MagicDragon: I just did you what you said. Went to my pics, I choose one and sent it to my photo editor, cropped it and save it as jpg and email it to myself. I got the attachment at the bottom and clicked on view and it opened with the cropped pic. I can,t understand why it is not working for you sorry.

MagicDragon:I have got a Kodak C340 digital camera, brilliant, and idiot proof, well for me anyway lol

Mousetrap: If I can remember it right, I went to My Pictures on the main page right before I click on start. I selected a pic & chopped it to a smaller size. I then saved it. I sent an e-mail to myself w/ the pic attached. I either would get the whole pic in the e-mail or get an attachment right under the subject line. Just can't get it into a jpeg or something else that would go into the e-mail where you just click on the bottom to get the pic. That is 1 way I tried doing this but I forgot the other ways I tried sorry

MagicDragon: What have you tried doing? I can tell you how I do it but it may be something you already tried.

I have 2 pic's in my My Picture folder & wondering how I can chop a pic & when I send it out, how to put it in a jpeg attachment? I have tried everything so far that I could think of but it isn't cooperating w/ me so far

Which is a good camera to get? Which 1's didn't measure up good at all? Going to be getting a camera but doing some compare shopping at the moment. Thank You

Mystery Man: I have a Dell Demension E520. When I had to reboot my comp, I had to re-sign up for MSN & lost everything that I already had saved an such. I didn't have a problem when I was rebooting using System Restore but did lose info that I did save prior to the rebooting to an earlier date tho..sorry if I didn't answer your question

Can anyone assist me with this problem?
I have eMachine PC w/Windows XP & MSN-9.5 premium. I lost some folder emails from 11/15/06 to 3/15/07 and missing 2 or 3 folders I created in January. I pick a good date to do the restore, all went well, but after reboot and tried to bring up my MSN sign-in page, it was a bluish/green "blank" page. So I un-do and repeated restore with a different date and still, a blank sign-in page for MSN. I do not know if restore helped to retrieve the missing items for I could not sign in after the restore.
My question is; How do I bring back my MSN sign-in page once I restore the system..?

15 Feb, 2007 Lockergnome General, Blogroll, Technology

Being curious by nature, I thought I would take a look at Firefox 3, the next release of Firefox which is in Alpha stage 2, and not ready for public testing. But since I have a test box to throw the latest Firefox on, I thought why not.

Note: Alpha release are development software and are not meant for the general public to play with. So wait until the software is released to beta.

Well as the website states, the interface is Firefox 2. And nothing more, nothing less so far. But there is one thing I noticed right away. Whether it is planned or not, this browser is fast. Very,very fast. And during use, the memory problem that has effected other versions seems to have been tamed. I opened multiple versions of Firefox 3 and and multiple tabs and there was not that HUGE memory burst and cpu thrashing that I have seen before.

It seems that the developers are making some efforts to improving the overall performance of Firefox 3, and not just some cosmetic changes. Good job Mozilla team.

I’m looking forward to the beta of Firefox 3.
Estimated release date of final version - end of 2007. Bring it on

For those that keep up to date about things, just a very little article about Firefox.
Also, the site lockergnome is a great one to join (for free), you get a newsletter most days full of computer/internet stuff

Sorted the problem out, for some reason i had the wrong month on my pc, changed to right month, updated AVG and all ok now. Thanks White Tower for your help and also Rose

WhiteTower: I have done that, went to the website and it says no updates, i have reinstalled it today, and it is still saying the same

Oceans Apart: Then you'd better download the latest update manually from their website.

Normally, this shouldn't happen. I still advise a clean reinstallation.

WhiteTower: It says, that the Internal Virus database is out of date, sorry not expire. When i go to update it, it says there are no updates.

Oceans Apart: No, I currently use 7.5.446 and it most definitely has NOT expired.

Try to uninstall it completely, reboot and download/install it again.

Rose: This is what it says avg 7.5.446 is out of date.

But this is the most recent one, i dont understand what to do.

Oceans Apart: You sure it expired? that isnt suppose to expire. It just came out
Go to this link    double check to see if its the OLD one that expired.. it was to run out very soon if not already.. the newest shouldnt expire on you

I wonder if somebody could help me please. I run the AVG 7.5.446 which has now expired, i only install the freebie one, you see. Hmmmm, try to download it again, but it wont let me, does anybody know of any other free Anti Virus programmes. Thank you

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: Strange, I just connected a mouse to my computer and the scrolling doesn't lag at all. Something about using the touchpad doesn't work right with FF. It does work fine with IE.

nivabef:
Sounds like a remote issue on your side.
I'm on a laptop and the scrollbar on the touchpad is just fine on Firefox 

I keep hearing how great Firefox is, but I'm finding it to be very frustrating because it doesn't want to scroll! When I try to scroll down a page, it lags and sticks. The scroll bar on the touchpad on my laptop won't even work so I have to actually move my cursor to the right of the screen and click to scroll, which takes a lot of time when you're not using a mouse. Anyone know if this is fixable?

Rose: I installed FasterFox and am not experiencing those problems.

Personally, I don't find FasterFox any faster, though. LOL.. Oh well..

Anyone: This may not be the board for this question, but maybe it is.. All of a sudden, in rich text editor, my scissors, copy and paste icons are dimmed out, as though they are not available to use. It's been like this for a few days now. Also, I have a special formatted good luck message that I have saved in notepad. It just has a couple smileys and colored letters. I used to just go to notepad, click edit on the entry, copy it, and paste it right into my game message. Ever since these icons have been "dimmed", when I copy the message, and then paste it (using ctrl+c, and ctrl+v since the appropriate icons aren't working), When it pastes, the smileys are there, but not moving, and when I submit the move, it shows up in the game as "<img> Good Luck <img>" (The letters are colored the way I wanted, but the smileys show up as <img>") Can anyone tell me why? It worked fine for quite a while, then suddenly changed. Have I changed something on my computer that might have caused this????

Rose: You could try to follow the instructions at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts instead of installing fasterfox, it works for me :)

Rose: You're right, sorry. I was talking about the FF Preferences and where they are located inside FF on different operating systems. If you use FF in Windows, they are located in "tools", if you use it on Linux they're located in "edit".

And in the preferences the privacy settings are located.

But this all doesn't seem to be the issue anyway ;)

BIG BAD WOLF: I have a feeling it could be that. Which is a shame as I do notice a bit more speed using it but I have so many usernames and passwords to use daily that this is a huge pain in the patootey having to enter them in every time I go to a site that requires em.

Rose: I have FasterFox installed on my computer at home, and if no one else answers before then, I will take a look at those settings and see if anything jumps out at me. Probable some kind of "performace" thing FasterFox does is clearing that data out - to help make firefox "faster".

When I loaded it at home, I played with the setting but did not find any difference... which is why I haven't loaded it on the computer that I'm using now.

But if FasterFox is the only change - most likely that is the cause of the problem.

Gordon Shumway& BBW:  I looked at the privacy tab on FF and the clear private data is not check boxed. I never had this problem before this week ( The only change I made this week was I installed Fasterfox so wonder if there is a correlation there?)
 Gordon you must mean in FF and IE, NOT windows to check the tools , privacy I am assuming. There is no tools, privacy with in WIndows XP tools area.

Rose: Check your preferences (on Windows they are under the tools menu, I think. On Linux they're under the edit menu) -> Privacy. If there is a checkmark before "Always clear my private data when I exit Firefox", you might uncheck it, or click on Settings and uncheck "saved passwords" and "cookies". The former checked means that the passwords from the password manager are deleted, and the latter means that the information Brainking stores in a cookie, are also deleted. If you have checked "remember user name and password" on the login page, this information is stored in a cookie.

For the style switching: There are three links: "To simple style", "simple" and "castle". The latter two change the style but don't save it, only the first option saves it in the database.

Rose: Do you have some privacy software or something installed that clears the cache or Cookies?

Or for example, in FireFox - Tools, Options - Privacy Tab - there is an option to "Always clear my private data when I close FireFox"..... make sure that is not checked.

Everytime I come back from a boot or even from shutting down FF all my passwords are gone. Anyone had this occur in FF before and know how to make the change so I dont have to put my password in here an every where else online every time I go to the sites that need them? Im at a loss.. Even the settings here arent being kept for the new site look. I switch to simple view from castle but every time it goes back to castle mode

BIG BAD WOLF: Thanks BBW!

Fencer: LOL! Your right! I don,t visit a lot of sites, very few in fact.

BIG BAD WOLF: This solution will solve all problems like that. When it's available.

Mousetrap: Just wait 20-30 seconds and hit reload on the browser page. It does happen to me (not very often - at most 1-2 times a day) - but like someone else said, it seems to be when Fencer is on - and last time I seen him looking at the bug tracker right before I could not access the site for about 10-20 seconds..... like he was fixing the bug and took a short down time while the fix went in would be my guess.

Mousetrap: Then you don't visit too much sites, I guess. "Patience" is the keyword.

BIG BAD WOLF: LOL! It just happend again as I was typing this message.
I get a page not found at times too and unknown url message. I call it being booted off when it happens constantly. This is the only site it happens on. Maybe it is trying to tell me something lmbo!

...i did it too & flying around now,thanks Snoopy!!

wow, just downloaded it, and has definately speeded the site up for sure.

Rose:
yes i must admit it does speed firefox up alot for me to!!!!

"Snoopy": I installed it yesterday and I do notice a bit of change in site speed.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/
this link was send to me yesterday
i havnt tried it out as i dont use firefox

Discussion Board Tip: Another thing I changed was on the discussion boards, I changed the "Messages per page" down to a lower number.

I had it at 100 for the longest time, but recently put it down to 50 which should speed things up also. (might even go down lower since I normally catch all boards before too many post are put on it.)

i did it, and it's much faster.
ty, keep the tips coming:)

Mousetrap: Occasionally - maybe once or twice a day I get a "page not found" while on BrainKing - I just wait about 30 seconds and hit reload - and usually it will come back up.

Not sure if that is the same thing as you are talking about.

BIG BAD WOLF: Do you have any advice for constantly being booted off Brainking at times? I know I am not the only one this happens too. Any advice would be appreciated.

BIG BAD WOLF:  thanks will give it a try  :)

Well I’ve seen others complain that it seems to take longer to load pages on Brainking – well at least longer then it use to, and even though I stayed away from complaining about it, I did see the same thing. 2-7 seconds to load each page. Ugh.

So I did some tweaking with the settings, and found some things that really help – 0-2 seconds per page load most of the time! Here are the tips:

Use Firefox if you can. Faster then Internet Explorer.

NOTE: For the settings below – some are for members only – so if are a pawn and are unable to change certain settings, that could be the reason.

BrainKing Settings: http://brainking.com/en/Settings


General Tab: Get rid of things you don’t need or use. What I use:

UNCHECK – Show menu on game pages (less info to load – faster load time)

UNCHECK – Show game filter on the main page (less info to load – faster load time)

UNCHECK – Show tips of the day (less info to load – faster load time)

UNCHECK – Show tournament tip (less info to load – faster load time)

UNCHECK – Show “Yesterdays active player” (less info to load – faster load time)

UNCHECK – “Display backgroung “BrainKing” image (less info to load – faster load time)

Number of my best BKR shown on main page: NONE (less info – faster load)

Number of games shown on the main page: I like mine set at All, but if you have a lot of games – picking something smaller can help load time

Submit move actions – currently 20 actions available – each one takes a little more space – so only pick the ones you use. I personally have 8 picked, but could easily bring that down to about 4.

JavaScript Tab: Get rid of things you don’t need or use. What I use:

UNCHECK – Active pulldown game menu. This is the list of 20 games in the upper left corner. I always loved it there, but once I started to think about it – I never used it – so like others (less info to load – faster load time)

UNCHECK – Enable fast lookup at search forms – not sure exactly what this one was, but don’t think I used it – so away it goes.

*LOTS OF SPEED* - UNCHECK – Show message preview at the Message box.

• This one will show you a preview when you have something in your message box.
• This will also show you a preview of public boards in your favorites
  list. I have 20 public boards in my favourites board list - so that means the last message from each of those 20 boards would load on each page that shows the favourite boards list.
• This will also show you a tournament preview in a tournament game (That is mouse over the tournament link on a game page, and the tournament status page pops up). I liked this option at first - but this one of my biggest time savers - since for example, a 7 player tournament playing 2 games each counted as an extra 12,933 characters in EVERY page load. So if you have a game which takes 5 moves to play, that is 5 extra times that 12,000+ extra characters has to be loaded!
• So getting rid of this option was one of my best choices!

Autosave interval – I have none, but don’t think it will slow page load if you have it set.

Smiley windows: I have on mouse click since I have when my mouse accedently moves over it and it tries to pop up – but should not slow down initial page load.

UNCHECK – Show context menu – less info to load, faster page load.

IN A GAME:

When you get ready to submit a move – there is the game list that you can choose to go to next. Each game is written into the page source adding to the time it takes to bring up that page. So if you don’t use this option – HIDE IT (If you have few games, probable not a big deal - have many then you can start to see the slow down)

Game Notations – each game has this on the right hand side. If you don’t use it, hide it. Long games can have hundreds+ moves – again, less data to load on the page, the quicker it can go.

OK - that is all for now. Anyone else have other suggestions or ideas?

[AGAIN - these are what I choose - if you use certain option I say turn off, then don't turn them off - use them. Biggest thing is to get rid of the things you don't use.]

BIG BAD WOLF:  I didn't know that.  And look, My XP has changed!  ;)

Rose: On windows XP & Vista computers that have that have the newest updates, it should do it automaticly.

For older PC's like 98, 2000 - or XP computers without the newest updates, it will not change automatically.

Where I work, I will be busy Monday - out of the 90 computers, about 10-15 are older that I will need to update - along with a time clock, phone system, and voice mail system which are programmed with the old rules - so i'll have to manually fix those (and then fix again in a few weeks when the time was suppose to change.)

Way kool. Our local news was saying they werent sure if the computer clocks would change. I am sure mine uses the atomic clock so I thought it would figure out the change even tho its weeks earlier than usual and it did!