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GStree wrote:pberk wrote:
ahhhhhhhhh ... what a leisurely pace of life you depict. Here we have non-stop "bad" news on television. It's nice to think that there are places like your "lost drive" where life goes on so peacefully.
Nice that you included shots of your lovely wife.
Thanks for posting.
Thank you Paul, I tend at my time of life to live "today for today" as none of us know what is happening in this crazy world that we are living in today!
We never buy a newspaper and I never watch the news on the TV so I suppose that I live in a blinkered world. Incidentally my wife and I have known each other for 55 years and she has been a model in a previous life. She is no dumb blond and has worked at various jobs and finished up in a high powered job at a large public boys school. This picture was taken when she was 40 !
OMG .. Lovely .. 55 years .. WOW! .. Happy Wife, Happy Life.
No newspapers. No TV news. Blinkered Bliss I'd say.
ericlnz wrote:Thanks Paul. Very interesting and quite different to how I imagined the canal to be. No wonder cruise ships appear so tall. They need to keep to a width that will squeeze through!
Yes. It's called Pana-Max size. They build the ships at the maximum width to fit through the canal. There are new locks that are wider but I'm not sure Cruise ships use those locks. They are for huge container ships. The new locks use a different system to keep the ships from hitting the sides of the locks.
Meanwhile cruise ships continue to get bigger. Eventually there will be a limit.
GStree wrote: ... we are often going for what I call "a lost drive" in our area in Spain. This one starts up in the hills and mountains a few miles inland from our coastal home and finishes in Sorbas in the evening and shows a lot the amazing family run pottery that has to be seen to be believed !
https://youtu.be/-zxCxDxMTHA
ahhhhhhhhh ... what a leisurely pace of life you depict. Here we have non-stop "bad" news on television. It's nice to think that there are places like your "lost drive" where life goes on so peacefully.
Nice that you included shots of your lovely wife.
Thanks for posting.
Things are so quiet here .. I thought I'd post an old trip-film video of the Panama Canal. This was the Cunard Ship Queen Elizabeth's maiden transit of the canal in 2011.
https://youtu.be/kxF6e4D4A5Y
ericlnz wrote:Another short video of a recent village trip to Butterfly Creek. Not just butterflies, much more. The dinosaurs were impressive!
"Butterfly Afternoon" can be found on Vimeo and YouTube. Take your pick but make sure you are being streamed the 1080 50p version. I find that both platforms sometimes stream me lower versions of videos even though I've a 50 Mbps plus download speed.
Vimeo https://vimeo.com/888555813
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HnyCkWqK64
Solid Eric .. nice work .. nice music .. good camera work .. I always look forward to your videos ..
Was this a trip organized by your village?
ericlnz wrote:pberk wrote:My Samsung S23 shows the selfie flipped but once you take the photo it flips it.
I'm sure my family all have iPhones which don't appear to do that..
I always learn stuff here in Alfred's forum .. I never knew about the Setting (in my S23 phone) to take a selfie that "doesn't" flip after you take it.
THe preview image, before you take a still or video selfie, is always the same, like a mirror. What the setting can do is make it automatically flip (after you take the image) so your selfie does not look like a mirror image. It's up to you.
Good to keep in mind when using the S23 to take footage to be used in a video production. You may or may not want a selfie to be mirrored. Of course, you can an easily flip it horizontally too in the video editor.
ericlnz wrote:Yes mirror images annoy me and many phones take selfies this way. For example a daughter recently visiting took a video while we were driving. Suddenly I have a left hand drive vehicle whereas in fact I sit on the right (we drive on the left like the UK). I can usually pick it up in photos by T Shirt lettering being back to front.
My Samsung S23 shows the selfie flipped but once you take the photo it flips it.
GStree wrote:pberk wrote:GStree wrote:Very good Paul, I assumed you transposed the second "you" ?
I'm not sure what you mean by "transposed." I played both parts if that's what you mean.
Looking at the "second person" I thought that you had "flipped" the shot over in 2D in post so that your face was different, as certain marks on your face seemed to be reversed.
Good catch. But if I remember right, I didn't flip it. I shot it in a mirror. It did give the "second" character a slightly different look and, it was easier to shoot it that way as space was limited.
GStree wrote:pberk wrote:Thanks Gordon .. I enjoy making these little story movies. The hardest part (always!) is finding an idea that will fit into what I can do myself. I sometimes use other people, but mostly I work alone.
Here's another one if any one has 8 min to see it. I don't think I've posted this one here before.
Writer's Block .. 8 min.
https://youtu.be/X-2BKI93H9A
Very good Paul, I assumed you transposed the second "you" ?
I'm not sure what you mean by "transposed." I played both parts if that's what you mean.
Thanks Gordon .. I enjoy making these little story movies. The hardest part (always!) is finding an idea that will fit into what I can do myself. I sometimes use other people, but mostly I work alone.
Here's another one if any one has 8 min to see it. I don't think I've posted this one here before.
Writer's Block .. 8 min.
https://youtu.be/X-2BKI93H9A
Bob Keen wrote:The only problem with doing that is that if the buyer buys multiple items, they end up paying a colossal postage rate, which would deter them ordering.
I didn't think of that .. good point ..
This problem seems to reside with PayPal. It's as if you make the changes within WebPlus but you don't upload the changes to your server so that PayPal still gets the old values. WebPlus seems to have the ability to make the changes to your shipping charges but that PayPal is somehow stuck on the old values.
Do you know what is meant by "These values can be used to override those set in your PayPal profile"?
Just for the record. I solved my own problem. If anyone sees this error when doing a Google Search instead of the expected hyperlinked Google listing "There was an error generating the navbar" then try this solution.
In WebPlus x8 goto Site Properties/Search Engine/Indexing then uncheck the "sitemap" check box.
Apparently the Google search error has something to do with the sitemap?? Not sure but in my case this fix worked.
I did not have to wait for Google to reindex the site. After unchecking the "sitemap" box, saving the file and uploading it to my server, Google search now works they way I'd expect.
Comments welcome.
Bob I found the page with the three options and I see they are themselves, Optional. Can't you just put everything into the item price and skip these options?
Well done Eric. I enjoyed it. This piece reminds me that life goes by fast so it's altogether fitting to "stop and smell the tulips".
If you create a new WebPlus x8 project, does it stall or freeze on your laptop?
Bob Keen wrote:I don't know where to find other options. Do you mean things like 'continue shopping'. When creating a payment button, a series of boxes accrue on the way to completing the creation of the button, but I cannot see any other options.
Is this where you are trying to change the "Cart Handling Charge" within WebPlus x8 ?
You seem to be using the E-Commerce Object in WebPlus x8. Is that right? INSERT/E-COMMERCE OBJECT/PAYPAL
After putting an item into the shopping cart, there is no choice but CHECKOUT. This takes me to PayPal. I suspect that's where the problem is .. ???
One of my old websites that uses WebPlus x8 is giving me this error: "There was an error generating the navbar"
This error occurs when doing a google search using Firefox and Chrome but not with Edge.
The search listing comes up ok but instead of the hyperlinked text expected, I get this error message hyperlinked. The hyperlink works as normal to link to the website.
Bob Keen wrote:It seems that there is no-one on here that can assist me with this and I really need to do something about it as currently, I am subsidising the postage on every item that I despatch, particularly as the 1st class rate has just been increased again.
Perhaps if I put £1 in the Handling charge box and £2 in the shipping charge box, I might achieve it that way.
Might that work?
Can you point us to your website so we can see what's happening?
If anyone has time, here's a tour video of mine about Stockholm dating back to 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZIP3DkhwNA
Nicely done considering conditions. Those GoPro's are incredible.
Inspirational for us old geezers. Rock on.
This does seem like a Windows error. Research this fix and see if it applies to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQEvUAYK_UU
Can you create a simple, new WebPlus x8 project and save it?
ericlnz wrote:I was looking at a friend's young great grandchildren today and thinking that I was once young like them. Then I thought what will the world be like when they reach my age (I'm 81 in a few days). Probably in a worse mess than it is now.
Eric take heart. I am convinced that your great grandchildren will live in a better world. Perhaps two steps forward and one back but always moving ahead. I'm sure there will be bumps, some very bad bumps, along the way but the future will solve many of our problems and overall more people will be better off. Wondrous things are coming in fields like energy and health and agriculture and transportation and communication. That's my prediction. But I'm 79 so I'm not planning to be around to see if I'm right 50 years hence.
For some folks (who can afford it) this will be entertaining. It might also have therapeutic value for folks with disabilities. I don't see it being a mass market product for some years to come.
I think the real world is still going to be there.
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