5 Ways To Get More Out Of YouTube5:25 pm | Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

These days, there’s a good chance you use YouTube as often as you check your email. But you’re probably unaware of all the ways you can manipulate the worlds most popular video site. Like, how you can download videos as MP3’s or chop up video clips anyway you’d like.

We scoured the ‘Net to find the best sites that allow you to get the most out of YouTube, and a bunch of other video websites (DailyMotion, Google Video, Hulu, Vimeo, etc). Read on to see our five hottest tips if you want to surf smarter…

VOOBYS (Not to be confused with the porn site, Vooby)

USE FOR: Easily downloading YouTube clips.
WEBSITE: voobys.com
BOOKMARK IT?: Yes. Voobys is the easiest way we’ve found to download YouTube videos onto your computer. All you gotta do is search for the clip, click it and then hit download. Bang bang.

SPLICID

USE FOR: Editing down long YouTube clips.
WEBSITE: splicd.com
BOOKMARK IT?: Yes. Instead of downloading the entire video off of YouTube and editing it yourself, Splicd allows you pick the part of the clip you wanted to watch, trims the fat and allows you to share or embed your newly edited clip.

VIDEO SURF

USE FOR: Searching for specific parts of online video clips.
WEBSITE: videosurf.com
BOOKMARK IT?: Yes. Ever wanted to show a friend a certain part of YouTube clip? Video Surf searches almost every online video site and breaks down the results in multiple frames so you can watch exactly the part you were searching for.

VIDTOMp3

USE FOR: Downloading songs off of YouTube.
WEBSITE: vidtomp3.com
BOOKMARK IT?:Yes. If you haven’t noticed, YouTube has almost every song available for streaming. VidToMp3 turns YouTube into a new age Napster, quickly and easily allowing you to download any and every track on YouTube. It will even turn a video into an MP3 audio track. And it works with almost every video site on the ‘Net.

SONGZA

USE FOR : Playing and creating playlists from YouTube songs.
WEBSITE: songza.com
BOOKMARK IT?:Yes. Not only is Songza the best designed site of the bunch, it works really well. Just type in an artist and song, and it searches YouTube for the track and lets you stream it. If you sign up, you can create playlists to listen to later and share with friends. They even have a Facebook app that allows you to share the songs on your playlists with your FBfriends.