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Downloading your favorite youtube videos is only a few clicks away!  

To begin with, your going to need a few programs.
The first program your going to need will download the video itself.

The next program is going to convert the video to whatever format you need, be it for ipods, powerpoints, or general viewing.

For Windows users:

Flash Video Downloader Youtube 2.2

For Mac users:

FlashvideoDownloader 2

Here's an a different program you could use. 

The programs linked here are ones you don't need to pay for, which is always a plus :)

Windows:

Leawovideoconverter

About this program, it'll download as an .rtf file. Thats ok, just once you download it, change the .rtf in the name to a .exe  You'll be able to install the program from there

Here's a link

Mac: This is just a link

Mac videoconverter