Hi everybody! I made an account on this site, only because I was shocked by your reception to Davide Donati's post. Your so silent from 2 years member is a well known biologist. He has wrote books you can find on Amazon or on other book-stores: 1. Davide Donati & Carlo Zanovello, Knowing, understanding, growing Turbinicarpus-Rapicactus (Ed. Cactus Trentino SudTirol, 2005) 2. Davide Donati and Carlo Zanovello, Echinocactus, (Ed. Cactus Trentino - SudTirol, 2011) 3. Davide Donati (Author) , Carlo Zanovello, Epithelantha (Ed. Cactus Trentino - SudTirol, 2011) On another hand, Davide Donati has described new species of cacti and has wrote many other articles in specialized publications. I think, it is easier to check a name on Google - Acta Succulenta - than make a so disgraceful reception to somebody who work for everybody, sharing free knowledge. Dag Panco - senior editor at Xerophilia* * - Xerophilia is not a virus, but a journal who published 2 Davide Donati's articles

I found the info and will paste at the end of this post but the picture can be pretty big. salbwil just tell us what program you are using to resize and right click on the picture and click properties on the drop down menu and tell us what size it is. Here are the posting instructions from the webmaster at hearth.com: OK, so hereÂs the deal - your member photos (in your member profile) is limited to a small size - about 150 pixels (dots) square. The little Avatar next to your posts is limited to the same or maybe 100 each way..... Regular pictures, like in this forum, can be fairly large - almost full screen (1000 wide by 1000 high) and up to 200KB (200,000 bytes). But, many folks donÂt know the basics of email and web pics - IÂll try to explain. Pictures sent to the web and by email are best at what is called "screen resolution" meaning that they somewhat match the size od the dots on our monitors. For our purposes, this is aout 72 DPI (or dots per inch)..... What the average person needs is an "Image Management Program" and NOT the one that comes with Windows! If you are a PC user, download the free program called Picasa - This will organize and store all the photos on your disk and also allow you to export smaller copies (for web, etc.) and to even fix the photos up a bit! Apple users already have an image management program, iPhoto, which comes with every mac. To prepare web photos in iPhoto, simply select the photo or photos, go to Export (or it might say Share in newer versions) and when the dialog box comes up use the part that says "scale no bigger than" to select what you want the size of the exported photo to be. For purposes of this board, a photo with a width of 400-700 is ideal. Now, with Picasa, it is pretty much the same thing. Select the photo or photos and go to Export to Folder- the box shown in the picture below will come up and then you can select the picture size - say 480 wide as in this example. The other slider will compress the file size so the picture loads faster. In most cases, anything over 50% is good. If you want to learn more about this stuff, dig around on the links at: http://www.hearth.com/hcc/ - these are links from a course I teach at night school. If you are a user of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, use the "Image Size" dialog bx to convert your photo to 72 DPI and approx. 400-600 pixels wide (the height will work out automatically) - then use "Save for Web" and tryjpg "medium", file size should be really small. Of course, donÂt save changes to the original picture since you still want that big on your computer and for yourarhiving and storage.

Here's some information about online editors, in general, and also specifically about Picnik. As an aside, I tried the Google Docs beta this morning and I have to say it really does look like Microsoft, as a necessity for professional functioning, has met its match. DH bought a Gateway and Vista - it's a big, monster HD and the Vista just spends so much time hanging around, being all meh... You can open .docs in Google Docs, edit them, save them online OR save them back to your hard drive. You can open them in Word just fine, and you can open them in Mac. It's brilliant! Figuring out how to optimize internet usage is where it's at, peeps! Here is a link that might be useful: Online Photo Editing Overview

I started out with Picasa. My problem with it: At the time (maybe it's still this way), there was a limit as to how many photos you could upload, and then after that you had to pay for the "pro" level service. Then I moved to Shutterfly. I like it because I do my photobooks on Shutterfly. But you don't have to do a photobook to use Shutterfly. For instance, I created a "share" photo site there of my pup, and every so often I upload new photos of her, with captions, and a notice goes out to the friends and family invited by me to see it that there are new photos. An easy way for them to see the pup! I also have a Photobucket free-level account. That's where I upload, say, things I want to sell on Craigslist or pictures of house projects that I want to add to my postings on the Home Dec boards I visit. Like a photo of my bathroom vanity that I need to touch up! Other than the Picasa limit on # of photos (you can reach that easily uploading photos from a big vacation trip!), I don't see much difference among the sites I use.