On your Mac, use the built in utility Grab. Sent from my iPhone
-- Peter [email protected] On Oct 12, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Vinyl Visions <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another trick for downloading photos, since a lot of websites and sellers are > posting flash pics, which do not respond to a right-click save: in VISTA or > WIN 7 go to your START button, click on ALL programs - scroll down to > "accessories" and click it - a list will appear - scroll down to "Snipping > Tool" and click it - a window should appear in your task bar titled Snipping > Tool and it will ask if you would like to add it to your Quick Launch bar - > click "Yes" and it will place itself to the right of your START button. Now, > when you want to copy ANYTHING, whether it is normally something you can copy > or not, you just click on the snipping tool - click "NEW" and drag an outline > around the picture or entire window you want to capture and it will save it > as a graphic image - one caveat is that it leaves a small red outline around > your pic, but other than that it works great. If you don't like the red line > you can get a program called SNAG-IT, which captures images without the l in > e. Snipping Tool is free - Snag-It is not - however you can find it for free > on http://www.filecrop.com - and I am not endorsing that method, if you > choose to pursue it... > >> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:01:58 -0400 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Ebay does it again (delete if not interested) >> >> you can always download the image. Even in Firefox. >> Just right click "view Source" >> then download the jpeg file. >> >> >> >> -- >> Thatcher Graham >> Senior Field Engineer >> Mediaguide >> >> >> >> >> >> On 10/12/2011 3:58 PM, Dennis Back wrote: >>> It seems that ebay has done another update and it not a good one for the >>> consumer. >>> >>> What is happening now is that when an auction is over (completed) ebay has >>> now removed the seller's pictures that were posted to the ebay server. The >>> only picture remaining is a very small thumbnail which is partly >>> obliterated with the word "ended." >>> >>> It should be noted that any pictures that the seller has posted on an >>> external site such as photobucket or inkfrog, etc, is still visible on the >>> completed auctions. >>> >>> This problem was originally thought to be a "glitch" that they were working >>> on, but since being told this, I have read that this was fully intentional >>> by ebay...probably to save server space. You ask one rep and they tell you >>> something different (what else is new?). >>> >>> There is a temporary fix that you can do, though. In the address bar of the >>> competed item, you can replace the ".com" with ".ca" or ".co.uk" or any >>> other foreign ebay server address. This will let you see the completed >>> auction with all the ebay photos. >>> >>> Some of the ebay customer service reps were clueless as to why I or anyone >>> else would need to see ALL the ebay pics! One even said that the >>> obliterated thumbnail of ONE pic was enough for us! >>> >>> As a side note about saving the pics, remember that you can save ebay pics >>> if you use Internet Explorer and right click the photo. This does NOT work >>> using Firefox. >>> >>> Hope this helps someone out there in phono-land. >>> >>> Dennis >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Phono-L mailing list >>> http://phono-l.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
