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How can I change the behavior of searching in windows in Firefox? The Firefox search-in-browser bar is, and has always has been, awful.
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at 7:25 AM on June 29, 2008
(14 comments)
Is there a cheap or free way to setup a phone number in Trinidad and Tobago and have it forward to an American number? Skype and Grand Central don't have numbers in that area code (868). A dozen other vaguely similar services don't, either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 7:40 PM on May 20, 2008
(2 comments)
Can you send an email from your Nokia phone using your T-Mobile service?
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at 10:22 AM on May 5, 2008
(11 comments)
I am in need of a server-side Linux or Unix-based software solution that will sort uploaded PDF files that can be PDF-native (that is, created in such a way that the text in the PDF is freely copyable), PDFs with embedded text over images (usually the result of a previous OCR job), and PDF-scanned, which are PDFs containing no text, only scanned images. The PDF-native files and PDFs with embedded text it will extract text from, the PDF-scanned files it will then OCR and export that text.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 11:13 AM on March 17, 2008
(4 comments)
Is there a major online advertising network that allows targeting of specific IP ranges like those assigned to a company?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 6:43 AM on January 15, 2008
(7 comments)
What would cause web site traffic to rise and then hit a plateau for the middle of each day before falling again?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 1:10 PM on November 18, 2007
(16 comments)
I'm looking for suggestions for open source software that will allow me to take a large amount of XML, do searches of it through a web interface (especially allowing selecting trees or tags for narrowing searches), and return HTML-formatted results.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 12:48 PM on September 7, 2007
(6 comments)
How do I stop Google Notifier on OS X from notifying me repeatedly about an event?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 12:11 PM on March 11, 2007
(5 comments)
Can you recommend a MySQL hosting provider?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 9:14 AM on July 10, 2006
(14 comments)
I've just copied all my data from an iBook G4 to a Macbook. For some reason, the delete and return keys don't work in Safari and Mail.app on the Macbook. I think I've solved this before but I can't remember how and can't find the answer.
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at 7:35 PM on May 24, 2006
(4 comments)
Please recommend a Windows 2000 program that will allow me to assign a keyboard command to bring all windows of an active application forward or launch the application if it is not yet open.
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at 12:07 PM on January 9, 2006
(7 comments)
For a friend: "My boyfriend and I work for the same company. After a couple of years, we are becoming very serious. I work in human resources. He works elsewhere in the building. As part of building our total trust in each other, he told me that he was once arrested for a non-violent, non-drug crime and jailed for a few days. Do I report him?"
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at 11:44 AM on December 12, 2005
(245 comments)
How do I get Firefox to rename with unique names simultaneous downloads that start out with the same name?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 12:16 PM on November 1, 2005
(13 comments)
I need software, OS X (including Darwin or XWindows) or Windows 2K, that can be set to automatically check the maximum download or upload speed to and from multiple machines outside my WAN at given time intervals by doing pre-set tasks and recording the total time the tasks take and the size of the total data transferred. I do not need software that shows me the current throughput of whatever random surfing or emailing I'm doing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 9:04 AM on September 12, 2005
(4 comments)
Firefox deal-breakers. 1. Instead of scrolling the page, panning use the trackpad on OS X goes back one page in the cache. 2. I want to change the keybinding to so that control-click on a link opens in a new background tab, instead of in a new foreground tab.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 12:16 PM on July 28, 2005
(15 comments)
In June I attend a conference on the Boston University campus. It looks like the BU network will be closed to attendees who are not BU students. Do you know of wifi access close to the BU campus?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 8:30 AM on May 18, 2005
(5 comments)
Do you know of a page or project that will show a list of Amazon's
statistcally improbable phrases, live-linked to the Amazon content the are found in? Options for sorting by source date, title, author, subject, or other classes are what my inner librarian really wants.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 7:46 PM on March 21, 2005
(5 comments)
Stoopid Safari question: URLs often only load on the second try. I type in the URL, hit enter, the URL disappears, no page loads, any URL that was there before reappears.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 10:01 AM on March 8, 2005
(13 comments)
As a white man in New York City, I've become conscious that when I pass some black men, they often spit immediately after I pass. Another white friend says it happens to him, too. Is it a statement about our race?
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at 6:45 PM on February 26, 2005
(42 comments)
I burned out my roommate's electric food chopper by trying cheese, so I need to get her a new one. Can you recommend a fairly priced model that won't go all stinky and smoky when I stuff it full of Wisconsin's best?
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at 10:29 AM on February 16, 2005
(12 comments)
Is there a free VST- or AudioUnit-compatibile plugin designed to remove or reduce compression artifacts from low-quality audio being re-recorded at a higher bitrate? Or special settings for a specific filter that will do this? I need one for AudioHijack on OS X.
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at 8:44 PM on January 20, 2005
(6 comments)
I received a $50 gift card from my parents for Christmas. From Sears. I think the intention was that I would buy underwear and socks. I'd like to swap it for one from a book store, but all the gift card swapping sites seem suspicious or they take too big of a fee. Recommendations?
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at 7:19 AM on December 26, 2004
(47 comments)
Hypothetical: You're abroad, temporarily resident in the home of strangers. Not a vacation. The shelter was voluntarily offered at no cost. You are vastly rich by comparison to your host/hostess. But you know they will refuse any money you give them, no matter what--it's not a coy negotiation technique. Gifts of baubles and luxuries aren't needed so much as basics. You can give the children sweets, but if you do anything more appropriate, such as buy meat for the household or pay to have the well pump fixed, your hosts will truly be insulted. Yet, you cannot leave without doing something: your religion/conscience/mother/employer requires it, and you might be back. There are no "oh, s/he's a foreigner" excuses. How do you monetarily or otherwise successfully compensate your hosts so everyone retains honor?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 2:04 PM on December 16, 2004
(26 comments)
Emacs is my new replacement for BBEdit, which could not handle large XML files (>10MB) on my system. I've applied the
Reitter configs to make it more Mac-like, but I need examples of good line-wrapping, auto-arranging multiple frames, and line numbering. Can I see
your OS X Emacs config file? (If it's on the Net, I've already seen it, including everything at
DotEmacs.de.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 1:13 PM on November 4, 2004
(6 comments)
Going Insane: How do I turn off mouse gestures in Firefox for OS X? I've installed a couple of extensions which control gestures, but so far, nothing works. I hate gestures. The keyboard is faster.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 7:45 AM on September 24, 2004
(5 comments)
I want to download an
archived directory at Webarchive.org using an automated tool. I've tried wget, httrack, and various browsers which save web sites, but they do not download much at all. Had any sucess at this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 1:58 PM on September 17, 2004
(3 comments)
Does anyone know of a Popbitch archive? There is no such thing on the
Popbitch web site. I mainly need the one from this past week, but a full archive would be useful, too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 8:52 AM on September 12, 2004
(5 comments)
On behalf of a colleague, I need to find two separate things: a competent Windows tech support person to do a one-off job, and a very patient person or organization to give two middle-aged academics thorough sessions on how to use a computer. Both in Knoxville. A web search turns up hundreds of hits, but I need a personal recommendation or connection here to insure some level of reliability and skill.
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at 11:35 AM on August 13, 2004
(3 comments)
I've just taken over an email list which sends a single message to a single address which then goes to hundreds of people once a day, Monday through Friday. I have the info to be sent in a randomized Excel file. Using that file and Outlook's delayed sending feature, I want to preload all the messages for the next year. I found some
VBA scripts to do similar things, but my hacking skills aren't up to modifying them, particularly when trying to set them to send for a future date. Do you have any suggestions for premade scripts or software to do this? I want to set it up, run it, and forget it, not leave it open to run every day.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 5:48 AM on July 27, 2004
(2 comments)
Does anyone know of a free service like Google News alerts, only for Usenet? Filtering in newsreaders won't do: I need alerts from across all available groups; I can't very well subscribe to 40,000 newsgroups and then filter on the client side. If the results came in RSS form, that would be fine, too. Right now, my best option seems to be to save searches at Google Groups to a browser bookmark group.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 5:39 PM on June 3, 2004
(6 comments)
On the BBC World Service Radio show
Music Biz, the old-school The Alarm was featured because they got a hit record by pretending they were the very young The Poppyfields, including a lip-synced video. But my question: the guy from The Alarm said he thinks even Madonna has an anonymous album out now. Does she? What is it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mo Nickels
at 5:58 PM on March 4, 2004
(3 comments)
