Hackberry takedown...

Thanks for the link, Brandon. You must be Joe's son. I assume. Unfortunately, for us with dial-up connections your image sizes prove a distraction to viewing all the content. Optimize for dial-up will get the images down to about 200 kb and still look just as good.

Jerry B
 
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Darin won't let me go there anymore. :^(

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Say it ain't so!

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Thanks guys....I'm Joe's nephew actually....But i get that often. :) I can credit him for teaching me what i know as i earned most of my experience working for him.

Primary was maybe 5 feet for some of the low stuff.
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Unfortunately, for us with dial-up connections your image sizes prove a distraction to viewing all the content. Optimize for dial-up will get the images down to about 200 kb and still look just as good.

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I was beginning to think that CaryR and I were the last two dial-up-ers... Judging by the declared size of the images, they would each require 5 minutes on average to fetch. They can't be that interesting...

200 KB really is the upper limit. 100 to 150 K would be a better target range. I really wish Microsoft didn't seem to go out of their way to make computing seem like such a black art by hiding even simple operations behind "wizards" and such.

Here's a list of image editors. Pick one which will allow you to resize the images and to select the JPEG "quality" (75 is more than sufficient). The lower the quality factor, the smaller the image. The list evidently isn't all-inclusive since it doesn't contain my favorite, which is extremely powerful and elegant, but does require more computer literacy than the mere ability to "point and click".

Good luck, please do something, I'd like to see the photos.
 
You say that like we've opted out of a high-speed connection. The percentage of folks here in the U.S. who remain on dialup is still very near 50% as far as I know. I believe it would be safe to say that the majority of us have no other option. There are a great many folk who prefer to visit the city only occasionally as opposed to living there, you know? :)
 
It just took my computer 6-1/2 minutes to resize 657 images to 50% all by itself. 7 if you take my time typing the initial command into consideration. The directory where the small copies landed contains 31 megabytes of files. On average that should be about 25% of the space taken by the originals. Just thought you'd maybe be the slightest bit interested. Computers can actually be useful when they're running useful tools.
 
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