> I still trying to use tinyurl.com to shorten the URL of this picture so I can post it on my blog:
>
> http://www.southeasterncushmanclub.com/
> CushmanPhotoPages/pictures/Fall%20SECC%20Meet%202004/photos/100_1135_0001.html
>
> I broke it down like this:
> http://www.southeasterncushmanclub.com/
>
> CushmanPhotoPages/pictures/Fall%20SECC%20Meet%202004/photos/100_1135_0001.html
>
> Then I ran the first part through Tinyurl.com, tacked on the last part and ran it through again. I got:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/9sd6g (And it works for me.)
>
> However:
>
> When I tried to post that, I got:
>
> The file at the specified URL does not have an acceptable extension (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif).
>
> Can anybody see what I am doing wrong?
> Howard

The URL at the top isn't the URL of a picture; it's the URL of an HTML file that contains a picture. (Pictures by themselves don't have .html extensions, and they don't have links in them.) To get the URL of the picture, you can right-click on the picture and choose "Properties".

Hope that helps.

Lucky "Note that, if a picture's URL is particularly long, Internet Explorer doesn't show the whole thing, but you can still copy the whole thing if you highlight it by triple-clicking." Wizard