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Once they're finished downloading, open each file and do the usual 'yes, yes, whatever' installation routine. (if in doubt, hit 'i accept', 'yes', 'next', 'ok' or 'finish')

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The one called 'Picasa' and will hunt through your computer for all your photographs and make lots of thumbnail images of them to make it easy to look through them. We will use this software to select the photographs we want to upload and make a webpage from them. The one caleld 'WinSCP' is what lets you copy the webpage from your computer onto you MIT webspace.

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Now we're going to use the 'Picasa' program we just installed to look at our pictures and select the ones we want to upload.

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If you'd like to select all the pictures in that folder, there is a 'select all' button you can click on next to the green arrow below:

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Here's the bit where we make the webpage! Opposite the folder title (and green arrow) is an 'actions' button with a down arrow on it. Click it, and click on the 'make a webpage' option:

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When it finishes a new window will open up, showing you your new webpage. Clicking on the thumbnails will bring up a bigger version of the picture. Remember that caption you typed in earlier? The software puts it into the picture title for you when it creates the webpage! (green arrow)

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Your webpage is now finished - all we have to do now is copy it from your computer to the web, and we'll need the 'WinSCP' progeam to do that.

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'WinSCP' is what lets you copy the webpage from your computer onto you MIT webspace. Open up the 'WinSCP' program and you will get a screen that looks like this:

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Type bold*athena.dialup.mit.edu*bold into the box that says bold*Host Name*bold

Type your bold*kerberos ID*bold into the box that says bold*User name*bold

Type your bold*kerberos password*bold into the box that says bold*password*bold

This is a pain in the bum, so once you've done that click on the 'save' button. You'll get a new warning screen telling you that if somebody hacks into your laptop they can steal your kerberos password, doctor your photographs and rack up huge athena printing bills, or words to that effect:

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If you're worried, click cancel and you'll jsut ahve to type in all that rubbish every time you want to upload photographs. If you're as lazy as me, just click on ok. Another box will pop up asking you to give the 'session' a name. Anything will do, then click ok:

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You should now have a screen that looks like this:

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Click 'login' and the usual 'i accept', 'yes', 'next', 'ok' or 'finish' when the new warning message comes up. (you'll only get this message once). You should now have a screen that looks somethign like this:

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