Another option would be to use an alternate host site (photobucket, picasa, etc), and embed the images via the image tag.ColoRider said:
Any Apple fans out there?
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Yeah, I could do that - but it just bugs me that there is no way to add photos directly to either the forum or to email. I do not see any logic to this setup. ::007::AVGeek said:
Yamaguy55
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I have been in the tech business since a long time ago. You wouldn't believe me if I told you, so I won't. My current position uses not only electronics, but a large amount of networked devices. As the customers wanted a Windows platform, although they are not PCs being used as actual PCs, we gave it to them. I spend several days a month undoing what IT and others do to our equipment. By the time my work day is over, I have little desire to "play" with them.
Several years ago, one of my coworkers called me up and told me how he reclaimed a large portion of his day by buying his wife a Mac. We all work from (from, not necessarily at) our home, and she was forever after him to fix this, that and everything else about her PC. He had enough of it, and bought the Mac, and the screaming and yelling stopped. When my wife got posted where we now live, I became tired of the screaming and yelling: gave her a flat-out directive: we're going to the Mac store Friday after work, ( a three hour one way drive) and you're not leaving without one. Didn't care what it cost, it needed to get me out of the loop. After the ramp up time was finished, I never hear a peep out of her. We aren't web designers, big applications purchasers, etc, so it worked. In fact, Windows Office runs a lot better on a Mac than a PC.
My old XP PC finally died, and she bought me a Mac, which I'm using right now. I turn it on, it comes on, I turn it off, it goes off. Updates once in a while, easy as pie, no problems, no BSODs, it just works for what I need. If I have a choice of playing with this or going riding, you can guess what I do. When it gets too cold to ride, I can always do something else. I'm a hands on end-product person, so abstract stuff is ok, but I'd rather build furniture than watch a movie. I get all the tech I can stand and then some at work, so have it well out of my system by the time I get home. On the contrary: if I have to fix it to use it, it finds a new home. That goes for anything I have. I was a slave to objects years ago when all I could afford were fixer uppers. No more. The wife knows this, and has asked if she should be worried. I told her not yet. Her time may come....
About six months after the iPad came out, she had to have one. Played with it for a few days (she's the gadget type in the house, I like anvils) and lost interest, as she thought it would be a lighter version of her MacBook Pro. It isn't. I decided to start carrying it with me, as I often have to wait at jobs. Light and simple, basically a super iPhone without the phone. I use it for photos, surfing when waiting and occasionally posting to sites, where it usually butchers every sentence, because it knows better. It doesn't. But it makes a great photo album, a handy portable web surfer, and I have a lot of books on it to read. So for MY uses, it works just fine. I don't care about posting photos, that's why I lazy it and use photobucket. I suppose I could figure it out, but don't care enough to spend the time.
We both got iPhones after the initial release, and I've had one ever since. I skipped the iPhone3, as there wasn't anything wrong with the original I had, for my uses. It does everything I need it to do, and far more. It finally got too long in the tooth, so I got an iPhone 4 last year. It works just like I want it to. Techy girl, meanwhile, has had all the versions. It makes her happy, so I don't care. Now she has a white one. I don't care what color it is, as long as it works. I take that back: I do not want a pink one.
Comparison: my company provides me with a Crapberry. Same carrier as my iPhone. I have them sitting side by side in the console of the company car. I'm driving to a job. No signal on the Crapberry, plenty on the iPhone4. Crapberry shuts down halfway through a call; same drive, same area, iPhone works just fine. Now you know why I have an iPhone instead of a Crapberry. If the iPhone did what the Crapberry does, it would be gone. But it is the company's: if they want me unavailable, that's ok by me. But I won't have one. Actually, it is diabolically clever: someone that picks our phones has it out for corporate management, so we get Crapberrys, and that undoes them. Sort of a corporate fifth column. Like I said: diabolically clever.
I'm not a Mac/Apple devotee. I don't get any magazines about tech stuff. I get magazines about motorcycles and other things I enjoy. But when I buy something, it absolutely has to work, or it goes elsewhere. For my uses, Apple products work fine. I like the minimal interaction with updates and attaching devices such as printers and cameras. And best of all: when I turn them on, they come on, and when I turn them off, they go off. Right away. My company supplied Win7 PC, a Dell Latitude E6500, takes quite a while to do both. I won't buy one of those, either.
Everyone else can buy whatever they like, as long as I don't have to fix it or deal with it. My company has been a great teacher about what I will spend money on.
Several years ago, one of my coworkers called me up and told me how he reclaimed a large portion of his day by buying his wife a Mac. We all work from (from, not necessarily at) our home, and she was forever after him to fix this, that and everything else about her PC. He had enough of it, and bought the Mac, and the screaming and yelling stopped. When my wife got posted where we now live, I became tired of the screaming and yelling: gave her a flat-out directive: we're going to the Mac store Friday after work, ( a three hour one way drive) and you're not leaving without one. Didn't care what it cost, it needed to get me out of the loop. After the ramp up time was finished, I never hear a peep out of her. We aren't web designers, big applications purchasers, etc, so it worked. In fact, Windows Office runs a lot better on a Mac than a PC.
My old XP PC finally died, and she bought me a Mac, which I'm using right now. I turn it on, it comes on, I turn it off, it goes off. Updates once in a while, easy as pie, no problems, no BSODs, it just works for what I need. If I have a choice of playing with this or going riding, you can guess what I do. When it gets too cold to ride, I can always do something else. I'm a hands on end-product person, so abstract stuff is ok, but I'd rather build furniture than watch a movie. I get all the tech I can stand and then some at work, so have it well out of my system by the time I get home. On the contrary: if I have to fix it to use it, it finds a new home. That goes for anything I have. I was a slave to objects years ago when all I could afford were fixer uppers. No more. The wife knows this, and has asked if she should be worried. I told her not yet. Her time may come....
About six months after the iPad came out, she had to have one. Played with it for a few days (she's the gadget type in the house, I like anvils) and lost interest, as she thought it would be a lighter version of her MacBook Pro. It isn't. I decided to start carrying it with me, as I often have to wait at jobs. Light and simple, basically a super iPhone without the phone. I use it for photos, surfing when waiting and occasionally posting to sites, where it usually butchers every sentence, because it knows better. It doesn't. But it makes a great photo album, a handy portable web surfer, and I have a lot of books on it to read. So for MY uses, it works just fine. I don't care about posting photos, that's why I lazy it and use photobucket. I suppose I could figure it out, but don't care enough to spend the time.
We both got iPhones after the initial release, and I've had one ever since. I skipped the iPhone3, as there wasn't anything wrong with the original I had, for my uses. It does everything I need it to do, and far more. It finally got too long in the tooth, so I got an iPhone 4 last year. It works just like I want it to. Techy girl, meanwhile, has had all the versions. It makes her happy, so I don't care. Now she has a white one. I don't care what color it is, as long as it works. I take that back: I do not want a pink one.
Comparison: my company provides me with a Crapberry. Same carrier as my iPhone. I have them sitting side by side in the console of the company car. I'm driving to a job. No signal on the Crapberry, plenty on the iPhone4. Crapberry shuts down halfway through a call; same drive, same area, iPhone works just fine. Now you know why I have an iPhone instead of a Crapberry. If the iPhone did what the Crapberry does, it would be gone. But it is the company's: if they want me unavailable, that's ok by me. But I won't have one. Actually, it is diabolically clever: someone that picks our phones has it out for corporate management, so we get Crapberrys, and that undoes them. Sort of a corporate fifth column. Like I said: diabolically clever.
I'm not a Mac/Apple devotee. I don't get any magazines about tech stuff. I get magazines about motorcycles and other things I enjoy. But when I buy something, it absolutely has to work, or it goes elsewhere. For my uses, Apple products work fine. I like the minimal interaction with updates and attaching devices such as printers and cameras. And best of all: when I turn them on, they come on, and when I turn them off, they go off. Right away. My company supplied Win7 PC, a Dell Latitude E6500, takes quite a while to do both. I won't buy one of those, either.
Everyone else can buy whatever they like, as long as I don't have to fix it or deal with it. My company has been a great teacher about what I will spend money on.
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My Man !!!! I love my MACS. All 4 of them. I'll take my Most Amazing Computer over a Piece of Crap any day.
Seriously, if you've never tried one, and you use a computer a lot, you really should at least give one a try. If you want to ..... no pressure. R
Seriously, if you've never tried one, and you use a computer a lot, you really should at least give one a try. If you want to ..... no pressure. R
Yamaguy55
No difficult problems, just difficult people
Other than the company thing, we have my iMac desktop (this one), her desktop, her MacBook Pro, the iPad (original version) and the two iPhones. While admittedly living in an Apple-rich environment, I still am not a cult member, even if it does look that way. We're back to "it has to work without being screwed with first" thing. When they start jerking my chain, they'll go too.rem said:
One thing I really do/did admire about Steve Jobs is his belief that you do need to spend time with family and doing the things you love and enjoy, not just work yourself to death for the politburo. A rare attitude these days.
I removed the grouchy remarks. I'm still tired from the last three weeks. I'll vent somewhere else. Sometimes it isn't all that much fun being an old goat.
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Again, in agreement. I was a serious Mac "cultist" for a while, many years ago. But old age and the reality that comes along with it put me in my place. They all do it for the money. Don't even get me started on MicroSoft. No, seriously, please don't. Apple has conducted itself reasonably well overall. If they continue to make a superior product that works as advertised and support is provided, I will continue to buy it. Ditto with Yamaha. It's just that simple. If it starts to go to hell in a wheelbarrow, I'll start looking for alternatives. So far, so good. I have never owned anything but a Mac computer, so I'm very comfortable with it. They have dropped the ball a few times, but managed to pick it up again and usually go on to score. I have a Mac Mini, the wife has one, I have a MacBook and just recently purchased an iPod Touch. Good stuff. I'm taking a bite right now. R