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Is it possible that in my standard Google photo edit I have that red circle? I have a non-ghost need for it and don't see it under editing. It must be easily available , it's all over the internet. Thx.
 
Lb8535 said:
Is it possible that in my standard Google photo edit I have that red circle? I have a non-ghost need for it and don't see it under editing. It must be easily available , it's all over the internet. Thx.
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???? ... :dunno:

I'm lost here ... What red circle? What photo?
 
EnolaGaia said:
???? ... :dunno:

I'm lost here ... What red circle? What photo?
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Most ghost photos posted here have miscellaneous purportedly interesting items circled in red. It's become something of a joke. Perhaps it's a photoshop thing.
 
Lb8535 said:
Most ghost photos posted here have miscellaneous purportedly interesting items circled in red. It's become something of a joke. Perhaps it's a photoshop thing.
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maximus otter said:
MS Paint can do that.
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As MO indicates, ordinary photo / graphic apps (e.g., those bundled with desktops) offer features allowing you to annotate an image with simple graphics (e.g., circles) and text.
 
Safari on my Downstairs Mac kept crashing after an update. Couldn't do a thing with it.

Long and hair-tearing story short, the update stops Safari working if there are a certain (huge) number of Reading List items saved.
As I Reading List everything I like my poor Mac had no chance. :(

Popped upstairs and cleared the account's Reading List and all was again well. :cool:
 
When people do repairs/updates etc on electronics they need special screwdrivers. Techy keeps sending off for sets of them, and I have too, and they are always in farty little faux leather wallets with the screwdrivers in bits so you have to assemble them yourself.
They have small handles and are generally fiddly to use.

Don't these tools come in a ready-assembled form with normal-sized handles? I'd happily cough up for a set.
 
escargot said:
When people do repairs/updates etc on electronics they need special screwdrivers. Techy keeps sending off for sets of them, and I have too, and they are always in farty little faux leather wallets with the screwdrivers in bits so you have to assemble them yourself.
They have small handles and are generally fiddly to use.

Don't these tools come in a ready-assembled form with normal-sized handles? I'd happily cough up for a set.
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Of course they do, you’ve just got to look for them. Here’s one example - gets good reviews.

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hunck said:
Of course they do, you’ve just got to look for them. Here’s one example - gets good reviews.

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That's the exact set I was looking at earlier, wondering if it has all the necessary ends.
We have a Screwfix nearby so I considered doing a quick Click & Collect.

I was after a chunkier handle though. More like yer regular Stanley jobbie.
 
escargot said:
That's the exact set I was looking at earlier, wondering if it has all the necessary ends.
We have a Screwfix nearby so I considered doing a quick Click & Collect.

I was after a chunkier handle though. More like yer regular Stanley jobbie.
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And how long would you like them to be?

If there’s one near why not pop in & have a look to see if they’re suitable rather than buy first.

Regular Stanley jobbie is what used to come out of Cochise’s dog’s rear end.
 
hunck said:
And how long would you like them to be?

If there’s one near why not pop in & have a look to see if they’re suitable rather than buy first.

Regular Stanley jobbie is what used to come out of Cochise’s dog’s rear end.
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I own lots of tools including the sets of tiny electronic ones.
Tiny or specialist screws can be as tightly in place as your average wood screw. So a normal-sized screwdriver handle would be more helpful than a little thin one.
 
Also, been getting my head round InDesign finally this week (I needed to do this 3 years ago but only just now...). If anyone is experienced on it, I might need to ask you stupid questions? I have watched so many YouTube tutorials and read Adobe ones, this week and am sort of starting to get it - but only just. Most internecine program I ever used.
 
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Ghost In The Machine said:
Also, been getting my head round InDesign finally this week (I needed to do this 3 years ago but only just now...). If anyone is experienced on it, I might need to ask you stupid questions? I have watched so many YouTube tutorials and read Adobe ones, this week and am sort of starting to get it - but only just. Most internecine program I ever used.
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I did a three-day InDesign course about 5 years ago.

No idea how to use it.
 
CarlosTheDJ said:
I did a three-day InDesign course about 5 years ago.

No idea how to use it.
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It's horrendous. Luckily my son and daughter in law did their degrees in Graphic design/Illustration so son sort of knows his way round it and DIL uses it effortlessly, so I can always ask her if I get really stuck. Thing is, I don't like constantly pestering her with my moronic questions - although she puts up with me, I don't want to push my luck! They said they spent ages on it at uni, learning it slowly, bit by bit and to sort of go from InDesign Virgin to InDesign Experienced, I have a much shorter time frame! It's appallingly un user friendly - but the end results way better than with Microsoft products and am sort of expected to come up with files with the ID file extension so rather than keep asking my DIL I decided to figure it!

My younger kid has to build a magazine for his final project for his degree (football journalism) as well so I thought if I got a working knowledge of it, can help him - he is like me - can write content but has never had to learn layout or using programs like that, and they never taught him it at uni yet expect him to hand one in for his biggest % of marks for his degree! Lovely DIL set up the masters and layout for him, but he will still need some help.
 
Okay, weird question here....

I've found that I can't get my cursor to properly recognize where I'm typing in, specifically, Facebook.

Using a win10 machine, PC, Firefox, and most-times I'll click on a comment box in FB and it seems to enable hotkeys so I'll hold shift and press a letter (as one does) and the screen will scroll down or other weirdness happens.

I've disabled hotkeys anywhere I know to.

Anyone else have this issue or know of a fix?
 
Ghost In The Machine said:
Also, been getting my head round InDesign finally this week (I needed to do this 3 years ago but only just now...). If anyone is experienced on it, I might need to ask you stupid questions? I have watched so many YouTube tutorials and read Adobe ones, this week and am sort of starting to get it - but only just. Most internecine program I ever used.
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I have a fair bit of experience in indesign, maybe I can help?
 
My computer has started to download every webpage I go on (not just threads on this forum). I don't want to do that. Does anyone know how I can make things go back to normal, please?
 
Horsa said:
My computer has started to download every webpage I go on (not just threads on this forum). I don't want to do that. Does anyone know how I can make things go back to normal, please?
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Do you mean "download and save to disk" (as opposed to simply "download and display on-screen")?

If so ... My first guess is that your browser settings have been changed to cause this auto-saving behavior. Check your browser preferences and settings.
 
EnolaGaia said:
Do you mean "download and save to disk" (as opposed to simply "download and display on-screen")?

If so ... My first guess is that your browser settings have been changed to cause this auto-saving behavior. Check your browser preferences and settings.
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Yes.

Thank you very much for the information. I will take a look & see what I can do.
 
Horsa said:
My computer has started to download every webpage I go on (not just threads on this forum). I don't want to do that. Does anyone know how I can make things go back to normal, please?
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What browser do you use?
 
MercuryCrest said:
Okay, weird question here....

I've found that I can't get my cursor to properly recognize where I'm typing in, specifically, Facebook.

Using a win10 machine, PC, Firefox, and most-times I'll click on a comment box in FB and it seems to enable hotkeys so I'll hold shift and press a letter (as one does) and the screen will scroll down or other weirdness happens.

I've disabled hotkeys anywhere I know to.

Anyone else have this issue or know of a fix?
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I'm not a FB expert by any means, but do you actually click in the area where you want to type before you type? If so, and if it's only in FB, then it sounds like you have some kind of hotkey option set in the FB account, not on your machine or browser
 
Coal said:
So you're the one... :cool2:
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It came with my brand new laptop. I didn't want to waste data downloading & installing google chrome or mozilla firefox. :0)
 
Horsa said:
It came with my brand new laptop. I didn't want to waste data downloading & installing google chrome or mozilla firefox. :0)
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Edge has some unusual problems features, especially early versions. Do you at least have the latest version?

Maybe the easiest thing to do would be to go somewhere with free wifi and download one of the other browsers.
 
ChasFink said:
Edge has some unusual problems features, especially early versions. Do you at least have the latest version?

Maybe the easiest thing to do would be to go somewhere with free wifi and download one of the other browsers.
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I have the latest version.

Thank you very much for the information. I might just do that.
 
If you are sticking with Edge, I think there's an option to "preload" web pages. Maybe that's what it's doing?
 
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