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Re: URL expertise needed, please!

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On 26/06/2025 21:46, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-06-26 19:04:19 +0000, David B. said:
>> On 26/06/2025 17:21, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2025 at 9:14:05 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>> <mc59udFt5mkU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>> On 26/06/2025 17:00, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>> On Jun 26, 2025 at 6:12:13 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>>>> <mc4v9dFq2feU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>>> On 25/06/2025 09:40, David B. wrote:
>>>>>>> On 25/06/2025 08:00, David B. wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 25/06/2025 07:19, David B. wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 24/06/2025 23:48, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Jun 24, 2025 at 2:51:19 PM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>>>>>>>>> <mc0kunF3ot9U3@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>>>> [....]
>>>>>>>>>>> Most honest folk don't remove their persona from LinkedIn.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Where did you get this from?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> LinkedIn, of course!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This may help too:- https://i.ibb.co/LXtfG3Kk/Image-26-08-2023-
>>>>>>>>> at-10-09.jpg[....]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For some reason, when clicking on the link in that image, the 
>>>>>>>> 'y' (two of them) have been removed from the URL and it say 
>>>>>>>> "page not found" (or similar!)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Like this:-  httos://www.canadacompanvregistrv.com/companies/ 
>>>>>>>> etresoft-inc/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is what it SHOULD show:- https:// 
>>>>>>>> www.canadacompanyregistry.com/
>>>>>>>> companies/etresoft-inc/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can anyone explain, please?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've just noticed that https was also changed ..... to httos
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Odd!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Comments welcomed!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had hoped SOMEONE might know!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's not TOO late to respond! ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> You clicked a link on an image?
>>>>
>>>> *YES*!
>>>>
>>>> In THIS image https://i.ibb.co/LXtfG3Kk/Image-26-08-2023-at-10-09.jpg
>>>>
>>>> The lowest three items in a blue font are LIVE links! (Using Safari)
>>>
>>> No, it is am image.
>>>
>>> Some tools will do automatic OCR, though, to try to read it. Sounds like
>>> whatever tool you used had a failure in that.
>>>
>>> Using Shottr I had it look at a rectangle and it got this:
>>> -----
>>> found here: https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/companies/etresoft- 
>>> inc/
>>> PO Box number!!!!!
>>> C forums - https://discussions.apple.com/profile/HunterBD/ 
>>> participation - but was 'banned' whe ils on Linkedin here:- https:// 
>>> www.linkedin.com/in/boaterdave/duct!
>>> -----
>>
>> All I do is hover my cursor over the blue font item(s) and it turns into
>> an active link. This only happens with Safari, not Firefox or Chrome.
> 
> Newer versions of Apple's operating systems have the silly "Live Text" 
> 'feature' that automatically tries to create normal text, links, phone 
> numbers, etc. from words in images. It 'works' in many apps, but not 
> all. Like any optical character recognition, it can be rather hopeless, 
> especially on low-quality images, small font sizes, or blurry high- 
> compression images. It is really just another useless Artifical 
> Intelligence gimmick that does not work properly and is designed to make 
> fools waste money on a newer, more powerful computer to get all the new 
> toys.
> 
> Just ignore the rubbish and simply retype the text yourself. Even 
> better, turn the nonsense gimmick off completely:
> <https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/disable-live-text-mac/>

Thank you so very much for confirming that I haven't just been 'seeing 
things'!  🙂

I am a little surprised that Brock McNuggets was unaware of this feature;
Perhaps he'd simply forgotten about it and/or turned it off on his Mac.

YOUR expertise is respected and appreciated. Thanks again for posting.

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URL expertise needed, please! (was - I expect you know this!) "David B." <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-06-25 09:40 +0100
  Re: URL expertise needed, please! (was - I expect you know this!) "David B." <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-06-26 14:12 +0100
    Re: URL expertise needed, please! Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-06-26 16:00 +0000
      Re: URL expertise needed, please! "David B." <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-06-26 17:14 +0100
        Re: URL expertise needed, please! Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-06-26 16:21 +0000
          Re: URL expertise needed, please! "David B." <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-06-26 20:04 +0100
            Re: URL expertise needed, please! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-06-27 08:46 +1200
              Re: URL expertise needed, please! "David B." <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-06-26 22:10 +0100
              Re: URL expertise needed, please! Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-06-27 04:29 +0000
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                Re: URL expertise needed, please! Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-06 08:02 +0000
                Re: URL expertise needed, please! % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-07-06 07:21 -0700
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                Re: URL expertise needed, please! % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-07-06 16:52 -0700
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                Re: URL expertise needed, please! Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-07 04:23 +0000

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