Youtube is one of the leading online streaming websites today and is the website of choice of millions. Today, there is nothing you can’t find on youtube. Yes, starting from tutorials on how to use a pc to how to assemble an AK-47 has been provided on youtube 
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I have compiled a list of 12 best youtube tools that will help make your life easy.
1. KeepVid
Keepvid.com is an amazing site which lets you download videos from a variety of websites like youtube, metacafe, dailymotion, google video, facebook videos and a lot more. One thing I like about them is the varying range of quality they provide. You can videos according to your choice of quality from low to HD videos. Its even easier when you use their Keepvid Bookmarklet. While viewing any view youtube, just clicking on it take you to the download page of the video.
2. TubePopper
Tubepopper is an interesting concept that lets you make cartoons out of any youtube video, subtitling a video, commenting on a video and translating an existing video into any other language.
3. Video Focus
Video Focus is a greasemonkey script that lets you get rid of the annoying advertisements from your browser page. Other features include removal of chats, comments, Auto browser resize, video scale, custom background color, comments on/off, related videos on/off. These features are not just limited to youtube but to around 70+ streaming websites. To use greasemonkey script. you will need the greasemonkey addon for firefox.
4. YouTomb
Youtomb is a tool developed by MIT Free Culture that monitors the popular videos aon youtube and tracks down the videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. Some interesting information provided by the website includes who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown.
5. TubeOke
TubeOke is a great site if you like to sing along while the video plays. Tubeoke lets you search for the videos of your favorite artists and alongside provides the lyrics of that song in a small window next to the video when you play them.
This is a handy greasemonkey script which lets you preview the youtube thumbnail videos by just hovering the mouse over them. for google chrome, there is the youtube thumbs extension which performs the same task.
7. Splicd
splicd lets you clip off a particular part of a youtube video or snip a small portion and share it with your friends. By this, you can save time and share the relevant part of video you need to show them. All you need to do is, note the start and end time of the video bit and enter in at splicd and follow the instructions.
Loopy is a handy greasemoneky script that adds a loop button below the YouTube videos to enable/disable auto replay. Loopy lets you Loop your favorite music clips over and over again.
As the name suggests, this great tool lets you convert your favorite youtube videos into ringtones. You can clip your favorite portion of any music video and download them in a audio formats including mp3, aac, ogg etc.
10. You Old Enough?
This firefox addon lets you bypass the youtube age verification, hence enabling you to watch any video on youtube video without any registration/sign-up.
11. DeskTube
Desktube is an adobe air youtube tool for desktop. It lets you view the youtube videos from desktop without opening your browser. It also comes with twitter and facebook integrated with it. Hence you cans share videos simultaneously while you watch them. As for now, the direct link is not available but you can get DeskTube here.
12. TubeSpy
Tubespy is an interesting tool which shows you the videos that people are watching. It updates its list in real time and some of the most interesting videos which you may have missed, can easily be found out with this tool.
13. GoogleTube
This firefox addon adds a youtube icon next to the Google search results and lets you watch them and download them from the search page itself. the same applies to youtube videos in Yahoo! and Bing search results as well.
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Nice resource. I didn’t know about many of the above mentioned tool. I like the Youoldenough and Googletube concept.
Yes Himanshu. Most of these are very useful if you are a frequent youtube user
Thanks for dropping by.
Have a good day
Thanks for sharing the resources Neeraj!!!
Welcome Sathish
Glad you liked it.