tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53088949609087903492012-01-22T17:02:42.393Zthe blunt edge of development<br> <p align="center"><a href="http://coochat.blogspot.com">Blog announcements</a>   <a href="http://www.purple.dreamhosters.com/common/">PC Common Room</a> <a href="http://armchairexplorers.blogspot.com">AE</a>   <a href="mailto:jackofall@free.fr">Email Me</a>   </p>jackofallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15783059994109079437noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308894960908790349.post-37730139565081844682009-10-20T19:57:00.000+01:002009-10-20T19:57:33.921+01:00

What you use to view pages on the internet is called your internet browser and, for the moment, the most popular internet browser in use is Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). Version 8 of IE has recently come out (you'll see references to IE8 here and there, to distinguish it from previous versions, IEs 3, 4 5, 5.5, 6 and 7) and has apparently solved a lot of problems that earlier versions gave

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For those of you who'd like to have a clock showing in their blog side bars, ie one of the three flavours as shown on the right of this blog post, here are the instructions for adding one. My clocks show French time, which is GMT+2/BST+1 (or CET - Central European Time - in American, all rather confusing), but each clock is configurable for your own time zone.It's probably good idea, before you

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Thanks for at least having a look here, and carry on by being brave. As I said elsewhere, on my computer I have my own hand-made Home page with regularly visited sites on it for easy clicking and less hunting around in Favourites - it looks a bit like this:It's very simple to do and doesn't require a great deal of effort, nor knowledge of the underlying computer readable code (HTML - HyperText

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http://anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/smileys1.html is the site where I got a lot of these, have fun searching through the pages there for others.

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This is a similar tutorial to that done already on the Support page of the forums at PC, but I'm doing it here so that those interested can, if they wish, have this tutorial open at the same time as trying to put it into practice on the PC forums.The first point to make is that although in the PC Common Room you can post a picture either from your computer or from somewhere on the Net, in the

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Here is today's tutorial; I really enjoy doing these, though I always feel slightly guilty about the time it takes to do when I no doubt could and should be doing something else - pity I can't do it for a living.So, if you want to put the clickable Purple Coo link like the one at the right on your blogpage, you will need to add the appropriate code to the right place on your blog customization

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If you have arrived here from the Purple Coo Common Room post "Interesting website", you have obviously clicked on one of the links I gave in that post.Chez nous we have had several spoof PayPal emails, with the subject line along the lines of "Problem with your account", "Account temporarily suspended" and "Security alert on your account!". I spotted them as fakes because one of the things one

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Make sure you're writing in the Compose section of your draft post (click the Compose tab to make sure). When you're ready to make your link, find the link you want, copy it, then write the words you want to be the link text, highlight that text, then click on the little symbol with the bit of chain ( this icon - 2 symbols to the right of the italics symbol above where you're writing); in the

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If you want to put an email link like the one at the right on your blogpage, as opposed to on your profile, in case people come directly to your page without going through your profile, here are the steps to take.1. In the box of code below, type the email address you want to use in place of youremail@whatever2. Copy the code: either right-click, choose Select All if available, right-click again

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At bottom right of mountainear’s slide display (or mine) click the little button marked 'slide' ringed in red:That will take you to the Slide website’s opening page, as below (click on image to enlarge, then Back to return):Down the bottom of that, browse to photos you have on your computer and upload one at a time. Each time you upload one the display above will show how it will appear (click on

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Here's one I made earlier. Why not have a look at the instructions for making one yourself?

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It takes much less time to do than to type, so don't be put off.To get the photo online that you want to use as your avatar/profile image in your Photo URL on Blogger you first need to upload the photo/s you want to a website -the one I use is http://photobucket.com. On the opening page, click on the red join now button and it takes you step by step through the (free) signing up procedure and

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160x131This is the first picture, uploaded using the options layout left and small size and lots of repeated text to show the flow of words around it. This is the first picture, uploaded using the options align left and small size and lots of repeated text to show the flow of words around it.This is the first picture, uploaded using the options align left and small size and lots of repeated text

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If you want to put a link to your blog in a comment you make, say on the Announcement page at http://coochat.blogspot.com , you need to use the HTML code that's available. DON'T PANIC! It's not difficult, it takes longer to write than to do.1. On your blog page, in the address bar at the top, right click and choose copy;2. Go to the Announcement page and type your announcement. DON'T PUBLISH3.

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We've not lived in France long, compared to the French people who live here (well, d'uh!), and as non-French residents we don't have the right to vote in la presidentielle, but schools can be a rich fermenting ground for ideas.Apparently (I was out to work today before the sun rose, as is normal every other week) youngest, 6, came downstairs to breakfast this morning and on entering the kitchen

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!(written from an Australian perspective but still true nevertheless)First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.Then

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When you are in your own blog, in the top right corner you will see your email address and next to it a link for Dashboard; click on Dashboard and it will take you to a page similar to the one below (which is only a part of that resulting Dashboard page):This Dashboard shows you what blogs you have the rights to post on. (If you click on the picture it will take you to a larger size, where,

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Just been over to who gives a duck to experiment with blog retrieval. Mandy is creeping up the rated blogs list, closely followed by Milly - all we need now is a Molly on the scene and they'll have it all wrapped up. EJ is still top of the tree for the moment, though.I wrote all the stuff below, and believe me it takes a lot lot longer to write than to do, so don't be put off, only to discover

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jackofallWhat we are referring to as an avatar in this particular instance is NOT an avatar; an avatar is an icon (image or symbol) which can be placed next to your name in a forum, as happened in the other place when we posted on chatrooms. What we want/would like to happen, at Children Chocolate & Wine, is to have the picture we use for our avatar to appear with each post we make - n'est-ce pas

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When you write a Post on a blog, as opposed to a comment, below is part of the screen you should see, whether you've got a PC, a Mac or a NacMacFeegal, (though if you've got one of them, I should count your whisky bottles, and your white spirit bottles, before you go to bed). The symbol to click on for adding a clickable link is circled in red.

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Prompted by a posting on purple coo, I'm doing a very brief blog to se if it can be edited once I've hit the publish button.And that's all folks....laterYes, they can, click on the pencil symbol next to the comments word. (Only if you're the blog owner, of course)

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Here is a brief bit of information.

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