My contribution to tech week... how to save your fave posts

[Mart]

Have done no work this week so no tech contribution from me, but I keep hearing people mentioning printing stuff out. This is not necessary, you can save a whole web page direct on your computer with all pics intact. They will be there ad infinitum, long after the pics have dropped off the hamb.
I only use internet explorer, so this is what I do.
Create an easy to find folder on your computer. Mine is called "Saved from the internet".
When you see a page you want to keep, load the page, and wait until all the pictures are loaded. (*see note at end if not all the pics appear)
At the top of the screen, click on "File".
Click on "Save as".
Select your folder, punch in a meaningful name, select save as web page complete.
Hit Save.

The system will then save the web page exactly as you see it. So when you want to view it later, just open your "saved from the internet" folder, and browse to find the page you want. Double click that mutha and hey presto it appears as if by magic.
(*If all the pics do not appear when viewing the page online just right click on each image location and select "show image" the pic will then appear. Do that on all the non showing pics till you have them all, then save the whole page as described above.)
Thanks to Ryan for the tech focus this week.
Mart.

[hotrodladycrusr]

Oh my GOD! Mart, you are AWESOME! Thats the best hint this week. I'm sure you just saved hundreds of trees!

[gettingreasy]

I've often wondered how to do that, thanks.
-Jesse

[surf monkey]

mart you are bloody marvellous...i`ve just saved this one

monkey

[SlowLearner]

Yup, works great. Been doing it for a while now. but you can really gunk up your hard drive with all those nice pics'n posts. Then, you can download to diskettes or, if you've got a CD burner, make a data disc. Just did my first "HAMBetc #1" !! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Starting on number 2. Make your own tech-o-matic!!
P.S.: You can also "right click"on just about any pic you find on the net (including eBay ones) then "save as" . make you own gallery of obscure mechanical stuff, like Seagrave and LaFrance V-12 fire truck engines, etc.

[Digger_Dave]

Just to add to Mart's idea.
My "save" folder is called "Auto Tech."

Having a computer with a fairly small hard drive, about once a month I "burn" a CD of all the "Auto Tech" files stored on the hard drive and then "clean" the folder ready for more "gems."

I leave a "directory" (of the CD number and articles) in the Auto Tech folder. That way I can select the article/information from the CD's when I need it. Have about 10 CD's full now.

Like Mart says, you need to give "understandable" names to each article before you hit the "save" button.

[fordiac]

wow that kicks the shit out of saving them all in word documents, thanks,

[Smokin Joe]

I put each tech in it's own folder with a descriptive name. That way the pics wind up segregated in the folder with the tech post. They wind up on the right CD with the post that way. And, you can add more pics pertaining to that post. Just stick them in the post directory.

[autocol]

note that you can also use this to download all the pics of a page in one go.

when you save the webpage, it makes the "pagename.html" file, and also a folder with the same name, with all the images and so on in it. so, if you're dowloading fifty pictures off one page, don't bother, save the whole page as TEST.html, open the TEST folder next to it, select all the images and copy them to where you want them, then delete the TEST stuff...

or maybe it's only me that ever wants to do that...

[Brootal]

The problem with being a computer geek is that you just assume people know that stuff. Good stuff Mart, why didn't someone think of telling everyone else sooner. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif