Q: I am unable to right-click on an image on a Web page and save the .jpg or .bmp photo files as I used to do. A message comes up with the exclamation point in a yellow triangle reading, “This function is here disabled” – written, I suppose, by a programmer with English as a second language and checked by a test engineer/supervisor with the same credentials.
It must be some security concern.
A: There are two points you need to know about those warnings you’re getting.
First, it may very well be that the website you are going to has simply enabled a common feature in site-building software that lets page creators disable that great right-click courtesy that allows people to capture and enjoy photos posted online.
Second, however, in other cases this might be a glitch that occurs because the user has downloaded a bit of Internet code used to trigger animations or do other stuff, and that code is kicking in at every right-click.
The fix is not only easy, it’s downright refreshing. You need to purge your temporary Internet file folder of all of these subprograms that exist in the hundreds, if not thousands, on machines used heavily for browsing.
So, open the Microsoft Internet Explorer and click on Tools and then Internet Options. In the tabbed menu that comes up, there will be a tab for General that lets one completely erase all of those bits of digital detritus. To find the Tools command in the new IE 7 browser and in Vista, look for the icon showing a little gear in the far right of the toolbar.
Q: You said in your answer to Hill Hammock that Microsoft Access is “far too complex – and expensive – for ordinary home or small-business computer users.” Perhaps that is true, but there is another solution besides abandoning all hope or idea of using it.
There is a website called www.rentacoder.com. People (buyers) from all over the world post jobs there, and people (coders such as myself) from all over the world bid on those jobs.
Not that I enjoy the idea of more outsourcing, but if a buyer is willing to deal with people from India, Taiwan and many other places where $100 will buy far more than here, they could pay a coder to, for example, write a standalone application based on MS Access for very little money. –
A: The original question from Mr. H. focused on his desire to find something simpler than the Microsoft Access database creation for home use. I suggested a pair of shareware programs that simplify creating these bits of software used for keeping track of everything from one’s baseball-card collection to the day’s transactions at Citibank.
I thank you for opening a new door to this intriguing resource and hasten to point out that the outfit you tout is only one of a plethora of programmer-for-hire outfits that can be had all over the Net.
Contact Jim Coates at jcoates@tribune.com
