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Problem: I have a movie hosted. I can link to it; however, I want people to download the movie, not view it in a browser.

Solution:
Here’s the paraphrased version I learned from the brilliant folks at Boutell.com. Create a page (in Dreamweaver, or wherever) with the following:
<?php
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=yourmovietitle.mov');
header('Content-type: video/mov');
readfile('yourmovietitle.mov');
?>

Save that file as movielink.php, or something more specific. Add that to the same folder (on your host) that your movie is in. Change the name from movie.mpg to the actual name of your file. Finally, write the link as <a href="movielink.php">Download me</a>.
You create a file that forces your browser to save, not open.

The first Apple computer just turned 25 years old on January 24. Macworld wrote up a nice timeline about the company. It’s hard to imagine where they’ll be in 25 more years.