Technical Test Thread

TEST

Edit: Nevermind... :-)))

A request for 'technical' assistance!

This thread seems like as good a place as any to ask this...

While I am a member of this group I seem to be getting an email every time a post is made in the group forum (regardless of whether I have contributed to, or even viewed the thread). For example by early Afternoon yesterday I had received over 150 emails of posts for the 31st May Daily Update thread - but had not even visited the website since the creation of that thread!

There must be an easy way to 'switch off' the receipt of emails like these, but I seem to have overlooked it - can anyone help please?

(at the moment I'm leaving the group after posting to stop receipt of emails that way).

Roy if you click on your username (on a black line at the top right hand side of the page of any RSPB community page) it opens you profile. Then "click edit" profile on the right hand side of the ceen across from your username. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page there are a set of e-mail preferences, for which the default option is that they are all ticked whoich means you get the e-mail overload you describe. Unticking the boxes will  resolve the issue

Thanks.

I knew that there would be something as simple as that somewhere and I'd even had a look at my profile for a way to do this. 

I think that I may have overlooked the "edit profile" button which seems to be pretty much isolated on its own, while everything else is on the left side of the page.

Surprisingly I don't seem to have been getting emails from other RSPB forums.

Testing TIGER and Loch Garten Nest Stats - 2012......had a quick 'technical' peek at laying and hatching dates..There seems to be a glitch with Egg #1 hatching date...listed as Thursday 16th May ?!? Diary wise there is Wed 16th or Thu 17th...I actually don't remember the correct hatching date...End of test ?:-?

Hi TBOL. I had put in right date but wrong day, thanks for pointing out. Corrected now :)

ChloeB said:

Hi TBOL. I had put in right date but wrong day, thanks for pointing out. Corrected now :)

That's great ChloeB :-)

Testing cropped image with different width settings....

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I'm just posting some VLC settings screenshots, hoping I'll eventually be able to guide NOC so's she can record with it.  EVERYONE is welcome to chip in cos I'm not confident of remembering where things are in the complex Preferences sections.

Let  me warn you that I've already confused myself nearly into oblivion with these screenshots, don't know what's what :o

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Open VLC, select TOOLS>Customise Interface:

You should see this:

 

You need to slide icons you do NOT want from right to the left panel, and vice versa for the ones you DO want.  The above is my interface, which you can see in the first screenshot above.  I haven't done it as well with this year's "new model" as I had it last year, hey ho.  Just the basics, though, in Line 1: RECORD (that toggles on/off), SNAPSHOT, START, REW, STOP, SOUND, and PROGRESS.

It took me ages to get it more-or-less how I wanted it, especially dispensing with Line 2, cos we want VLC to be small to sit "always on top" and not impinge too much on other things.  

Which reminds me, I haven't shown "always on top" = Open VLC, click Video from the menus across the top, tick "always on top".

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At the bottom left of the Preferences box you can select SIMPLE or ALL.  Select SIMPLE and highlight Input & Codecs on the left, then you can choose the folder where you want to save video recordings:

 

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Selecting ALL, highlight Video on the left and you can choose the folder where you want to save SNAPSHOTS on the right, also how you want them named and whether to save as PNG or JPG (I advise JPG, it's smaller and some picture editors don't handle PNG).

 

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I'm leaving it there for now, perhaps NOC you could have a play around, see how far you get with the above, then come back and ask questions to fill in the gaps I've left or to get corrections for and additions to the info I've given.

As I said, please feel free to chip in, ALL ;-D

EEK...one day I'll have to refer to this scylla but I don't have VLC installed.

Anyway, just thought I'd chip in... ;-P

A quick easy one for you experts.

When posting a posh link which option do you choose to allow the link to open minimised on top of the original post without loosing the original page.

When I do it - it closes my original page and opens a complete new web page to the link and it is annoying me.