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  • #252
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    That's just choice Chuckie! I can just see yer kids rollin' their eyes! I get that all the time. :D:rolleyes:


  • #253
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    yes, no 10 in the most asked questions "just add your add your URL address " what?
    how do i get the photos to open, all i get is attachment which people have to click on to see it,
    not as easy as adverts ,i just click on the photo for my adds, and bingo!
    cant do it on boards!


  • #254
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    nig1 wrote: »
    yes, no 10 in the most asked questions "just add your add your URL address " what?
    how do i get the photos to open, all i get is attachment which people have to click on to see it,
    not as easy as adverts ,i just click on the photo for my adds, and bingo!
    cant do it on boards!
    URL is the address of the page/thing you want to link, so this page is http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056400156&page=17

    Scroll up to the top and you'll see it in your address bar ^^^.


    You want to link pics from you computer is it? You have to attach them first using the paperclip icon attach.gifwhen your writing you post. Find and upload your pic and a link will appear in that Manage Attachments window, click that to open the pic and you'll have your URL to link to using insertimage.gif.

    If this is jibberish to read back I'll throw up a few pics for ya. You can test out doing in the test Forum.


  • #255
    christmas2010
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭christmas2010


    Looking for a bit of advice on how to store photos. I have a few thousand family photos at this stage.
    I need to take them off my laptop as they're slowing it down. I have them on an external hard drive but would like them somewhere else as well due to huge sentimental value

    I'm told I should store them on a cloud system but am a bit vague about that. Any help or suggestions appreciated. Thanks


  • #256
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    How many GBs you talking? What size is it?

    Edit:Here's a good list of few free ones, it's not even an exhaustive list either, theirs more of them.

    Referral Thread
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    Paid option from Currys
    Paid option from Carbonite (unlimited size)


  • #257
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    In case anybody is wondering ,what the f... is this , i just uploaded my first picture thanks to RUCKING FETARD. thanks
    (not that straightforward)

    Mod Edit: I deleted your picture post. There is a Test forum (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=361) for testing.


  • #258
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    ^^^Well Done! Their is abit to it alright till you get the hang of it.

    I linked to a tool a few pages back http://myimgur.tk/ that you could try out aswell, same principal really, you upload to imgur instead and then link back here.

    Biggest benefit is you have more control of the pics, after two days if you want to delete a pic you upload onto Boards (or somewhere else), you'll need a Mod to do it, by uploading it to an imgur account if you delete it from there, it goes from here aswell.


  • #259
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    If you want to resize a pic, this is the thing! Can be a bit slow but very handy.

    http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/


  • #260
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,255 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    christmas2010 wrote: »
    Looking for a bit of advice on how to store photos. I have a few thousand family photos at this stage.
    I need to take them off my laptop as they're slowing it down. I have them on an external hard drive but would like them somewhere else as well due to huge sentimental value

    I'm told I should store them on a cloud system but am a bit vague about that. Any help or suggestions appreciated. Thanks

    using cloud storage basically means that you can upload your photo's, files etc. to the website/provider and be able to view/download them from any computer you have internet access on.
    So you could put your photo's on it, go to someone house use their computer & show them your photos without bringing your laptop.

    There are a lot of free cloud storage providers such as Dropbox or you could already have access to cloud storage with your email account, these will save you the bother of creating a new account on a different website too if you don't like doing that.

    if you use gmail you'll have access to google drive which gives you 5GB free storage or if you're using hotmail you'll have access to SkyDrive which gives new users 7GB free i think.

    You could also buy a flash drive (USB key/pen) and store them on that


    Why do you think they're slowing down your laptop?
    I'd say it's something else rather than the photo's that's the cause of it, if the capacity of your hard drive is quite full >70% you should defrag it


  • #261
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Here's a question .I was looking at the metal bits on an sd card and wondered how the information held or stored ?A dvd is a groove with a burn mark on it but metal has me really puzzled .Does the information stay as what and as binary numbers which are abstract .What is the mark on the metal that is the information .


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  • #262
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    SD cards are made up of NAND chips, NAND being a type of logic gate. An explanation of logic gates and their operation is a bit beyond the goals of this thread. A concise synopsis of their operation is here and for a more complete explanation you should try asking in the Computers and Technology forum.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #263
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    can someone tell me in simple language how to scan a photo to my computer. I've googled it, but they assume you know so much already, that I get lost in jargon. They do my head!


  • #264
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    When you say scan, are you talking about a printed photograph and using a scanner?

    That varies slightly with the scanner you are using, but generally if you put the photo face down on the scanner glass and switch the machine on you will get detailed instructions of how to do it. Tell us what kind of set up - scanner etc, you have, or what exactly you are trying to do.


  • #265
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    looksee wrote: »
    When you say scan, are you talking about a printed photograph and using a scanner?

    That varies slightly with the scanner you are using, but generally if you put the photo face down on the scanner glass and switch the machine on you will get detailed instructions of how to do it. Tell us what kind of set up - scanner etc, you have, or what exactly you are trying to do.

    Thanks L/S, its a hp deskjet1050 I just want to scan photos on to a file


  • #266
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    This is going to be a bit difficult, remembering all the options without being able to see what is happening! If anyone wants to get involved please do so.

    So can we assume that you have the scanner plugged into power, and also you have a cable between the computer and the scanner.

    Then press the power button and you should get signs of life.

    I have just typed a load of instructions, then it occurred to me to check the actual manual which is here http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02227094.pdf

    Click 'print and scan' and get the info on pages 25 and 26.

    Now, if you have got that far and you are still stuck, can you tell us exactly what you are stuck on? Otherwise it will seem more complicated than it need be.


  • #267
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Can anyone on my friends list delete a photo on my page? on facebook


  • #268
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,255 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    poppyvally wrote: »
    Can anyone on my friends list delete a photo on my page? on facebook

    if you posted the photo then no.


  • #269
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Microsoft Security Essentials has been on my pc for many months and doing a great job but i've noticed it has'nt been doing auto.update on start-up (config.) so i've re-installed it and waiting ....thought others might have this problem .


  • #270
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    paddyandy wrote: »
    Microsoft Security Essentials has been on my pc for many months and doing a great job but i've noticed it has'nt been doing auto.update on start-up (config.) so i've re-installed it and waiting ....thought others might have this problem .
    Same, every now and then it needed a reinstall for some reason.

    Giving Avast a go at the min.


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  • #271
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    RUCKING FETARD wrote: »
    Same, every now and then it needed a reinstall for some reason.

    Giving Avast a go at the min.

    It's not auto updating at start up having been re-installed .I'll leave it and see if it will though;sometimes things sort themselves out somehow .


  • #272
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    paddyandy wrote: »
    It's not auto updating at start up having been re-installed .I'll leave it and see if it will though;sometimes things sort themselves out somehow .
    Do you use sleep or hibernate alot? That can mess with automatic updates, see it in other programs.

    Delete it again, run CCleaner, restart and reinstall.


  • #273
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    RUCKING FETARD wrote: »
    Do you use sleep or hibernate alot? That can mess with automatic updates, see it in other programs.

    Delete it again, run CCleaner, restart and reinstall.

    I use sleep every day thanks,,,new one here .Every Sunday i back everything new on to an external hard drive and rarely any problem but today it was taking much longer than usual .Never much to back on to hd but today nearly 8 gigs .Usually 300mb -+.5 year old laptop .
    Is there a tool to id dublicating that i can run or is this a long haul ? Thanks again .


  • #274
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    paddyandy wrote: »
    Every Sunday i back everything new on to an external hard drive and rarely any problem but today it was taking much longer than usual .Never much to back on to hd but today nearly 8 gigs .Usually 300mb -+.5 year old laptop .
    Is there a tool to id dublicating that i can run or is this a long haul ? Thanks again .
    OOh, not something I ever do.

    What do you back up and what do you use to do it? Their are tools for finding duplicate pics alright but I don't know I'd trust them on important stuff.

    7GB isin't much to go through....unless it's alot of really small stuff.


  • #275
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    It seems to be a lot of small stuff and i was thinking there is a tool maybe .8gigs is a lot when there is not a lot of room left .Surely the programs are not being copied .Sorry i feel i'm taking too much of your time i'll have a chat in the pc shop .Thanks very much again .


  • #276
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    paddyandy wrote: »
    It seems to be a lot of small stuff and i was thinking there is a tool maybe .8gigs is a lot when there is not a lot of room left .Surely the programs are not being copied .Sorry i feel i'm taking too much of your time i'll have a chat in the pc shop .Thanks very much again .
    Oh, you're not wasting my time, impossible to know what it did without looking at/going through it is the only thing, especially since you use it the whole time and it messed up outta the blue.

    Easeus and Acronis are the two better tools for backup, both use to be free but not anymore.

    Freefilesync looks nice and handy as an alternative. Few others in that link aswell.


    Edit: Start a thread in com & tech and someone may be able to advise you better, some regular scholars knocking round there.


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  • #277
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    http://www.iobit.com/tbdownload-promo.html
    This is one of the best things i ever downloaded on my computer. I've had 2 laptops and 3 desktops and have or had it on all of them. Once downloaded it has many easy to use sections. Including an empty folder scan which lets you delete empty folders. It has a duplicate scanner to show you duplicates and you can delete them if you please.
    Absolutely brilliant easy to use programme. So easy that i put it on my mothers laptop and she can use it and she is useless with computers.


    This is a reply to paddyandy's post's #273 and #275.


  • #278
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,464 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    ken wrote: »
    http://www.iobit.com/tbdownload-promo.html
    This is one of the best things i ever downloaded on my computer. I've had 2 laptops and 3 desktops and have or had it on all of them. Once downloaded it has many easy to use sections. Including an empty folder scan which lets you delete empty folders. It has a duplicate scanner to show you duplicates and you can delete them if you please.
    Absolutely brilliant easy to use programme. So easy that i put it on my mothers laptop and she can use it and she is useless with computers.


    This is a reply to paddyandy's post's #273 and #275.

    Free or paid version?


  • #279
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    ken wrote: »
    It has a duplicate scanner to show you duplicates and you can delete them if you please.
    Have you tried this?

    Was looking and their's lots of duplicate finders around but I couldn't recommend or trust any till I through it at a folder myself with a thousand or so files/different filetypes to make sure it doesn't feck it up.

    Auslogics-Duplicate-File-Finder
    Duplicate Cleaner
    Alldup

    FreeFileSync (from above) looks to do it aswell though through a comparison with two folders.


  • #280
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Free version and yes i have used it myself. The only downside is you have to delete the files one by one.


  • #281
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    I've not examined the details of the 8 gigs it's contents yet .thanks everybody .
    Happened outa the blue right enough and i rarely have problems .


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  • #282
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Thank you Looksee , I can now successfully Scan, straighten, & crop & then put it in to my photo skip..and even put it up on facebook. You have to have a persistance for this type of thing.


  • #283
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    poppyvally wrote: »
    Thank you Looksee , I can now successfully Scan, straighten, & crop & then put it in to my photo skip..and even put it up on facebook. You have to have a persistance for this type of thing.
    More advanced so for ya :p

    Ah no, few good tips there.


  • #284
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You're welcome Poppy, tho I don't know that I did much!

    Mod: Just looking through this thread and it is sneaking off in slightly obscure directions at times. Could you have your rather more tecky discussions on one of the computer forums and leave this one for the newbies who are just dipping in their toes? At the same time, thanks for your helpful replies. Cheers.


  • #285
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Great thread !


  • #286
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    The old problem has raised it's ugly head again. Computer is running slow. I can't actually see why though. My desktop icons are sometimes vanishing slowly before blinking back onto the screen. Must be a hidden programme running somewhere I suppose but I can't find it.


  • #287
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    Rubecula wrote: »
    The old problem has raised it's ugly head again. Computer is running slow. I can't actually see why though. My desktop icons are sometimes vanishing slowly before blinking back onto the screen. Must be a hidden programme running somewhere I suppose but I can't find it.
    How old is your computer? Windows XP, yea?

    How long since you reinstalled your windows? Do you have the disc to reinstall it if you wanted?

    How much ram have ya, run this scanner and it'll tell you how much and the type it is and how much you can have in total, if you only have like 1GB getting more would speed things up big time.

    How many icons have you on your Desktop? The whole screen isin't full of them by any chance?


    Run Malwarebytes and CCleaner first anyway and see if that helps it.


  • #288
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I am interested in your comment about icons on the desktop - I have loads but they are all just links, I was under the impression that these were ok? I also have some odd documents, not that many, but still there are a few.


  • #289
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    When i try to email some departments it offers up outlook with their email which when i try to send goes in to my old dial up connection,how do i set this up so I can use this service and when i have taken their email of this and sent it through my gmail would they have recieved the email?I am xp.


  • #290
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    looksee wrote: »
    I am interested in your comment about icons on the desktop - I have loads but they are all just links, I was under the impression that these were ok? I also have some odd documents, not that many, but still there are a few.
    Ah yea, it's fine, on older tech though (if it's not a virus doing it) you can have stuff disappearing on the desktop because the computer is running low on icon cache memory-->needs more RAM.

    Creating a folder and putting everything on the desktop into it is a handy fix, nice to have a fairly clean desktop. Stick a nice pic on it.:)


  • #291
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I looked at some of those 'documents' I mentioned and there were actually several folders full of photographs :o So I moved them, and thinned out a lot of the other stuff...and, well, there was a lot more rubbish than I realised. It has speeded things up a bit I think!


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  • #292
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    looksee wrote: »
    I looked at some of those 'documents' I mentioned and there were actually several folders full of photographs :o So I moved them, and thinned out a lot of the other stuff...and, well, there was a lot more rubbish than I realised. It has speeded things up a bit I think!
    Cleaner Desktop will make computer turn on abit quicker alright.


  • #293
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    I'm so proud of myself! I got rid of "Godvine" on my f/b page. My mentor gave up in despair but I kept at it and at it. God only knows what went "viral" in my efforts to get rid of the er....unwanted thing. It's gone. I just didint want to seem like a christian enthusiast( for want of a better word)


  • #294
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Why do some of my photos disappear of my facebook album. I'ts so annoying. Am I doing something wrong? Does it happen to anyone else?


  • #295
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    “Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal.dot. Do you want to save those changes? Yes/No/Cancel”

    This message crops up sometimes and I don't know why. As far as I'm concerned I haven't made any changes at all. I usually click 'no' but haven't a clue what this means.


  • #296
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    The Normal.dot file is a Word file, a template for your Microsoft Word default page layout. Say you always want to use a given header or a different font you would save that change to the Normal.dot file and that would then become your default.

    Edit: Link on how to remove the normal.dot. When you remove/rename the file Word should create a new blank template.
    http://resources.marshalladulteducation.org/techtips/techtip72.htm

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #297
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    I havent been on boards for a couple of months - but I remember user would have a profile image- is this gone? I can only see user names and location and other info- no image:(


  • #298
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    poppyvally wrote: »
    Why do some of my photos disappear of my facebook album. I'ts so annoying. Am I doing something wrong? Does it happen to anyone else?
    Extremely seldom that I use it...ask here.
    Red Hare wrote: »
    I havent been on boards for a couple of months - but I remember user would have a profile image- is this gone? I can only see user names and location and other info- no image:(
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/profile.php?do=editoptions

    Scroll down till you see

    6034073

    ^^^Tick those boxes.


  • #299
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    The Normal.dot file is a Word file, a template for your Microsoft Word default page layout. Say you always want to use a given header or a different font you would save that change to the Normal.dot file and that would then become your default.

    Edit: Link on how to remove the normal.dot. When you remove/rename the file Word should create a new blank template.
    http://resources.marshalladulteducation.org/techtips/techtip72.htm


    Ah, I thought I might have done something catastrophic but thank you so much for that. I understand it now. I wish everyone would explain things as clearly as that. I am not really doopid! :)


  • #300
    Ramette
    Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Ramette


    People that i have sent emails to are getting emails supposedly from my email but i am not sending them... i deleted my address book and i did a scan with MacFee and nothing showed up but these fake emails are still sending. Am terrified someone will end up with a virus from these fake mails (they link to website pages) I dont want to close my email account - is there anything i can do to stop them? thanks


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  • #301
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,255 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    Ramette wrote: »
    People that i have sent emails to are getting emails supposedly from my email but i am not sending them... i deleted my address book and i did a scan with MacFee and nothing showed up but these fake emails are still sending. Am terrified someone will end up with a virus from these fake mails (they link to website pages) I dont want to close my email account - is there anything i can do to stop them? thanks

    it'd be somebody has gotten your password for your email account rather than something on your computer.

    for starters:

    change the password on that email account now

    change any passwords for other sites that are the same as your email password now

    if your email is gmail you may be able to see where/what IP address has being accessing the account - i think so anyway, then you can figure out if somebody has gotten access to your email. Hotmail don't offer this though


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