#tool using animals

[racecarart]

Fanart of Veronica the tool-using cow. Scratch those itches, queen <3

Paper and video reference below the fold!

Paper link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

YouTube link to the video where I got the reference for this picture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rX1...

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Do you ever transcribe images and/or do online research? I have the BEST tool for you. OurStickys is a Firefox Add-on, by Fabrizio Parrella. I use it on Chrome as well

There's nothing fannish to do with it, but r/TranscribersOfReddit is an awesome volunteer subreddit that helps people with the visual impairments enjoy stuff like text-in-images by commenting transcriptions of them. r/FanficWit would love volunteers that'd do that for their memes, I bet!

I've used this extension for online note-taking too. It probably has a ton of applications to it that I haven't even thought about. So I'm just including this into the catch-all flair of 'Fanworks - Resources' bc it can be used for so much.

First, where to get it: On Firefox and for Chrome, its normal location in the extensions play store is gone (the links I've found are all broken), so try to get it on softpedia.com.

I found the developer who created the extension, u/EffEPi77 from their reddit post about the tool 4 years ago here in /r/SideProject . Some of those features they describe in that post don't work anymore. Because, from u/0mnipath in /r/chrome_extensions in this post 2 years ago, apparently the developer, Fabrizio Parrella, passed away. RIP to this fantastic programmer.

So until there's a better alternative (which nobody seems to have really made yet), this is why OurStickys is great.

This is how it works on Chrome. Once installed, forever more you can just right-click anywhere on a web page and you get this.

Then you get this little box where I wrote silly words. 

You can change the box's size via dragging the lower right corner, you can change the color to other soft pastels in settings (when you hover over the box, a gear icon shows up - the gear = settings options)

The pin icon is extremely useful. If you don't select it, it stays in the same spot on your screen when you scroll. If you select it, you've stuck it to that specific location on the web page. I love this feature.

More details under the cut

Moving on, if you click on settings (gear icon once you hover over a sticky), you get this. 

That's the info icon, the tags icon is there for, ya know, tags (idk if the tags feature is operational, I'll explain why later), the swirly circle icon is for changing the color of the sticky, and the x is to close the window.

To the right of the web page you're stickying stickies onto, there's little tab things you can hover over to jog your memory what you wrote:

And finally, when you actually select the extension in your extensions list, you get this:

which is a history of your stickies (sorry for all the blackouts but I’m too lazy to create new fake stickies for the tutorial, so censoring personal info it is). But you can't really sync anything anymore... and therefore I'm not sure if the tags are useful either.

Edit: also I want to mention that you shouldn’t really rely on this extension to save stickies for like over 2 weeks. It’s kind of a gamble; the stickies might disappear on you.

And that's it (for now)! xoxo

[mckitterick]

Orangutan from Borneo spearfishing.

Just... wow: X

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Proton Drive encrypted cloud storage is available in beta

Proton’s end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service, Proton Drive, is still under development. Should you upgrade to early access now?

Y’all this is the best news EVER. No more having to save my smutty fic to Google Drive YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS