I need to find a resource (or resources) where I can download old black and white clips.
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posted by kenaldo
on May 9, 2012 -
5 answers
I have a few thousand pages of documentation I'd like to digitize and organize, eventually making a series of PDFs out of them. Can you help me make this task less painful?
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posted by subject_verb_remainder
on Apr 5, 2012 -
8 answers
How to get a favorite recipe for rajma chaval from Tiffin Tales? My favorite recipe for a red bean curry is now showing up as "this site may harm your computer" in google and is no longer in the google cache. The admin and blog author emails now bounce. Wayback machine does not archive it. No blog-scraping site has copied it. Other recipes online seem quite different. Is there anything else I am forgetting?
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posted by whatzit
on Oct 23, 2011 -
9 answers
Are older episodes (i.e. 2000 - present) of daytime soap operas available either for rental or purchase?
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posted by Telpethoron
on Aug 29, 2011 -
2 answers
I have a TwinLock Crown binder made in the UK dating from 1950. I would very much like to open it, remove the pages, scan them, and replace them. However, although it looks like it can be opened, the binding mechanism is entirely obscured by the binding itself. There is a metal tab at the top near the front, but it doesn't seem to move, and I'm hesitant to put pressure on it since I don't know in what direction that pressure should be applied, and I'd rather leave it closed than break it. How can I do this; is it even possible?
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posted by Devoidoid
on Aug 3, 2011 -
3 answers
A Blogger blog was hacked. The perpetrator declared he'll delete all content pretty soon. It's six years of work I want to save.
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posted by jgwong
on Jul 20, 2011 -
19 answers
I draw and write with a variety of black pens in a Rhodia Reverse notebook. The notebook's paper is gridded with thin bluish lines, which I appreciate to help with ruling, etc., and because I like how the grid pattern looks with my drawings. I'd like to scan the notebook for safekeeping, but find that my scanner will only pick up a fraction of the gridding.
I don't know if the gridlines are a true photo blue, but is there any way to ensure that my scans will match how I see the pages? I'm using an Epson Perfection 1660 Photo scanner.
posted by the sobsister
on Jan 31, 2011 -
10 answers
I have a bunch of pieces of art that I'm not displaying, but I'm not sure how I should be storing them. What's the best way to protect and preserve them (preferably without spending a zillion dollars)?
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Aug 17, 2010 -
6 answers
Is there unZIPping/unRARing software for the Mac that allows you to see what's inside of an archive file without extraction? Seems like double-clicking on archives with any software I've used immediately extracts the files within. I'd like to be able to preview those files first, and perhaps selectively extract, or not extract at all.
posted by shivohum
on Aug 10, 2010 -
5 answers
Where can I find an old US government document? I found a reference to it in the
June 1912 Monthly Catalogue of United States Public Documents:
Sabath, A. J.
Report amending by substitute H. 23284, to authorize Great Northern Development Company to construct dam across Missisippi River from Scott Countv, Iowa, to Rock Island Countv, 111. June 14, 1912. 3 p. (H. rp. 891.)
posted by clockworkjoe
on Jul 1, 2010 -
10 answers
I’d like to archive in a single web-based location my email messages from several separate web-based accounts. What are my options?
posted by Dragonness
on Jun 16, 2010 -
8 answers
I'm trying to brainstorm real or fictional examples of some government or person in power trying to change or hide historical information by erasing, changing, or withholding items from a library or archive.
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posted by GPF
on Jun 2, 2010 -
41 answers
Why doesn't the compress feature on my Mac actually compress the files? It creates a .zip file but it's usually only a couple hundred k smaller than the original.
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posted by amanda
on May 10, 2010 -
17 answers
How do I automate dumping the contents of a couple hundred different data CDs into a directory in Mac OS X?
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posted by ardgedee
on Jan 11, 2010 -
5 answers
What's a good system for a non-profit to set-up and manage a digital archive of somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 text, pictures, sound and video items? It needs to be accessible by multiple people at the same time and be easily searchable.
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posted by Magnakai
on Dec 2, 2009 -
8 answers
Recommendations for free private digital accommodations for a retired band's media?
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posted by bodega
on Mar 14, 2009 -
8 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?
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posted by Maastrictian
on Nov 28, 2008 -
5 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?
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posted by Pastabagel
on Nov 10, 2008 -
7 answers
What Mac OS X application (or command-line utility) will join RAR files that come in the form
filename.r01,
filename.r02, etc.?
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posted by WCityMike
on Apr 26, 2007 -
23 answers
I'm looking for a method to automatically open the index.html file within an archive and then allow browsing from there, without decompressing.
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posted by Chuckles
on Mar 8, 2006 -
7 answers
