TK -- useful IRL

HisGirlFriday13

So, you know how we use the 'copy URL' button to post GIFs and whatnot? Our web platform recently changed, and now it's all HTML code. We were trying to figure out how to embed an image.

I saw the little box that said "insert image" with a URL box. 

I found the image, right-clicked, copied image URL, pasted, saved and exited, and BAM! -- there it was.

So thank you, TK, for actually being useful to my job.

pumpkinsandturkeys

I didn't realize other people didn't know this -- that's how I post images/GIFs!

Although, my iPad won't cooperate with that.

HisGirlFriday13

I knew it in general, but it's only with our website upgrade that we're able to do this. Our previous website wouldn't allow us to post ANY HTML code or graphics, and if we tried, it crashed.

It's 2014 and I'm still using Paint and Notepad. That's how far behind the times we are.

pumpkinsandturkeys

Ah, gotcha. We still use Paint and Notepad, too. Also, one of my web applications will only work with IE (who even uses that anymore?), a plugin will only work with Firefox 3.6 or lower, and Chrome isn't compatible with anything we have. So I always have three different browsers open.

HisGirlFriday13

pumpkinsandturkeys said:

Ah, gotcha. We still use Paint and Notepad, too. Also, one of my web applications will only work with IE (who even uses that anymore?), a plugin will only work with Firefox 3.6 or lower, and Chrome isn't compatible with anything we have. So I always have three different browsers open.

Do we work for the same place? Because all of that is true for me, too!!

Maggie0829

Hmm, I have always just dragged and dropped the gif in the text box. No copy and paste of the URL necessary.

Cookie Pusher

pumpkinsandturkeys said:

Ah, gotcha. We still use Paint and Notepad, too. Also, one of my web applications will only work with IE (who even uses that anymore?), a plugin will only work with Firefox 3.6 or lower, and Chrome isn't compatible with anything we have. So I always have three different browsers open.

My company's shared database (that I use for invoicing, subscription management, and customer info) is only accessible with IE when you're using a PC and Safari with a Mac. Until a few months ago, it wasn't even accessible on a Mac at all. And, since my office's primary function is publishing, the company's shared database (shared with our parent company) doesn't do any of the things we need as publishers... so we have our own in-house database for that. Which my boss set up in 1984. The two programs are not compatible, so guess who gets to take all the data from our in-house database and retype it into the shared database? Technology, we're doing it wrong.

pumpkinsandturkeys

HisGirlFriday13 said:

pumpkinsandturkeys said:

Ah, gotcha. We still use Paint and Notepad, too. Also, one of my web applications will only work with IE (who even uses that anymore?), a plugin will only work with Firefox 3.6 or lower, and Chrome isn't compatible with anything we have. So I always have three different browsers open.

Do we work for the same place? Because all of that is true for me, too!!

@HisGirlFriday13 The sad thing is that I work for a global leader in IT/software. We can redefine virtualization and cloud computing and manage systems for some of the most powerful companies and entities in the world, but heaven forbid I allow something on my 2008 Dell laptop to automatically update itself.

Cookie Pusher

^^^ We have to leave our computers on every night when we leave the office so IT can remotely log in and update for us. Because we can't be trusted to click the "accept" button.

pumpkinsandturkeys

Cookie Pusher said:

^^^ We have to leave our computers on every night when we leave the office so IT can remotely log in and update for us. Because we can't be trusted to click the "accept" button.

We just get sent e-mails explaining when and how to update. And then reminder e-mails. And then we have to email our Manager to confirm that we successfully updated.

Cookie Pusher

Our IT department sends out periodic "reminder" emails to let us know it's ok to click "allow" when our antivirus software wants permission to open up Microsoft Office. Because apparently people call them totally freaking out that Excel is infected with a virus.

...Now I see why they don't trust us to do anything on our own...

pumpkinsandturkeys

Cookie Pusher said:

Our IT department sends out periodic "reminder" emails to let us know it's ok to click "allow" when our antivirus software wants permission to open up Microsoft Office. Because apparently people call them totally freaking out that Excel is infected with a virus.

...Now I see why they don't trust us to do anything on our own...

Hahahahaha dying. Sad but true.