Author Topic: thoughts? (Read 3263 times)

Evi · « **Reply #30 on:** May 03, 2005, 12:23:57 AM »

This will make transferring crap to your Gmail much easier:

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Have fun!

Paul2 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 03, 2005, 01:06:45 AM »

oh, i forgot another method which i never used since i haven\'t own one yet.

USB jump drive. those matchbox lighter would do the trick too. I am very certain the majority of computers have USB 1.1 by now unless their computer is really, really old. Most newer computers built in 2001 or 2002 or later have USB 2 support.

Just stick that on the computer USB slot and transfer all the data you want into the jump drive. Then transfer them into your computer at home.

Evi · « **Reply #32 on:** May 03, 2005, 12:07:54 PM »

^^^^^^

But that costs more than free.

Paul2 · « **Reply #33 on:** May 03, 2005, 01:47:50 PM »

yep, but i am just giving out several methods that can be used. Doesn\'t mean you have to use it.

So are burning it into a CD or copying it to a floppy disc which both does cost money too. But of of course, they cost no more than like 25 cents per disc or per floppy. But if one want to use the floppy disc method, imagine how many floppy discs will be stack up because of storage problem. and some data is too large to fit in a floppy disc.

I guess external hard disk drive is the most expensive method of the bunch for backing up data...

so, yeah, if you think about free, i guess your email method is definately 100% free.

Evi · « **Reply #34 on:** May 03, 2005, 01:59:24 PM »

Floppy discs are so outdated. The only thing they\'re good for is turning in a report for class or something (if it\'s a text only report).

Living-In-Clip · « **Reply #35 on:** May 03, 2005, 02:32:32 PM »

So, yeah, if you think about it, the first solution was the most simple and free one, so yeah, I guess if you think about it, all the other idea\'s was a waste of time and bandwidth.

Paul2 · « **Reply #36 on:** May 03, 2005, 04:05:54 PM »

lol, so yeah, you are right, lic...and yeah...oh so yeah...

clips · « **Reply #37 on:** May 04, 2005, 06:36:24 PM »

question...i transfered some files(mostly avatars) from my job pc to my home pc *thanks evi*, now when i try to upload some of the avy\'s here, it states that the avy is not jpeg or gif, when clearly it is, well at least it was when i uploaded it from my job pc...

when i went into my gmail file the said avy was only being filed as art or bitmeg? but even when i viewed the avy, it came up as being jpeg file...thoughts? why is my jpeg avy being converted to bitmeg in the gmail acct?..only thing i did was email that avy to myself...

Evi · « **Reply #38 on:** May 04, 2005, 06:57:24 PM »

Maybe your computer is on crack. You should zip all of your files into one file and send it via http://yousendit.com to your e-mail account ... this way the files won\'t get the chance to do something funky. With yousendit, you can send up to a gigabyte, so if you just zip all your crap together, you won\'t have any issues. You can still send the zip file to yourself as well, but you can only send up to 10MB. I still have no clue why it would change the filetype to a bitmeg. I don\'t even know wtf that is.

Gmail has never changed the filetype when I\'ve sent things to myself, so something funky is going on.

Paul2 · « **Reply #39 on:** May 04, 2005, 10:11:08 PM »

i am assuming its bitmap you guys are talking about. Like the above poster, I have no clue why that would send as bitmap instead of jpeg if that is the original format.

clips · « **Reply #40 on:** May 04, 2005, 11:22:07 PM »

yo, i just tested a few of the avy\'s that did work...there\'s still a couple that\'s comin up as bitmap?

f**k it..i\'m tired now it\'s like 3:20 am and i\'ve been f**kin\' with this s**t since 9 pm...i\'ll try and figure this out t\'morrow...

« **Reply #41 on:** May 05, 2005, 04:44:30 AM »

if they are bitmaps now you can just open paint or some other picture program and convert to a jpeg or gif or whatever. I use photshop for that sort of thing usually, but you may not have that.

Paul2 · « **Reply #42 on:** May 05, 2005, 06:01:16 AM »

jpeg is a lossy compression.

jpeg to bitmap will not degrade it anymore as it\'s already is since bitmap is uncompressed.

convert it back from bitmap to jpeg again will degrade it more.

Even if its the original is already in jpeg and you want to save it again in jpeg format in either paintbrush or photoshop. It will degrade the quality somewhat. Hence the meaning of lossy compression.

I played with both photoshop and paintbrush and I found that photoshop compress better than paintbrush at about the same amount of compression and same picture information size. Photoshop obviously is a better encoder than paintbrush.

Evi · « **Reply #43 on:** May 05, 2005, 11:08:36 AM »

^^^^^^

He doesn\'t really have a choice, so if he wants to convert them back, it\'s fine. They weren\'t bitmaps to begin with, so converting them back to the filetype they were before won\'t really affect the quality that much.

Just make sure that when you convert the files, that you save them at 100% quality.

clips · « **Reply #44 on:** May 05, 2005, 12:21:31 PM »

y\'know i had cyrus convert some pdf files for me to jpeg. now i don\'t have a clue as to how to convert those avy\'s from bitmap to jpeg..

...if it\'s too involved don\'t bother to explain, i\'ll just roll with the avy\'s i have now....but if it\'s simple then i\'m all ears....

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