The Best YouTube Video Tools | Tips and Tricks

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Save and Download YouTube Videos

• Delutube – Lets you view deleted Youtube videos.
• Video Downloader – a firefox extension that allows you to download youtube videos to your computer from YouTube and most video sites.
• YouTubeX – allows you to save and download YouTube videos easily using only your IE or firefox browser.
• TubeSock – grabs YouTube videos from the web and copies them to your video iPod, Mac, or PlayStation Portable.
• VideoDL – is a quick AJAX application that allows you to download online video into your computer. It supports top 3 video sites – YouTube, Google Video, and Break.com.
• Download YouTube via bookmarklets – A collection of Greasemonkey scripts and bookmarklets to do the job.
• Youtube-dl – is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later.
• KeepVid – Download videos direct from most video sites like YouTube.
• YouTube Downloader – enter url and download YouTube videos.
• Youtube Grabber – is a free tool that downloads FLV files from youtube.
• GooTube FLV Retriever – enter the video page URL, download the youtube video.
• Capture Youtube and Google videos - save them as AVI files encoded in the MPEG4 format, using only one command.
• YouRipper – a freeware software which enables you to download videos from the YouTube and Google Video
• Save YouTube Videos – paste the youtube video url and download the video.

Top Youtube Third party tools

• Splicd – lets you isolate an interesting clip from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues.
• YouTube Userscripts – a collection of scripts to perform several tasks with YouTube.
• Youtube Video Slideshow – insert a username or a video tag below and it starts a slideshow.
• fTube – a YouTube player that downloads the list of 25 most recent videos featured on the YouTube front page. The user can select a video from the list and hit the play button to play it in-Flash.
• TubeCH – YouTube flash player.
• iTube – grab Youtube videos, then convert and import them into iTunes. Requires .Net framework and works exclusively on Windows.
• TvTube – For Mac users. Allows you to browse YouTube, Google Video and Yahoo Videos, for movie clips that people upload, choose your favorite clips and add them to your shared library.
• YouTube API Extraction Tool – PHP script that taps into the YouTube API to deliver videos by tag, by username or what’s a current favorite.
• YouTube Widget – brings all of YouTubes videos to your Mac Dashboard.
• Search The Tube – A quick way to find videos for your website, blog or profile.
• YoutubeCrazyVideos – A Youtube videos desktop player. Freeware.
• IndexTube – categorized and browsable index of the publicly available Youtube videos.
• YouTube Podcaster – makes Podcast feed from your submitted keyword or url. The feed is made up from embedded youtube video IDs and all videos are converted to the MP4 file format.
• MemoriesOnWeb – freeware photo slideshow software for YouTube.
• Overstream – lets you add subtitles to online videos.

Integrate YouTube In Your Site or Blog

• YouTube badge maker – will show your viewers images of your 6 most recently uploaded videos.
• YouTube Wordpress Plugin – Display YouTube videos on your Wordpress blog according to Tags.
• YouTube Video Gallery Wordpress Plugin – displays a gallery of videos from youtube.com.
• WordPress Related Videos Plugin – Uses tags to look for related videos on YouTube, displays the three most recent related videos on your WordPress blog post and updates videos automatically.
• Wordpress Favourite YouTube Videos – Wordpress plugin / widget to display, in a very configurable manner, your latest favorite videos from Youtube.
• Viper�s Video Quicktags – WP plugin that easily generates codes for copy / pasting to embed videos from sites like YouTube and Google Video or for self-hosted videos into your posts.
• WP-FLV – Wordpress plugin simplfies the process of inserting flash video files (FLV) inside a Wordpress post or page.
• TubePress – a highly configurable WordPress plugin that displays YouTube videos in an embedded gallery in posts and/or pages.

Top / Best YouTube Videos Services

• PureVideo – collects top 10 videos from around the web
• The World Internet TV charts – tracks the most popular video clips from four leading Internet TV sites.
• Top YouTube Videos – a daily updated selection of the most popular videos from YouTube.
• Vidspedia – is a collection of the best Google and YouTube videos, submitted and rated by users.
• Youtube top-rated – a coverpop with the 1,001 top rated videos from YouTube updated every week.
• Best of YouTube – a blog selecting the best Youtube videos.
• Viral Video Chart – tracks the world’s most blogged about videos including GooTube and MySpace.

the Best Light, Modern and Sleek Website Designs

The creative utilization of color gradients, lighting effects, glow effects, and details such as inset pixel dividers can result into a beautiful and impressive website design. When deciding on a color theme, designers often choose whether they’d like to use a dark or a light palette; in this showcase, you’ll get to see light and bright designs. This collection presents exemplary and gorgeous examples of light, bright and sleek web designs for your design inspiration.

The best features of Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 is a pretty substantial update to the popular open-source browser, and it's just around the corner. See what features, fixes, and clever new tools are worth getting excited about in the next big release. Many thanks to the Mozilla Links blog, which covers Firefox news and updates like a glove. Now that we've thrown out the 10 features that are getting us jazzed for a final 3.5 release, let's hear what you're most looking forward to, and what remains unrequited among your Firefox desires, in the comments.

Best free Joomla 1.0 / 1.5 themes and templates ever

This is my top favorite list of joomla themes/templates. The list consists of only free templates so this is a great way to spice up your Joomla! site. It has themes like, Jamba, Novus, RedEvo, JP, Trentco and more. This is a great source for a budgeted web designer looking for a way to spice up the look of their site, without breaking the bank. What is joomla? Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Can Firefox do this? I think NOT!

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Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracking site, is involved in a legal battle with major copyright holders, including Warner Brothers, MGM, and Columbia Pictures. In April, the Web site's founders were convicted by a Swedish court of copyright infringement, ordered to pay nearly $4 million, and sentenced to a year in jail. The defendants appealed the decision and were denied a retrial last week. Hans Pandeya, chief executive of GGF, said in a statement that his company is looking for a business model that will pay copyright holders for content downloaded from The Pirate Bay. "The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world," said Pandeya. "However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers need faster downloads and better quality."

New Internet Explorer 8 Ads are actually, funny?

Brandon Davenport Jun 30, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Internet, News, Videos, Websites

The ads highlight IE8 features using mock situations and cutesy acronyms like F.O.M.S.--fear of missing something--for IE8s web slices, and S.H.Y.N.E.S.S.--sharing heavily, yet not enough sharing still--for the browser's accelerator feature. But the king of all four ads is O.M.G.I.G.P.--oh my God! I'm gonna puke--for IE8s private browsing feature; private browsing temporarily stops your browser from recording your online activities including your Web history and tracking cookies.

O.M.G.I.G.P. is the most honest ad we've seen from Redmond in a long time. Microsoft openly acknowledges in the spot the most common reason to use private browsing: hiding your online porn tracks. I'm not going to go into detail about what happens in the ad, but let's just say the title O.M.G.I.G.P. is taken very literally.

The new campaign is also tied to Microsoft's dedicated IE8 Web site called, Browser for the Better. For every copy of Internet Explorer 8 downloaded from the new site between now and August 8, Microsoft will donate eight meals to Feeding America, a domestic hunger-relief charity.

Since the launch of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft's browser has struggled with dwindling popularity, as users turn to other Web browsing alternatives like Mozilla's Firefox and Opera. Will this new campaign help turn IE8's fortunes around? Check out the ads below and judge for yourself.

Watch F.O.M.S.

Watch G.R.I.P.E.S.

Watch O.M.G.I.G.P.