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Something I Just Figured Out

TheOldMole Feb 08 2007 10:37 AM

...that everyone else probably already knows. You know how, whenever you go to a site that has song lyrics or poems, you always get those popups from casalemedia, etc.? Well, if instead of going to the site, you go to the cached version of the site, you can avoid them.

metirish Feb 08 2007 11:21 AM

And what the hell is the cached version?....I just found out yesterday that I can control the speed of my mouse from settings....

soupcan Feb 08 2007 11:56 AM

Yesterday I figured out how to download an image from a site that won't let you download it.

TheOldMole Feb 08 2007 01:01 PM

At the end of a Google listing, there's the URL, followed by the word "cached" -- like this: ]Naked Women Naked Women. Due to the onslaught of anti-free-speech laws (the CDA was only the beginning) that our technologicaly illiterate congress insists on passing, ... www.twmacinta.com/detector/English.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages Just click "cached."

TheOldMole Feb 08 2007 01:01 PM

Soupy -- how?

soupcan Feb 08 2007 01:10 PM

TheOldMole wrote: Soupy -- how? If you right click something and it doesn't give you an option to either 'copy', 'save' or view 'properties' then just do a 'shift/print screen'. Then open any graphics program you have (MS Paint, Photoshop, MicroSoft Picture Viewer, etc.), You' should be able to 'paste' it into that and viola! You have your image.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 08 2007 01:21 PM

You can also get the URL of the image by viewing the page's source code. Then you paste that URL into the address line of your browser and if that allows you to see the picture then you're in business.

soupcan Feb 08 2007 01:24 PM

How do you get the source code?

Yancy Street Gang Feb 08 2007 01:29 PM

Right click on the page. View Source.

Edgy DC Feb 08 2007 01:33 PM

Yancy is teaching us the finer points of bandwidth theft. And now we've come full circle.

soupcan Feb 08 2007 01:37 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Right click on the page. View Source. Wouldn't that be the same as viewing 'properties' and copying and pasting the URL?

Yancy Street Gang Feb 08 2007 01:52 PM

Yes, but some websites disable the right click, so you can't view the properties.

soupcan Feb 08 2007 02:11 PM

For instance... I was screwing around at rolex.com and all of the images there are 'Flash' images - whatever that means. If you right-click them you get zippo, nada. No source, code, no properties no 'save as', no 'copy' I hit shift/print screen and then opened up MS Paint and pasted the below image. Then I uploaded that to a photobucket account. Is there any other way to capture that image other than that? Disclaimer: No I do not own nor do I covet the above gaudiness.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 08 2007 02:28 PM

No, not from a Flash image, as far as I know. But if it's a standard JPEG, and the site restricts right-clicking, you can get at the URL by looking at the source.

soupcan Feb 08 2007 02:29 PM

Thanks.