Thursday, October 1, 2009

Downloading your Favorite Youtube Video

Ever wondered how to download a video from Youtube? One of the most fulfilling aspects of being a technology professional is the ability to help society, in this case a friend of 15 years. She wants to know how to download her favorite video from Youtube. Here's how you do it:

1. Click on this link to download a software called Tooble. While there are many ways to achieve the same, we will stick Tooble for now. For one, it works great on the Mac (personally tested on OS X - Leopard and Snow Leopard) and it is very simple piece of software that hardly takes up a foot print of your precious computing resources. Select your version (Windows or Mac) download and install it.

2. Once installed, go to the youtube video you want to download, click on its URL - then copy it (Hold down CONTROL and press C).

3. Now go to Tooble. On the top left hand corner, look for "Enter a URL". Click on it and paste the URL you copied from your youtube video.

4. You are on the way to your own, off-line copy of your favorite Youtube video!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me and the pleasure is mine to see you succeed.

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