Does anyone know where I can find the aerial photographs of Russell Lee? [more inside]
posted by seagull.apollo on Oct 28, 2009 - 1 answer

Can you help me find the Ordnance Survey desktop wallpaper for May 2009, please? Preferably 1024x768 size but anything very gratefully accepted. [more inside]
posted by vogel on Sep 3, 2009 - 3 answers

Can anyone recommend a tag-based system for archiving slides? [more inside]
posted by MrMerlot on Sep 1, 2009 - 2 answers

Is there a smarter tar or cpio out there, or a smarter way to archive, to efficiently retrieve a file stored in the archive? [more inside]
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Aug 27, 2009 - 20 answers

What's the best way to search distant local newspaper archives for information on a crime that occurred almost 30 years ago in Birmingham, Alabama? [more inside]
posted by Doug on Jun 23, 2009 - 6 answers

Help me find that World War II u-boat newsreels [more inside]
posted by ouke on May 15, 2009 - 2 answers

My dad has many thousands of photos in 35mm slide and print form (the output of 40 years as a photography hobbyist). He's looking for an archival-quality photo scanner that can handle both formats, as well as provide some degree of bulk-load automation. What should he get?
posted by killdevil on Apr 16, 2009 - 14 answers

Recommendations for free private digital accommodations for a retired band's media? [more inside]
posted by bodega on Mar 14, 2009 - 8 answers

What are your favorite places to find archived news footage and imagery online for free? Looking to put together a list of sites for communications studies students to help them approximate the functionality of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive without spending hours hunting on YouTube for media to critique. [more inside]
posted by activitystory on Mar 13, 2009 - 1 answer

About a year ago, I accidentally archived a ton of old emails in my Gmail account, without putting any labels on any of them. (I thought I knew how archiving worked at the time, but obviously I was wrong) [more inside]
posted by hasna on Mar 12, 2009 - 10 answers

I want to find an image that was once posted on 4chan (/b/). Am I out of luck? (Some NSFW details within). [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Mar 8, 2009 - 8 answers

My old website still gets a lot of hits. But many of the outbound links I posted years back are no longer valid, are dead or have changed location. Is there any way to integrate the Wayback Machine Internet Archive into my site's code so that links are redirected to the archive for the date they were originally posted? [more inside]
posted by bollockovnikov on Mar 6, 2009 - 4 answers

How can I get Quicksilver to keep track of files that have moved? [more inside]
posted by middleclasstool on Mar 1, 2009 - 4 answers

How can I organize my archive of awesomeness which has mostly pictures? [more inside]
posted by ooklala on Feb 23, 2009 - 9 answers

I'd like some suggestions for a place to keep track of family births and events, much like traditionally done in a family bible. Books are nice, but all media considered. Points given in three categories: potential longevity, flexibility of data handling, and style. [more inside]
posted by GPF on Feb 2, 2009 - 7 answers

My friend runs a small company that is growing. They're starting to run into file-sharing problems (versioning, archiving, etc.). Laboring under the bizarre belief that I know something about this stuff, my friend has asked for my help. [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Jan 14, 2009 - 15 answers

Where can I find full length Loveline radio episodes from 1995 to 2005 (the Adam Carolla years)? [more inside]
posted by sharkhunt on Dec 16, 2008 - 4 answers

My hometown has a diary created by our first minister in the 1700s. The original diary was transcribed into four copies by workers of the Works Progress Administration at some time between 1935 and 1943. The 10 volumes of these copies do not have any copyright marks on their title pages. Now, we would like to scan these transcribed books into pdf documents, and make them available to scholars and interested internet users. Is there a copyright concern? [more inside]
posted by Maastrictian on Nov 28, 2008 - 5 answers

Is there any good, free UNIX/Linux software you can suggest for keeping a searchable index of removable media? [more inside]
posted by tommorris on Nov 25, 2008 - 7 answers

How can I download or archive the email from my Yahoo email account to a PC without it interfering with my work email running on Outlook on that same PC? [more inside]
posted by Pastabagel on Nov 10, 2008 - 7 answers

What sort of CMS configuration would I use to integrate the current content of a Blogspot blog with a website of basic HTML articles and photo galleries? [more inside]
posted by stleric on Oct 27, 2008 - 2 answers

Looking for NY Herald archives from 4/21/12. Is there an online site where I can search/view them? [more inside]
posted by cherie72 on Oct 20, 2008 - 8 answers

What is the best way to save a script/content rich web page for archival reasons from a remote server, locally? [more inside]
posted by nickerbocker on Sep 27, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there a way to search Google for what a URL Web page looked like on a certain date? [more inside]
posted by cainiarb on Aug 23, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there a way to pull up previous versions of a Myspace profile, specifially, the part that says "Last Login"? [more inside]
posted by messylissa on Aug 12, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm looking for advice/links on suggested quality/settings for the scanning of academic journals for archiving. The more detail the better. [more inside]
posted by drill_here_fore_seismics on Jul 29, 2008 - 4 answers

Recommendation for professional 35mm slide scanning services, either through the mail or in the Washington D.C. metro area. Best recommendation for extremely long term archival storage of slides. About 400-500 slides. [more inside]
posted by Pastabagel on Apr 28, 2008 - 7 answers

Are there any websites that archive podcast audio (*not just links)? [more inside]
posted by petsounds on Apr 27, 2008 - 3 answers

Outlook Cleaning/Archive Gurus: Help me eliminate emails with similar (but not duplicate) content! [more inside]
posted by colecovizion on Apr 24, 2008 - 2 answers

I work on the production team for a long-running public radio program. We have a massive archive of shows in digital format (MP3 and AIFF) which we need to collate into a powerful and highly flexible database - something like iTunes, but much more advanced. Does a program exist to do this? [more inside]
posted by mykescipark on Apr 23, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm looking for a very specific kind of document storage box. [more inside]
posted by Ritchie on Apr 14, 2008 - 7 answers

Why is the Archive command missing from Outlook's File menu? [more inside]
posted by VeniceGlass on Apr 6, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm curious how people deal w. their old email. (esp those using Outlook and IMAP, but others, too...) [more inside]
posted by ManInSuit on Apr 3, 2008 - 15 answers

How do I open a ".tar.tgz" file? That's all one long extension. [more inside]
posted by exolstice on Mar 29, 2008 - 21 answers

I'm trying to see an old, outdated eBay (or eBay.ca) auction (from approx. 6-8 months ago) and have the item number. Can I resurrect the listing? [more inside]
posted by yellowcandy on Mar 7, 2008 - 6 answers

What is the best work-flow process for handling digital photos from capture, processing to archive? [more inside]
posted by chrisbucks on Feb 29, 2008 - 7 answers

Is there any way to encrypt an archive so that everyone (PC and Mac, maybe Linux) can open it without installing additional software? [more inside]
posted by sero_venientibus_ossa on Jan 27, 2008 - 14 answers

How to prove that a web page that's there now, was really there, once it's not there anymore. [more inside]
posted by ManInSuit on Jan 18, 2008 - 47 answers

Why does it take forever (well, almost a minute) for the first message to open in Outlook (2002)? [more inside]
posted by Joleta on Dec 9, 2007 - 7 answers

Recommendations needed for mailing list software [more inside]
posted by zooropa on Nov 26, 2007 - 4 answers

How can I make an archive of my SMS messages? In this era of network-accessible, searchable, archived, free, multi-gigabyte email storage, I'm a little miffed that my SMS storage is limited to arbitrary limit of 50 message on my phone. Lots of important things come in via SMS, and I hate how they just disappear. I get Twitters from friends, nice notes from my girlfriend, voice mail transcriptions from CallWave, business information via GOOG-411's text service... and so on. I'd like for the solution to cost as little as possible. I don't have an unlimited txt plan (I get a few hundred per month) so simply forwarding every SMS I receive and CCing every SMS I send to an email address isn't a very appealing solution as it really raises my SMS costs and takes effort. [more inside]
posted by k7lim on Nov 26, 2007 - 9 answers

What's the best software and method for completely backing up a website to DVD? [more inside]
posted by asuh on Oct 25, 2007 - 10 answers

.chm to PDF conversion, Mac OS X. There seems to be no easy way to do it. Does anyone have an effective and trustworthy workflow they can recommend? (more inside) [more inside]
posted by Señor Pantalones on Sep 23, 2007 - 11 answers

How to store and search lots of old email. [more inside]
posted by ManInSuit on Sep 17, 2007 - 14 answers

Online digital archive: Is it realistic to consider using the Internet Archive for distributing archived digital media or do we need to build it from the ground up? [more inside]
posted by imposster on Aug 28, 2007 - 9 answers

What is the easiest way to automatically archive IMAP emails (incoming and outgoing) from multiple user accounts? Gmail doesn't handle IMAP and I don't have access to our school's server. We need a central location to archive our research projects emails. Mac, PC, or web method okay.
posted by philrj on Jul 8, 2007 - 3 answers

A web site with lots of useful information recently went offline, but the cached pages are still available from Google. Is there a program (for either OS X or Windows) that will automatically save all of the cached pages on Google associated with a particular domain?
posted by Ø on Jun 28, 2007 - 8 answers

Does anyone know of similar online solution to Google Notebook that one can host on their own servers? I use Google Notebook every day to archive notes and web clips, but I would like to keep my information secure, private, and under my control. [more inside]
posted by DerekTheGeek on May 31, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm planning on ripping my DVD collection to a media server, with varying amounts of losslessness depending on the film. There are a lot of ways to do this, and I'm looking for the "best" way. After the jump I'll describe my current plan, please comment on and clarify the various technical considerations. [more inside]
posted by lifeless on May 22, 2007 - 11 answers

Why don't I see any 2007 snapshot pages on a Wayback Machine search [more inside]
posted by Roach on May 21, 2007 - 9 answers