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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

*Hello anyone reading this:

Did you notice my funky new avatar?  I love it.  However, I was hoping to use it later, and put up a Halloween avatar for the month of October.

I've visited at least 5 large web sites with Halloween avatars but -- unlike the avatar site I've used for my current and two most previous avatars -- apparently one must "right click" on the image and "save as" for the avatars featured at those sites. 

That's nice, but what do I do after "save as" -- ??  And would that even work HERE, considering a web page link has to be typed in at the Avatar Options section??

Please help a little lady across the cyberstreet!!!  {{ENORMOUS PLEADING EYES WELLING WITH TEARS}}

Thanks! 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Phobos

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Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

That's nice, but what do I do after "save as" -- ??  And would that even work HERE, considering a web page link has to be typed in at the Avatar Options section??

It works here.  Are you having trouble finding the image on your harddrive?  If you are, right click the avatar again and take note of which directory its in.  If your just using default settings it should be "my documents" under "my pictures."  Or you can just take note of the name of the file and use the "find" feature (found by pressing the "start" key in the lower left corner of your screen) to locate it.  If there's some weird technical problem keeping you from saving it, I saved it for you.  When you want it just yell and I'll send it yer way.

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Palomar

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Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

Phobos:  It works here.  Are you having trouble finding the image on your harddrive? 

*Yes. 

If you are, right click the avatar again and take note of which directory its in.  If your just using default settings it should be "my documents" under "my pictures."  Or you can just take note of the name of the file and use the "find" feature (found by pressing the "start" key in the lower left corner of your screen) to locate it. 

*Okay.  Will try again tomorrow (it's getting late here, and I'll need to revisit that one particular web site).

If there's some weird technical problem keeping you from saving it, I saved it for you.  When you want it just yell and I'll send it yer way.

*You are so sweet!    Thanks!

Hopefully I can get it right tomorrow...

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

*Well, I managed to get the image I want saved under "My Documents" and "My Pictures" as:

C:\My Documents\My Pictures\ghostandpumpkin.gif

But when I go to enter that into the "my avatar" option for this message board, I get an error.  I'm lost.  ???

I am also able to find it using "Find" with the "Start" key, as you mentioned. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

Hi Cindy. Upload it to www.ranchoweb.com

You can't give a direct hard drive link to the image, you have to put in a URL. So the image has to be accessable on the web somewhere.

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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

Hi Cindy. Upload it to www.ranchoweb.com

You can't give a direct hard drive link to the image, you have to put in a URL. So the image has to be accessable on the web somewhere.

*Thanks Josh, I got it!   

There's no stopping me now!! 

Thanks so much, Phobos and Josh.  I appreciate the help!

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

Cute.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

PaganToris

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Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

ahhh yes nice avatar as mine i was at home messing around with some friends when i said hey I need a avatar for my new mars post so as i was messing ariund with phobos and as u see he is trying to cut off my head
PHOBOS MEMBER MY DEAMON RAT

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Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

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Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

Hehe! You and Phobos are friends? That's awesome. I need to get my brother posting here.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

Palomar

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From: USA

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Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

so as i was messing ariund with phobos and as u see he is trying to cut off my head

*Phobos, whatever you do next, please DON'T hand that ax over to my debating nemesis! 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Phobos

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Posts: 1,103

Re: Help please...pretty please?? - Near-computer illiterate lady needs help

*Phobos, whatever you do next, please DON'T hand that ax over to my debating nemesis! 

--Cindy

Well, the axe might get turned over to your debating nemesis but he'll have to pull it out of his head first.

Hehe! You and Phobos are friends? That's awesome. I need to get my brother posting here.

Hey go for it!  Hopefully he won't start babbling about Eskimos on Pluto.   If he does I'll loan you my axe.

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