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Cook My Corn

Help me make some corn on the cob that doesn't come out stiff. Looking for tried and true methods for boiling or BBQing corn on the cob.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 1:21 PM on September 6, 2008 (36 comments)

Slumber Party Suggestions

So our daughters are throwing a slumber party tomorrow night and I am looking for ideas for food and activities for the girls. We are looking at 10-15 girls, ages 5-10. Feel free to include any other advice that you feel is pertinent.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 3:17 PM on August 29, 2008 (15 comments)

My transparencies are not transparencies

My GooFu Fails me... I am having problems with transparencies showing up with black backgrounds. See image for details.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 8:57 PM on August 11, 2008 (4 comments)

Remove empty tag with javascript

I need some help creating some javascript that will remove an empty img tag.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 6:16 PM on July 17, 2008 (12 comments)

Solution May Take Patience

Our company has been using Gmail’s SMTP servers without issue for the last couple years for sending our ecommerce clients emails that read “A customer has placed an online order on your web site. To access it go to https://www.sometime.com/.” - Well, this week Gmail started blocking our outgoing messages as spam.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 12:44 PM on June 17, 2008 (9 comments)

TheLastReal.Com

Domain Naming Troubles - I have spent the last week and a half trying to come up with a clever dot com for my web design company. I am looking for suggestions on keywords that I can use to form a good domain name.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 8:20 AM on June 5, 2008 (16 comments)

Advice on running XP x64 through VMWare Server

XP Pro x64 Server + VMware Server + XP Pro x64 --- So my boss has this idea of running VMware Server on our server and backing up the VMware image nightly. His thought here, is that if the server craps out, all we have to do is re-install, copy over the VMware image and we are back in business.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 12:47 PM on May 28, 2008 (12 comments)

I never Excelled in Excel

I have no clue what I am doing in Excel, so this is going to be a bit hard to explain, but hopefully somebody can help me here. I want to give Excel some text, and have it output a string. Let me explain.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 2:32 PM on May 13, 2008 (4 comments)

How in the flash is this going to work?

[ Flash Filter ] Ok. So after sketching out my client's site, they have informed me that they want the white cross (with the blue gradient) to basically fade, from the outside in to the center, and perhaps have a little sparkle and 'ding' noise as the animation completes. As far as I can come up with, flash is the only way this is going to happen. My question is, how am I going to make this work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 11:58 AM on April 7, 2008 (33 comments)

CSS/Float/IE6 == HEADACHE

CSS/Float/IE6 (I just scared off half of the web designers) For the rest of you, why is IE6 giving me 's' on this page? My shop now buttons... WTF is going on with them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 2:59 PM on March 20, 2008 (14 comments)

calling all ebay cell phone dealer information knower persons

So I just purchased a ' BRAND NEW HTC MOGUL W/ CLEAR ESN, FREE CAR CHARGER NIB!' from eBay, and now have a few questions about how these cell phone dealers work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 4:49 PM on March 9, 2008 (1 comment)

dentista necesitado

So, it has been suggested that I go get my dental work done in Mexico. From what I hear, the $10k worth of work here, will cost maybe $2-3K there. My family knows of a dentist down there that has done work for 4 or 5 of our friends. I would like to hear from anybody else who has experience with this. All feedback is welcome.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 3:16 PM on February 21, 2008 (20 comments)

mix my mimosa

Can anybody recommend a decent champaign for a mimosa? Something that I can most likely pick up at most grocery stores. As far as I know, I am not a big fan of champaign, but I had a great mimosa a few months ago at brunch and am craving one today. Hurry - There is still time to make brunch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 8:14 AM on February 6, 2008 (19 comments)

No CopyPasta For You, Sir

How is this website disabling copypasta (Copy / Paste - Seems to just be replacing all copied content with a '*') in my browser? Can somebody pull the offending code for me and possibly explain how they are manipulating the whole browser and not just this web page?
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 4:36 AM on January 28, 2008 (13 comments)

So this is my intro project into PHP. Like the...

Craigslist Template Generator v0.1 So this is my intro project into PHP. Like the site says, it is very much beta right now. There are a few known issues, and depending on how much use it gets, I will be continuing it's development. Feedback is greatly appreciated.
posted to Projects by B(oYo)BIES at 9:10 AM on December 31, 2007

Resize/Rename Images with PHP

Resizing/renaming images with PHP and keeping only the thumbnail
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 10:01 PM on December 16, 2007 (6 comments)

BSODude, This Fucking Sucks

BSOD Filter: Help me pinpoint the cause. Dump file contents included.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 5:02 PM on December 7, 2007 (6 comments)

Sacked lunch - revised!

We need some ideas for school lunches. A few requirements within.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 7:52 PM on November 16, 2007 (13 comments)

1 sheet of paper, batteries not included.

I am looking for more information on ‘Paper Batteries’ in relationship to RFID. I have found plenty of information on RFID, but the term ‘Paper Battery’ does not seem to produce many fruitful results. The information I am looking for would be in relationship to the technology, production practices, workflow, or process management practices in the field of Graphic Information Technology.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 4:21 AM on October 31, 2007 (6 comments)

Audio Avoidance

Anybody, by chance, know how to get a Mitsubishi CS 35313 (1995) tv to play the audio through the internal speakers again?
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 6:58 PM on October 16, 2007 (4 comments)

Help me help them

Construction / Contractor Filter: So a month or so back some asshat ran into my house and took out a section of wall. Help me, my insurance adjuster, and the contractor figure out what the hell this orange 1/4" tube is running through the wall.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 8:10 AM on October 5, 2007 (10 comments)

ibuypowerwithhelpfromothers

PCGURUFILTER: Advice on configuring a laptop that will carry me through school for the next 3 years.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 6:27 PM on September 4, 2007 (14 comments)

RSS2Email Headaches

RSS2EmailFilter: Help me get individual RSS posts into my Gmail inbox.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 4:47 PM on August 26, 2007 (8 comments)

Ahhh, yeah, that game kicked ass

Help me build a list of must have games for old and new consoles.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 11:57 PM on August 4, 2007 (28 comments)

Used car shopping for dummies

Advice for a 17 year old, buying her first car. $4,000 budget.
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 9:40 PM on July 26, 2007 (51 comments)

What is the difference between 16-bit, 32-bit, and even 64-bit compilers?

programmingfilter: What is the difference between 16-bit, 32-bit, and even 64-bit compilers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 5:34 PM on July 6, 2007 (16 comments)

Motorola RAZR V3 RTSP Support

Does the Motorola RAZR V3 support RTSP (Real Time Stream Protocol)? If not, is there any way around this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by B(oYo)BIES at 4:26 AM on June 18, 2007 (1 comment)