What's a rough rule of thumb for converting trail miles to road miles, taking into account elevation change? More details below the fold.
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posted by unSane
on Jun 15, 2013 -
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So, I have a bunch of old Hi8 tapes that I want to get on my MacBook pro. I have a camcorder that plays Hi8's (but is only analog) and a DVD recorder. Can you help me?
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posted by Sakura3210
on May 20, 2013 -
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I would like to buy unconverted industrial/office/non-residential space in London, like a warehouse or a school hall, to transform it into live-and-work artist studios over a few years. The state of dereliction does not matter too much, nor does the location, but how can I actually
find some for sale? I doubt most of these things make it to mainstream websites, as Zoopla/Rightmove hardly have two handfuls of commercial properties for sale at a given time. Any clue?
posted by Spanner Nic
on May 17, 2013 -
3 answers
Have had and have used Lightroom 3. Now have and will soon use Lightroom 4. Not exactly clear on the pixie magic involved in converting a LR3 catalog to LR4, though. What can you tell me?
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posted by mcbeth
on Mar 22, 2013 -
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I think it's possible to put digital music onto vinyl albums at home with some device I saw advertised somewhere. But will doing this produce an anologue sound or a digital sound? Will it sound as rich as if the album had originally been on vinyl or will it sound emptier the way digital music does? I guess I'm basically asking if it's worth doing. I don't know technical stuff about stuff, so I hope my question makes sense!
posted by windykites
on Feb 16, 2013 -
15 answers
Looking for a recommendation for any free video conversion software programs...
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posted by dbirchum
on Feb 12, 2013 -
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I have a USD account in the UK and received an incoming amount in GBP. However, it was supposed to be sent in USD from the US (so that's a cross-border transfer). The sender also claims that the amount was sent in USD. My bank claims and also the statement tells that the money came in GBP. Because of the double conversion (usd->gbp->usd) I received significantly less than if it happened without any conversion.
My only idea at the moment is that an intermediary bank applied a conversion.. Can this happen? How can I clearly find out what happened? How to avoid this from happening again?
Thanks for your suggestions!
posted by fifigyuri
on Jan 24, 2013 -
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What's the best way to connect my Samsung series 5 TV with my Acer Ferrari One notebook so I can use the TV as a monitor? The laptop doesn't have a HDMI port...
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posted by Helga-woo
on Dec 28, 2012 -
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I have a PowerPoint presentation with macros for sound, in a .pptm file with audio and animations for a class. My professor can't play it as is, so she wants me to convert it to a flash file format, which I thought I could do, but all the converter programs I've found need a PC, and I only have a Mac and so does my family. Naturally, my school's PCs don't allow installs, and I need to figure this out today. I have Adobe Flash, but it doesn't recognize the format, and I need to keep my audio/etc. any ideas for conversion or online viewing, etc?
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posted by reenka
on Nov 29, 2012 -
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How to best connect a surround sound with RCA plugs to everything HDMI, or in reverse? Full explanation inside.
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posted by magnoliasouth
on Nov 28, 2012 -
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Please list your best, favorite, most interesting object that could be used as a unit of measure for one of the following: area, volume, or temperature. For your answer to be useful I require the object and its measure. The ideal object is unusual but relatable at the human scale.
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posted by safetyfork
on Nov 19, 2012 -
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I've got an old Mac font suitcase (OS 9) containing fonts I'd like to use on my OS X (10.7) Mac. I'm not sure what format they're in but copying the file over to my new Mac results in a 0-byte file. I think I have to convert them to TTF on my OS 9 iMac, but not sure what to do it with. Any suggestions? Free would be great, since I don't plan on doing this again, but cheap would be okay.
posted by tommasz
on Nov 4, 2012 -
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I'm looking for any data that supports that conversion rates for trial offers are higher when there is a nominal cost for the product or service versus a FREE offer.
posted by pmaxwell
on Oct 26, 2012 -
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Can my smartphone simultaneously (i) accept input from my mouse and (ii) send output to my monitor?
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posted by foursentences
on Aug 11, 2012 -
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I have a folder of JPG files. I want to create a PDF with one of those JPGs on each page. I don't want to spend any money. I am using a Windows computer.
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posted by Egg Shen
on Aug 9, 2012 -
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I'm trying to convert an MKV file to mp4 using Handbrake, but for some reason it tells me it's finished converting 40 minutes through. The completed 40 minutes are excellent quality, but I'm at a complete loss as to why it's stopping so early. The file isn't DRMed to the best of my knowledge. What might be going wrong? How can I get Handbrake to finish converting my video? And if Handbrake can't, what other app for Mac handles MKV conversion without horrible quality loss (like VisualHub or QuickTime do)?
posted by Rory Marinich
on May 25, 2012 -
12 answers
Looking for: Religious conversion stories in literature, from Paul onward. Specifically: from non-belief to belief. William James covers this nicely. And I seem to recall Dostoyevsky addresses the issue at least once in his novels (which?). Also C.S. Lewis, I think, somewhere. Other thoughts?
posted by Hobbacocka
on May 16, 2012 -
20 answers
How can I compress/resize thousands of jpgs to fit
exactly into the space of a DVD automatically?
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posted by Infernarl
on Apr 27, 2012 -
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Mac question: how can I convert a 3ga audio file to mp3 or other friendly format?
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posted by treepour
on Mar 9, 2012 -
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I want to copy a DVD of home movies to my hard drive (mac) and be able to watch them (and possibly upload them onto the internet). Copied the DVD files, but none of them will open with any of my current applications. Please help.
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posted by The Pantless Wonder
on Feb 19, 2012 -
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Markdown and (Apple) Pages. I'm trying to work out a sensible workflow that will allow me to export Markdown text into an existing Pages document, without this process eliminating the structure of the text.
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posted by davemee
on Jan 22, 2012 -
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I love Netflix and we have it on the Xbox. But my kid's moving to college and taking the Xbox with her. Can I replace it with an Apple TV plus an HDMI->Composite/S-Video converter or should I bite the bullet and get another Xbox? It seems a waste to buy one just for Netflix.
posted by tommasz
on Dec 26, 2011 -
22 answers
I'd like to burn .flv and .mp4 files to DVD for people without puters, to watch on US DVD players. What format do they need converted to (I can use VLC media player to convert them, if they need converted) and what is a good open source and/or free software to burn said converted files to DVD?
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posted by dancestoblue
on Dec 16, 2011 -
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Emergency baking question - I don't have the size pan that I thought I had, and am not sure what to do. Help me figure out the alternative!
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posted by Neely O'Hara
on Oct 15, 2011 -
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My very religious parents have invited me back into their home for the first time since I declared my agnosticism. I don't want to go. Am I making a mistake?
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posted by guessthis
on Oct 12, 2011 -
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Kindle formatting gone wild. I've been working on converting a .PDF to a Kindle File (.mobi) and I'm almost there . . .except for one pesky problem.
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posted by sideofwry
on Oct 3, 2011 -
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PDF-filter: I'm running a website that allows users to upload files. I'm looking for a converter that would allow User B to view a files uploaded by User A, even if User B doesn't have the same software used to develop the file. My guess is converting everything (that's not a simple image) to PDF would work, but my Google-fu is failing me and I can't find a PHP script or Apache module that will do this.
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posted by GatorDavid
on Jun 29, 2011 -
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Using free tools such as Inkscape, is there a way to turn my SVG into an EPS that a screenprinter can use to make jerseys?
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posted by Doofus Magoo
on May 18, 2011 -
8 answers
After reading
this post, I've realized that I want my next house to be.. different. How do I go about finding a warehouse/church/water tower to convert into a home?
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posted by Adridne
on Apr 20, 2011 -
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[My friend has] a 771mb .wav audio file [he] desperately needs to compress into an audio-only .flv file. Is there a freeware, shareware or inexpensive software tool that will help [him accomplish] this? Big thanks in advance.
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posted by terrapin
on Apr 6, 2011 -
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Chemistry, math nerds, and smart people please help me with this cooking question involving salt.
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 20, 2011 -
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Desperate IPA situation! I've opened up an old Word doc that was created using SIL Doulos or SIL IPA93 fonts. These are now defunct. I currently use Doulos SIL and Charis (both unicode, hooray!). The document is substituting certain alphabet characters for much needed IPA symbols. I need to know what those masquerading alphabet characters used to be in IPA.
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posted by iamkimiam
on Jan 30, 2011 -
10 answers
Hivemind,
I have some 3.5 in diskettes containing files created on a Tandy word processor. I've tried accessing the disks on both a pc and a mac with the same result: the computer asks me if I would like to format the disk.
I would like to:
Transfer the files off of the disk.
Recover text from an unknown filetype.
Know of any software on Mac Classic, Windows or (possibly) Linux that could help me accomplish either of these?
PS - This is my first time querying the hive, so please let me know if I'm doing it wrong.
posted by drzz
on Jan 14, 2011 -
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I need to get a few small .avi files burned onto a DVD that will play in a standard DVD player. Complication: I don't have a DVD burner. Are there any shops in Manhattan that will do it for me while I wait?
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posted by booksandlibretti
on Dec 16, 2010 -
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I just bought two sapphire 6850's and want to do some dvd authoring plus I have a 6 core amd 2.8Ghz. What can I use that would utilize this the best way possible.
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posted by Chamunks
on Dec 7, 2010 -
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