay
And you'll see it says handbrake for Mac dot wondershare. Net. Well, it seems like it could be hosted there
But you see it's an ad and here you have a handbrake for Mac and another site
Okay
You go down a little further and you see this this looks like a kind of official
Website this handbrake dot fr but you know, it doesn't it's not calm that seems a little bit odd
So what you can do here
is
I'll open up a new tab here. I'll go to Wikipedia and
I'll type handbrake
software ok, and
the Wikipedia page comes up
ok, and I'll go over here to the right and you'll see the website here says handbrake dot F R so when I was looking
through this
It was kind of hard to tell what was the official website here?
You know, I wasn't sure about this fr but if you go to Wikipedia, it looks like yeah, that is the correct website. So
You know checking different sources is kind of useful so it you know
Google put an outline around this so it looks like this is probably the official one and Wikipedia
Looks the same now certainly someone can go into Wikipedia and change that so it's good to check multiple sources
But Wikipedia seems to be a pretty good source of the origin of software
So if I go to download here, it will take me to this page. I can go to downloads on this page and
I can download
The Mac OS version
So these tips are probably best for mac and windows because
Linux usually stores things in a repository. So it's relatively safe to use repository
But when you're downloading for mac and windows you can get into some shady
things
so
So say we wanted something like Adobe Illustrator so we can say Mac
Adobe Illustrator
Vs
and
There's an article here. It says format alternative is dodo be illustrator
and
It has a finis D designer if we look here you get that in the Mac App Store, so that should be safe
although that's not always the case, but
You know, sometimes it is
Inkscape
Is free so I can click link scape out org here, but you know, I don't know that could be fake
So I'll go back to Wikipedia
I'll just uh, I like to use Google search to go to Wikipedia pages Inkscape
Software
Ok
scroll down here we go to the website says Inkscape org, that's the same one that was on the other page and
We can download the software
so
So these are just two tips. I use you know, I'll go and type verses on things. There are websites like alternative to
I
Think it's alternative to Google that alternative to net and this will give you recommendations also, so I want to replace
Photoshop
and
It will give you some suggestions here too. So
But these are just a couple tips. I used to try and be somewhat safe online when downloading software
I know sometimes if you
Go into a web browser. You'll type in a piece of software, especially freeware and
The ads will be sites that will allow you to download the software that may have malware in them
They may have bundle them with other things
Maybe they'll try and charge it for it. I don't know but they're not safe. So
Utilizing the
Wikipedia to tell where the origin of that software is and then usually I'll
See, it'll you'll see it on the Google search page to maybe down-low
If those two match up, although that's likely the safe place to download the software
So if you have any questions about this
Please leave in the comments. If you have any tips that you use to find free software and
Safely download it. Let me know down below and if you like this video
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