8 easy steps to put Internet video on your iPod

Step 1: Buy Snapz Pro X (it's $69.95 for the video-capable version; there's a 30-day demo you can try).

Step 2: Load the video you want to capture in Google Video or some such other service. Queue up the video and pause it.

Step 3: Launch Snapz Pro X. Click on the Movie tab, check "Use movie guides," uncheck "Cursor Visible" and drag the little window selection tool until it fits the video you want to capture. Make sure you check the "Mac audio track" box. If the video is under 480x480 then you're good. If not, then change the Scale options to make it less than 480x480.

Step 4: Double-click the screen to start recording, then quickly hit that play button (hopefully, everything has buffered by now).

Step 5: Keep capturing until the video is finished playing. Keep in mind that you cannot open new windows during this process if they will block what you are capturing. You also want to make sure than any other programs, like iChat, that emit noises are turned off to prevent that audio from showing up in your capture.

Step 6: Once the video finishes playing, hit whatever key combo you've chosen for Snapz Pro to stop the capture. Another window will open offering to Save or Delete the capture. Make sure you've installed 3ivx. Change the video settings to 3ivx, Medium Quality, Best Depth, and the audio to IMA 4:1 44.1kHz stereo, 16 bit.

Step 7: Wait for the file to export fully. Open the resulting .mov file in QuickTime Pro and export to iPod (or use one of the other video to iPod conversion utilities to do the same thing).

Step 8: Drag the resulting video file over to your iPod. Enjoy!

*Note: This will actually work for any video file or DVD, not just with Internet files. For example, one could buy a TV Show off the iTMS and then use this to circumvent that silly, silly DRM. Also, if you tweak step 7 nicely with the proper MPEG4 settings, you could skip step 8, but that wouldn't be easy, so I didn't try it for this post.