computer guru help needed again...lol

[5pintshefound]

hey all.. honest, i really do know how to use my computer...lol HONEST!

ok my question is this.... i have a picture, that iwant to send to a friend on myspace. preferably put on his comment thinggy... is there a way to change a picture into coding, so i can cut and paste it into the message box? ive got a couple picture editors, im just not sure what im doing whne it comes to coding etc... help, please?

~5PHF

 

[SweetErika]

I googled, and it looks like the image has to be hosted online somewhere, just like it does here to show up in the post. You can use HTML in the comments.

Instructions
Myspace Help Forum -- It's probably in an FAQ in here or something, but I stay away from that site and have no clue

 

[5pintshefound]

I googled, and it looks like the image has to be hosted online somewhere, just like it does here to show up in the post. You can use HTML in the comments.

Instructions
Myspace Help Forum -- It's probably in an FAQ in here or something, but I stay away from that site and have no clue

excellent Erika! thanks so much! i looked for this last ngiht, couldnt find it anywhere... lol, sometimes im not very good @ google searches tho...lol... tyty!

L5P's

 

[5pintshefound]

damn double posts

 

[cd1_christine]

Well...

excellent Erika! thanks so much! i looked for this last ngiht, couldnt find it anywhere... lol, sometimes im not very good @ google searches tho...lol... tyty!

Nessie

Give yourself a little credit. It's hard to Google for something that doesn't exist. You can't do this because pictures and comments are two completely different kinds of data (binary vs. text). Nobody will have written a tutorial on how to convert between the two because it's not possible to convert between the two.

 

[5pintshefound]

ok, how do people get pictures into the comments thing then???

 

[ceninant]

Using standard HTML.

 

[Weird Harold]

...pictures and comments are two completely different kinds of data (binary vs. text). Nobody will have written a tutorial on how to convert between the two because it's not possible to convert between the two.

Actually there is a way to convert images -- or any other binary file -- to text. It's called UUEncoding and it transmits binary data in a 7-bit ASCII format -- it's just not recognizeable as an image. It's an old technique that isn't much used since bandwidth has increased so much, but I'm sure that there are still encoders and decoders available.

 

[TomTomUK]

Go to http://www.imageshack.us/ and upload a pic on ya computer after its uploaded you get a page with loads of diffrent code for forums and websites which you can just cut and paste on to my space

 

[SweetErika]

Give yourself a little credit. It's hard to Google for something that doesn't exist. You can't do this because pictures and comments are two completely different kinds of data (binary vs. text). Nobody will have written a tutorial on how to convert between the two because it's not possible to convert between the two.

That's not really what she was asking though. As Tom and I said, all that's necessary to put an image into a comment on MySpace is C&Ping the URL of where it's hosted and adding the appropriate HTML tags. There are instructions for that all over the place, but she needed to use a more appropriate query to pull it up on Google, that's all.

 

[cd1_christine]

Technically,

Actually there is a way to convert images -- or any other binary file -- to text. It's called UUEncoding and it transmits binary data in a 7-bit ASCII format -- it's just not recognizeable as an image. It's an old technique that isn't much used since bandwidth has increased so much, but I'm sure that there are still encoders and decoders available.

Yes, you're correct, although it wasn't bandwidth-related....it was done to be able to send 8-bit attachments through 7-bit computers (8th bit was parity, or something like that), which much of the early Internet was composed of. That's why ASCII has recognizable characters for the first 128 characters, then varying text-graphic characters for the last 128. The first 128 only need 7 bits.
The UUEncoding turns 8-bit binary files to 7-bit text, so it could be transferred without corruption.

But, the only way to use the resulting ASCII text is to UUDecode it, which turns it right back into the original image. Not exactly what we're looking for, which is part of the reason I didn't include it. The other part being that I just plain didn't think of it at the time.

Good jog of my memory, though. Thanks.

CD

 

[cd1_christine]

Right....

That's not really what she was asking though. As Tom and I said, all that's necessary to put an image into a comment on MySpace is C&Ping the URL of where it's hosted and adding the appropriate HTML tags. There are instructions for that all over the place, but she needed to use a more appropriate query to pull it up on Google, that's all.

That's actually what I meant....but re-reading what I said, I really made it as clear as mud.

Sorry.

Yes, you can embed the image using standard HTML, as long as it's hosted somewhere. I was still on the topic of converting the file to text, though, so I was coming at it from that angle.

Hope I didn't confuse anybody even more.....