... copying it was another.
There I was, making the best of a wait for a cup of coffee to warm up by checking
out the HaAretz web site. I decided to take a look at an article in the English
translation, and when I clicked over to the English version of the site, there
was that advertisement, serendipitously waiting for me to take note of it.
But I wasn't at my own computer, with my readily available tools for copying part
of the screen and saving it as a graphic. I basically had, therefore, three options
open to me:
* perform a "printscreen"
on the whole page, save it as an enormous .bmp file and send it to myself via
e-mail
* upload or copy a screen capture program
to the computer I was facing and then capture the ad and send it to myself
* count on the ad coming up again in the
same place on the same site when I'd visit the same page from my computer,
and copy it from there with the tools I have available to
myself from that computer
The third possibility was the simplest, yet also the least dependable. Though
chances were good that the same ad would again appear, it wasn't a sure thing.
So I decided to minimize my chances of losing the ad while still minimizing the
effort expended. I prepared a printscreen copy of the page and made sure that
it was in memory on the computer. Then upon returning to my own computer I called
up the same page. A different advertisement appeared, but by clicking on refresh
about eight times I finally got a version of the page with the desired ad. Once
the ad appeared, I was readily able to copy it, and could forget about the clipboarded
copy on the other computer.
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