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johnfowles · 07-23-2004, 12:47 PM

New Newsgroup threads were much as found here on corfid but a newcomer Alan Cassaro asked
"Who Wrote Farewell to Nova Scotia?" http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=40FD0F2B .4C755740%40worldnet.att.net
I had sincerely hoped to highlight that by taking a fair bit of trouble and time writing a tutorial on the not necessarily straightforward technique for displaying pictures here on corfid,I would encourage more fans to try their hand at this to the advantage of every reader of both corfid and the Newsgroup. But despite posting a thread on the Newsgroup and starting topics on all three corfid forums to date only one brave soul who uses the nom-de-plume "stationmaster" has done anything (displaying a great pic of Gord with Aengus Finnan)
As a reminder
my tutorial is at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000109.html
I realise that not everybody has a web site to upload their own pix to
although I will address that situation soon with a guide to finding suitable absolutely free web sites but I did try to stress that you can display any picture that you find that takes your fancy I even wrote a page to give some ideas at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/pictureideas.htm
So how about it folks??
Surely Brink you could display a colorful Colorado picture??
Rona could you not find a pic of a signpost showing the way to San Jose??(I know groan!!)
Martin/12 as an art director how about your favorite old master??
Kilgore a nice pic of the Canadian Rockies perhaps
Minstrel man what does the Hamilton Centre/Center look like?? Inside and/or outside
Walter stoneborder show us a mighty Saguaro (Soh hwarr-owe) or is it sah-WAR-oh.??
I could go on but that is a fair selection for starters
so let's be having you ALL!!!
On a brighter note; last Friday's chat was much better attended (eight) so I guess it is worth continuing.However I understand that it is likely that any MAC chatters are unable to succeed in getting in every time I will remind them that I had added a page re MAC IRC clients (since the otherwise preferred method of accessing the chat channel mIRC is not available for these fine machines please visit my chat room speal
this is at:- http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/chat/MAClients.htm
and includes a link to a supposedly freeware MAC program:-
"conversation" which is described at http://www.macnn.com/news/20775
this was a small 212KB download from http://www.conversation.pwp.blueyond...nversation.dmg
where *.dmg seems to be a unique MAC file format that I know zilch about.
Furthermore that download link no longer seems to be functional,
However a tad of googling revealed a mirror site:- http://allmacintosh.mirror.ac.uk/preview/350531.html
from which I could download a useless (to my PC)
file of 1.5MB named conversationosx.sit

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http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited July 23, 2004).]

07-23-2004, 12:47 PM	#3
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	New Newsgroup threads were much as found here on corfid but a newcomer Alan Cassaro asked "Who Wrote Farewell to Nova Scotia?" http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=40FD0F2B .4C755740%40worldnet.att.net I had sincerely hoped to highlight that by taking a fair bit of trouble and time writing a tutorial on the not necessarily straightforward technique for displaying pictures here on corfid,I would encourage more fans to try their hand at this to the advantage of every reader of both corfid and the Newsgroup. But despite posting a thread on the Newsgroup and starting topics on all three corfid forums to date only one brave soul who uses the nom-de-plume "stationmaster" has done anything (displaying a great pic of Gord with Aengus Finnan) As a reminder my tutorial is at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000109.html I realise that not everybody has a web site to upload their own pix to although I will address that situation soon with a guide to finding suitable absolutely free web sites but I did try to stress that you can display any picture that you find that takes your fancy I even wrote a page to give some ideas at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/pictureideas.htm So how about it folks?? Surely Brink you could display a colorful Colorado picture?? Rona could you not find a pic of a signpost showing the way to San Jose??(I know groan!!) Martin/12 as an art director how about your favorite old master?? Kilgore a nice pic of the Canadian Rockies perhaps Minstrel man what does the Hamilton Centre/Center look like?? Inside and/or outside Walter stoneborder show us a mighty Saguaro (Soh hwarr-owe) or is it sah-WAR-oh.?? I could go on but that is a fair selection for starters so let's be having you ALL!!! On a brighter note; last Friday's chat was much better attended (eight) so I guess it is worth continuing.However I understand that it is likely that any MAC chatters are unable to succeed in getting in every time I will remind them that I had added a page re MAC IRC clients (since the otherwise preferred method of accessing the chat channel mIRC is not available for these fine machines please visit my chat room speal this is at:- http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/chat/MAClients.htm and includes a link to a supposedly freeware MAC program:- "conversation" which is described at http://www.macnn.com/news/20775 this was a small 212KB download from http://www.conversation.pwp.blueyond...nversation.dmg where *.dmg seems to be a unique MAC file format that I know zilch about. Furthermore that download link no longer seems to be functional, However a tad of googling revealed a mirror site:- http://allmacintosh.mirror.ac.uk/preview/350531.html from which I could download a useless (to my PC) file of 1.5MB named conversationosx.sit ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited July 23, 2004).]