I have a 60gig Photo Ipod. In order to keep my computer's hardrive relative clean, I do not keep my MP3's stored in the Itunes library. All 9500 are strictly on my IPOD. I know I run the ris of losing all that upload work should my ipod get lost or break, but it was by choice. I recently bought a 250 gig external hard drive for the sole purpose of keeping all of my MP3's and important computer files on there....What I want to do and havent been able to figure out is, how could I go about transferring all the MP3 files from my IPOD to my computer and then to the external drive. (more inside)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by TwilightKid at 10:47 AM on December 15, 2005 (17 comments)

Estimating how long I can wait to book a specific airfare I found, before that fare increases...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sparrows at 5:04 PM on September 20, 2007 (10 comments)

Help, CSS bugs! What IE6 bugs are these?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gramcracker at 8:30 PM on September 19, 2007 (6 comments)

Chicago next week. What are the hot night spots?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by unexpected at 6:27 AM on September 20, 2007 (7 comments)

Please recommend some French websites.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by spacewaitress at 9:28 AM on September 18, 2007 (13 comments)

Looking for books about or by female travelers/adventurers/volunteers abroad.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zhivota at 1:01 PM on September 17, 2007 (26 comments)

Good Citizenship Filter: How to be a good planning commissioner.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by stormygrey at 10:29 AM on September 14, 2007 (9 comments)

Good tutorial(s) for learning how to build web forms?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 10:05 AM on September 13, 2007 (6 comments)

40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark. Entries include Yak4Ever - make free international calls from US, UK and Ireland to 50+ countries, ListenToaMovie, Nutsie - takes a copy of your iTunes library file and creates an online copy of your library etc.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 11:04 PM on September 5, 2007 (29 comments)

I'm looking to rebuild my mathematics skills from the ground up so that I have proper habits. I'm looking to start from the basics and go straight up to calculus. Math was a subject in which I didn't pay as much attention to as I wish that I had and am looking to find the best sources of information on the subject. I also would love software that would drill me kind of like speed reading software but for math.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Chamunks at 9:49 PM on September 4, 2007 (22 comments)

I'm a professional web designer looking for forums or websites where I can get constructive feedback on my designs from other web designers. Ideally a place that will critique Photoshop designs, as well as finished html sites, would be brilliant! Any suggestions would be very appreciated :)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by katala at 6:18 AM on August 29, 2007 (4 comments)

This map displays county-to-county migration data for 2000-2005 from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. In, out, staying put, median household income. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian at 10:58 PM on August 16, 2007 (19 comments)

I'm bored and ignorant. So are you. Let's learn something. There's a plethora of free open "courseware", books, and audio lectures on the internet. And IRC channels where we could "meet". And surplus of smart people here. Let's set up a "course" and take it together.
posted to MetaTalk by orthogonality at 3:50 AM on August 25, 2007 (123 comments)

Advice/tips/resource for a PHP programmer to pick up on ASP.NET/C#?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by parttimeninja at 7:54 PM on August 25, 2007 (4 comments)

Ok, so I have been charged with coming up with a list of things to do at home with my wife in the evenings after the kids are in bed, because we are too broke to hire a sitter and go out right now. What are some fun things we could do at home with our clothes on that aren't too expensive or unhealthy, in a couple of hours?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 2:22 PM on February 13, 2006 (39 comments)

Calling online gamers! My husband is looking for a (seemingly) simple mapping program to make his life a little bit easier.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by theantikitty at 8:58 PM on August 22, 2007 (12 comments)

Help me get full RSS instead of partial RSS. As many of you might know, the Freakonomics blog has moved to NY Times. They used to give full RSS feeds; now all we get is partial RSS. While this generated quite a buzz on the internets, no solution was provided.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by eebs at 3:57 PM on August 20, 2007 (7 comments)

In the world of conversation killers, talking about Excel to the average person ranks up there with the best. At the same time, there is always a chance that you wish you could have that conversation at work when it gets down to the wire. Even as a pro, you might need that brush up on Array Functions, calculation tricks, VBA examples or some examples from one of the well known authors on Excel. There is also no shortage of people who dedicate their working lives to this arcane program and are more than willing to assist others for free by posting solved issues on their websites. People like David McRitchie, OzGrid, Rob Bovey, Ron de Bruin, John Walkenbach, Dick Kusleika, Joseph Rubin and Chip Pearson.

Or if you just want to be a Debbie Downer at the next party, just take page from any of the following, memorize it. and recite it when faced with that nudge you don't want to talk to: Excel Support, Jon Peltier, Colo's Junk Room, Scriptorium, Andrew's Excel Tips, Andy Pope, Anthony's VBA Page, Rodney Powell, Array Formulas, Erlandsen Data Consulting, Excel-it, ExcelUser, JKP's Excel Page, John Lacher, McGimpsey, Bill Jelen, Stephen Bullen, Tushar Mehta, VBusers.com, The Excel Nexus, The Excel Logic Page, and Anthoney Does Excel. It’s a fast and easy way to ward off lounge lizards.
posted to MetaFilter by lampshade at 2:13 PM on August 18, 2007 (42 comments)

I need help with counting formulas in Excel!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lilou at 8:19 AM on August 12, 2007 (13 comments)

I've been reading about the ongoing housing bubble collapse, and I am wondering how exactly neighborhoods are supposedly changing and especially where all these people go when they lose their home.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by calhound at 8:04 PM on August 9, 2007 (25 comments)

I want to learn how to draw. Where's a good place to start?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by magodesky at 4:41 AM on August 10, 2007 (17 comments)

Tell me how to brew coffee from whole beans.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gregb1007 at 3:14 PM on August 8, 2007 (28 comments)

Decent web design book for a web developer?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by the ghost of Ken Lay at 5:46 PM on August 8, 2007 (4 comments)

My girlfriend and I need questions and inspiration for our bedtime question game before it dies of creative block.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by TwelveTwo at 11:59 AM on August 8, 2007 (20 comments)

What is a good website for computer (and related hardware) help?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ms. Next at 3:25 AM on August 2, 2007 (15 comments)

I want to be a better person (don't we all?). I'm looking for texts and tips to help me on my journey.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Brittanie at 6:46 AM on July 31, 2007 (29 comments)

I would like to make a mix of "post grunge" modern rock type music. Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket etc.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:36 PM on July 26, 2007 (69 comments)

How can I strip out extraneous CSS rules from my stylesheets?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jeremias at 9:54 AM on July 28, 2007 (6 comments)

What's the best way for an adult to learn French?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by humblepigeon at 1:18 PM on July 13, 2007 (17 comments)

Is there a way to display a database of addresses on a map?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by BigBrownBear at 9:54 AM on July 13, 2007 (4 comments)

Now that I have unlimited SMS (text messages) on my cell phone, what cool things can I do?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by niles at 6:18 PM on July 10, 2007 (27 comments)

How can I convert GPS to Census boundaries?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by suedehead at 2:15 PM on July 9, 2007 (3 comments)

Graphic design and/or photoshop question. I'm designing a T-shirt, and I need to prepare/convert a photo I have of a car so that it is more T-shirt-ish. What I mean is, the photo is, well, photorealistic. Cars on shirts are usually sort of cartoony. Though I don't want to mess with the dimensions of the car and make it squished and bouncy looking. I just need the car to be less colors, or outlined, or ... something. I can't even really describe what I mean. Take a look at these images of T-shirts.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gummo at 11:41 PM on June 28, 2007 (18 comments)

My girlfriend wants to spend more time together than I do.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 8:06 PM on June 19, 2007 (17 comments)

Web usability gurus: I'm looking for a great example of web technology that takes a range input variables and demonstrates quickly what the outcome will be for the user. I'm thinking of something where you can dial up and down specific elements, and the output is shown immediately.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mtstover at 7:29 AM on June 13, 2007 (5 comments)

I'm looking for thoughtful, down-to-earth blogs (and other websites) that concern themselves with matters of spirituality.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by 2or3whiskeysodas at 6:43 PM on June 9, 2007 (17 comments)

Is there a freely available database of major metro areas?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pb at 4:21 PM on May 21, 2007 (8 comments)

Free Photoshop Plug-ins : Virtual Photographer for "professional" results. Filters and plugins from ad and design agency, Richard Rosenman. AutoFX Mosaic, for making your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. HDR Soft, (trial s/w) for increading dynamic range of photographs, and creating and HDR look. Power Touche for creating divinely-inspired photographs. And many more.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 7:13 AM on May 17, 2007 (20 comments)

Have you played with Google Earth recently? You can track flights live and in 3-D, or watch an animation of global cloud cover over the last 10 days, or simply make Google Earth prettier using NASA images. Google Earth isn't limited to the current, you can also enable historical maps from the 1700s, and view an animation that will show you what will happen in the future to New York and San Francisco if the sea levels rise. Google Earth can also shed light on previous MeFi discussions, from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (and, indeed many other ship wrecks) to the discussion over America's top 150 buildings, now in all of their 3-D glory.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 7:10 AM on May 10, 2007 (26 comments)

Douglas Crockford, leading JavaScript Architect for Yahoo!, has been teaching a series of classes on JavaScript programming for other Yahoo! employees.
The JavaScript Programming Language [4 video clips: 1 (31 min) 2 (31 min) 3 (29min) 4 (20 min), presentation slides: zipped PPT]
An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM [3 video clips: 1 (31 min) 2 (21 min) 3 (26 min), presentation slides: zipped PPT]
Advanced JavaScript [3 video clips: 1 (31 min) 2 (25 min) 3 (11 min), presentation slides: zipped PPT]
posted to MetaFilter by ijoshua at 2:09 PM on May 10, 2007 (27 comments)

The Nolli Plan. In 1748, Giambattista Nolli drew one of the most detailed and accurate maps ever created for the city of Rome. Improving on the Buffalini Plan of 1551 [interactive link to zoom], Nolli’s plan was drawn to an incredible precision, going as far as revealing public interior spaces in a stark figure-ground relationship. The Interactive Nolli Map allows you to overlap transparencies of the modern city to see how little has changed and how precise Nolli’s measurements were. Piranesi’s maps – however fanciful- were also inspired by Nolli’s achievements.
posted to MetaFilter by yeti at 4:57 PM on May 10, 2007 (8 comments)

I have a variety of talents and interests, but no degree. So, I'd like to go back to school and get a degree in Architecture or Urban-Planning.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jmnugent at 8:50 AM on May 6, 2007 (24 comments)

I've recently become obsessed with truly mobile streaming video (a la Justin.TV), and would love some hardware and software input. For hardware, I just want a basic, small laptop. For software, I'm looking for something that does live GPS mapping on the web.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pzarquon at 12:55 PM on April 27, 2007 (8 comments)

MS Access Question: I have two tables in a db file. One has a large list of single cell records and the other, a smaller list of records to be compared against the larger table. The issue is that I would like to use the values in the smaller table as wildcards to return like matches that are like the records in the larger table. Example follows.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by lampshade at 7:31 AM on April 27, 2007 (3 comments)

Milestones in graphics, maps, and visualizations. An incredible site for anyone interested in the history of visualization of data. See the first town map from 6200 BCE. Take a look at some of the most important graphics through history, including the London cholera map and the diagrams that made Florence Nightingale's case, as well as recent examples of some of the worst. Also check out the fascinating history of timelines, or Cabinet magazine's beautifully illustrated Timeline of Timelines.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 10:20 PM on April 24, 2007 (13 comments)

Given multiple contiguous polygons, the coordinates of which are precisely known, how can I combine them into a coordinate set for a single polygon?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Doofus Magoo at 7:48 AM on April 11, 2007 (18 comments)

What is the ideal GPS device that will offer the most versatility?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by benjh at 6:12 AM on April 3, 2007 (7 comments)

Chicago Filter: Going to Chicago for 2 days, what MUST I see/do?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jeff_w_welch at 10:45 AM on March 30, 2007 (38 comments)

Help me put together a sleek resume without using Microsoft Word.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by willie11 at 7:41 AM on March 12, 2007 (28 comments)

I do web work with a local government. We are wanting to put a lot of GIS related data on the web, and I'd like to use Google Maps before we lobby for a larger solution like ArcServer. I'm specifically having a problem with drawing polygons/polylines and the ordering of points.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bofe at 1:41 PM on March 8, 2007 (6 comments)