A Different Way to Post Pics on the Zone
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I mentioned recently that I was planning to make a tutorial for a faster, less clunky way to post pics on the Zone. As I got started with that, it occurred to me that a text tutorial might not be the most efficient way to go. So, in lieu of that, what I'd like to do is offer a tutorial through a Zoom session that I'm thinking will take about 5-10 minutes.
If you'd like a Zoom tutorial, shoot me an email with some days and times you're available, and we'll figure out a time that works for both of us. My email address is in my profile.
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MeditateontheQ
That is a really kind way to
That is a really kind way to donate your time, Mike.
I always thought that a series of screenshots with markups could be helpful.
No spot taken -- but if you scheduled it for a larger group, that would no doubt be a fun session.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
I'm gonna keep posting pics
I'm gonna keep posting pics the old way.... it's easy. Ya click the little picture fame thingy, ya wait, ya click the little spot on the screen, ya wait, ya click the little button, ya wait, you go get your picture, you click the other little button, ya click the other little spot on the screen, ya wait, you click the other little spot on the screen ----- presto!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank
lol @ Alan. Yeah, it's all
lol @ Alan. Yeah, it's all those ya waits that were killing me.
Thanks, LLOLLO, but the truth is that when I estimated how much time it would take me to do screen shots and mark everything up, it occurred to me that doing one-on-one Zoom sessions with a few Zoners would just be faster. Also, I don't know about other folks, but my eyes tend to roll up in my head when I'm reading a text tutorial, and I usually have some questions that the tutorial doesn't address. I think teaching people how to do this in a quick Zoom session will be more satisfying for everyone involved.
Anyways, the long and short of this different way is to upload your pic to a free site like imgur.com and then link it using Viva's source code editor; I can usually get a pic posted in well under a minute that way. Of course, you might be someone who likes the ya waits, but that's not me.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Strangha
Alan don't forget when you
Alan don't forget when you download, if one goes to the lower right corner, hold your finger down on your cursor on that little black box, move it diagonally up and left and you can make pics smaller.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
You forgot the step where you
You forgot the step where you have to shrink the image size.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank
That's another reason I like
That's another reason I like this new way, BK. You can resize the image with a simple bit of code.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: doctor
IN ADD A MESSAGE click on
IN ADD A MESSAGE click on green tv with golden frame
wait a few seconds
Hit upload
Hit choose file
Pick which PIC you want to upload from your downloads and rhen click Open..
Then click Upload
Then click on pic
Then click again and scroll down and hit submit
and walla.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Hello My Name Is
Maybe make a video that you
Maybe make a video that you can share? Seems like you could do it just once, rather than 4 times, one for each Zoner on here... ;)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Strangha
I only have to resize the
I only have to resize the image when it's ginormous and won't load 'cause it's too big. But I reduce mine often with the little black box.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank
Good idea, Jack. I wish I had
Good idea, Jack. I wish I had thought of that. This project just moved into phase 3.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Def. High
Took exactly one minute, using the regular, "old" way - I timed it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Racketinmyhead
Zoom zoom.
Zoom zoom.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
On my dial up modem it takes
On my dial up modem it takes about 40 minutes a picture -- but what else do I have to do?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: skifurthur
There are phone dial-ups and
There are phone dial-ups and then there are old school dial-ups. In keeping with the old school nature of Viva, I feel it is my community duty to go true old school.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
One time I tried to put 2
One time I tried to put 2 pictures in one post. It scarred me for life.
I give admin props for making posting pictures here even more old school than it was on the old Zone.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sun so hot, clouds so low
It's something like
It's something like
Tune in
Turn on
Drop image
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank
The first time I used a
The first time I used a computer was in the fall of 1974. I used a modem like the one in the pic skifurthur posted to dial into a mainframe a couple of towns over. The terminal also had a keyboard, a paper tape reader for loading programs, and a roll of paper for output, but no monitor. My how far we've come.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
1974? Are you sure you're not
1974? Are you sure you're not Al Gore?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank
Last time I checked, I wasn't
Last time I checked, I wasn't Al Gore, or Tipper for that matter, but who knows how these things work. Identity. What's it good for?
Yeah, 1974, BK. I was a freshman in high school and they offered a class in computer programming, so I took it. Wrote some simple little programs in Basic. Things like 10 lines of code for a basic blackjack game played out on a dot matrix printer. I didn't pursue it though. Much too mathy for my more poetic sensibilities.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: 19.5 Degrees
Good on you Mike!
Good on you Mike!
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Ugh. I think I might have
I think I might have inadvertently opened a nostalgic 1970s wormhole when I started this thread. When I was a senior in high school, I worked at a place called the Snap Shack that was like a Fotomat located inside a mall in Meriden, Connecticut.
What's next? Riding a horse bareback on a beach on the Caspian Sea in Nowshahr, Iran during the summer of 78? Or maybe a flashback to my first GD show at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago in November of that year?