WWI Digest 3261 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by "mdf@mars.ark.com" 2) Re: Replicating Rib Tapes by "Hans Trauner" 3) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by "mdf@mars.ark.com" 4) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by "Hans Trauner" 5) Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard drives by "Ray Boorman" 6) FW: Over the Front/Cross & Cockade by "Bob Pearson" 7) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by "Hans Trauner" 8) Re: "Prime"mary lesson by KarrArt@aol.com 9) Gaston and the Amish by VMA324Vagabonds@aol.com 10) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by KarrArt@aol.com 11) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by KarrArt@aol.com 12) RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard drives by "Gaston Graf" 13) RE: Gaston and the Amish by "Gaston Graf" 14) Re: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your by "Bob Pearson" 15) Re: Gaston and the Amish by "Hans Trauner" 16) Re: "Prime"mary lesson by "David Calhoun" 17) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by "David Calhoun" 18) RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard by "Jay M. Thompson" 19) the sickness of the Maccies - was RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your by "Gaston Graf" 20) Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by LEONARDPeterL@aol.com 21) Re: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard by "mdf@mars.ark.com" 22) RE: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane by "Ray Boorman" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 12:45:03 -0400 From: "mdf@mars.ark.com" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: <3ACF440F.46DE8447@mars.ark.com> The caption looks like it says 'French aircraft' (Franz Flugzeug) but I can't find anything French (or British) that had a cowling that shape, and with an opening that large. The only French types that seem to come close are the Nieuport 12 and the 16 - and both of those have more in front of the engine. The fuel tank rules it out as a 12 though. It's going to be something early in the war to have an 80 hp LeRhone (or be a trainer). Can anyone identify the period of uniforms? Mike > The other photo was pretty gruesome. The pilot's remains looked easier to > identify than the aircraft though :( > > Later! > > Brent ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:43:43 +0200 From: "Hans Trauner" To: Subject: Re: Replicating Rib Tapes Message-ID: <001f01c0bf81$e8a3a8e0$6fa372d4@FRITZweb> Andrei, good advice! I am contemplating rib tapes since ever and I use Bare Metal foil regularely. But I never got them together! H. A fellow had used Bare Metal foil for rib tapes on the > fabric surfaces of a 1/48 Me109. Primed with Mr. Surfacer and under a few > coats of paint, it looked great. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 12:46:17 -0400 From: "mdf@mars.ark.com" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: <3ACF4459.CA0B4B95@mars.ark.com> Thats what I thought initailly but the angle on the side is too steep for that. Ernest Thomas wrote: > > Dave Watts wrote: > > > Also, can any one identify these aircraft remains? > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1130006536 > > Well the cowl looks kinda Fokker-ish. > E. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:47:51 +0200 From: "Hans Trauner" To: Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: <003101c0bf82$7bfe7020$6fa372d4@FRITZweb> > > Dave Watts wrote: > > > Also, can any one identify these aircraft remains? > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1130006536 > > Well the cowl looks kinda Fokker-ish. > E. Hmmm... don't think so. It looks more Moranish or early Nieuportish ( Pic taken in 1915). Notice caption on right upper corner: It says: Franz. Flugzeug Hans ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:45:50 -0700 From: "Ray Boorman" To: "Wwi@Wwi-Models. Org" Subject: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard drives Message-ID: I just got a new Digital toy to play with. Whilst I wont talk about the camera much. What has impressed me is the photo Cataloguing software that came as a freebie with the camera. I'm sure many on the list save off the photos and drawings we see on our online browsings over the web. Now the one problem with this at least in WinDOZE machines is that you save it off and mean to put it into some sort of order at a later date, but then it falls into the Computer version of a black hole and its a lot of work to organise the photo's. Of course later on you just end up with directories with hundreds of pictures in but since you have to click on the pictures to even work out what they are they tend to just get lost. Some of the newer cataloguing software solves this. After I installed the software it went to my web pictures directory by default and lo and behold lots of thumbnails came up. Sheesh I had hundreds of pictures I had forgotten about. This is where the software comes into its own. You get the thumbnails so you can eclecticlally browse but you can also create subject catalogues and put comments on the pictures and organise them easily and effectively into subjects. I'm not describing this well, the key is I actually know what I have and I can take some quick notes for later use on any picture or set of pictures and attach it to the pictures. In the past I have played with other catalogueing software but it wasnt very intuitive or tried to force you to have a catalogue and then open pictures. That seemed counter intuitive to me since I want to see the thumbnail before I start creating lists and catalogues. I actually found some pictures I had collected months ago that I really need to finish the model I'm currently building. (ot so I wont mention it) Anyway I'll stop rambling on, the software I have is called ACDSee. I'm sure there are other tools like this software and if like me you literally have collected a few hundred photo's on your hard disk then this type of software might be a good idea. Oh by the way the digital toy I got was a Nikon Coolpix 990. Not sure I'll ever be as good as the camera, I'm glad it has simple as well as expert modes. It has Macro down to less than an inch, bad part of that is you can certainly see the mistakes on your models........ Ray ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 10:02:55 -0700 From: "Bob Pearson" To: ww1 mailing list Subject: FW: Over the Front/Cross & Cockade Message-ID: <200104070901.f3791wc56869@mail.rapidnet.net> > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3069482575_35049_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi All, I received this today and as requested have passed it on to all of you. .. Bob ---------- From: JBayard417@aol.com To: bpearson@rapidnet.net Subject: Over the Front/Cross & Cockade Date: Sat, Apr 7, 2001, 6:20 am Dear Sir: My dad recently passed away and left behind about 70 issues of Over the Front Journals and Cross & Cockade Journals. These are in excellent condition dating back to the 1960's I am listing them on www.ebay.com under Collectibles: US Military/WWI section. You can just type in "Over the Front" in their search engine, and they will come up. My purpose for writing you is to ask if you could notify your database about this, as I want these to be available to avid modelers (my Dad was-he loved his Eindecker, and Fokkers) and to find a good home for them. Various ones will be on auction all month. Jeff Bayard Richmond, VA --MS_Mac_OE_3069482575_35049_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable FW: Over the Front/Cross & Cockade Hi All,

I received this today and as requested have passed it on to all of you. ..<= BR>
Bob

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From: JBayard417@aol.com
To: bpearson@rapidnet.net
Subject: Over the Front/Cross & Cockade
Date: Sat, Apr 7, 2001, 6:20 am


Dear Sir:
My dad recently passed away and left behind about 70 issues of Over the Fro= nt
Journals and Cross & Cockade Journals. These are in excellent condition=
dating back to the 1960's I am listing them on www.ebay.com under
Collectibles: US Military/WWI section. You can just type in "Over the = Front"
in their search engine, and they will come up.  My purpose for writing= you is
to ask if you could notify your database about this, as I want these to be =
available to avid modelers (my Dad was-he loved his Eindecker, and Fokkers)=
and to find a good home for them. Various ones will be on auction all month= .
Jeff Bayard
Richmond, VA
--MS_Mac_OE_3069482575_35049_MIME_Part-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:07:46 +0200 From: "Hans Trauner" To: Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: <000f01c0bf8d$a6542440$c4a372d4@FRITZweb> Can anyone identify the period of uniforms? > > Mike > Uniforms are early style, but that does not mean so much. More interesting is the style of beards and general shape. These guys does have a distinct 'Landwehr' touch and are not members of fighting units. Anyway, the author says 'Marne 1915'. I am definetely incompetend in french types. But is not there somebody out there who's making these types in a very tiny, tiny scale? Hans ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 14:55:39 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: "Prime"mary lesson Message-ID: In a message dated 4/7/01 4:59:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, smperry@mindspring.com writes: << BTW: Darker or lighter shade for the non fabric covered panels? What say the French experts? (I'll scale your answer up by the appropriate factor Matt) sp sp >> Thus wrote Alan "Mr. Butterfly" Toelle in WW I Aero No 104, April '85, about French pigemented yellows and refering to Guynemer's VII: "......the nose of the Spad was painted a darker color.............General Lissarrague (head cheese of the Musee) calls this color "caramel" ". Toelle prefers "chamois". RK ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:16:22 EDT From: VMA324Vagabonds@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Gaston and the Amish Message-ID: <27.138c824f.2800c186@aol.com> Just a word of warning here Gaston, the Amish call everyone not Amish, English! Everyone's English to them, seems funny in a way. Best regards, Jon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:28:22 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: In a message dated 4/7/01 5:02:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, btheobal@sta.samsung.com writes: << Howdy! There's a Taube in this one. It looks as if the crew survived unscathed. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1129602424 Later! Brent >> and it's biplane- and may have ailerons (something suspiciously resembling a horn is evident on the twisted wing tip) RK ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:28:23 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: <97.13ac3363.2800c457@aol.com> In a message dated 4/7/01 1:28:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, davew@wattstrainshop.com writes: << Also this Hannover in flight photo, is very nice. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1130270621 >> this same shot is in Vintage Warbird No. 9 "World War I in the Air". RK ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:31:50 +0200 From: "Gaston Graf" To: Subject: RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard drives Message-ID: Ray, ACSee is available for download as well. Also most of the puter zines put it on their CDs coming with each issue. It is a handy tool but honesty said, the most handiest tool IMHO simply is the Explorer. Since Win98SE, you can switch on a thumbnail preview of your folders so you can have the pics in each folder as thumbnails if you like. WinME has this feature already available from the view menue while you have to switch it on in Win98Se. Just rightclick on a folder, click on "properties" and check the box saying "enable thumbnail view". Then open the folder, go to the view menue and click on new menue point "thumbnail" - that's it. The big advantage of this is that you don't need to install another tool which just uses up some more of your valuable resources. There are many such features build in in each version of Windows, but like users are lazy and unwilling to learn how to use it, they often rely on third party tools which in most cases are not needed. One of the most important things when using puters is ORDER. You should NOT have your HD look like your modeling desktop, or you will never find your files back again, until you scan your hd for them ;o). I speak of experience, that's why I store my pics on a partition for pics only, with different subfolders for formats, topics and resolutions. In that way I never loose them anymore. But ACDSee is a great tool, there is no doubt. It is useful because it can convert many pics in a different format at the same time, iIrc. I know a lot of people who are using it because they find it handy. I tried it, but prefer to save HD space and a have small registry. happy archiving ;o) Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > > I just got a new Digital toy to play with. Whilst I wont talk about the > camera much. What has impressed me is the photo Cataloguing > software that > came as a freebie with the camera. I'm sure many on the list save off the > photos and drawings we see on our online browsings over the web. > Now the one > problem with this at least in WinDOZE machines is that you save it off and > mean to put it into some sort of order at a later date, but then it falls > into the Computer version of a black hole and its a lot of work > to organise > the photo's. Of course later on you just end up with directories with > hundreds of pictures in but since you have to click on the > pictures to even > work out what they are they tend to just get lost. > > Some of the newer cataloguing software solves this. After I installed the > software it went to my web pictures directory by default and lo and behold > lots of thumbnails came up. Sheesh I had hundreds of pictures I had > forgotten about. This is where the software comes into its own. > You get the > thumbnails so you can eclecticlally browse but you can also create subject > catalogues and put comments on the pictures and organise them easily and > effectively into subjects. I'm not describing this well, the key is I > actually know what I have and I can take some quick notes for later use on > any picture or set of pictures and attach it to the pictures. In > the past I > have played with other catalogueing software but it wasnt very > intuitive or > tried to force you to have a catalogue and then open pictures. That seemed > counter intuitive to me since I want to see the thumbnail before I start > creating lists and catalogues. > > I actually found some pictures I had collected months ago that I > really need > to finish the model I'm currently building. (ot so I wont mention it) > > Anyway I'll stop rambling on, the software I have is called > ACDSee. I'm sure > there are other tools like this software and if like me you literally have > collected a few hundred photo's on your hard disk then this type > of software > might be a good idea. > > Oh by the way the digital toy I got was a Nikon Coolpix 990. Not sure I'll > ever be as good as the camera, I'm glad it has simple as well as expert > modes. It has Macro down to less than an inch, bad part of that > is you can > certainly see the mistakes on your models........ > > Ray > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:35:16 +0200 From: "Gaston Graf" To: Subject: RE: Gaston and the Amish Message-ID: I wonder if they will stick on that opinion after I talked Luxemburgish with them ;o). btw: dows anyone know what the word "Amish" means or why they call themself that way? I have no idea. Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > > Just a word of warning here Gaston, the Amish call everyone not Amish, > English! Everyone's English to them, seems funny in a way. > > Best regards, > Jon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 12:46:52 -0700 From: "Bob Pearson" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your Message-ID: <200104071140.f37BeWc62217@mail.rapidnet.net> Gee, my Mac has done that all along .. no extra programs needed. One more piece of proof that Apple got it right. Bob ---------- > Ray, > >Since Win98SE, you can > switch on a thumbnail preview of your folders so you can have the pics in > each folder as thumbnails if you like. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:56:29 +0200 From: "Hans Trauner" To: Subject: Re: Gaston and the Amish Message-ID: <000f01c0bf9c$d67a0c20$37a372d4@FRITZweb> > I wonder if they will stick on that opinion after I talked Luxemburgish with > them ;o). They will understand you. Their dialect is some form of 'old german'. H. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:49:50 -0700 From: "David Calhoun" To: Subject: Re: "Prime"mary lesson Message-ID: <004001c0bfbd$7108cc20$b7f13ccc@oemcomputer> Hi Steve, There is a color photo of Guynemer's Spad 7 on the front cover of Windsock vol.9 no.3. The nose & landing gear struts appear to look lighter than the fabric fuselage - like a light gray mixed with the yellow color of the fuselage. Dave Calhoun----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven M.Perry" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 5:02 AM Subject: "Prime"mary lesson > I'm doing an oob build of the Smer Spad VII, that 1/40 scale thing. It's as > a retirement gift for my boss, so the odd scale is perfect. It will be > Bullard's plane. > > I wanted subtle indications of the structure under the French yellow fabric > covering. Not so much as on a CDL finish, but just enough to let the eye > know its there. So I'm using the same technique of overspraying penciled > ribs & stringers. I don't usually prime my models, but this technique forces > me to. Boy did I catch some blemishes. > > This kit takes a lot of filling in and filing down around the lower > wing/fuselage/belly tank area. I guess seams are such a minimal problem with > most WWI models that I have gotten lazy and renained lucky in that > department. Funny how hard good habits are to get back into. > > BTW: Darker or lighter shade for the non fabric covered panels? What say the > French experts? > (I'll scale your answer up by the appropriate factor Matt) > sp > > sp > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:52:36 -0700 From: "David Calhoun" To: Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: <004701c0bfbd$d3bd5a20$b7f13ccc@oemcomputer> Looks like a upper & lower wing, struts clearly visable, so I would guess it is something other than a Taube? Dave Calhoun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Theobald" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 5:05 AM Subject: RE: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0BF5A.99A93920 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Howdy! > > There's a Taube in this one. It looks as if the crew survived unscathed. > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1129602424 > > Later! > > Brent > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0BF5A.99A93920 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > 5.5.2653.12"> > RE: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane > > > >

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> > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0BF5A.99A93920-- > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 15:59:11 -0500 From: "Jay M. Thompson" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard Message-ID: Be aware, though, that the thumbnail view has some drawbacks if your files are large. As far as I can tell, the system does not cache the thumbnails, but builds them dynamically each time you open the folder. So if you're using large files (mine can be upward of 50MB), you'll sit twiddling your thumbs while the system creates the thumbnails. It's great for your average .jpg collection where the files are under 500k. -----Original Message----- From: wwi@wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi@wwi-models.org]On Behalf Of Gaston Graf Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 2:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard drives Ray, ACSee is available for download as well. Also most of the puter zines put it on their CDs coming with each issue. It is a handy tool but honesty said, the most handiest tool IMHO simply is the Explorer. Since Win98SE, you can switch on a thumbnail preview of your folders so you can have the pics in each folder as thumbnails if you like. WinME has this feature already available from the view menue while you have to switch it on in Win98Se. Just rightclick on a folder, click on "properties" and check the box saying "enable thumbnail view". Then open the folder, go to the view menue and click on new menue point "thumbnail" - that's it. The big advantage of this is that you don't need to install another tool which just uses up some more of your valuable resources. There are many such features build in in each version of Windows, but like users are lazy and unwilling to learn how to use it, they often rely on third party tools which in most cases are not needed. One of the most important things when using puters is ORDER. You should NOT have your HD look like your modeling desktop, or you will never find your files back again, until you scan your hd for them ;o). I speak of experience, that's why I store my pics on a partition for pics only, with different subfolders for formats, topics and resolutions. In that way I never loose them anymore. But ACDSee is a great tool, there is no doubt. It is useful because it can convert many pics in a different format at the same time, iIrc. I know a lot of people who are using it because they find it handy. I tried it, but prefer to save HD space and a have small registry. happy archiving ;o) Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > > I just got a new Digital toy to play with. Whilst I wont talk about the > camera much. What has impressed me is the photo Cataloguing > software that > came as a freebie with the camera. I'm sure many on the list save off the > photos and drawings we see on our online browsings over the web. > Now the one > problem with this at least in WinDOZE machines is that you save it off and > mean to put it into some sort of order at a later date, but then it falls > into the Computer version of a black hole and its a lot of work > to organise > the photo's. Of course later on you just end up with directories with > hundreds of pictures in but since you have to click on the > pictures to even > work out what they are they tend to just get lost. > > Some of the newer cataloguing software solves this. After I installed the > software it went to my web pictures directory by default and lo and behold > lots of thumbnails came up. Sheesh I had hundreds of pictures I had > forgotten about. This is where the software comes into its own. > You get the > thumbnails so you can eclecticlally browse but you can also create subject > catalogues and put comments on the pictures and organise them easily and > effectively into subjects. I'm not describing this well, the key is I > actually know what I have and I can take some quick notes for later use on > any picture or set of pictures and attach it to the pictures. In > the past I > have played with other catalogueing software but it wasnt very > intuitive or > tried to force you to have a catalogue and then open pictures. That seemed > counter intuitive to me since I want to see the thumbnail before I start > creating lists and catalogues. > > I actually found some pictures I had collected months ago that I > really need > to finish the model I'm currently building. (ot so I wont mention it) > > Anyway I'll stop rambling on, the software I have is called > ACDSee. I'm sure > there are other tools like this software and if like me you literally have > collected a few hundred photo's on your hard disk then this type > of software > might be a good idea. > > Oh by the way the digital toy I got was a Nikon Coolpix 990. Not sure I'll > ever be as good as the camera, I'm glad it has simple as well as expert > modes. It has Macro down to less than an inch, bad part of that > is you can > certainly see the mistakes on your models........ > > Ray > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:26:26 +0200 From: "Gaston Graf" To: Subject: the sickness of the Maccies - was RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your Message-ID: Aaahh..... the old fight of Maccies and Winnies is back on again - how sad. Every system has its advantages and disadvantages, that's a fact. If you bring me as much good software for a Mac as there is for PCs and if you'll bring me a Mac which offers the same performance than a modern PC offers for the same low price, then I'll maybe switch of Mac too. But for as long as one has to pay so much money for a machine that can't match a PCs performance and where the software that I mostly use isn't available at all, there is no reason for me why to buy a Mac. At the same time I accept your arguments off course, when you explain why you prefer your Mac. But I hate it that the Maccies always point out why their crates are sooo much better if this simply isn't true! If Karen is still on the list I am sure I will now receive a lenghty offlist message again, explaining and teasing why Mac and not PC blabla etc. I really don't need that! Strange is that the Maccies act that way so often while PC users just accept the existence of Macs. IMHO - everybody must see to get happy with his/her own life. It's really a sickness that Mac users believe there's nothing better than their Apple crates. I drive a Mercedes-Benz, but did I ever tell the other people there is no better brand than the one wearing the Star? No - I do not, because I accept the taste and preferences of the other! So, dear Mac users out there in the cruel world of electronics, be happy with your stuff - but PLEASE let me be happy with my stuff! happy apple eating - but beware of the worm inside ;oP Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > -----Original Message----- > From: wwi@wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi@wwi-models.org]On Behalf Of Bob > Pearson > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 9:52 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on > your > > > Gee, my Mac has done that all along .. no extra programs needed. One more > piece of proof that Apple got it right. > > Bob > > ---------- > > > Ray, > > > > > >Since Win98SE, you can > > switch on a thumbnail preview of your folders so you can have > the pics in > > each folder as thumbnails if you like. > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:26:46 EDT From: LEONARDPeterL@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: <6c.94f635e.2800e016@aol.com> isn't it a DFW Mars bi-plane? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:44:49 -0400 From: "mdf@mars.ark.com" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your hard Message-ID: <3ACF8A51.BD46B975@mars.ark.com> I have used CompuPic for three or four years now, which caches the thumbs and opens the files much faster that any other program I've used (instantly even on a P133 for even the largest images). It has a very useful scaling facility (the number keys are x original size), it can automatically scale to full screen (with or without stretch), and it makes it really easy to sort images as it has most of the regular explorer capabilities (but it won't open many non-graphic formats). As a part of this it has file filtering, so only file formats you choose to see are shown. It also does slide shows, which are useful for comparing different versions of the same picture. The thumbnail size is customizable, and it does an excellent job rescaling the images. There is a trial version of the program - but this is the only program I have bought in the last 8 years with my own money, and that was after having used it for a while in cracked form. When you purchase it it comes with free upgrades for future versions, however I am now on the last version of my lisense and each version has only improved over the previous. Mike Fletcher "Jay M. Thompson" wrote: > > Be aware, though, that the thumbnail view has some drawbacks if your files > are large. As far as I can tell, the system does not cache the thumbnails, > but builds them dynamically each time you open the folder. So if you're > using large files (mine can be upward of 50MB), you'll sit twiddling your > thumbs while the system creates the thumbnails. It's great for > your average .jpg collection where the files are under 500k. > > -----Original Message----- > From: wwi@wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi@wwi-models.org]On Behalf Of Gaston Graf > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 2:37 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: RE: Photo cataloguing software - for all those OT photo's on your > hard drives > > Ray, > > ACSee is available for download as well. Also most of the puter zines put it > on their CDs coming with each issue. It is a handy tool but honesty said, > the most handiest tool IMHO simply is the Explorer. Since Win98SE, you can > switch on a thumbnail preview of your folders so you can have the pics in > each folder as thumbnails if you like. WinME has this feature already > available from the view menue while you have to switch it on in Win98Se. > Just rightclick on a folder, click on "properties" and check the box saying > "enable thumbnail view". Then open the folder, go to the view menue and > click on new menue point "thumbnail" - that's it. The big advantage of this > is that you don't need to install another tool which just uses up some more > of your valuable resources. There are many such features build in in each > version of Windows, but like users are lazy and unwilling to learn how to > use it, they often rely on third party tools which in most cases are not > needed. One of the most important things when using puters is ORDER. You > should NOT have your HD look like your modeling desktop, or you will never > find your files back again, until you scan your hd for them ;o). I speak of > experience, that's why I store my pics on a partition for pics only, with > different subfolders for formats, topics and resolutions. In that way I > never loose them anymore. > > But ACDSee is a great tool, there is no doubt. It is useful because it can > convert many pics in a different format at the same time, iIrc. I know a lot > of people who are using it because they find it handy. I tried it, but > prefer to save HD space and a have small registry. > > happy archiving ;o) > > Gaston Graf > (ggraf@vo.lu) > Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: > http://www.jastaboelcke.de > > > > > I just got a new Digital toy to play with. Whilst I wont talk about the > > camera much. What has impressed me is the photo Cataloguing > > software that > > came as a freebie with the camera. I'm sure many on the list save off the > > photos and drawings we see on our online browsings over the web. > > Now the one > > problem with this at least in WinDOZE machines is that you save it off and > > mean to put it into some sort of order at a later date, but then it falls > > into the Computer version of a black hole and its a lot of work > > to organise > > the photo's. Of course later on you just end up with directories with > > hundreds of pictures in but since you have to click on the > > pictures to even > > work out what they are they tend to just get lost. > > > > Some of the newer cataloguing software solves this. After I installed the > > software it went to my web pictures directory by default and lo and behold > > lots of thumbnails came up. Sheesh I had hundreds of pictures I had > > forgotten about. This is where the software comes into its own. > > You get the > > thumbnails so you can eclecticlally browse but you can also create subject > > catalogues and put comments on the pictures and organise them easily and > > effectively into subjects. I'm not describing this well, the key is I > > actually know what I have and I can take some quick notes for later use on > > any picture or set of pictures and attach it to the pictures. In > > the past I > > have played with other catalogueing software but it wasnt very > > intuitive or > > tried to force you to have a catalogue and then open pictures. That seemed > > counter intuitive to me since I want to see the thumbnail before I start > > creating lists and catalogues. > > > > I actually found some pictures I had collected months ago that I > > really need > > to finish the model I'm currently building. (ot so I wont mention it) > > > > Anyway I'll stop rambling on, the software I have is called > > ACDSee. I'm sure > > there are other tools like this software and if like me you literally have > > collected a few hundred photo's on your hard disk then this type > > of software > > might be a good idea. > > > > Oh by the way the digital toy I got was a Nikon Coolpix 990. Not sure I'll > > ever be as good as the camera, I'm glad it has simple as well as expert > > modes. It has Macro down to less than an inch, bad part of that > > is you can > > certainly see the mistakes on your models........ > > > > Ray > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:12:37 -0700 From: "Ray Boorman" To: Subject: RE: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane Message-ID: Depends a biplane can be a Taube, its the wingshape that is what makes a Taube a Taube. Taubes came in floatplanes, amphibians, with Rotary engines and inlines. Biplanes and monoplanes. If you look at an Albatros Taube, it looks very very much like an elongated monoplane DIII and that was long before anyone was license building Rolands. Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: wwi@wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi@wwi-models.org]On Behalf Of David > Calhoun > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:56 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane > > > Looks like a upper & lower wing, struts clearly visable, so I > would guess it > is something other than a Taube? > Dave Calhoun > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brent Theobald" > To: "Multiple recipients of list" > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 5:05 AM > Subject: RE: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not > understand > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0BF5A.99A93920 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Howdy! > > > > There's a Taube in this one. It looks as if the crew survived unscathed. > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1129602424 > > > > Later! > > > > Brent > > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0BF5A.99A93920 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > > > 5.5.2653.12"> > > RE: One excellent photo of German fighter seaplane > > > > > > > >

Howdy! > >

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There's a Taube in this one. It looks as if the crew = > > survived unscathed. > >

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