Firefox vs Explorer-- Color

 EDIT: I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION
The reason that select pictures looked really weird was because of 1) Firefox's color profile setting and 2) Windows XP. I didn't want to turn off color profile.... but I found a way to make firefox ignore it. All photos now functioning. Observe the magic:

Type about:congif into address bar.

Ignore the warning that pops up. You DO know what you're doing, because I'm telling you. :) Anyway, the warning does say its okay if you know what you are doing. :D


Find gfx.color_management.mode Change the integer to 0.


VOILA!


All pictures functioning.
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Firefox is my preferred internet browser. I loves its features to no end. :) But I've noticed an odd thing happening with Firefox. Here is my evidence:

To the left are two windows in Explorer, to the right are the same in Firefox.

A pretty drastic difference, no? Much as I love Firefox, I might be forced to use Explorer when I want to look at pictures.

Favicon!

I have wanted one of these for a very long time. :) If you look up by the address bar, tab, or bookmarks on your brower, you should now see a picture of a butterfly (that matches my signature and posts) instead of the Blogger icon!

Its called a favicon and you can get one for your blog HERE. Thanks to Rose for the link! I plan on using some of the other tutorials... many I already use, with heavy modifications, but the scrolling picture links looks intriguing.

Screenshots in XP

Today seems to be another Night of Randomly Long Posts. I thought I would share a little secret with your inner computer geek. Because, all of us have an inner computer geek.

But your inner computer geek probably does not read HTML like my inner computer geek does. Well, mine isn't literate, but at least mine can peice it out and then run crying to Google when stuff doesn't work. Your inner computer geek may just need a bit of help from mua.

Today, I finally figured out how to screenshot on a computer running Windows XP. If you have Vista, life is easy. (Or not... Vista seems to be a poison to computers, but at least it has cool feautres). With Vista, you can screenshot/screencapture with this handy tool called "Snipper". You can size it to whatever size you want, and it automatically saves as a JPEG image file.

XP people, it is possible to screenshot! First, locate this button:

 This is called Print Screen. If you press it, the magical little Windows Bunnies take a little picture of everything that is on your screen. The magical Bunnies are invisible, however, so you don't know it is happening.
If you want to take a picture of an active window (the window you have open, not a pane of glass going jogging), press ALT and PrintScreen.

Now, go to Paint or some other such program. Press Edit then Paste, or press CTRL and tap V at the same time. Click "save as," make sure you have JPEG selected, and PRESTO!

Now you can go and edit this image, cropping it to whatever desired size.

Yeah, yeah, Vista, go rub it in our faces. You do that all in one step. :P See the things I can figure out when Dad takes the magical, always-dying Vista laptop to work?

New Widget

And since it isn't on the sidebar, but somewhere where you would probably notice it more, I'm posting about it. Just because. Its called link within and refers to older,  related or semi-related posts.

TEST

Testing new signature at bottom of posts

New Background, by Yours Truly

We just installed Corel Paintshop Pro Photo X2 on the kids computer! Dad had had it on his work one and transferred it. The new header and background you see are created entirely by me! I hope you like it!
I "simply" created a 2"x6" picture for the header. For the background, I used the instructions found at The Cutest Blog on the Block Many of you use their free backgrounds, but I took it to the next step and made my own. :)
Now I had a TON of fun with it (even though it took nearly 3 hours in all). So if any of you want to "hire" me to make a specialized blog for you, please tell me!

EDIT: Something else is up with it... if you view it on different size browsers its all messed up. I am going to work on that now.

SECOND EDIT: I've fixed the glitch. I'd forgotten the all important part of the HTML code: background-attachment: fixed; So everytime you look at it, the background would move around like jello in a car on a bumpy road. :)

New Google/Blogger

Now that I have my own Gmail, and therefore Google account, I will stop using Mom's. Please note that for anyone who has viewer permission settings on their blog and invited me to view it, you will need to re-send the invitation to my new email address.

Ack! Messed with the HTML too much

Sorry about all the mess on here- I messed with the blog setting too much and everything got out of whack. I'll fix it up in a few minutes though. At least I managed to keep (most) of my widgets on here!

Update (Sort of)

My aunt was wondering if I had been grounded from the computer because I have not been posting much. I thought that I might as well fix that assumption and say, "I have not been posting because there is not anything to post". Life here has been its usual self- choatic and fun and all, but entirely boring to the rest of the world. Ben has been sick. He has an ear infection and sinus infection pretty bad. The rest of us have been doing school, chores, playing around, getting ready for Halloween, and getting ready for All Saints' Day. I will get pictures of Halloween and All Saints' Day up later.
The background that I've got up now is from http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/ I heard about it from my aunt, who used it on her blog. There are all sorts of free, pretty backgrounds, and it takes alot less effort to use these backgrounds than it takes to mess with the HTML in order to get a picture up. In fact, it seems ridiculously easy!!!
The old computer broke down again. At least, it is going twice as slow and the sound is not working. SO... I have not been able to do Rosetta Stone for a long time. (It is installed on the old computer. We couldn't figure out how to move it onto the new one. Well, the new one is Dad's old work one...) For those of you who don't know, Rosetta Stone is a language learning software for the computer. It is REALLY, REALLY good. The only things you need is time and patience to sit behind the computer, and a working computer. Two things that I generally do not have much of.

Finally- background picture

I finally figured out how to put a background picture on my blog, and how to change at least bits and pieces of the HTML, which can be quite a pain. For those of you who are curious:
On your original blog template, there is a code that runs like sort of like this (this is what mine was originally).

body {
background:#bca;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.5em;
font: x-small Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:#cceedd;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}

All that we will deal with here is this little bit from the beginning:

body {
background:#bca;

All right. The #bca tells you the color hex code, basically it tells the computer what color to make your background. But we want it to have a picture instead. Change the code to look like this:

body {

background-image:url();

This tells the computer that you want to put an image there. Watch the differences carefully, a tiny misspelling could mean major disaster. All right. The next step is to find your picture. It must be somewhere on the Web. Once you find the picture you want, right-click. Select "view image" from the list that appears. That is the final URL of your picture. Copy the URL from the address bar and paste it between the two parenthesis. For example, at the moment, my code looks like this:

body {
background-image:url(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2576252538_106ca43d2c.jpg?v=00);

I have yet to figure out how to make the picture not repeat, or to center itself, etc. But I am pleased to have gotten so far!