Twilight, Travel, and Treats

31.5.10

Fanfiction.net Finally Goes Mobile!

Before I go into the mobile fic thing check out the wonderful gifts I got this week

First from my wonderful friend DQ

love that they sparkle like EC. And she got me 2 boxes so I can actually open one
She really knows my hoarding collector ways

Bandages for the doctor - what a good idea!

From my awesome cousin VL who got me the Japanese editions of Twilight - Twilight in Russian! So cool.

what a great 10th anniversary present - for me!

By the way I changed my avatar to my Bella and Edward figurines - I was a bit tired of looking at my own face. Click here for my post about them.

Okay on to the regular post...

So I've usually been saving mobile related things for my other blog Twi-Mobile but this news is just too big.

Those of you who read fanfic and have been following my blog know that I've made it my mission in life to do everything from my iPhone. I've even gone to great lengths to try and get fanfiction.net stories onto my iPhone and iPod touch and written tutorials for you guys as well.

Sunday was the release of the final chapter of Master of the Universe by Snowdragon Icequeens. It's Chapter 87 and this fic has finally finished after 8 months of wonderful reading bliss.

I was so happy when my email alert from fanfiction.net came with this at the end

See the Mobile? Too exciting. It's about frickin time.

If you click on the mobile version this is how the story looks from my iPhone.

To jump chapters you can scroll to the bottom or press Menu at the top.

This even lets you Review, Add Story or Author as Favourite, and Follow Story or Author.

What happens if you go to a regular desktop fanfiction.net URL? Nothing, as in there is no automatic detection and redirection for mobile devices.

But it's easy to get to the mobile version of any fanfiction.net story.

Just replace the www with an m

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5368782/87/
becomes
http://m.fanfiction.net/s/5368782/87/

Side tutorial - How do you do select and replace text on an iPhone?

First hold your finger down on the www part of the URL until you get the magnifying glass.

Then tap on Select, not Select All.

You should get a Cut/Copy/Paste box showing a highlighted www part. Don't click on any of those options.

Now just type m to replace the www and you'll get the correct URL. Then press Go at the bottom right and you're there.

So if you don't mind reading fanfiction.net online this is the quickest way. If you have to read it offline then still follow the tutorial here.

I'm off to Italy in 3 days. I'll try and post a bit in those two weeks.

By the way here are some iPhone wallpapers I made for myself this week.

You can find them and my other iPhone wallpapers at the iPhone Wallpaper Archive.

Lastly, notice my new buttons on the right sidebar for Twitter, RSS, email? Well there's a new button you may not recognize

It's for tumblr - my new microblog - I'll explain it next time. For now just go ahead and click on it to check it out. Don't forget to click the Archive button when you're there - the Archive gallery is so pretty!

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25.5.10

The Sparkle Peen Queen

So way back in February 2010 I entered a contest over at Twi-sted Edbrella entitled "We Want Your Sparkle Peens" vying for this version of mini-E

Frankly I'm not so sure I like the whole Fabio open shirt thing but Edward is still Edward.

Guess what? Today they announced over at Twi-sted Edbrella that Snarkier Than You, Jenny Jerkface, and Latchkey Wife from Twitarded had picked me as the winner!

Here's the anatomically correct mini sparkle peen I made out of fondant and painted with lustre dust dissolved in vodka.

Go check out her latest post for more of my sparkle peen pics and also some of the other entries. Everyones entries were great and had me LMAO imagining a bunch of middle aged women secretly making sparkle peens around the world.

By the way, I've got more pics of this sparkle peen if you want to see them. Trust me, they're pretty anatomically correct except mini of course.

Now I have to find this fondant creation. I can't remember where I put it and I'm sure the boys will end up stumbling upon it one day when they sneak into my baking drawer again looking for chocolate.

If you want tips on how I made this guy go ahead and ask in the comments.

Can't wait for my new mini-E to arrive. Thanks so much to Stan and the Twitarded girls!

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21.5.10

Red_Bella Comments for TwiTour and Pics Too

Thanks to red_bella for her lovely comment in my last post. It was so good that I had to repost it here so you could all enjoy. Especially since she let me share some of her great photos.

It was an awesome weekend, I had so much fun.

It was great getting to meet you finally. I didn't even notice that Peter had that can of Red Bull at the table with us during the brunch.... Quick thinking on grabbing that!

I thought about bidding on that Edward poster at the brunch, but then I noticed that you had already bid on it I thought better of it. You must bring it to FFFFOOORRRKKKSS!

I don't know if I would do a whole Gold Weekend Pass again but it did put me up front and to the right of the state and in the front of the line for any autographs. Friday the attendance wasn't so great. I did enjoy listening to Kiowa and Bronson though. I skipped the Karaoke on Friday night cause I can't and won't sing! Trust me on that one!

Saturday was great, a few more people in attendance. Jodelle was sooooo cute! She and Cameron Bright were joking around with each other. Bronson and Kiowa did a dual Q&A that was fun and then Daniel Cudmore just stole the show. God that man was funny! He could easily be a stand-up comedian. It was suggested that he do so during his Q&A, he said that he'd rather do sit down comedy since he was so tall 6'6"! That man was all legs! He also talked about being in makeup for an alien on Stargate Atlantis and how he couldn't scratch his face and all he could do to relieve an itch was to poke at his face through the makeup.

I participated in the twilight trivia contest. In the first round I was 4th... oh so close and yet so far away. The winner was this guy from Washington who has won fifteen of the trivia contests with TwiTour! The man was a walking Twilight dictionary, his one comment to Cameron Bright when he admitted that he hadn't read the series was "Real Men read Twilight". He gives all his prizes and gift certificates to his daughter, part of the prizes were a makeover then be part of the Vampire Court at the dance Saturday night and dance with the cast members.

I came home with some good Twi-loot. Picked up a Vampire Baseball T-shirt, a Team Hillywood T-shirt, a convention tote bag to carry my loot, one of the Team Jacob gift bags for the Volutri makeup and a twilight sticker that I'm going to put on my Smart Car somewhere. I also acquired a Team Wolf pack pencil from the Twilight Lexicon ladies. Oh, I also had a photo op with Bronson and Kiowa. I'm not big on being photographed, so that's the only one that I did. I was mistakenly given an extra photo op ticket and my friend didn't want to use it, so I scoured the event and found this woman with six or more kids with her and gave it to her.

All in all I had a great time, got lots of autographs in my Twilight collector’s edition. I'm hoping to get all the cast's autographs in it.

Well red_bella it was awesome meeting you and thank you so much for letting me share your weekend. Great that you've got the autographs in your Twilight Collector's edition. Hoping you one day get the Holy Grail as Mrs. P calls it.

Here are some of red_bella's photos from the weekend. You know it's not normally my style to just post a bunch of pics but you asked for them.