Tube Explorer Lite for Windows

We've come across so many faulty video players that it's hard to contain ourselves when we find one that works. This particular one lets you search and download your favorite videos from YouTube, Google, and Yahoo.

Tube Explorer Lite took us by surprise. At first glance, we weren't overly impressed by its user interface. The tabbed, paneled view looked pretty generic. However, the tree-menu style search feature let us quickly drill down and find our favorite videos, and we were also able to search by keyword. It only took a few seconds for each video to download, and we were able to view them directly from the program's interface. It's easy to find the videos you download when you reopen the program. They're saved in their own tab, and you can customize the interface to your liking.

We love that this video player went for function over form. It's not showy by any means, but it just plain works. And for that, we highly recommend it to all users.