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How to get more from photos or slide shows

Clicking on the thumbnails of photos may get you to a larger version of the photo. Clicking on a slide show will get you to the Picasaweb page with the slide show, where you can view each individual photo full size, and also add captions and comments for each photo.

How to Handle Video & Photo Album Errors

This has been tested only on Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP.


For Videos:

If you are not seeing a thumbnail with a "play" button it, it means that your computer does not support the Windows Media Player that the video needs. In that case, you need your friendly local IT expert to give some advice on how to fix it.

If the video plays choppily, it most likely means that your internet connection is too slow, and you can view it better on a faster internet connection.

For Photos:

If you are not seeing a photo thumbnail, or the album changing pages periodically, it means that Macromedia Flash player is not available on your machine.

How To Caption & Comment on slide shows

The two photo album slideshows from Shahid's photo collection are actually hosted on Google's Picasaweb, which you can get to by clidking on the slideshows. Once you get there, you have the opportunity of veiws the slides in the original larger size, and also to add captions and comments to the photos, provied you sign in with a Google Account.

How to track new entries and comments?

So, the blog is interesting, but how do I know when there are new entries, or new comments to existing entries? I don't want to keep going to the blog to find out, and try to check for comments is a pain.

So glad you asked! On the right hand side of the page there is a heading "Subscribe to". You can select to receive new content either new posts or new comments in the comfort of your home page, "favorites" in your browser, or by email. If you need detailed instructions on how to do this, please leave a message stating that in he comments section of this post, and if there is sufficient interest, a step by step procedure will be prepared and posted on this blog.

How to Find an entry you once read

After you visit this delightful blog, and read something interesting, but cannot remember on which page and when, how do you relive that moment without having to go through every page of the blog?

On the right hand column, you will find it possible to track specific blog entries by date, and by topic (label), but only to the accuracy of proper categorization. If these fail, there is always the ability to run a search over this blog and related information.

The Acsian-Nostalgia Custom Search Engine is a smaller version of the great big search engine you are used to and love. Pressing the Search button searches for the term or keyword in a limited number of related sites, this blog, and sites to which this blog links. So instead of the abundance of riches of 2 million hits on what you are looking for, you will need to look through a smaller list of items.

How to Add New Entries

Only authors of this blog may post new entries.

To become an author of this blog, you need to accept an invitation to become one.
Invitations will be provided on receipt of (a) a stack of unmarked bills, preferably in large deonminations, in Sing $ or US greenbacks, or (b) upon request with your email address. You will then need to accept the invitation, and then you can become an author. In either case, if you want to be discrete about it, you may make a comment on the comment link at the bottom of this message and in the body of the comment either asked for the unnumbered Swiss Bank account number or provide your email address - please put a "DO NOT PUBLISH" as the title of your comment. :-)

But you need to hurry to get in on this once in a lifetime opportunity; invitations are going out fast and once the quota for number of authors is filled you can get in on it only if someone else leaves.

Authors can add new entries, and modify their old messages or delete them, and can also allow/reject comments to their posts. They may not change the post or comment of someone else.

How to contact Blog Owner

contact email addresses are not provided on this blog to prevent them from being screen scraped and used for spam purposes. To contact the Blog Owner, you can send a comment and put in your contact information an put a "DO NOT PUBLISH" at the beginning. That way the blog owner will be able to get your message without you publicly posting your contact information.

How to add comments to this blog

It would be nice to know if you are visiting from around the world if you leave your mark. However, the problem with most open guest books is that they are quickly filled by spambots telling you where to get insurance, mail order brides, body part and performance enhancing pharmaceutical ... which though interesting to our cohorts, pretty much drown out the comments of our friends and well-wishers.

Any legitimate comments to posts or to comments will be published after being moderated. When you click on the comments link at the end of an entry, you are taken to a screen where you can make a comment and then choose how and if you choose to reveal your identity or pen name.

If you have a Google Account (which is based on a valid email address, not necessarily a GMail address) you can associate a pen name with that account for this blog. Each time you use that Google Account, your pen name will show up, and optionally, you can display your profile. Your email address itself will not show up if you choose.

Another way is to use OPEN ID which won't be discussed further here

A third way is to just put in your name or pen name which will appear as entered with no additional information required.

The fourth way is to call yourself the famous prolific writer called "Anonymous".

All of these require that you recognize a string of distorted characters or numbers from an image - the idea is that computers will find it more difficult to recognize these than a human being. However, sometimes it is so difficult to interpret that it may b easier to write a program to check it out for you....

Additional information added Aug 2. The word recognition exercise has been temporarily suspened because some visitors could not get the image to show up. For now, you can post without showing you are not a machine

Coming soon.. how to add new posts ... how to contactg blog owner