TOP 4 YOUTUBE TIPS AND TRICKS

YouTube has become a repository for literally millions of movie and TV clips, music videos,home videos, and video blogs. But there’s more to it than just clicking the Play button. YouTube 4 You author Michael Miller shares ten tips and tricks to help you better view and share YouTube videos
Tip #1: Flag a Video for Future Viewing
Here’s a familiar situation. You’re browsing the YouTube site and find a video that looks interesting, but you don’t have the time or inclination to watch it right then. Fortunately,YouTube lets you save this video in a temporary QuickList, without having to open the video page and start playback. Then, when you’re ready, you can go back to this video and watch it at your leisure.
To add a video to your QuickList, all you have to do is click the little + button at the lower-left corner of any video thumbnail. Videos stay in your QuickList for just a single web browsing session; as soon as you close your browser window, the QuickList is flushed.
To see all the videos stored in your QuickList, go to any video viewing page and look for the Unsaved Playlist panel on the right side of the page. View a single video by clicking the thumbnail, or you can play all the videos in your QuickList one after another by clicking the Play All link. To clear your QuickList, click the Clear link.
Tip #2-- Save Your Favorite Videos
Videos stay in your QuickList until you close your web browser; the next time you visit YouTube, those QuickList videos aren’t there anymore.
When you view a video you like andwant to keep longer than a single session, you can save it to your YouTube Favorites list. Thislist is kind of like the Favorites or Bookmarks list you have in your web browser. Any videos saved in YouTube Favorites can be easily accessed for future viewing.
To save a video to your Favorites list, open that video’s viewing page and click the Save link beneaththe YouTube video player. This adds the video to the Favorites list. When you want torevisit any of the entries in this list, go to the YouTube home page and click the My Favorites link in the My box. This displays a listof your favorites. Click any video to watch it again.
Tip #3-- Create a Video Playlist
One of the challenges of enjoying YouTubeis the sheer volume of videos available. Saving videos to your Favorites list is one way to handle this volume, but even the Favorites list can get too large to be easily manageable.For that reason, you may want to create playlists separate from (or in addition to) your Favorites list. A YouTube playlist is simply a collection of videos, organized by whatever criteria you deem appropriate. You can play the videos from a playlist individually or as agroup, just as you would the songs in a music playlist on your iPod. And, of course, YouTube lets you create multiple playlists; you can have as many as you want.
There are several ways to create a playlist and to add a video to that playlist. The most common method is to openthe page for a video and click theAdd to Favorites link. When the AddVideo to Your Playlists pane appears, pull down the Select a Playlist list, select the playlist you want, and then click OK.
If you haven’t yetcreated a playlist, select New Playlist from the Add Video to Your Playlists list and then click OK. This displays the Create/Edit Playlist page; from here, you enter some specific information aboutthe new playlist br /> Playlist Name: The name you assign to the playlist.
Video Log: Check this option if you want this playlist used as the video log in your Channel Profile page.
Description- A short description of the contents ofthis playlist.
Tags: Optional keywords you canuse to describe this playlist.Privacy: Choose whether this playlist should be public (for all YouTube users to view) or private (for your viewing only).
After you’ve filled in all the blanks and options, click the Save Playlist Info button. Your playlist is now saved.
To view the playlists you’ve created, go to the YouTube home page and click the My Playlists link in the My box. This displays the Playlists page. All your playlists are listed at the left of the page; click a playlist name to see which videos are in that list.
To play an individual video in a playlist, click that video. To play all the videosin a playlist one after another, click the Play All Videos link. Or youcan click the big Play button next to the playlist name.
Tip #4-- Share a Video via Email
If you like a particular YouTube video, chances are you have a friend or two who might like it, too. That’s why YouTube letsyou share the videos you like—in fact, this type of video sharing is a defining feature of the whole YouTube experience.