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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM

11/18/2005 03:04:34 AM · #1

This may come under the category of "old news" to a lot of people, but I'm pretty web-savvy (been using the net for a LONG time) and I just now realized that you can drag a folder icon from the forum onto the desktop and link directly to a thread! I can't belive I never realized this before, I'm well aware you can drag url's from the address bar onto the desktop, for example...

This will solve my problem of having to tag every thread I want to keep short-term watch over as a "watched" thread, and seek it out in the list 2 levels down when I want to catch up, if it's off the front page...

Yipee!

Robt.

Rikki

Canon EOS-20D

11/18/2005 03:08:16 AM · #2

sweet! learning something new again ;)

11/18/2005 03:17:37 AM · #3

I'll be damned too, I've been on the web since like forever and I design web sites and spend 18 hours a day online and I didn't know that either... lol

Tamron SP AF 17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

11/18/2005 03:31:04 AM · #4

That makes me feel a whole LOT better, jejeje™ I was embarrassed to think I might be the last savvy user to figure this out :-)

R.

roadrunner

Canon EOS-20D

11/18/2005 03:48:09 AM · #5

hey i never knew that either, thanks for teaching me my ' thing' for the day.. yyou know the saying ' you learn something everyday'?.. well it's gettin late here, and i hadnt' learnt anything today... then bear comes along... THANKS MATEY,... i will sleep well tonight now.... kekekkekkeekeke

11/18/2005 03:57:09 AM · #6

Did ya know that if you go to my site and click on ads, I get paid by Google? LOL ... try it, it really works .... LMAO

11/18/2005 04:23:38 AM · #7

Well darn noone bit... oh well, blame that one on lack of sleep.

11/18/2005 04:26:44 AM · #8

Alright, alright! I clicked an ad. Now do I have to go to school there in order for you to get paid, or what? jejeje™

R.

Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS

11/18/2005 04:28:27 AM · #9

Originally posted by bear_music:

Alright, alright! I clicked an ad. Now do I have to go to school there in order for you to get paid, or what? jejeje™

R.

Nope, clicking the ads is enough, click as many as ya like, it's Pay Per Click... :-) That's Google Paying ME!!! wooo hooo !!!

Message edited by author 2005-11-18 04:29:03.

mfairbanks

Sony DSC-F828

11/18/2005 06:19:20 AM · #10

So I guess this goes to show that you can teach an old dog ...err Bear new tricks!

Mike
//www.mikefairbanks.com

Message edited by author 2005-11-18 06:19:31.

Firsty

Fujifilm X-E1

11/18/2005 06:22:19 AM · #11

clicking and dragging the folder icon in firefox doesn't work
you just download the icon and it opens in your gif viewer when clicked

BUT you can drag the thread title next to the icon to your desktop and it will work :)

Message edited by author 2005-11-18 06:22:53.

11/18/2005 06:30:21 AM · #12

Originally posted by Firsty:

Yah, you're right. That's what I was doing; dragging the thread title.

Robt.

Stagolee

Kodak Easyshare C180

Canon EF 50mm f1.2 L

11/18/2005 06:44:22 AM · #13

Cool thanks bear.......... now I'll have more clutter on my desktop

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

11/18/2005 06:46:40 AM · #14

Originally posted by keegbow:

Cool thanks bear.......... now I'll have more clutter on my desktop

YOu can make a folder for threads on the desktop and drag 'em into that; only increase clutter by one object thusly :-)

R.

UNCLEBRO

Canon EOS-30D

11/18/2005 07:35:02 AM · #15

well here's my useless thing that I discovered the other day that everyone else probably knows:

When you have the curves/levels/saturation or other dialogue boxes open you can hold down the "Ctrl+Alt" keys and the cancel button becomes a reset button so you can start over without having to go back in and out again.

Makes sense?
Or did everyone know that already?

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

11/18/2005 07:40:31 AM · #16

Originally posted by UNCLEBRO:

I knew it. I don't know if "everybody" does... Whoever reads this thread knows it now :-)

R.

sabphoto

Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+

11/18/2005 08:08:15 AM · #17

Originally posted by UNCLEBRO:

Is it both the ctrl and alt? I thought it was just alt?

Thanks bear for the tip, I didn't know about either of these tips no more right click and copy paste (or ctrl+c and ctrl+v) to create shortcut.

deapee

Kodak V803

11/18/2005 08:13:35 AM · #18

You can click and drag ANY link by the way

w24x192

Canon PowerShot S50

11/18/2005 08:13:38 AM · #19

Another one from DPChallenge that John Setzler hinted at: if you type in the address bar your favorite user's name, then .dpchallenge.com, it will link directly to their profile...kinda handy and a lot easier to recall than their user number (that is if you don't have them favorited.

Example w24x192.dpchallenge.com, etc