Blog & Updates

icon30th of May
New gallery pages, disclaimer and + image notes updated
Moved all Tsubasa images to a new free host (I'm going to have enough space to screencapture more eps now)
Screencaptured Episode 07 of Tsubasa: Cracked Memento (See galleries)
4 new videos added to the media folder (requests): Ep61 Syaoran is interrupted by Yamazaki, Ep63 Syaoran falls into the pool, Ep58 Yue transforms & Ep59 Yue meets Eriol. (See media)


icon29th of May
Time to look at the stats of the month for suppi.net: Here are some titbits:
900 people arrived at suppi.net whilst searching Sakura, 807 for hentai and only 38 were looking for anti hentai
Most people enter via slg/images.html (bookmarked or linked)
This page: slg/home.html got 5155 hits and 1361 visits this month <3
98% of visitors use windows, 87% use IE, 9% use firefox, 31% arrived via a bookmark, 7% via a search engine and 61% via links
The anti hotlinking picture no.png was displayed 26711 times! (That's how many times images were direct linked from suppi.net)
Examples of page stealers: (feel free to flame them because direct linking stinks)
¤ http://www.freewebs.com/pocketstarlight/avatars.htm (whole avatar page!)
¤ http://planet.nana.co.il/yeela92/4.htm (whole blinkiemaker!)
¤ http://paginas.terra.com.br/lazer/webmistress/buttonmaker.htm (whole button maker page!)
¤ http://www.beepworld.de/members87/hakira-chan/index.htm (just a few blinkie props)

Current to do list:
- Oekaki contest: male angels
- New video clips (Yue/Yukito, Ep61 Syaoran interrupted again, Ep63 Syaoran falls in the pool)
- Screencap Ep07 of Tsubasa


icon24th of May
Two lovely gift link buttons from Mazzie <3 (see Links- the top round button on the interface)
Fixed the sign up on shadow-wings forums/galleries ^^;
Added Tsubasa pictures (manga + anime) to their own gallery (see images)
To do list:
- Organize "Male Angels" contest on shadow-wings oekaki boards
- Reply to very special emails (I love you guys, you are my own personal angels). Inbox status: 4 important, 5 site related.
- Finish downloading and then screencap Tsubasa episode 07
- I might even write a little Tsubasa page with who is who (main characters) and tiny episode summaries (but it would be very simplified with few details) so that the people following the screencaps have a little idea of what's going on. ^^; The story is not very complicated so far...
Does that make SLG a Tsubasa site now? Nah. I'm not dedicated to finishing the whole series, just providing a bit of info
FYI I havn't been screencapping the battle scenes which I find a bit pointless so here's what you've been missing: Syaoran fights using a wolf firey spirit that sends out fireballs, Fai has a big bird that makes him fly and Kurogane has a dragon that turns into a sword (Fai is the blonde and Kurogane the dark). They are called Kudan (a clamp invented word) and are sort of magical powers. A battle consists of long focuses on the two rival characters eyes as they concentrate and/or are angry... then various flashes, explosions, laser beams, power balls or whatever you want to call them.... then.... more "determined eye" shots! =p Well at least they don't call out the name of the attack ^^; and each person's kudan is unique with different powers. The screencaps of these come out as just eyes and blurry light flashes so I don't think it's worth it *grins*
See you tomorrow. I'm finished for today. Huggles


icon21-22nd of May
New Tsubasa Screencaptures:
[+] Episode 04. "The Untarnished Wanderer"
[+] Episode 05. "The Magician's Battle"
[+] Episode 06. "Uncried Tears"
New adoptable sprites in the fun section!
Redone the sleep card doll:<
By request: Clip from Episode 59, Syaoran tries to tell Sakura his feelings but is interrupted (see the media folder)
Also added preview thumbnails for most of the video clips in the media folder
22nd May update: New fanfiction by Liam: One More Thing! Check it out in the fansection.
Ok that's all for today - I'm taking my sunday off ^_^. Its wierd but creating screencaps is so much easier than replying to emails ^^; I get serious writers block T_T. Anyhow... sending out special hugs to my friends! *glomps you*.


icon20th of May
New tutorial at webbie.suppi.net: How to create your own phpbb theme.
New tutorial at shadow-wings.net: How an Oekaki works (admin functions etc)
Update: Mazzie and Casdi have recieved their packages.
To do list
- Add new fanfic
- Organize shadow-wings new contest (theme: male angels)
- Set up shadow-wings forum currency
- Write an explanation of what's going on IRL for me for my friends (offline and online) and translate it into french


icon18th + 19th of May
Updates at: Shadow-wings (the forums), Webbie (new affy + tutorial), Guestbook replies.
Favorite moment book for Meilin archived (see sitey)

PS: To all those wondering, the prize parcels were sent out on the 30th of april (*): They are small brown packages sealed with massive amounts of brown tape =p. But I think it's going to take some time for them to get to the US, New Zealand or Australia as they were not sent fist class. (* except for Jen who's package was sent later) Mazzie has recieved hers but she's the only one living in Europe out of the prize winners. www.laposte.fr say to count ten days for international postings (+ customs + various strikes we've had over here in France) T_T. Please let me know when you get your packages!


icon12th of May
Shadow-wings code updates and many new images added to the user galleries
Favorite moment books (Syaoran and Sakura+Syaoran) archived (see sitey)
New beautiful fanart by FaShAn (see fans)


icon7th of May
Updates:
Episodes 02 and 03 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle have been screencapped. Sorry for the long wait, I've been busy elsewhere and I had to do them twice since I forgot to untick "show cursor" and they all had arrows in the midde *cries*
I'm using a new screencapping program (freeware of course) called FGWndGrab - wierd name but it's tiny, it works like a dream and now I screencap + save in one click. As usual the videos were downloaded with Bittorrent, read in Virtual Dub and watermarked (faint SLG letters added to the bottom right corner) with Picture Shark (all freeware) <3
Stats: 91 images of approx 700*400px taking up 2.7MO of space. Please go to the page to view them. Enjoy ^^.
If you appreciate the screencaps, please comment and let me know or support us by linking back to SLG or dropping a dollar in the
paypal account (saffykins AT suppi.net)
Shadow-wings.net (the screencaps host) is currently with surpasshosting.com's standard plan at 5$/month: hosting the SW oekaki boards/forum/galleries, also hosting Cindy's website (Cardcaptors Cosmos) and some media files for Ruka (Kawaii Sakura Shrine). We're within the bandwidth limits for the moment so it's ok and I'm managing to finance it each month by doing pay per click emails but I don't want to have to close anything down to make space for tons of screencaps: they are not my personal priority.
Voilà so if any of you are really interested in getting the Tsubasa series screencaps after episode 5, I'll need somewhere else to put them.
I might open up the "pocket money web shop" again in the summer to earn some money towards a bandwidth upgrade... to be able to host other friends and projects. *LOL* I spent April's pocket money on the contest parcels and May's on the Depeche Mode remixes triple album (I get about 12€=15$) *grins*... Has anyone recieved their package yet?
Ok, I'm off to check my emails and dailies. I spend too much time for my own good on b/, laughing ^_^; must get real stuff done instead =p


icon2nd of May
Job list:
-Screencap Tsubasa 02 and 03 (this will take at least an hour each)
-Create sig/avatar set for Izzy and Jen
-Reply to Shipuh's oekaki-emails ^^; *late*
-Reply to emails dating back to early february in my inbox *sweatdrops*
-Add a little notice "how to download Tsubasa episodes" to the media section (probably on the forum)

Updates:
Loads of new content to the fansection (see fans) Note: I did this a few days ago but wasn't able to upload due to bandwidth issues.
Created + uploaded video clip of Episode 53 (see media)
Archived aprils updates and the 2005 contest (see sitey)
Ran a link check on http://webbie.suppi.net/alinks.html, http://blinkie.suppi.net/links.html, http://shadow-wings.net/about.php, http://suppi.net/xqbee/index.html, http://suppi.net/slg/joined/toybox.html, http://suppi.net/slg/joined/index.html, http://suppi.net/slg/joined/fanlists.html and finally http://suppi.net/slg/links.html. It's taken me 1h30 to delete and correct links ^^;

I've got some sort of little virus and have just started back on my treatment (see past blogs on the subject for more info). The first week is always rough so I'm usually ok on media creation but absolutely hopeless at writing and replying (it's harder- with screencapping or video creation, I just do a set of automated repetitive clicks over half hour to an hour but writing involves actual brain power and right now I have the IQ of a potato)
hugs to all