On Thu, 26 May 2011 18:13 -0400, "David Parsons" <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't even need to do anything active to get the pictures. Every > browser in existence that can display pictures has a cache where > pictures are stored. > > I can't tell you how many times I trolled through my browser cache in > the early days looking for interesting animated .gifs from sites that > I had surfed.
Yes - I'd forgotten about the hard disk cache. With Firefox you can just use Tools > Page Info > Media Tab and then scroll though all of the images on the current page. Then save the one you want to steal..... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, 26 May 2011 12:59 -0400, "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Some advice I got fairly early in my venture into on-line photography > >> sharing - maybe even got it from here for all I know ... > >> > >> Don't post anything to *any* site on the internet unless you're prepared > >> to give it away. Because that's what your doing. > >> > >> No matter how good the site's security, if someone can see it, they can > >> copy it. > > > > > > True, any screen capture utility will work, but even if the image is > > larger than the screen resolution, it's possible (at least sometimes) to > > download the full size image even if Flickr's right click option has > > been disabled. > > > > I was looking at a Flickr portfolio yesterday (can't remember which now) > > where "The owner has disabled downloading of their photos". And indeed > > there was no right click "save image as" option available. But there > > was a "save page as" option which downloaded the photo nicely into it's > > own folder. Maybe there are other configuration options in Flickr that > > will prevent this but this particular Flickr user wasn't as protected as > > he/she thought they were. > > > > I'm still trying to decide if I want to sign up for yet another on line > > service..... > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > > Western Sydney Australia > > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
