re: saving pics and movies

[LKG <lkg>]

you can also save movies (or pictures) by right-clicking
ON THE LINK BUTTON. that way you save without having to view
first. (for instance, on the video clips, just right-click
on the button that says "video" and choose "save link as".)


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>  From: mg (Mitch Gart), on 11/3/97 9:05 AM:
>  This might be easy and obvious for some of the most computer-literate
>  among us, but might be useful for others ...  
>  
>  Right now Rocktropolis has some really neat Patti stuff up on their
>  site:  about 30 pictures from the CBGB sets and 5 short movie clips.
>  Poking around a bit, I found how to save those movies and pictures
>  to my local disk, so I can keep them and replay them without any
>  download time, and without worrying that in the future they may
>  be gone from the Rocktropolis site.  It's real easy.  With a picture,
>  view it on your screen in Netscape, then right-click it, and one
>  of the options is "save as", and save it as a file on your local
>  disc.  For movies, the same thing, download it (takes a while over
>  a modem), then right-click it and choose "save movie" from the
>  options.  Warning:  the movie clips take more than 2 MB of disk
>  for each one.
>  
>  Fiona, if you have the disk space and time, it would be great to
>  save these things on babelogue.  I have no idea if you would be
>  violating a copyright or anything like that.
>  
>  The person who chose these video clips has great taste:  there are
>  2 from "Pale Blue Eyes", one from "Don't say nothing", one from
>  "Death Singing", and one with mini-interviews with Lenny and JD.
>  
>  The link to Rocktropolis is on babelogue under "latest updates".
>  
>  - Mitch
>  
>  
>