For a picture of chameleon capturing insect with tongue, scroll down halways:
http://www.animalsoftherainforest.org/chameleon.htm
That first picture--the Panther Chameleon--reminded me of a banana split. I wonder what kind of environment would require those colors for disguise? And ice cream shop was the only thing I could think of...
And the other chameleons: They reminded me of a tricerotops.
And a question:
I couldn't quite make out the italicized print because it was so small, but was the genus spelled:
Chamaeleo
or:
Chamoeleo???
Thanks, Faldage. Your eyes are better'n mine.
WW
Here's an even better picture of chameleon zotting insect. I don't
the insect, but the tongue length is spectacular.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~deban/salamander.jpeg
wwh,
Unbelievable tongue there. Do you think the photograph was altered in any way? Where does all that tongue go? Does it roll up like a party blower? And what kind of salamander is it, I wonder?
He's a cute little guy, isn't he? But his tongue is snow white...and that's weird, too. I wonder whether it was the lighting?
Curioser and curioser,
WW
P.S. How did you blow your screen up, Faldage? That would be a neat trick to learn.
>Unbelievable tongue there.
why isn't there a ZOT! in big bold letters?!
your screen has what is called "resolution"
go to the start button..
then Settings
Control Panal
there are a number of icon in the Control Panel, Find Display
There will be several tabs on the top of the window (i don't have W2K at home, and the "names" on the tabs are slightly different.. but one (last or next to last) will be settings.
the Screen setting will be on the right (color settings will be on the left) Nowdays, most lap tops are set by default to 1024 X 7XX ( i forget and i'm not stopping to look it up) you can move the little counter and lower the setting-- everything will appear to get bigger.. or you can raise the setting, and everything will appear to get smaller.. 680 X 4XX is the largest (and used by legal blind users at work) 800 x680 is "old" standard (from Dos and windows 3.1) -- you can always change your settings...
i keep mine at 1024 X 800 or so..
These setting are why sometimes someone makes a post that seems to make the screen "go wide" depending on your settings, it what makes your screen "go wide" might not make mine "go wide"
there are several other setting you can change.. have a care.. i taught a class and some one went wild... and ended up with white text on a white page (in the setting page, and we could no longer see the menus!)
Helen, you wrote:
"i taught a class and some one went wild... and ended up with white text on a white page (in the setting page, and we could no longer see the menus!)"
And you're going to leave us hanging like that? I mean, was it the end of the world or something like that--or did you bail-out the white-out?
Thanks for the info. Will try to find what you're talking about on this laptop...
Hey, I just tried what you suggested, of troy--but it was a weird experience. The computer really only gave me two choices--the regular setting, numbered pretty much just as you describe above and the legally blind setting, which looked really strange--huge and kind of smeary, to tell you the truth. But thanks for the lesson. At least I didn't white out my computer.
That's the brute force method. Kinda like using a stick and a half of dynamite. What I did is browser dependent. In Opera there is a little thang in the upper right hand corner that presently says 100% and has a little up/down arrow thingie next to it. I click on the arrow and I get a pull down menu that gives me a choice of 20% to 1000%. 1000% gives me about two words across the screen in big huge letters. 50% and I can barely make out that there are words. In IE you can go to View in the toolbar(?) at the top of your screen and choose Text Zoom or, in Netscape View gives you Increase or Decrease Font Size. At least on the Mac it's like that. I know the Opera is the same on my PC at work. The ASp says that it is the same on IE and Netscape on a PC. Besides being easier than helen's method all it affects is the browser look and doesn't mess everthang up.
And you're going to leave us hanging like that?
well, i figured out what they did (highlighting was of no because the menu heading didn't highligh, and i just worked blind.. since i had an other computer nearby -- I looked to see which key stroke would open the right menu, and then used tab to move with in the menu, and finally got to the color codes.. and was able to reset the colors.
I am very surprized that you don't have 3 or 4 setting for resolution. that is normal for W2K.
(it's good to know this info, if you ever want to use an image projector to project on a movie type screen what is on you screen, you need to use a smaller resolution (i have icons on my machine to make the changes easy.. since i do it on a regular basis.)
Helen:
I have XP. Only two settings, although there is a bar that looks as though you could slide the numerical settingsl. Problem is: The bar doesn't let the cursor slide up it. You're either east or west and nowhere in between.
Faldage:
How do we computer illiterates find out which browser we have? I sign in with msn, but, other than that, I have no idea how to determine any browser I use. Sorry to be so thick about this, but.
WW
You could see which of my set of instructions seems best to fit your browser. There should also be a Help pull down menu up at the top of your screen. If nothing else, it should have the name of the browser in there somewhere. Doesn't show on this here Mac, but PCs normally have an About Browsername item in the pull down menu. If you're just using what came with the computer it'll be probably IE.