shiny_things

[sally_maria]

When I visited alitalf a couple of weeks ago, he suggested that I should create a website with links to the various useful pieces of software, web sites and browser addons that I came across and wanted to recommend. I'm not quite ready to do that yet, but in the meantime I decided that I would set up a Dreamwidth community.

shiny_things

It's very much a work in progress at the moment, with only one entry but I hope to add things to it as I come across them/have time.

If you have a Dreamwidth account, but don't check your reading page regularly you can always track the community, so it sends you an email when I post.

If you don't have a Dreamwidth account, you can always add the feed to your LJ friendslist.

I've set it up so that anyone can comment, but if you post with OpenID then it'll email you the replies.

(I should add that I don't have any intention of leaving LJ any time soon, not while you guys are still around, but I still want to support DW in any way I can, and contributing a bit of content is one way I can do that.)

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[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

You might like to look into delicious.com, which does something along these lines. My list (of utter randomness) is here: http://delicious.com/crazyscot

[sally_maria]

Delicious is incredibly useful, isn't it? I've been using it for years to track fanfiction posts and the stuff that I've linked to in my journal, just in case anyone wants to find it again. (It's in the link list on my journal.)

It's great for me to keep track of stuff and now the comments box can be 1000 words rather than 250 it does help, but I'm hoping the comm will give me a chance to talk more about things. There are plenty of people on my flist, like you, who know far more about computers than I do, and you already know where to find this stuff, but I've answered enough posts asking for people to recommend software for this and that, that I figured there was a use for it.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Ah! So you do, I hadn't noticed *blush*

[sally_maria]

Don't worry about it. I know I'm not good at noticing other people's link lists, and it's ages since I talked about it.

Somebody on metafandom was talking about another social bookmarking site called Diigo (diigo.com), so I thought I'd try it out for bookmarks for the new community - to keep things separate from the random fanfic I haven't read yet. :-)

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I joined and posted some windows utilities and info.