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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Weird Mac problem
Date: 26 Sep 2015 18:54:21 GMT
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On 2015-09-26, Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-09-25, Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> wrote:
>>> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> .
>>>> 
>>>> So I suggest you head over to the Genius Bar.
>>> 
>>> There is no Genius Bar within several hours' drive.  I did take a foto of
>>> it this morning, but have forgotten how to set up a link to it because I've
>>> only done it once. The tinyurl site wants an html link and all I have at
>>> the moment is a .jpg in DropBox
>> 
>> It's tinypic.com - not tinyurl:
>> 
>> 1. On your keyboard, press Command-Shift-4.
>> 2. On your keyboard, press the space bar.
>> 3. Click the window you want. A picture file will appear on the desktop.
>> 4. Go to <http://tinypic.com> and follow the instructions to upload the
>> picture.
>> 5. Paste the "Direct link" URL in a newsgroup message.
>
>
> AHA!  Well, I said I'd forgotten 8-). I'll have to get out of my recliner
> and go fire up a laptop, I guess.  I DO know how to get the foto on to it,
> but I'd forgotten 4 and 5. ( DropBox is one of my mote useful apps and I
> use it for moving images around regularly)

So use DropBox instead.

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