PC and Software Basics (PC101)

[AusWoody]

Gday Chatters,
seems  not everyone  is as competent  with  their  PC's  or the software  running on it  as  some others. i decided to share some of my knowledge with those  i keep it simple , and take  request  for  anything specific anyone needs.

[AusWoody]

PC Basics 001
Tips On Editing Your Stories For Publication
AusWoody.
Edited and Proofed by Brandybee

The recommendation is you use Microsoft Word or similar for large posts or stories. Then copy and paste to the Forum Text box to post in Forum.

1. Use Spell Check.

• Click on “Review” at the top of the page and it will bring up a drop down menu.
• Click on “Spelling and Grammar”. This will high light any errors for you to correct.

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2. To check spacing.

• Press keys “Control or ctrl “ and “H” together to bring up an edit box – “Find and Replace”
• In “Find what” click your cursor in the box and hit the “space bar” twice (No written text)
• Then in the “Replace with” click your cursor in the box and hit the “space bar” once. (No written text)
• Then click on the “Replace All” button underneath.
• It will take out all the error spaces to single spaces between words and tell you how many it has corrected.

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3. To check your paragraphs are the recommended 2 enter spaces.

• Press keys “Control or ctrl “ and “H” together to bring up an edit box – “Find and Replace”
• Click “Special” at the bottom of the ” Find and Replace ” box to bring up a menu.
• Click on “Paragraph Mark” (P). “ ^P “ will appear in the “Find What” box.
• Click cursor in the “Replace with” box and click on the “Special” button.
• Click on “Manual Line break” “ ^l “ will appear in the “Replace with” box.
• Then click on the “Replace All” button underneath.
• It will take out all the error extra “Enter” spaces to 2 enter spaces between paragraphs and tell you how many it has corrected

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As you can see this “ctrl and H” edit tool can be used to correct your writings in other ways. It is particularly useful when using the 'special' characters in the sub menus and when you think outside the box. Play around and let us know the most useful you use.

5. Copy and Paste.

• Once you are happy with your story, spellings, grammar and spacings, its time to copy and paste it into a “Reply” or “New Topic” box in forum.
• Write your text in a blank page on Microsoft word / office or similar.
• Then highlight by using 'ctrl' A.
• One high lighted, press the keys 'ctrl' C  this copies the selected text.
• Then place your cursor in the text box and and press the keys “ Control & V together. After a few moments it should paste all the text you high lighted.

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Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors

[AusWoody]

PC Basics 002
Screen Capture Made Easy
AusWoody.
Edited and Proofed by Brandybee

How to take a picture of your Screen or Avatar to Post or PM.

1. Open an account with photobucket. Its free and ideal for this purpose. – photobucket.com. I’d advise to use your forum username and remember an easy password. You will need to provide an email too. Use you game email.

2. Make a new folder in your “Pictures” on your PC. To do this, find or search for your “ Pictures” Open it up and in a vacant space, right click to bring up a menu. Click on “New” “Folder” and name it “Forum Edited Picture's” or something you can easily remember. Then close that down.

3. Most PC's have windows paint but you can also download for free “Gimp” and / or “Bandicam.

4 If you have Windows 8 – On the App screen (which is the one with the tiles), near the bottom of the screen there should be an arrow in a circle. Click that. That should change your screen to the Apps by name screen.

5. In the top right corner there is a search box. (Its in the top right corner on mine). In that box type PAINT. This should bring up the Windows Paint programme on your PC.

6. Click on That and it should open your Paint program.

Lets have a quick lesson.

7. Minimise Paint, but leave it running. Then open AChat. You don't have to log in, just let it load or you can log in and room. Once AChat is loaded:

8. Take a screenshot – if in a room, turn the camera till you find the right view you want, then press the “Print” button on your keyboard (or “stamp”, depend where you live!). Usually it's placed near the “F12” button. It also can have “prt sc” on it
Take a screen shot of the AChat page.

9. Bring your paint programme back up by clicking on the paint icon at the bottom of the page. Try pasting that into Paint. (I use CTRL + V keys to paste)

10. At the top of the Paint page you should see Crop. Click on that to crop the image so it includes only what you want. Drag the window for the selection you want and click on Crop again. If you mess up, there is an undo arrow at the top of the screen. This takes some practice, but don’t give up. Use the square or rectangle and start at the left top edge, drag it around. You will find your own best practice and as you get better, you can practice with the other crop shapes if you want.

11. Click on the cropped picturer, it gets rid of the part of the picture you don’t want.

12. Then use SAVE AS in File on the top bar, to save it. But save it in JPEG (JPEG uses less Kb's than the default PNG). Just remember where you saved it to. I would probably save it to Forum Edited Picture folder, you made earlier.

13 – If you want to upload a picture to Achat Game – login in the AChat main web page and, in the right corner of the screen under “Buy A$” you will find “Character picture upload”: hit it and follow the instructions that appear. Be sure you have 99 A$, cause it costs to upload personal pictures.

14. Go to Photobucket. Click on “Upload” and then ” Choose photo or video” Follow the instructions for it to upload.

15. On the right click on “Direct ” to copy the URL for your picture.

16. Paste it in your Forum ” Message ” or ” Reply” box. The URL will appear.

17. Then high light it (Holding left button down on your mouse and dragging across )

18. Above the smiley faces above is a square box ” insert image” ( 2nd one from the left),

19 . Click on that, it will bracket the URL for you

20. Then preview, using the preview button below the typing box. The picture should come up above this section. Check its looks right and not too large. If its not, try again

21. Then send / post it. Practice . You just learnt a new skill   

It can occur a picture can be to large and it doesn't fit in the post window (maximum width is 800). you can resize it without modifying it off-line.

To do it, just have to add this simple code: width=200

converting this
(img]link of the picture[/img)

to this

(img width=200]link of the picture[/img)

where 200 is the size you want to set. I can give a hint: for room example, a good size is from 700.

Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors

[AusWoody]

HOT TIP 101!!!
Link Navigation

Did you know ….. You can actually get to links posted in aChat Forum without copying and pasting them into a new page address bar

• highlight the link
• right click the link
  a pop up menu appears
• the second choice is  “GO TO  “
• click this one  normally
• a new browser page opens at that address

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[AusWoody]

HOT TIP 102!!!
Web and Document Page Navigation

Did you know ….. its easy to navigate  aroound a page   either  Web or Document?
there are four <4> keys that you need to find

• HOME
  this returns you to the top of the page
• END
  this takes you to the bottom of the page
• PAGE UP
  this up the previous screen of the page
• PAGE DOWN
  this brings up the next screen of the page

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Depending on the operating system and the coding of the page adding with it may be necessary

Experiment with different pages  and  editors and different key combinations
shift  ctrl alt  ect you cant  hurt your pc  be brave, expand your  own knowledge
and i love to receive feedback from you both positive  and negative

knowledge is power  and sharing that knowledge is divine

Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors

[Brandybee]

HOT TIP 101.  I never knew this, I've tried it out. It works with the Forum links to other topics and the songs.  Thanks Aus. I will be using  this in future.

HOT TIP 102.  I have been using this for some time now, after Covems told me how to use it.  Saves loads of time scrolling up or down.

Thank you.

[AusWoody]

HOT TIP 103!!!
Colour options for forum

Brandybee has a list of colours that work in forum
https://funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/index.php/topic,2788.msg117690.html

which is fantastic

i done a slightly improved version listing 140 colours  by name and hex code and made them in the actual colour

the ones that work in fourum and messages here show the actual colour
those that are not forum compatible show as code  tho they will work on web pages.

NOTE!!! the written colours thayt dont show  will show if you use the HEX CODE,
LavenderBlush #FFF0F5 doesnt show but
LavenderBlush #FFF0F5 does because the name is replaced by hex code

NOTE!!! color must be spelt american for coding not the REAL and correct english spelling 

hope this is useful for some

ColorName    HEX
AliceBlue #F0F8FF
AntiqueWhite #FAEBD7
Aqua #00FFFF
Aquamarine #7FFFD4
Azure #F0FFFF
Beige #F5F5DC
Bisque #FFE4C4
Black #000000  haha guess what colour this one is
BlanchedAlmond #FFEBCD
Blue #0000FF
BlueViolet #8A2BE2
Brown #A52A2A
BurlyWood #DEB887
CadetBlue #5F9EA0
Chartreuse #7FFF00
Chocolate #D2691E
Coral #FF7F50
CornflowerBlue #6495ED
Cornsilk #FFF8DC
Crimson #DC143C
Cyan #00FFFF
DarkBlue #00008B
DarkCyan #008B8B
DarkGoldenRod #B8860B
DarkGray #A9A9A9
DarkGreen #006400
DarkKhaki #BDB76B
DarkMagenta #8B008B
DarkOliveGreen #556B2F
DarkOrange #FF8C00
DarkOrchid #9932CC
DarkRed #8B0000
DarkSalmon #E9967A
DarkSeaGreen #8FBC8F
DarkSlateBlue #483D8B
DarkSlateGray #2F4F4F
DarkTurquoise #00CED1
DarkViolet #9400D3
DeepPink #FF1493
DeepSkyBlue #00BFFF
DimGray #696969
DodgerBlue #1E90FF
FireBrick #B22222
FloralWhite #FFFAF0
ForestGreen #228B22
Fuchsia #FF00FF
Gainsboro #DCDCDC
GhostWhite #F8F8FF
Gold #FFD700
GoldenRod #DAA520
Gray #808080
Green #008000
GreenYellow #ADFF2F
HoneyDew #F0FFF0
HotPink #FF69B4
IndianRed  #CD5C5C
Indigo  #4B0082
Ivory #FFFFF0
Khaki #F0E68C
Lavender #E6E6FA
LavenderBlush #FFF0F5
LawnGreen #7CFC00
LemonChiffon #FFFACD
LightBlue #ADD8E6
LightCoral #F08080
LightCyan #E0FFFF
LightGoldenRodYellow #FAFAD2
LightGray #D3D3D3
LightGreen #90EE90
LightPink #FFB6C1
LightSalmon #FFA07A
LightSeaGreen #20B2AA
LightSkyBlue #87CEFA
LightSlateGray #778899
LightSteelBlue #B0C4DE
LightYellow #FFFFE0
Lime #00FF00
LimeGreen #32CD32
Linen #FAF0E6
Magenta #FF00FF
Maroon #800000
MediumAquaMarine #66CDAA
MediumBlue #0000CD
MediumOrchid #BA55D3
MediumPurple #9370DB
MediumSeaGreen #3CB371
MediumSlateBlue #7B68EE
MediumSpringGreen #00FA9A
MediumTurquoise #48D1CC
MediumVioletRed #C71585
MidnightBlue #191970
MintCream #F5FFFA
MistyRose #FFE4E1
Moccasin #FFE4B5
NavajoWhite #FFDEAD
Navy #000080
OldLace #FDF5E6
Olive #808000
OliveDrab #6B8E23
Orange #FFA500
OrangeRed #FF4500
Orchid #DA70D6
PaleGoldenRod #EEE8AA
PaleGreen #98FB98
PaleTurquoise #AFEEEE
PaleVioletRed #DB7093
PapayaWhip #FFEFD5
PeachPuff #FFDAB9
Peru #CD853F
Pink #FFC0CB
Plum #DDA0DD
PowderBlue #B0E0E6
Purple #800080
RebeccaPurple #663399
Red #FF0000
RosyBrown #BC8F8F
RoyalBlue #4169E1
SaddleBrown #8B4513
Salmon #FA8072
SandyBrown #F4A460
SeaGreen #2E8B57
SeaShell #FFF5EE
Sienna #A0522D
Silver #C0C0C0
SkyBlue #87CEEB
SlateBlue #6A5ACD
SlateGray #708090
Snow #FFFAFA
SpringGreen #00FF7F
SteelBlue #4682B4
Tan #D2B48C
Teal #008080
Thistle #D8BFD8
Tomato #FF6347
Turquoise #40E0D0
Violet #EE82EE
Wheat #F5DEB3
White #FFFFFF
WhiteSmoke #F5F5F5
Yellow #FFFF00
YellowGreen #9ACD32

[foxman57]

Here is a useful tip for users. A shortcut to Forum in the game …
hit gift
hit add money
wait for browser to open
then go to forum
then you can click cancel on the add money when you click back over to room or wherever you were

[AusWoody]

HOT TIP 104!!!
Upgraded Screenshots

There is a great app for improving screenshots

Its called lightshot and free it alows you to draw on ur screenshot   text arrows ect 

Its easy to use and the features are very useful try it out let me know what you think

http://app.prntscr.com/en/download.html

Knowledge is power  and sharing that knowledge is divine

Stay tuned for further enlightenment from the above authors

[AusWoody]

uploading a banner to your forum signature

open an account at photobucket  or imgur i prefer imgur
upload banner to there
get the link from there

gotoforum /profile / Forum Profile Information

scroll down to signature box
paste the banner url in that box

save

and your done:)

[Anonymous]

Thanks Woody for sharing
much to read but deff worst the time

[AusWoody]

Happy to help

[Momma_andrea]

The colors of the Forum.
https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_names.asp

The pic below is just a very partial list simply for examples sake.

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