Get more out of YouTube: 17 helpful tips, tricks, and tweaks

Some people can hardly remember the time before YouTube. The video host was founded in 2005, and year after year the platform got bigger and bigger. As early as 2006, around 100 million clips were viewed there every day. By 2010, this figure had risen to more than two billion per day. Today, users upload around 500 hours of video material every minute.

No wonder, really. The largely free service offers almost endless entertainment, how-to and tutorial videos, music, and much more. Of course...