Helpful Features

[Matt]

Hey everybody. Happy Monday.

This is our last week as a "test site" and I was hoping that you guys could start posting helpful features for our new members.

Then we can copy them all down and post them in this first thread.

I'll start:

There is a "new posts" options in the tool bar to see only threads that have been posted in since you left.

The Quick Links pull down menu gets you a lot of places in just one click.

To respond to more than one post at one time:
1) Click the "multi" button by each post that you want to quote so that it says "multi-on."
2) Then near the bottom of the screen hit "New Reply" (not Quick Reply).
Voila'.

There is an Edit button at the bottom of each of your posts. Most often, editing your post rather than amending it in a new one is better from the point of view of readability.

also, not only does new posts show you where the site has been active since you left, but you can see all of the threads that have posts that you haven't read...ever.

You can also hit "Home" on your keyboard and it will take you to the top of the page.
And "End" conversely :D

Using IE the F11 key makes the top of the browser disappear. Press it again to have it return.

on that note, f5 refreshes.

On that note, so does a nice cold beer.

If you want to insert a link. You can just type the word you want...

yahoo

then highlight it and click the "insert link" button.

google (http://www.google.com)
That's how it looks. You can also just do URL tags as follows:
[URL="http:// information here]
then you put the title of the link created, like "Google."
[/U RL]
Remove the space between the U and the RL in the closed tag, of course.

There is an option in the upper right corner that says "view unread posts". It subdivides into threads you have responded to also others that you have simply viewed.

You can also subscribe to threads you want to follow using the User CP.

[Spencer]

The Quick Links pull down menu gets you a lot of places in just one click.

[Patrick]

To respond to more than one post at one time:
1) Click the "multi" button by each post that you want to quote so that it says "multi-on."
2) Then near the bottom of the screen hit "New Reply" (not Quick Reply).
Voila'.

[Jean]

There is an Edit button at the bottom of each of your posts. Most often, editing your post rather than amending it in a new one is better from the point of view of readability.

[sarajean]

There is an Edit button at the bottom of each of your posts. Most often, editing your post rather than amending it in a new one is better from the point of view of readability.

i'm gonna give this one a big thumbs up.

also, not only does new posts show you where the site has been active since you left, but you can see all of the threads that have posts that you haven't read...ever.

[Matt]

You can also hit "Home" on your keyboard and it will take you to the top of the page.

And "End" conversely :D

[sarajean]

You can also hit "Home" on your keyboard and it will take you to the top of the page.

And "End" conversely :D

:lol:

i can't believe you didn't know that before.

[sarah]

**points at matt and laughs** :couple:

[MonteGss]

You can also hit "Home" on your keyboard and it will take you to the top of the page.

And "End" conversely :D

:( Mine doesn't have a HOME key...
Well, at least I don't see one. :D iBooks, pfft.

[Brice]

You can also hit "Home" on your keyboard and it will take you to the top of the page.

And "End" conversely :D

:( Mine doesn't have a HOME key...
Well, at least I don't see one. :D iBooks, pfft.

I'm not sure but try the apple key in combination with your up/down arrow keys.

[Brice]

At the risk getting laughed at also. I didn't know the home and end keys did that either.

[Jean]

don't worry Brice, the laughers would be outnumbered by us, the laughed-at. I didn't know it either, and found the constant scrolling great nuisance. But the decades of communism taught me asceticism, so I didn't complain.

[Hannah]

Yeah, I didn't know either. :lol:

[sarajean]

really? you guys didn't know that?

mrs. (oh, what the hell was her name? she taught me german and typing. fuck!) anyway, mrs. something taught me that in typing my freshman year.

[Matt]

We didn't have any computers when I was in school :cry:

[Jean]

We didn't have any computers when I was in school
we didn't have any computers when I was in the University... I'm ancient.

[Brice]

Until about two years ago I hadn't touched a computer for longer than a few minutes.

[Jean]

I got my first in 1993. It was a 286... black-and-white monitor, no mouse... and MS-DOS instead of any Windows... but it was Such a Miracle! I even played games. Like Larry 1. It took him minutes to get to the next screen.

So, I never blame technical progress! I find it sweet, just like all those Helpful Features we're discussing.

And, back to Helpful Features - is there any way to save an unsent message? I haven't found it yet; but, again, it may be only my lack of attention

[Brice]

If so I couldn't find a way to do that either Jean.

[Matt]

Oh, this is a great topic.

When did you get your first computer and/or experience.

[Erin]

At the risk getting laughed at also. I didn't know the home and end keys did that either.

Me either! This has just made me insanely happy.

[Hannah]

We had a Commodore 64 when I was little. I still miss some of the games we played on that thing.

[sarajean]

apple IIe.

i had a muppets game.

[Erin]

We had a really old computer. I think the brand name was Wang. I used to play Oregon Trial on it all the time when I was 7 or so.

Also, I played another game I can't remember the name of. In the game, you were an elf like creature who ran around on a huge tree and killed little creatures to find gold coins. It was so much fun.

[Matt]

I did not have a computer in my house until after I was an adult. :lol:

We had an Atari but other than that--play with rocks in the driveway.

[Bethany]

Pitfall Harry rocked!

I had a Timex Sinclair something or another and thought I was the living shit.

[OchrisO]

At the risk getting laughed at also. I didn't know the home and end keys did that either.

Me either! This has just made me insanely happy.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.

[Patrick]

I knew about the Home and End keys in terms of Word documents and such. It never occurred to me to try them on a messageboard. :blush:

We had one o' them Pong games. Back-and-white, burn an image in your tv screen if you left it on too long - that one.

No real computer until after college (a.k.a. "university" to you foreigners). :)

[Randall Flagg]

Using IE the F11 key makes the top of the browser disappear. Press it again to have it return.

[sarajean]

on that note, f5 refreshes.

[Patrick]

on that note, f5 refreshes.

On that note, so does a nice cold beer.

[MonteGss]

on that note, f5 refreshes.

On that note, so does a nice cold beer.

I like Patrick's better. :)
Mmmmm, beer.

[VolsToTheWall]

on that note, f5 refreshes.

On that note, so does a nice cold beer.

I like Patrick's better. :)
Mmmmm, beer.

I'll 3rd that. Cheers! *clink* :thumbsup:

[Randall Flagg]

I have reprogrammed my keys so that F5 prompts my wife to bring me a fresh beer.:dance:

Note:
If you right click on your grey menu bar and desect status bar, pressing F11 removes both top and bottom grey bars and leaves only the side scroll bars. Nice full picture.
Please say duh if you already knew this.

[Spencer]

The worst computer was the Commodore 64, which used not dicks, but cassette tapes.

[Bethany]

The worst computer was the Commodore 64, which used not dicks, but cassette tapes.


Damn. Now that's some messed up technology.:cyclops:

[Daghain]

Quote:
Originally Posted by sarajean
on that note, f5 refreshes.

On that note, so does a nice cold beer.
:rofl:

[Matt]

I found out something interesting today, this may have already been brought up.

If you want to insert a link. You can just type the word you want...

yahoo

then highlight it and click the "insert link" button.

its asks you for the address and inserts it behind the word so it doesn't look like...www.yahoo.com (http://www.yahoo.com)

:D

[Frunobulax]

google (http://www.google.com)
That's how it looks. You can also just do URL tags as follows:
[URL="http:// information here]
then you put the title of the link created, like "Google."
[/U RL]
Remove the space between the U and the RL in the closed tag, of course.

[Matt]

Yep, I was trying to make the button ask for the addy, then the link name like invision but its even easier this way.

[Frunobulax]

Oh yes. It saves me the trouble of formatting URL tags, too, since they can get tricky with long web addresses. Thanks a ton, Matt! [Thumbs up and all that good stuff.]

[Randall Flagg]

so you can E-Bay (http://cgi.ebay.com/STEPHEN-KING-GIRL-WHO-LOVED-TOM-GORDON-SIGNED-FIRST-ED_W0QQitemZ230137055663QQihZ013QQcategoryZ29223QQ rdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

(the girl who Loved To Gordon test.)

[Randall Flagg]

Or: I love frunobulax (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/impulse84/WH_fat_girls.jpg&imgrefurl=http://basictransportation.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html&h=371&w=400&sz=46&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=DlnSDsZPyYTQnM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfat%2Bgirls%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26h l%3Den) :dance:

[Frunobulax]

You can be cerebral now, too, like saying:
You got burned (http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070601/hl_hsn/moreamericanssufferingsunburns)!

[sarajean]

i just hit the insert link button and replace the web address with what i want it to say. it's already highlighted, you just have to hit delete. (http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/)

[Jon]

Is there a "hot naked chick" option here?

[ZoNeSeeK]

http://static.flickr.com/78/202750377_2ec2a0b75e.jpg ?

[Randall Flagg]

Zone, that looks great.
Not sure why it's here, but I'm hungry.

[sarajean]

it's a hot naked chick.

[Patrick]

i just hit the insert link button and replace the web address with what i want it to say. it's already highlighted, you just have to hit delete. (http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/)

:rofl:

[sarajean]

FINALLY!!!!

patrick, i have been waiting NINE days for someone to click that link.

thank you.

[Matt]

Whats that? Did I solve something? :lol:

[sarajean]

no, patrick clicked the link i posted on the last page.

[Darkthoughts]

Please also post here if theres a button or option on the site you don't understand :)

For instance - to quote multiple posts in a thread, hit the "multi off" button (which is next to the "quote" button at the bottom of a post). Hitting it changes it to "multi on", click this for as many posts as you wish, pressing the "quote" button for the last post you want to use. All the relevant posts then appear for you to edit/quote as you need.

[CRinVA]

I did wonder how that was done - thanks!

[fernandito]

Please also post here if theres a button or option on the site you don't understand :)

For instance - to quote multiple posts in a thread, hit the "multi off" button (which is next to the "quote" button at the bottom of a post). Hitting it changes it to "multi on", click this for as many posts as you wish, pressing the "quote" button for the last post you want to use. All the relevant posts then appear for you to edit/quote as you need.

I was just coming in here to ask this very same thing.

Thank you Lisa from last year!

[Jon]

The worst computer was the Commodore 64, which used not dicks, but cassette tapes.


Hell,I thought that was the shit in those days.

[Rjeso]

The worst computer was the Commodore 64, which used not dicks, but cassette tapes.


Hell,I thought that was the shit in those days.

You would if it used dicks. You like anything that requires dicks. :P

[Jon]

Well...yes!


Speaking of dicks...how is Jimmy?

[Jimmy]

Well...yes!


Speaking of dicks...how is Jimmy?

I'm coo', yo. Chillin'. :rock:

What's been going on Jon?

[Scar]

Could someone please help me? How do I keep track of conversations I am in? Is there a way to save topics or conversations?

[Matt]

As far as threads go?

There is an option in the upper right corner that says "view unread posts". It subdivides into threads you have responded to also others that you have simply viewed.

[Scar]

Thank you

[Daghain]

You can also subscribe to threads you want to follow using the User CP.

[Hannah]

I went through and archived all of the hepful tips in this thread and included them in Matt's first post.

I had totally forgotten about the home/end trick to circumvent having to scroll up and down. :blush:

[herbertwest]

Any chance to get some more storage space for the Private Messages?
I understand that it means more storage on the serveur etc, so maybe there could be an option to BUY some more storage space or something?

[Randall Flagg]

What amount of storage space, and what would be a fair price?

[herbertwest]

I dont know. An option such as doubling the current allowance (which is 150 messsages) for something like $5 may be something that could be considered?
$5 is cheap, therefore affordable for users, and i guess that it would definitely cover the extra cost.

[Randall Flagg]

Gold Members have a 300 PM limit.

[herbertwest]

And how do we become a Gold member? :)

[Randall Flagg]

And how do we become a Gold member? :)
You are a Gold Member :)

[Merlin1958]

And how do we become a Gold member? :)
You are a Gold Member :)

Oh, I wanna be a "Gold Member"!!! LOL LOL LOL Sign me up!!! LOL

[pathoftheturtle]

And how do we become a Gold member? :)
You are a Gold Member :)

Oh, I wanna be a "Gold Member"!!! LOL LOL LOL Sign me up!!! LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwB0ZJbwmpw

[Randall Flagg]

And how do we become a Gold member? :)
You are a Gold Member :)

Oh, I wanna be a "Gold Member"!!! LOL LOL LOL Sign me up!!! LOL
You already have a dedicated member title: THE MAN

[Merlin1958]

And how do we become a Gold member? :)
You are a Gold Member :)

Oh, I wanna be a "Gold Member"!!! LOL LOL LOL Sign me up!!! LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwB0ZJbwmpw

LOL Very good!!!

[herbertwest]

And how do we become a Gold member? :)
You are a Gold Member :)

/me thinks that Randall Flagg rocks !

[Sir_Boomme]

Is there a "hot naked chick" option here?

that would be this one:



http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?2578-Sir_Boomme-s-NSFW-Art-(warning-nude-art)&p=971729#post971729