Okay, i have messed around a bit today... its not my font size, but my images, like the icons on my desk top etc, are all too big (or bigger than they were) I used to be able to use the large backgammon board option, but now it doesnt display on one screen.

Can someone help me to get back to where I used to be?

Thanks!

Puckish: LOL, true. I use it to watch my NBC & CBS shows from the website.

WOW! You want to talk about cool.... try using your 42" HD TV as a computer monitor!!!

Most excellent indeed, especially your digital photos! Talk about a slide presentation!!!

How is hdtv as a computer monitor, for viewing pictures etc?

Can you use the picture in picture option to surf the web and watch tv at the same time?

Rose: yes Geocities is still free........I have never used the others :)

It has been 10 years or more since I used a free website outfit.. But if you go to Google and type in free websites or something similar like free homepages, you will find what you need. Back in the day there was Geocities, Homestead, Angelfire, Tripod.. No clue if those still exist anymore or if they do if they are still free!

anyone know where I can set up my own website for free?? is there such a thing?? Thanks!!

coan.net: yeah! you solved it. Was just a question of getting out of the rich text editor. That's great :) thanks

volant: it works for me here - I love the firefox spellchecker. Is it you are using the box reply?

Just typing in the normal text box, NON-rich text editior - spell check works fine for me

Look - I mispelled editor in the above sentence - and mispelled is not spelled correctly either.

Puckish: thank you I'll have to look into that!

Rose: hehe me too that's why I like it so much :)

volant: There is a Google toolbar spell checker that works fine in here and everywhere else as well. It underlines the misspelled words too!

volant: It doesnt work here for me either but in all other sites that I type in it does work well. I never understood why it didn't work here. I find it really helpful since Im horrible with punctuation as all who read my message can tell!

Firefox has a spellchecker that underlines misspelled words in red. It works for me almost everywhere but here. I was wondering if it works here for others or not?

i have had that problem as well as i am using IE7. the thing that works for me is refreshing the page and it seems to clear up.

rod03801: I have no pics on anyones name, just little red X's there, and all over my game boards too, nothing is working now :( can't play at all.

Czuch: Oh great! I guess it's my fault then! I still can't load games, or see pictures!

No matter which page I try to visit, I always seem to get hung up trying to download the file named     blank.gif

Vikings: hmmm, my pages are loading in between 1 and 2 seconds, and all look fine, except there are a couple of peoples pictures that arent showing, including mad monkeys and nickles on here right now

ok, thatnks, I thought I messed up my computor, My Firefox wasn't working so I un-installed it and My computor wouldn't let me use the new version I installed, and then I come here to this, I thought I was going to have a frustrating night

Vikings: Seems to be happening to a lot of people right now. Maybe everyone? In Firefox, at the bottom of my screen it just keeps saying "Waiting for img.brainking.com" .. I've never see that before. Maybe because normally it only flashes, because it's normally fast?

Others are mentioning similar problems on General Chat

Vikings: It's not you...it's BK... the general chat board is showing similar problems.... I can't load pics or gameboards either.

I just downloaded Opera and I cannot get any images in that browser, and now I cannot get immages inside my gameboard on IE 7

MadMonkey: There are two ways for my device: First, there is a button on the front which cycles through the plugged computers, or I can use a keyboard shortcut (It's two time scroll lock [have you ever used that key?]) for that. It then gives you an accustic feedback. I think every KVM switch has these two ways of switching, just the shortcuts may vary, Ctrl+NumLock is often used I think. Of course, I never use the button on the device's front, it's just too much movement ;-) And with the keyboard shortcut I can put the switch under the desk so it doesn't even get into my way.

I love this thing

wetware: thank you, it worked. i hope it stays like this.

coan.net: the right click did the trick, i made it larger, it's so much better. will it stay bigger on both browsers or do i have to change it each time i open the browser?

ellieoop: Oh yea, forgot the menu bar is not there by default in IE7

Up near the top in IE7 (next to the tab for example), right click and choose "Menu Bar"

At that point, the menu bar will be there so you can choose View, and font size.

rod03801: i went to ff and found it on top left, i clicked view and increase, but it's not easy to find on ie7. at least i can't find it. i'll have too stay on ff til i can find it on ie.
thx. rod, it's much better.

ellieoop: Up at the top. File Edit View etc..

coan.net: where is the view menu bar? is it under tools, i can't find it. i'm glad i know how to play the games.

coan.net sorry, i forgot to say that i have a laptop and i don't have a mouse, i use the track pad.

ellieoop: 2 things you can do.

If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, you can hold down CTRL key and scroll the mouse.

Or in the "View" menu bar, choose text size and increase it.

is there a way i can make the print larger on ie7 and will it stay larger for every site i go to? i definitely need new glasses but til then i need help.
thx. ellie

Christoph Daum: That looks pretty neat, just looked it up on ebay, only $9.50

Seems cheep for such a useful gadget. So, you plug a keyboard, mouse and one monitor in to it, and up to 4 base units, then you can switch between them ?

How do you switch between them ?

Christoph Daum: another difference is that I also can share display, mouse and printer with it

MadMonkey: I use a KVM (Keyboard/VGA/Mouse) +USB switch for that purpose. The only difference is that it's an extra device and not built into the keyboard...

MadMonkey: Not quite what that writer is after, but similarly useful:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/

I subscribe to a website called Lockergnome, and amazing place that keeps you (well me anyway lol) in contact with technology.
Most the stuff i look at on there, or via there free newsletter is Computer related.
Just a thing that i got in todays newsletter was an article about a problem i am sure many of you multi-computer users come across.

I repair and build computers, so when i am sitting here i have at least 3 PC's on and obviously keyboards to access them. So this short article Attention Keyboard designers was quite interesting and very true

If you find that interesting, why not subscribe to the newsletter, it very interesting

Czuch: Thanks, I appreciate you at least listening :) and thanks for the game :)

Czuch: Can anyone help her? I thought i would try to help, but its over my head.... sorry donna!

Czuch:
cheers Czuch

"Snoopy": Go to tools, and then clear private data.

i dont normally use firefox
and dont have a clue how to clear my cache
dont all rush at once in your replys

coan.net: Thank You

I just bought another flashdrive and this one has "vault" installed.  Anyone use this B4?
I'm curious as how this will work when I use it on other PCs.  Will the other "PCs" have my info on their hard drive  or does it stay on mine?

rod03801:
And this puts the icons on the screen automatically too?

Yes, for every file in the "Desktop" folder you see one icon on the screen.

When you say "copy" it, what does that process involve? (I'm sure it's nothing like copy and pasting text! LOL)

Well, you won't copy and paste text, but it is just as easy! Open the Explorer and maneuver to your home folder aka "C:\Documents and Settings\rod1". There you can simply right click on the "Desktop" folder and chose "copy" from the context menu. Then maneuver to the home folder of the new user "C:\Documents and Settings\rod2", right click, and chose "paste" this time. Click "OK" on the upcoming popup window that asks you if you want to replace files of the same name - that's it!

You mention the desktop, my documents, and possibly some applications. Is there anything else I might not be thinking of that I would want to bring over from it?

If you just want to move data from one user to another on the same machine, that should be it! Most installed applications will be available for every user, so those should work automatically. Anyway, I would just try it out and see if you are missing something. If you don't after a few weeks, you're possibly done. If you miss something you had with the other account, then you can look what's different! Or just come back here ;-)

coan.net: hmmmm i do not know to be honest, i am not there right now. Its an Epsom 3 in 1 Printer, Scanner & Fax thingy lol

Christoph Daum: Thank you... That sounds pretty easy..

And this puts the icons on the screen automatically too?

You'll have to pardon me, I'm a "newbie" to having my own computer at home. (I've used plenty, at work, friends' etc...) When you say "copy" it, what does that process involve? (I'm sure it's nothing like copy and pasting text! LOL)

You mention the desktop, my documents, and possibly some applications. Is there anything else I might not be thinking of that I would want to bring over from it?

MadMonkey: Does the printer also have slots to put memory cards? And is there a memory card in it while it boots?