mobileme

[jjoan]

I've had a mobileme account for over a year now, I'm still not savvy. I've used it to find my iPhone (phone was in the house each time YAY). My husband would like to use it for posting pictures on a message board he uses. I tried to figure it out, and posted pictures to my public folder, but when I access the URL that mobileme provides, it doesn't take me to the photo, just a link to download the photo. What concept is eluding me? What is the correct way to accomplish this goal? Does this request make sense?
Joan

[Xairbusdriver]

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Does this request make sense?

Of course! Would that Mobile Me did, also! Frankly, I've not tried what you are doing, but I'd suggest viewing one of the video tutorials. I'm sure you're almost there, it's probably one little detail you're missing. Sign in, on the right-hand side is a Find Help or Help Topics or something like that. Click that and you'll get a list of topics on the left-hand side (don't you love the way designers swap sides when changing pages?!). There's one there labeled Gallery. If that doesn't supply the answer you need, there's a "More Resources" link which also has a "Gallery" link. Or, you can just go directly there with <this "More Resources" link>. Gotta' go! Please let us know how things go! We all want to learn!

[jjoan]

I bit the bullet and tried out the chat support via Apple's support site. Wait time less than one minute, problem solved. Took about ten minutes  typing back and forth. Here's the solution:
To link directly to a single picture,
1. Upload an image to the iDisk Pictures folder.
2. Then use this format, replacing my username and picture name.
http://homepage.mac.com/XXUSERNAMEXX/.Pict...IMAGENAMEXX.jpg
It works, for example
http://homepage.mac.com/joan123/.Pictures/w-5.jpg

This works in Safari. However, I just tried it with Firefox, and the URL won't open in a web browser, just downloads the file to my desktop. Hmmm. I think this has something to do with preferences in Firefox but I'm stuck. So I have most of the problem solved.

This is a random photo, our house last Halloween
http://homepage.mac.com/joan123/.Pictures/w-5.jpg

[Xairbusdriver]

I agree, the actions upon clicking a link to an image is usually a pref in the browser. You might try a right-click (control-click) in FF to get the Contextual Menu and use the Open in... option.

Of course, this kind of behavior also means you'll have no idea what will happen in anyone else's click on the URL. But you can usually just click on a web image and get it highlighted and then just drag it to the Desktop.

[jjoan]

Exactly! That's what bugs me. Not knowing what will happen in anyone else's case. It seemed like such a simple idea.

[Texas Mac Man]

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