Hey guys, quick tip especially useful for vidders looking to use source only available on Youtube -- if you find a video on youtube that offers the HD option, you can save the HD quality stream with this handy bookmarklet:

ETA!!! I have updated the bookmarklet based on new code found somewhere on the internets. It now will automatically save the ( Read more... )

Flist! Google has failed me! Do any of you know of a method or tutorial for how to fake an IP address to get around these horrible geoblocking things that for instance prevent you from watching Merlin clips on the BBC website if you are browsing from the US?

Help!

PS: by way of thank you, recs!

kaneko has posted Arthur's Sword to merlin_flashfic, and you should ( Read more... )

Awww, llama!!! *hugs the mysterious joy-giver*

I thought for the last bits of More Joy Day I would entertain you all with a thought experiment I have rambled about to a few people before, re: fanfiction and what if in some frightening dystopian future it was somehow stamped out by a giant stompy boot of authority. :D No, wait, really, this will be ( Read more... )

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eee!

leyna55 has made a GORGEOUS drawing of Slytherin Sam -- http://leyna55.livejournal.com/2508.html

And a couple of people have asked in the comments -- if you would like to play in the Old Country universe, totally dive right in, whether you want to do missing scenes or sequels or alternate versions, anything. I am all over that stuff. ♥ joannindiw has ( Read more... )

This is a casual but useful set of Microsoft Word macros for converting doc files into clean HTML files (as opposed to the awful bloated versions created by Word's "Save As HTML") or into plain text files ready to paste into an LJ post or upload to an Automated Archive style archive (ie, with formatting tags but not paragraph breaks).

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I've modified the Refried Paper S2 layout, and thought I would share it in case anyone would like to use it also. You can see what it looks like at my journal, with the colors and a customized title banner added. It's pretty much the same look as refried paper, and just fixes a few omissions I found annoying about the style.

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Insta-rec: matociquala is serializing her novella Lucifugous on the Subterranean Press site, which I finally settled in to read this morning, and yum. If you like Sherlock Holmes eta: on consideration, I change my mind! Agatha Christie instead! or vampires or zeppelins, I highly recommend; heaps of slashy Victorian fun. It's currently up to Chapter 4 ( Read more... )

Look at me, look at me! slodwick not only santa-hatted me, she gave me a sleigh to drive! eee! That red is just luscious.

Miscellany:

helenish has kind of destroyed me with Take Clothes Off As Directed (SGA). I'm still processing. It's fabulous, but also made me weirdly sad. But in a good way?

Miranda-IM: Finally, an instant-messenger client (it handles AIM ( Read more... )

Okay, so I have been fighting with the new website a bit, and so far I have only been able to get one of two things to work for the individual stories, either centering or variable width. That is -- originally I wanted to make it so that the text would have a maximum width so it wouldn't go sprawling all across the browser, but I wanted to leave it ( Read more... )