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

To get back on topic, is it possible to have a desktop computer with better internet connection speed than the normal land line gives you?

DeVore wrote: »

Rubecula, when you ring the, up tell the, you are going to end your account prematurely and move to another provider because the quality of broadband is so poor as to make them be in breach of contract for service. If they give you any grief, tell them you will report it to OFCOM. If they offer to help, have the, check your line there and then and explain why it's so poor. If they can't fix it in a week or two, tell them you consider the contract unfulfilled and thus null and void and make sure they concur so that they agree to not charge you any more and not report you for bad credit.
This is legit, you are fully entitled not to be bound by a contract which is not fulfilling its end of the bargain.

Btw, those satellite connections are fine for browsing and mail etc, but not great for fast interactive games machines like XBOX or PS3 when playing multiplayer online.

DeV.

Many many thanks for that.

Godsentme wrote: »

Can we start a thread about basic facebook soon?:o

By the time you've grasped the basics of Facebork they'll have changed the format again.

I've found the best way to handle it is to never accept 'friend' requests from anyone you've not had dinner with or met at least 6 times.

Never 'Like' things just because people are in a competation and "might win!"
Never 'Like' pages that you actually can't be arsed reading.
If you 'Like' stuff just for the sake of it you'll just be blitzed with ****e forevermore. There is a deplorable thing happening at the moment with the spewspapers. Friends link to articles but you can't read the article without 'Like'ing the page and allowing that vender access to all your contacts. Feck off I say!

Edit your privicy settings to make everything innaccessable except to your 'Friends'. Don't be afraid to delete people who spam you with crap.

Do periodic culls of 'Friends' - delete the deadwood.

The 'Hide' function is the best tool on Facebork. Use it when people keep asking you to feed their mafia on the farm or stab dragons or whatever the newest craze is.


Set up two accounts. One for family and one for friends. Never cross the posting over both accounts. This means you can get up to shinnanigams that you family won't give you grief over and your friends won't be bored to tears with your ramblings to Great Aunty June.

After all that I actually like Facebork and find it is really useful to keep in touch with people.

Not like an update? Click the top right of the "box", and click "Hide all by (page)". See below for an exacmple:



Or you can go into the page, and "unlike" it, so you don't get any more updates. See below.



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The difference between the two is that you may want to "like" a pub, but you don't want to get see all the spam they send you, so you just hide all of their messages. If you suddenly don't like the pub, you can just "unlike" the page.

copy the url address of the image you want to paste,

then click on your reply to post button

above the text box you will see an icon of two mountains and a sun, its 8th from the right, click on it, and a pop up box will appear

paste your copied url into that and carry on as normal:)

Nearly there Chucken.
When you open the Img box there is already an 'HTTP://' there. Delete that first and then paste your link in. Your previous post has the HTTP:// bit of the link in twice.

chucken1 wrote: »

Google images.

First, pick a picture...



...and click it (I picked the top left picture). When it goes into the website, right-click the picture and copy the images address, like so;



If you right click the image from the first image, you'll get the goggblygook that you got, which boards.ie doesn't see as a valid image, and thus won't show it.

IMPORTANT - make sure the picture is small. 1024 * 768 is very big. Try to make sure the biggest size on one side is 800, so it's not gigantic.

When I do that I get a page of images. One of them is the Eiffel Tower. Click on that one.
You get taken to a webpage. At the top of the page there is a link for "Do you want to see the full size of the picture" or words to that effect. Click on that and you get to a nice clean page with just the picture on it.

Highlight the link in the address.
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/eiffel-tower-picture.jpg

Then put that between the image tags like so...

[noparse][/noparse]

Include that in your comment and it should post the picture of the tower.

psychward wrote: »

Looks like a friendly thread here and I'm fairly new to boards so tend to get lost in the many help sections

My problem is in embedding images in a post. I have tried the [ img ] [ /img ] tags in upper and lower case yet it very rarely works and mostly just appears as a link instead of a picture. Is there something wrong with particular images which stops them from appearing the correct way in a thread ? I read as much advice as I could find and it just seems that the result is random for me at least.

hello

when you click on the image icon and the pop up appears

make sure you delete the http:// at the begining of the box, then paste your url including the http:// for it.


ie the pop up puts in a http:// automatically and you dont need two