4 YouTube Tools you Probably Don’t Know About

YouTube Tools Web 2.0 is a phenomenon and YouTube is the perfect symbol of Web 2.0 applications. It has become wildly popular - one of the most popular, most-visited sites on the internet. No matter how often you visit it, you always come back. Below, we present to you the best applications for dealing with Youtube.

iDesktop.tv - iDesktop.tv is basically a Youtube but with a way more interactive interface plus an option to download and save any video to your PC. It also allows user to choose and download video in desired format, including AVI (Windows), 3GP (Mobile), MP4 (iPod), and MOV (Quicktime).

iDesktop - Youtube Browser, Converter and Downloader

OrbitDownloader (Windows) - Powerful all-in-one media downloader for your desktop. OrbitDownloader removes the download barriers from almost all popular social media websites, i.e. Youtube, Dailymotion, Pandora, Rapidshare and many others. Once installed, you’ll be able to speedy download from almost any video or music streaming website.

Streaming Music and Video  Downloader

Highlights include:

  • Download from social music and video websites.
  • Download acceleration. Outperforms most of the traditional Youtube downloaders.
  • Option to pasue and resume download at any time.
  • Check out full feature list here.

Videoembed (Greasemonkey script) - This one is really cool. Youtube videos are linked from everywhere these days. And this addon lets you watch the video right on the page it’s linked from. It automatically adds embedded video after each link to pages like Metacafe, Youtube, Myspace… and many others so you can view the video without going to the website. Check it out in action on the Digg’s video section.

Before:

VideoEmbed - Automatically adds embedded video after video links

After:

VideoEmbed- Greasemonkey  script for automatically embedding Youtube videos

VideoFocus - Want to watch online videos without any distractions like ads, chats, comments, etc? This Greasemonkey script strips everything (ads, comments, related video…) but video and a plain background. Works with 30+ video sharing sites.

That’s about it… For more alternative ways to download and convert Youtube videos see our previously posted 18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet.

(By) Contributed by Sumesh and edited by Aibek. Sumesh is a blogger and freelance writer. You can check out his blog at Techzilo.com.

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    2008-02-13 03:47:03

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    Comment by Dan
    2008-02-13 10:41:12

    Interesting approach. I’ll give those tools a go ;) Thanks.

     
    2008-02-13 12:52:52

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    Comment by MediaHitMan
    2008-02-13 13:04:17

    There’s an emerging mobile company that, among other things, enables you to watch any YouTube video on your ordinary cell phone and send the videos to your friends cell phones too. Check out Uronimo.com.

     
    Comment by MediaHitMan
    2008-02-13 13:05:43

    An emerging mobile media company (Uronimo) enables you watch YouTube videos on ordinary cell phones and share them with your firends. Check it out.

     
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    Comment by Matt Ellsworth
    2008-02-13 13:47:10

    Those are some neat tricks. I like the grease monkey script to bring everything together.

     
    Comment by Ty Graham
    2008-02-13 13:52:39

    You forgot one more: Blip’d lets you embed widgets into Youtube videos so you can make money selling whatever you want from your videos.

     
    Comment by Vishal
    2008-02-13 14:00:20

    Linux and MacOSX filesystem for youtube

     
    Comment by pools
    2008-02-13 14:20:42

    I’m really surprised there’s no Miro here.
    Miro lets you search Youtube, Google Video, Revver, Dailymotion, blip.tv, Mefeedia & Yahoo! Video from a desktop application which will also download the videos to your computer whether it runs Linux, MacOSX or Windows .
    Each search can also be saved as a ‘channel’, like an RSS feed so it can automatically download newer search results as they become available.

    You must try Miro at http://www.getmiro.com

     
    2008-02-13 14:33:37

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    Comment by subcorpus
    2008-02-13 16:16:19

    this good info …
    am gonna try that with downloading youtube videos …
    now only if i can covert ‘em videos to play on my ipod …
    thats be kewl …

     
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    Comment by Sumesh
    2008-02-13 19:02:33

    Well, congratz - you got linked from lifehacker to a post linked to from this post (greasemonkey script).

     
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    Comment by Jhony
    2008-02-15 04:27:00

    If some one using Mac, there is a new cool app for you.
    web2 delight
    This handle not just YuoTube lot more

    Comment by Geek
    2008-02-16 04:32:52

    cool! That’s nice. Search and playback is fantastic. can load iPod with videos and photos. collection scheduling is good feature. video quality is disabled :(

     
     
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    Comment by Desmond
    2008-03-28 16:16:55

    Great tools…

    but to download videos at fast speed, i use “zillatube”

    it’s at http://www.zillatube.com
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    Comment by youtube downloader
    2008-07-07 03:26:42

    Orbit downloader is quite good.

     
    Comment by Stan
    2008-08-06 04:51:49

    Very good tools. Indeed, I didn’t know anything about them. Thanks. i love such type of applications. A friend of mine just send me a link to
    Fluny, a youtube video gallery generator.

    It looks interesting, especialy the effects in the slideshow like in iTunes.
    The website looks like too simple, i hope they will update it shortly as it is still in beta mode.

     
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