Trip report : First to Cape Town
Mar 3, 2010, 4:21 pm
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Mar 3, 2010, 4:22 pm
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Mar 3, 2010, 4:28 pm
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The links the OP provided are just to very small pictures, they don't link to anywhere else (at least not for me, and I am running Snow Leopard on a nice 8GB quad-core iMac ^). I'm just calling them thumbnails because they probably are thumbnails for some index page somewhere.
You have to actually edit the link yourself in the address bar, manually removing the "_s", so you get for example, http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/...68c3018a66.jpg for the last one.
You have to actually edit the link yourself in the address bar, manually removing the "_s", so you get for example, http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/...68c3018a66.jpg for the last one.
Mar 3, 2010, 4:38 pm
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Mar 3, 2010, 5:13 pm
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The links the OP provided are just to very small pictures, they don't link to anywhere else (at least not for me, and I am running Snow Leopard on a nice 8GB quad-core iMac ^). I'm just calling them thumbnails because they probably are thumbnails for some index page somewhere.
I have a 13" aluminium MacBook running Snow Leopard/Safari. The same in Firefox.
Mar 3, 2010, 6:18 pm
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Mar 4, 2010, 9:45 am
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So you're saying that on the Flyertalk page itself you see a very small picture rather than a hyperlink to a very small picture?
Have you at least managed to see the bigger pictures using the method I described? Of course, you'd need to find the address of the pictures you're seeing, but that must be possible somehow.
Have you at least managed to see the bigger pictures using the method I described? Of course, you'd need to find the address of the pictures you're seeing, but that must be possible somehow.
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Mar 4, 2010, 10:03 am
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i'll have a go at re-sizing the photo's tomorrow, this was my first attempt at uploading and i think i made them too small with the aim of speeding up the upload. it is very much a chat about my/our experience in First with good and not so good points highlighted, i posed the Q at the start if the product still delivered and overall (based on this trip) i believe it does 
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No need to get overly concerned about the disparaging remarks on the original image sizes. It is your trip report, based on your experience and it was your time expended to present it to us.
Mar 4, 2010, 3:19 pm
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Thanks for the great TR.
The negatives, which you have included in your fair and balanced report, are all familiar.
Whilst I always enjoy the CCR, I agree that there are some aspects that could and should be better.
Sadly, I also agree that the Champagne Bar in the GF is not as successful or popular, IME/IMHO as I am sure the designers/BA expected.
The negatives, which you have included in your fair and balanced report, are all familiar.
Whilst I always enjoy the CCR, I agree that there are some aspects that could and should be better.
Sadly, I also agree that the Champagne Bar in the GF is not as successful or popular, IME/IMHO as I am sure the designers/BA expected.
Mar 4, 2010, 3:28 pm
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Your snowy leopard obviously has more spots than mine. I don't see this in Safari, or Firefox, or on my Windows PC at work with IE. Nor can I find a setting which might alter this.
Mar 4, 2010, 3:33 pm
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I think I still don't follow this. You see all the pictures embedded in the Flyertalk page itself without having to click on anything to see them?
Your snowy leopard obviously has more spots than mine. I don't see this in Safari, or Firefox, or on my Windows PC at work with IE. Nor can I find a setting which might alter this.
Your snowy leopard obviously has more spots than mine. I don't see this in Safari, or Firefox, or on my Windows PC at work with IE. Nor can I find a setting which might alter this.
This is still no excuse for a proper geek not figuring out how to see the large images all along in the way I explained yesterday. Even with "Show Images" selected, so they appear embedded in the Flyertalk page, you can still right-click or whatever to open the image in a separate window and manually edit its url guessing (it was rather easy) what the url of the bigger picture was.
Mar 4, 2010, 6:02 pm
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