One of the little quirks about transloading either an image or a sound is that before you transload anything, it's generally a good idea to have somewhere to transload to. That usually means a homepage; if you don't have one, here's three of the most popular. I've been very happy here, at

but a lot of people are equally happy at Tripod, and Angelfire. All of these providers offer plenty of space, free of charge. Each has it's advantages and disadvantages, so pick the one you feel will be the easiest for you to use..

Ok, now that you've got your homepage, you're ready to use the

Let's start with images; they're the easiest. Once you've found the image you've just gotta have, make sure you're at the right place; the image will be alone on the screen, without anything around it but a black background. You can also make sure you're at the right spot by pressing your Info key; The URL should end in .gif, or .jpg; it should not end in .html. Once the image is on your screen, go directly from it to the Transloader. The URL is http://transload.star blvd.net/  I've found, though, that it's much easier in the long run to simply store it as a shortcut in my F keys.

Now that you're at the Transloader, you'll notice that in the first field, it will show the URL of the image you were hopefully just viewing. Directly beneath the first field, on the left, you'll see a teardrop shaped image. Click it to transfer that URL into the second field, which denotes what will be transloaded. If for some reason you'd like to rename the file, do so in the field provided for that purpose. Why would you want to change the name you ask, well it could be to shorten the name, or it could be that you already have a file by the same name.

When you transload a file with the same name, the new one will overwrite the old one, for example if I had a file named fire.gif, and transloaded another file of the same name, the new fire.gif would be replace the old fire.gif.

Next enter the name of the ftp server to transfer the image to; for example ftp.oocities.com, if you're a Geocities user. Enter your account name, and then your password. If you're uploading to a subdirectory, which is optional, don't forget to enter it's name in the space provided for it.

All that's really left to do is the actual transload. Click the button, on the lower left, that says Transload. You'll be taken to another screen where, in about 10 seconds, you'll be shown a Status Report. If it's not done immediately, wait about 30 seconds to a minute, and use your reload option. You'll occasionally have to reload more than once, but not often. Scroll down to the bottom; when your session is done, you'll be instructed to click the button at the bottom of the page (The ZAP BUTTON). Doing this clears the session, including your password (for security reasons), from the Transloader, and also, frees up the Transloader for another session.

To upload midi or wav files, while you're listening to the file, press Go To, then Show Last on your keyboard to get the URL, then cmd a to highlight it, cmd c to copy it, when you get to the Transloader, enter or paste that URL into the second field; again, the second field contains the file to be transloaded.

You're now ready to go out there, and fill up your homepage.

From there, if you're so inclined, you can link your images and sounds into your e-mail. One final note; the Transloader has made it simple to upload virtually any image or sound that WebTV can handle into your homepage, right from your WebTV. That's an ability we haven't really had before. Please be careful, though, not to abuse it. Most of the pictures, gifs, sounds, etc. on the web are in the public domain, but not all. Please respect copyrighted material and don't use it without permission. We have an opportunity here; not just to improve our image, but to take our place in the web community. It'd be a shame if we just swapped one form of theft for another.

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