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Reply to Looking for Free FTP site in Internet WinCustomize Forums

[B]Update: FTP set up through Photobucket (Pro acct needed).[/B] I still can't use draft facility with JoeUser, but can publish. Using FTP upload of local images seems to work fine. It's the 'direct' uploading of local images that requires the FTP protocol when working with JoeUser. It's just about streamlining the process - not a necessity. Using the 'Insert Picture from Web' button worked fine with JoeUser. Note this isn't required with Window's

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Reply to Looking for Free FTP site in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Cheers Zoo - The 'Upload Images To My Weblog' option was greyed out for me until an update a couple of hours ago. (A Live Writer update and a Net Framework2 update) Also another nod to Philly who was also on this track. :) It's fetching the preview to the local draft - so it looks as if it should work (it does in Windows Live). Unfortunately with or without the image in the draft, Live Writer is presenting a server error at the moment when working with Joe User - so I can't te

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Reply to Looking for Free FTP site in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Thanks Leo, I'll take a look :) Just for background - screenshot from Live Writer re uploading images to Joe User. [img]http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l55/darkstar-rising/wlshot.jpg[/img]

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Reply to Looking for Free FTP site in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Hi Philly, As far as I know from my brief experience, it only indicates using the FTP protocol to upload images to Joe User. Happy to be shown otherwise though. Took a quick look at Photobucket and I would apparently need the pro version to access FTP. With ImageShack I think I would need to buy credits of some form to access their FTP service. @ zakai - As it's the same site it would effectively be a double post. I have taken that route on an affiliated site though

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Reply to Windows Live Writer and JoeUser in Tutorials JoeUser Forums

[quote]Step #3: Set up your image server In my case, I got an FTP site (I pay $5 per month for this but there are many free FTP sites). You only need to do this if you want to have images in your blog:[/quote] Re the above element. I'd appreciate a recommendation of such a free FTP site. Particularly useful if known to be reliable with Joe User/Live Writer. Thanks. Edit: Went the Photobucket Pro acct. route. Dirt cheap and appears to work

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Looking for Free FTP site in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Can anybody please recommend a good Free FTP site? Apparently this is needed in order to upload images to Joe User, when using Windows Live Writer. Thanks for any leads.

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Reply to 'How to Survive Skin Studio' seeking opinions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hi Zubaz, It's like I said earlier on - I think if it has any use, then it has to be modular, navigable and amendable. I have no idea how many tips/workarounds there are out there. If there are enough to make doing it worthwhile, then a thread would definitely struggle to achieve that. The Wiki could do it, if it presented as an updatable index that linked to the tips/workarounds. It's just easier for me initially to compile them in a more structured format

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Reply to 'How to Survive Skin Studio' seeking opinions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Cheers zakai - I've seen that and anything that helps with focus is very welcome. As it goes, this thread was more about checking out the value of the project. I'll start a fresh thread for collecting and requesting tips... that I will then collate and make available. Established skinners like Boxxi, are considered very welcome contributors. It feels a bit two-faced to do it without showing willing to open SkinStudio myself, so I'm working on a project that goes hand in glove

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Reply to What 'other' graphic work do you do? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I just play about now. mostly with photographs - though I enjoy experimenting with the pen tool. Back in the day before computer graphics as we know them, I had my own half page in a big County wide newspaper that I both wrote and illustrated... just pen & ink drawings of wildlife and such, and I still have a fondness for line drawings.

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Reply to 'How to Survive Skin Studio' seeking opinions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for comments. I'm a great fan of the Wiki and happy to feed in to it as felt useful. I thought this was more likely to compliment work that was in the Wiki, rather than duplicate it. [color="#0000FF"]@zakai1369 [/color]- Thanks for getting it started. [color="#0000FF"]@ Xiamdi[/color]- Thanks for joining in. Any tip is welcome. If it's something you feel useful then offer it up - and I'll collate it. [color="#0000FF"]@ I.R.[/color]- I'm not sure how fa

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Reply to Did the earth move for you? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yup, about 01:00hrs I think it was, too busy trying to work out what the heck the bang was to be sure. Short & sweet as if a big rig had just hit the house, only without the dust and debris. Darn Trolls & their tunnels, no wonder the Earth is cracking... ;D

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Reply to Weekly Poll: Wallpaper Moderation in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I hadn't thought it was an either/or thing... Acknowledging that to a degree, wallpapers are a matter of taste, there clearly is a scale of acceptability. Does returning to a position that takes a firmer grip on the balance of styles entering the gallery, mean that unsuccessful entries would no longer go to personal pages?

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'How to Survive Skin Studio' seeking opinions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Every now and then a skinning tip/workaround appears in a thread, which might save a new skinner unnecessary frustration. If it's thought to be of value, I'm happy to set up a way in which I can collect and present these in a .pdf format that I can then make generally available. Is there any interest in having access to such a 'How to Survive Skin Studio' document?</fo

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Reply to Response to Skinning , The Market & Consequence. in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I alsways thought it was well known that ODNT users got access to betas through SDC and were supposed to provide feedback. Huh . . goes to show hoiw much I know.[/quote] It's not the same thing as good communication, alongside sustainable levels of testing that respects the developers and their programs.

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Reply to Response to Skinning , The Market & Consequence. in OS Customization Stardock Forums

Sorry not to have responded earlier - this is a duplication thread that was a result of my error and I hadn't checked back. I do appreciate the basis of the message you were presenting. I'll attempt comparitive brevity. I initially responded as I was struck by the difference in the dynamism that Stardock has expressed through developments such as the Master Skinner program and the introduction of 'My Colors', and how it contrasted with what I was reading in your article which rea

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Reply to A Hacker's Paradise in Windows Software WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Just a reminder to anybody new to port checking. If you are behind a hardware firewall,is that a router? what do DMZ/NAT = ?you did say anybody new to port checking[/quote] Hi DC, A hardware firewall is often part of a router, but remains it's own component. It certainly doesn't have to be part of a router. That said, when using a router/firewall combo for example as a way of placing your computer behind NAT, your computer would have it's own local address - such as 10

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