Bar555 sends me this message:
I think I know what's happening. I open f1 pics, it took longer than expected to find the pics. Funny, given the name of the site. All right, I open motorsports.
You're out of luck: at that site, they put a program "under" the thumbnails, instead of a link to the picture. You can recognize them because the links (in Opera) end in ".asp" or something like that, like this:
Notice that when you click on the thumbnail,
you don't open a picture, you open another page. When you ask Opera to download the thumbnail, it downloads the html page instead.
These sites do it like that PRECISELY to slow your downloading.
Sometimes there is a workaround. Follow me: I open the first picture at Singapore. I right click on it to see its name.
It's called
http://motorsport.com/photos/f1/2007/ge ... p-1295.jpg
I copy and paste this picture name on the browser. Yes, that's the picture. I try to open the "next" picture, that is
http://motorsport.com/photos...-xp-1296.jpg
Yes, it works. So, as I said, sorry, you'll need a little extra work:
1. Build a page in Excel with the names of all the links to the photos you want to download, that is:
Copy the first link on cell A1 and using Excel tools, create the names for all the pictures you want to download on the following cells (in A2 goes
http://motorsport.com/photos/f1/2007/ge ... p-1296.jpg, in A3 goes
http://motorsport.com/photos/f1/2007/ge ... p-1297.jpg, etcétera).
To do this, you have to put the "constant" part of the names of the photos in a column, for example, put in B1 the text "
http://motorsport.com/photos/f1/2007/ge ... 07-gen-xp-". Copy the constant text to B2, B3, etcétera.
Then you have to put the variable part in another column, that is "1295", "1296", etcetera. Let's say you put them in C column: you write the two first numbers in C1 and C2, highlight or select the two cells, and "pull" the lower right corner of the selection, to quickly fill a column with consecutive numbers (C3, C4, etcétera).
Finally, write the extension, that is, ".jpg" in a third column, let's say in D1, D2, D3, etcétera.
If you used the columns B, C and D, then in A1 put the formula
=HYPERLINK(CONCATENATE(B1,C1,D1)
This will add the three parts of the name of the photos with CONCATENATE and convert them to a link with HYPERLINK.
Copy the formula in A1 to the other cells in column A (that is, toA2, A3, etcétera) to build the list of links without typing.
2. Save the Excel file as an html page in your disk, using "Save as" and choosing "html" as the type.
3. Open the Excel html file in Opera, using "File/Open". You'll see the Excel page and using the "Links" panel, you'll see the list of links you've built. Select them and download them as I explained.
I have both. Firefox seems better for video or audio stream, and for downloading big stuff. For everything else I use Opera.
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