Computer questions you'd be embarrassed to ask any where else!

5uspect wrote: »

It's a way to share photos taken with your phone. It's now owned by FaceBook so there's some overlap but isn't quite the same thing. Unlike Flickr where you edit your pictures (say from a dSLR) anyway you want (photoshop etc), Instagram typically uses simple filters and frames which make your pictures look like old Polaroid pictures. So if you install the Instagram app and sign in with FaceBook you can take pictures, add a fancy filter and then all your friends can see them. You can comment on pictures etc.

So in FaceBook you have a page and a news feed.
In Flickr you share photos, typically high quality and is popular with amateur photographers.
In Instagram you take fun stylised phone photos with Facebook style comments.

Thanks 5uspect, had to mull over that for a while but think I got that now. If you hang around here we might give you a pet name. I might just call you '5', with your permission of course.

BrensBenz wrote: »

Muffler, I've been offended by experts and have survived, so you'll have to try much, much harder to offend me!

I like it! May I borrow it?

Some time ago, I had exchanges with Boards "Help" on the issue of (guess what) attaching photos to Boards. It was like swimming in cut and pasted, jargon-rich treacle! Eventually, we came to a simple process (which now doesn't work) but no revision of "Help" was performed. It's still written in Middle Nerdish and there is no apparent wish to improve it.

This may (or may not) help. It's a bit nerdy but it should work. Hit 'Reply' or 'New post'. A box comes up for you to type in. Say what you have to say. Now you want to add a picture. (Remember, however, that some parts of boards.ie - After Hours, I think, may be one - don't allow you to add pictures.) Anyway. Assuming you're in a picture-allowed forum, bo down to the 'Manage Attachments' button - it's down below the 'Submit Reply' button.

Click on 'Manage Attachments'. You'll see a line saying 'Upload file from your computer', and below that a button saying 'Choose file'.

Click 'Choose File'. It will show you the stuff that's on your computer. Find your photo wherever it is on your computer - on the Desktop, in the Downloads, in your Pictures folder… Cllick on it to select it. Click the 'Choose' button. You'll be back in the 'Choose File' dialogue. Now scoot over to the far right of this, and you'll see a button called 'Upload'. Click that, and then go down to the bottom and click the 'Close this Window' button.

The one that people usually miss is that hinky 'Upload' button, which is in a very non-obvious place.

Now you're back to your basic forum field. Click 'Submit Reply' as normal.

This is where it gets totally silly. Your reply comes up with the name of the file shown - a filename ending in .jpg

This is a hypertext link leading to where Boards has stored the file on its own server.

If you now want the photo to appear in the actual reply, so people see it without having to click that link, here's what you do: you click on that link yourself, and when the image opens, copy the address from the address bar. (A shortcut to do this is ctrl-L then ctrl-C on a PC or cmd-L then cmd-C on a Mac.)

Now you go back to your post, click 'Edit' and paste that link in, putting [ IMG ] before it (without the spaces - the square brackets should sit into the IMG), and [ /IMG ] after it (ditto with the spaces). Click 'Submit Reply' again, and your reply should now show with the image in it.

Why this can't be automated so your images automatically show once you've uploaded them I can't imagine, but then I'm not a programmer; maybe it's harder than nuclear physics to automate it.

I hope this is reasonably clear.

You're very welcome, looksee. It's actually not that hard when you get used to it - I just made sure every button and instruction was clear. Short version:

Go to Manage Files
Upload your photo
Close window
Submit reply
Click on link
Ctrl-L then Ctrl-C in new window
Close window
Ctrl-V in posting
Add IMG and /IMG tags in square brackets before and after link
Submit Reply again.

LadyAthame wrote: »

Audio has not been working ..anytime I try to click it is says audio not installed...there was malware or something trying to put ads into sites that were not there but my brother got rid of it and now no audio....?? Re-install windows???

Or is there another way?? Also big blank spaces come up and youtube was not working for a bit.

Audio isn't working for playing CDs or for browsing? If browsing, try a different browser - Chrome, say, or Opera.

If for playing CDs, try it and see if you can play online audio.

If nothing's working, it's more likely to be a hardware problem. You could turn off your computer, unplug and (if not a laptop) open it up and resettle the sound card (the one with the sound jacks at the end facing out of the case) into its slot.

While you're at it, point the hoover tube at the fans and give a quick suck - don't let the tube touch anything, but suck out the dust). Now close everything up, plug everything in and see if that works. If not, you may need a new sound card.

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Edit - Where do these big blank spaces come up?

YouTube won't work if you don't have something - Java? - installed to work with your browser.

Could be, but I have adblock plus on one browser and amn't seeing spaces.

In relation to the sound, a quick google hasn't found references to adblock affecting audio.

fatherted1969 wrote: »

Samsung galaxy s2 needs to update to kitkat 4.4 whatever that means. Is there an easy way of doing this. The instructions on google make it look ridiculously hard. Help would be appreciated

Bring it to the phone shop and apply lavish praise and a couple of cupcakes in thanks to the youth who will purr as he shows how intelligent he is.

renegademaster wrote: »

while you're at it, don't recommend someone intentionally creates loads of static within a laptop, the preferred method to cleaning out dust is to oepn the machine and use condensed air in a can

Pointing the hoover hose and not touching anything with it, as I warned, will not introduce static; incidentally, if you read my post carefully I say not to open up a laptop.

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

I have unfortunately just deleted a whole folder of bookmarked internet sites. Don't suppose there is a magic formula for getting them back??

which browser?

This link covers the two big boys, chrome and firefox anyway if it's one of them.

Edit: Posted same time, try that^^ anyway and see how it goes.

Steve wrote: »

Have you looked in recycle bin?

*edit* what _Tombstone_ said..

Yes. Not there.