Not the post about keeping hacked Oyster cards in very thin wallets...
...and casually tapping in and out with 'em. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
No. Thriving black market industry tho' that undoubtedly is, instead this is an unofficial obituary for Keep Vid (http://keepvid.com), which has ceased to be a handy, free, online way of saving YouTube and other streaming Flash-based videos in either .flv or .mp4 file formats, and turned into a paid-for application you need to download. Gah.
Actually, you don't "need" to download it at all, and it's a testament to just how infrequently I've been using the service lately that it took a moan-based e-mail from a friend for me to find out what had happened to it. Obviously, there are plenty of cross-platform alternatives doing the rounds out there, and if I was posting from a different machine I would namecheck the one I was beta-testing back in January. But I'm not, so that'll have to wait until The Edit Monster comes calling...again. Boo. Edit: Alive YouTube Video Converter. (Courtesy of The Edit Monster.)
In unrelated (but vaguely topical*) news, Morrison's are currently selling Brothers' Toffee Apple Cider ("First enjoyed in a field in Somerset" and "originally launched at the Brothers bar", although full Masonic approval is presumably still pending) for a quid a bottle, and the latest issue of Total Film magazine (guest-edited by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant: http://www.totalfilm.com) comes with a free, cover-mounted lenticular (they erroneously describe it as "3D", but it's really no such thing) Iron Man 2 promotional mousemat:
Nice.
Bonus Gaffney:
*http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/992598/Budget-2010-Cider-industry-hit-tax-hike/
No. Thriving black market industry tho' that undoubtedly is, instead this is an unofficial obituary for Keep Vid (http://keepvid.com), which has ceased to be a handy, free, online way of saving YouTube and other streaming Flash-based videos in either .flv or .mp4 file formats, and turned into a paid-for application you need to download. Gah.
Actually, you don't "need" to download it at all, and it's a testament to just how infrequently I've been using the service lately that it took a moan-based e-mail from a friend for me to find out what had happened to it. Obviously, there are plenty of cross-platform alternatives doing the rounds out there, and if I was posting from a different machine I would namecheck the one I was beta-testing back in January. But I'm not, so that'll have to wait until The Edit Monster comes calling...again. Boo. Edit: Alive YouTube Video Converter. (Courtesy of The Edit Monster.)
In unrelated (but vaguely topical*) news, Morrison's are currently selling Brothers' Toffee Apple Cider ("First enjoyed in a field in Somerset" and "originally launched at the Brothers bar", although full Masonic approval is presumably still pending) for a quid a bottle, and the latest issue of Total Film magazine (guest-edited by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant: http://www.totalfilm.com) comes with a free, cover-mounted lenticular (they erroneously describe it as "3D", but it's really no such thing) Iron Man 2 promotional mousemat:
Nice.
Bonus Gaffney:
*http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/992598/Budget-2010-Cider-industry-hit-tax-hike/