Smallest loco in MPD

Hi Matt and all YMRC.       This is a candidate for DCC , and a test for uploading.  But the Loco isn’t at the correct angle? Please help     Best wishes  Kevin 

Is that one o' them new fangled vertical boilered 'pugs'?? 

      :cool wink

Hi Jeff. Thank you for your reply. Not only a candidate for DCC , but, the ,”Passed Fireman” needs more training to drive in the horizontal direction .   Best wishes.  Kevin

There you go Kevin

Hi Ed. Thank you very much, now a leading question , “Why couldn’t I do that “? Thanks to Matt , I got that far with his assistance .   Best wishes. Kevin

Hi Kevin, It's as I thought and not your fault. The Ipad knows which way up it was when you took the picture and displays it as you saw it, My tablet also knew which way up the picture was when taken and displays it correctly. So I would't notice.  When you upload it though, that information doesn't go with it so the forum software will just save the picture as it was taken. . . First Image you uploaded was taken with your tablet upside down. . This Image with your tablet on its side.  
  What threw me was. . The first Image you posted up SHOULD have been the image you sent me, that I resized and sent back to you. As I edited it and saved it before sending to you it gets saved as I see it, I.E the right way up  (the image I posted after yours in the other thread)  The picture I think you actually posted was your original Image, on your machine which the gallery software re sized as it uploaded it (As I was sure it should)  but displayed as it was taken I.E upside down. The Image here was taken on its side, so would upload and display on its side.

If I had done the editing on my computer I would have noticed the upside down Image and mentioned it. As it was I'm trying to use the Ipad so I understand how things work better and it just auto rotates the Image to how you saw it when you took it never mind which way the camera was up.

Solutions
1 - The easiest, Always take pictures on your Ipad LANDSCAPE and make sure the camera lense on the back is at the TOP of the tablet.

2- lock your tablet display so if you turn the tablet to take a picture you will know as the picture will display right way up, on its side or upside down, depending on how you are holding the tablet. But then if taken that way you will still have an upside down/ sideways picture

3- learn to rotate pictures on your Ipad. The problem with this option is you have to know you have taken it upside down, or remember you took it on its side and then rotate and save it. . And then know which of the Images is the  rotated one which to be honest can be done but Apple for some reason dont make an easy task.

 In your case I would go with option 1   OR
 
4- get your laptop working !   :) 

 Email me if you want to explore option 4 ( if you choose option 2 or 3 I will need to go lay down in a dark room first )

Cheers

Matt

Hi Matt  Thank you for your reply.   Sometimes I regret my purchase of the iPad , if it wasn’t more convenient ? I wouldn’t have ignored the laptop. And now I am stuck trying to remember the password for the iPhone . Best wishes.  Kevin

Cant help with the Iphone Kevin, never had one, don't want one. Strictly Android for me. I think though that after 6 attempts they lock up and the only way to unlock it is to re set the phone losing all data on it. The wife had her work one locked by a nosy colleague and it had to be re set. Luckily it was backed up. You could ring an Apple shop near you to ask for help but I expect they will only be able to re set it if its locked up. Worth a try though

Cheers

Matt

Hi Matt.   The trouble with Apple , they keep updating , and usually when one is in the middle of something , that is when I press later. Truth be known, it seemed like a good idea at the time, I wish that I stayed with my £30.00 one from Asda . Then more money for trains.   Best wishes. Kevin

Kevin My Mother dear went into her local phone shop for a simple new phone and came out with a very expensive all singing all dancing phone. She couldn't get past the start screen so I told her to ring the shop. They told her to go online on the phone and read the manual. :roll:  So I gave her a list of questions to ask and told her to go back to the shop. After an hour of the shop staff trying to show her how to go online to serf the net, take photos and email them, store her photos in the cloud, download and play music and videos. . .She came out with a refund, a simple phone that makes calls and sends texts and three months free credit. . .Then the staff went for therapy

I know my mother  

Hi. Matt. As I already had my iPad , I “Blue toothed “ it with the iPhone , then I would know when I received an email, but, that ran the battery down too much.  Best wishes. Kevin

Well if at home leave them plugged in  :thumbs

Good idea son?

I inherited an iPad from my late mother in law's estate.

It was locked and the pass code went to her grave with her.

I contacted Apple, and as the receipt had been lost, I supplied them with a copy of the death Certificate and a sworn statement from the executor that I was the beneficiary of the iPad.

A few weeks later I was called by the Apple lady.  I plugged the iPhone into my PC and she emptied the memory and installed a new operating system from her end.

No charge.

Hi Max.   Thank you for you reply. I actually wrote my Apple passcode in my diary, and it still doesn’t like lt, then I twigged it? after getting “ Hacked “ I phoned BT and changed my email address. I must also contact them. Best wishes Kevin 

Hi Kevin

If I take photos with my iPhone or my iPad, I immediately offload them to my PC.  Then I edit them with Faststone before uploading them here.

It keeps my iPhone and iPad clear of build up of files.

Once I have used the photos, they are put into a folder and stored in a 1 Terabyte USB drive.  That keeps the PC clear as well.

That reminds me.  I must do some housekeeping.   

[user=2080]Barchester[/user] wrote:

Kevin My Mother dear went into her local phone shop for a simple new phone and came out with a very expensive all singing all dancing phone. She couldn't get past the start screen so I told her to ring the shop. They told her to go online on the phone and read the manual. :roll:  So I gave her a list of questions to ask and told her to go back to the shop. After an hour of the shop staff trying to show her how to go online to serf the net, take photos and email them, store her photos in the cloud, download and play music and videos. . .She came out with a refund, a simple phone that makes calls and sends texts and three months free credit. . .Then the staff went for therapy

I know my mother  

 I had a  similar problem with my 86 year old mother: her old Nokia died after many years of use, and as a very short stopgap, I gave her my previous phone, an HTC One X9. She totally failed to get on with the touch screen and kept switching it off instead of sending it into screensaver mode. She then tried an advertised "Simple" phone which, when it arrived, even I had difficulty navigating its torturous menu systems.

I then spotted that Nokia have recently gone back to basics with a model 3310 (https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-3310), which had the added benefit of being very cheap to buy ($AU47 at BigW, locked to Optus, which she was already using anyway).

We haven't looked back since! It is very similar in style and behaviour to her old phone, so she is happy.

Hi Max. Thank you for your reply. I must really get my laptop sorted, when I switched on the message was regarding WiFi , but it is connected via “Ethernet “ therefore doesn’t depend on that. A mate of mine just pressed a few buttons and it was working, so there is no need to take it in for servicing?  Best wishes. KevinPS.  I always do the stairs on Thursday 

Hi Jeff.  Thank you for your reply. My phone problem partly comes down to the Apple updates, I don’t like what they do that changes the screen, it is necessary though, but since I got hacked, I forgot to update the iPhone,The Apple , Regent Street store , is only a bus ride away. Maybe they will sort it for me.  Best wishes. Kevin