Alright! I'm back in ...

Seperation Anxiety is decreasing ... able to view and access www.BetterPhoto.com again! Thanks ever ever so much to Heather and Jim!

Ok ... there's got to be a plot underfoot! Who's behind it?

I am having so many frustrations that if I find the organizer of this plot ... it will not be pretty ...

First, there's the manufacturer of my HP945 camera (imagine this ...it's HP!) and it's retail distributor, CompUSA. They seem to be in deep denial regarding the industry standard for digital images. Most logical people and institutions would believe that a five 5mp camera should create better image than a 4mp camera ... especially if both cameras are manufactured by the same company. However, HP and CompUSA are obviously not logical entities. I will deal with them in a short time. Basically I am maintaining the ever so gentle southern belle attitude of "you don't know who i am but you (and your yellow-bellied leadership) will KNOW who I am."

mmm ... but as I've mentioned in other places ... I am not necessarily a southern belle ... so ... I'm having great difficulty maintaining the ever so gentle portion of this attitude. I will keep you posted.

Second, I (and everyone else who accesses the Internet from this particular Starbucks' t-mobile hotspot) cannot even access the BetterPhoto.com web site's home page ... never mind any other BetterPhoto page. We can go everywhere else on the net though. Sigh. BetterPhoto assures me that they can log in as me ... and, yes, I can too ... from any other ISP. I believe BetterPhoto is beginning to understand the problem and perhaps they will have it fixed by the time I return to civilization in a few days.

which brings me to ...

Third, the storage units are becoming ready for a "garage sale" but there's still an RV and a minivan to prepare for sale and the garage sale must be organized and promoted. These activities are not so horrible in and of themselves. no ... the real challenge is attempting to do these in 100+ degree heat with humidity so high that it feels like moving through a sauna. So the heat that we want so much to leave is both inspirational and a ball and chain.

Fourth, my eye doctor is being a flake. I'm having problems with my new contact fit and they're suppose to check on some things and ... it's been over a week!!! Instead of feeling cared for I feel like here's just one more thing that I have to keep up with and organize ... can anyone tell me where customer service went? I know you're going to find this amazing ... but I actually do NOT enjoy being the sqeeky wheel.

Fifth ... I need to leave this rant because the interview being conducted at the table beside me is becoming worse than stupid and if I don't leave now I'll begin to write about it and then you will come and hunt me down and put me out of your misery !!

ok in the mean time ...
ya'll keep having fun!
pam

KSN News: Storm front moves into Wichita

KSN News: Storm front moves into Wichita: "
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Storm front moves into Wichita

by Dave Freeman
KSN News


WICHITA, Kansas, Jun 10, 2005 -- Video taken from 6:00 p.m. newscast on June 10, 2005. "



This is an absolutely incredible and beautiful capture of a weather event. It has been officially decided that all of the system was a tornado type event with everything beneath it being considered the down spout!! The colors remind me of a tropical beach.

Notes from Team BetterPhoto: Gifts Expectant Fathers Love for Father's Day

Notes from Team BetterPhoto: Gifts Expectant Fathers Love for Father's Day

Excellent Idea!

CrazyArtist17 album - Photobucket.com

CrazyArtist17 album - Photobucket.com This is my niece ... contact me ... i might give you the password :-D

Kodakgallery.com Help

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Aspect Ratios for cropping to fit a photo size

How to post a second photo to a discussion thread at BetterPhoto

Word of warning: This procedure is time sensitive. If your session times out, you will be asked to log back in. If that happens, the image will not be uploaded. This is not the time to write an instructional handbook nor your life history in the comments box. Also, once you start, do not accept phone calls or respond to email ... basically stick to the attitude of "Don't disturb me unless it's fire, flood, or blood."

1) Create the image you want to add to the discussion (and know where the file is saved ;)

2) Sign In. It must be the log-in that requires your email and your password. The link is in the navigation bar on the left side of BetterPhoto.com or here. I don't care if you were just signed in. Sign In, again. Sign In always takes you to the "My Better Photos" section of your admin area.

3a) If you are adding an image to an existing discussion, locate the discussion. Click on The Forum link in BetterPhoto.com's navigation bar. After navigating to the the discussion, click on the "Respond" link at the bottom of the discussion.

or

3b) If you are creating a Before and After discussion, first add your "After" image to your gallery as you normally would. Then to enter your "After" photograph into a discussion area, go to your gallery and click the "Discuss" link under your image.

4) In either case, write your comment to include with the photo. If you want to skip comments, I think you can just hit the space key a few times and go on. If that doesn't work ... three periods will ;)

5) This is optional but useful: Select and copy your comments.

6) Select number of images you want to upload (just above the "Submit" button).

7) Click on the "Submit" button.

8) Complete the upload as you normally would. If you are taken to the log on instead ... keep reading ....

Note 1: If you are not taken to the upload page, then probably too much time passed between "Sign In" and "Submit", your session will time out. If you are asked to sign back in at this point, the image upload isn't going to work. You have two options:

If you copied the text in the comment box before clicking "Submit", Cancel the post (I think you just abandon it). Click on Sign In (THE two-step Sign In), find the discussion, click respond ... Click in the comment box, hold down the CTRL + V and wa'la your comment will magically reappear. Then submit.

If you didn't copy and your comment is long and tedious, then go ahead and log in. It will post the text. Then you can just do what everybody else does ... try again to add the photo in another post.

Note 2: An easy way to copy your comment.
a) Click the mouse anywhere inside the comment box.
b) On the keyboard, hold down the CTRL key.
c) Press the A button (CTRL+A).
(All text will be selected ... if your whole page is selected/ highligted, be sure you clicked the mouse inside the comment box.)
d) Still holding down the CTRL key, press the C key (CTRL+C).
(This will copy everything that is selected.)
e) If for some mis-fingering reason you end up with no text in that box, just a nice C, press CTRL+Z (undo) and that should bring back the text.

Note 3: The image you add into a discussion does not display in your gallery. If you want it to display in your gallery, the image will be in the "your photos" list (on your admin page) and you can change it's setting to "display." This is a nice feature that allows you to upload helpful images without having them count against your 30 free displayed images.

I reserve the right to be wrong. If I left something out or have it in the wrong order, contact me.

Have fun!
Pam

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