FredCDobbs

If you have the URL address for a very large photo, you can down-size the photo by going to TinyPic and use both their URL box and their down-size features. Click on the URL button and then place your photo's URL address in the blank URL box. Then select a proper size to reduce it to. This new message board will take a wider image than the old message board, such as 640 pixels wide. To get a photo out of your computer file, one with no URL address yet, just post it to a message as an ATTACHMENT, and it will automatically be given a jpg URL address, and then, if you need to, you can use that address on TinyPic to reduce the size of the photo. Link to TINYPIC: http://tinypic.com/

Yes, this is fun. TCM has done it two or three times. I like to see the different people, different ages, different types, etc.

Years ago there were US government agencies that kept such things from happening. Such as the Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies, and they did not allow major companies to manipulate things we bought from them. Now we don't "buy" things like computer programs, we "lease" them, and the companies can change them and mess them up, any time they want to, with no government agency to protect us.

One reason I asked this group about XP is because my repair-man does house-calls, and Ive been trying to get him out here to replace my APC battery backup unit, but his wife tells me that he has been so busy helping people with their new XP problems, he hasn’t had time to come out to my place yet. So Im not the only one in my area having XP problems. Speaking of problems, my APC battery back up keeps sending me pop-ups telling me to replace my battery (it is 6 years old), and during the past few months the APC has been turning OFF my computer with NO warning. That is exactly what I bought the APC for so that I could avoid it when the house power goes out. But it is now APC that is shutting down my computer with no warning and no time for me to close my windows and shut it down normally. A battery backup unit should NOT ever work like that. It should NEVER shut my computer off with no warning. I worked with rechargable batteries and audio/video equipment for the past 55 years, and I know that there is a way for the APC machine to tell me to SHUT DOWN, once the battery voltage drops below 11 or so volts, but with enough power still left to give me time to shut it down the right way. It is APC that is purposely shutting it down quickly, just as a gimmic to try to get me to buy a new expensive battery from them. They don't realize how much I know about batteries. These big computer companies are turning into a bunch of crooks. There is nothing wrong with my XP, except for some trash Microsoft is probably sending it via automatic "updates" and "upgrades", which are actually down-grades.

Thanks, I'm glad I could help. Here is what the TinyPic page looks like where people can paste a URL of their photo after posting it on this board as an Attachment, which automatically gives it a URL address as a jpg photo. Like this: (click on Thumbnail, right click on the big photo and look for Properties to get the jpg URL address of the photo).

Microsoft is ending all support of Windows XP on April 8, 2014. I’ve already noticed a lot of problems with XP during the past year, and it is becoming difficult to use. For example, I’ve been having trouble with some websites when I copy basic text and paste it to a Word document, and then it messes up my Word program and kills the document. I mention that now because when I try to save some text from this new TCM message board, that messes up my Word document and kills it and destroys it. I’ve found a way to work around that, using a different text document program, but that took about 3 hours of work and a lot of repairing of my Word program. My computer repair-man says I can continue to use XP, and he has a few customers who are still using XP and even Windows 98. The main drawback to upgrading to the new Windows 8.1 is because we have to buy a whole new computer to use it, and it’s a different kind of computer, with a tiny touch screen. So, there is no telling what is going to happen to us XP users after April 8. Anyone else having trouble with XP?

Test Enlarge Screen, Copy Screen, Convert to JPG, Add Text and Arrows, Post as Thumbnail Attachment, Enlarge Attachment, Save Large Photo URL Address, Post Large Photo above Thumbnail. If successful, pour yourself a cup of coffee and smile.

Click on thumbnail to enlarge. Click lower right X on large photo to reduce.

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lz, I love this new message board! It was complicated to use the first couple of days, but now it is so easy and it has so many good features. This is wonderful. Thank all the folks at TCM for me. And thanks for all of your advice and help. Old Fred

You are thinking of the ending of "SEA WIFE" with Richard Burton and Joan Collins, 1957 See the last 2 minutes of this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0t_jW9D1dk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0t_jW9D1dk

So, we finally have a way to get URL addresses for the photos we store in our computers, and we can easily re-size them.. This method may sound complicated at first, but I figured it all out yesterday in a couple of hours, and today it is easy for me to do, and I am 71 years old.

lz, More info. We can go to Tinypic here: http://tinypic.com/ under: UPLOAD IMAGES AND VIDEOS, click on the URL button, then put the URL of the photo in the URL box. You can re-size the photo and reduce it in size for posting on the message board. Like this: Or this:

You might want to add something about this. Using the MORE REPLY OPTIONS, ATTACHMENT feature, we can pull up a jpg photo from our own computer photo file. When we post it, it shows up as a small thumbnail. When we click on the thumbnail, a large version of the photo appears. We can right click and copy that large photo to our own computer file, and we can right click on Properties and copy its URL address and save that, or go to that URL address to view the photo and we can save the whole photo to our files from that address. To get rid of the large photo on the thread, click on the large X in the lower right corner of the big photo. Also, we can click on SAVE and go right to the URL address of the photo. Like this: Dorothy Lamour, THE HURRICANE, 1937

Thanks for the information!

I clicked on the LIKE button for your post, but all I see now is "You Like This". Isn't my screen name suppose to be there too?

Young Bela Lugosi as Jesus in an early play. Click on thumbnail to enlarge. Close large photo on the X in the lower right corner.

lz, I wish everyone would use a male or female Avatar that indicates their gender, so I will know which ones I can flirt with and which ones I can tell certain stories to. I don't care about age, race, religion, non-religion, or orientation. But I sometimes feel foolish when I learn I've been flirting with a big burley male truck driver.

Young Zeffie Tilbury, who played Grandma in THE GRAPES OF WRATH:

Filming hospital scene of GONE WITH THE WIND. Click on thumbnail for larger photo. Go to lower right corner of large photo to close it.

Before television, everyone watched the radio:

I think it all has to do with Mary’s conservative proper upbringing and her sexual inexperience with men. She loves her nice conservative husband, but Gable turns her on in a sexual way that she has never experienced with her husband. So, she lusts after Gable for sex but feels bad about betraying her husband and she feels guilty about her lusting. Also, she is shy and afraid, not knowing what to do, and probably feeling morally bad because of her lusting for Gable. Gable just wants a new conquest, especially with an inexperienced young woman. He later feels guilty about tricking Mary and decides not to do it with her.