Can I bring about 5 lbs of French Roquefort cheese back into the US, this December, without breaking any laws? For private use only.
posted by 77144 on Nov 24, 2009 - 3 answers

When importing data into Wordpress, is it possible to put parts of that data into custom fields? [more inside]
posted by backwards guitar on Nov 16, 2009 - 3 answers

what other fees will i be paying for shopping internationally? [more inside]
posted by violetk on Oct 27, 2009 - 9 answers

Anyone with experience buying and bringing IKEA stuff from Canada into the US? [more inside]
posted by davertron on Oct 6, 2009 - 10 answers

Can you suggest more sites like lovelyshoes.net? Rainbow totes, $7! I want to receive parcels of entertaining, extremely cheap goods. I don't mind reasonable minimums but I'm not a reseller. [more inside]
posted by kmennie on Sep 17, 2009 - 17 answers

Can you import a MT Blog into blogger?
posted by smithmac_99 on Sep 7, 2009 - 3 answers

What are the chances my cat will be intercepted in the car crossing the Channel? [more inside]
posted by Zinda68 on Sep 4, 2009 - 5 answers

Is there an easy way to export Wordpress posts when the admin panel is crashed and I have only command line access? [more inside]
posted by johngoren on Aug 12, 2009 - 5 answers

What should I import to New Zealand for resale? I'm looking for ideas of products that I could buy in bulk, ship to NZ, and resell for a modest profit. [more inside]
posted by redzarf on Aug 8, 2009 - 7 answers

I'm looking for good suggestions for buying US clothes on the Internet from overseas. Clothes are so expensive here in Australia that I think it might be cheaper even with the added shipping costs. I'm looking for male clothes that could be worn to the office - trousers, shirts, shoes.
posted by Dag Maggot on Aug 5, 2009 - 12 answers

ExcelMacroFilter: Writing a macro that imports a series of .csv files into their own worksheets in the same workbook in Excel 2007 would save me ridiculous amounts of time. I have written a macro to import the files and rename the worksheet accordingly, but I'm new to VBA and can't for the life of me work out how to get Excel to automatically repeat the import from File_1.csv to File_x.csv. Help please? [more inside]
posted by cholly on Jul 30, 2009 - 4 answers

Looking for advice regarding Chinese imports. Importing products into New Zealand from a number of suppliers - is there a service that would act as an intermediary for me? [more inside]
posted by mhjb on Jul 27, 2009 - 3 answers

Need help importing collections into Font Book. [more inside]
posted by starman on Jun 19, 2009 - 1 answer

I would like to purchase the Japanese version of some DS games. eBay, trouble friends/families in Japan/southeast Asia, or just bite the bullet and buy US versions? [more inside]
posted by jstarlee on May 24, 2009 - 12 answers

I backed up all of my iPhoto library onto my iPod (by using the iPod as a hard drive) in anticipation of a Mac hospital system reinstallation. I retrieved my music files just fine and loaded them back into iTunes, but the saved iPhoto library on the iPod won't open and won't let me import it into iPhoto. [more inside]
posted by foxy_hedgehog on Mar 31, 2009 - 6 answers

How do you ship an electronic item (iPhone) with a non-removable battery out of India? It's labelled as a "dangerous item." [more inside]
posted by smersh on Mar 16, 2009 - 6 answers

How do I get WordPress to recognize hard returns when importing Movable Type data? [more inside]
posted by avoision on Mar 3, 2009 - 3 answers

Is it possible to import messages to Yahoo! mail? [more inside]
posted by Grinder on Mar 2, 2009 - 3 answers

Excel is chapping my hide. I have a comma-delimited .csv which contains quote-demarcated text fields. The source of my never-ending joy is the recurrent use of inch-marks and commas within the textfields. Right this way... [more inside]
posted by mwhybark on Feb 25, 2009 - 18 answers

A friend and I would like to market Philippine cocoa in the U.S. How difficult is it to import food into the country? Digging around the FDA website got me awfully confused. The product is ready and delicious -- can somebody walk me through the steps for marketing it here? Thank you.
posted by muckster on Feb 6, 2009 - 4 answers

Vitellaria paradoxa, know as the shea plant, is used to make shea butter, a common ingredient in cosmetics. Is it possible to find a live shea plant in the US? Or is this something that has to be carried in clandestinely?
posted by infinitefloatingbrains on Jan 30, 2009 - 4 answers

About ten years ago, a colleague of mine from Argentina had me try some liquor called Caña (or Canha) Legui that he'd brought with him to the US. It was really good and I want to find a bottle here. Help? [more inside]
posted by sergeant sandwich on Jan 22, 2009 - 1 answer

I've twice bought the same cosmetic packaging components from a specific Taiwanese manufacturer through a US-based middleman. I'm ready to re-order and want to circumvent the middleman and order directly from the manufacturer who we will call BG Manufacturing. There are some fairly compelling motivations and rationale for doing so. Important details inside. [more inside]
posted by Muirwylde on Jan 18, 2009 - 5 answers

Are there any export restrictions (or whatnot) regarding me (a US non-business entity) sending a bunch of packages of consumer vegetable-garden seeds to a foreign country (Kenya) as a gift? I'm sure there are some restrictions on receiving foreign seeds, but.. outgoing? [more inside]
posted by Quarter Pincher on Jan 11, 2009 - 2 answers

When I do Add -> Existing Web Site in Visual Studio 2008, if the existing site was created in an earlier version of .net (say 2.0 and I'm running 3.5) Visual Studio automatically starts an update wizard to convert the site to 3.5. How do I turn off this behavior so that it simply imports the web site without updating it? I know this is possible because the first time I did this it happened flawlessly, but at the time I didn't un-check the "automatically update sites next time" check box. Gah.
posted by ChasFile on Dec 30, 2008 - 1 answer

Where can I buy Emu Bitter beer in the US? It's made by Nathan Lion, the same brewery that makes Steinlager. I'm willing to drive anywhere in AZ, NH, or NE, although I would prefer mail order delivery. [more inside]
posted by speedoavenger on Dec 26, 2008 - 7 answers

I love my Peugeot, but I might be moving to the USA. Can I bring it with me or am I just stupid to want to? [more inside]
posted by xanthippe on Dec 17, 2008 - 15 answers

How can I batch import album art into MP3s from JPEGs on my hard disk? [more inside]
posted by ilumos on Dec 15, 2008 - 6 answers

Where in the US can I buy German versions of PC, PS1, and PS2 games? [more inside]
posted by jedicus on Dec 3, 2008 - 3 answers

What I want to happen: Make the existing calendar entries that I have on Palm Desktop move over to Google Calendar and then be able to sync Google Calendar with a used (empty?) Palm Z22 I have. Hold my hand, please? I encourage you to assume only basic computer knowledge. [more inside]
posted by Stewriffic on Dec 2, 2008 - 7 answers

Way old version of WordPress (1.5.1.3). I need to upgrade, obviously. I am considering switching hosts at the same time and so I am trying to figure out how to export the current blog so I can import it once upgraded at either current or new host. But I can't figure out how to export on 1.5.1.3 and I am so frustrated. [more inside]
posted by librarina on Nov 1, 2008 - 5 answers

What's the easiest way to get the best video output for my Japanese Sega Saturn? [more inside]
posted by brett on Oct 7, 2008 - 4 answers

Egads-I-Want-To-Punch-GarageBand-In-The-Dick Filter: Why can't I import AIFF or mp3 files into GarageBand? [more inside]
posted by chara on Sep 18, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm trying to replicate the setup of an existing blog by copying over the wordpress folder and database using an SQL export. After I got the site up and running, I discovered that a lot of posts were abruptly cut off. A little bit of investigation showed that the posts had got truncated wherever some special characters appeared like - and ' . [more inside]
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek on Sep 7, 2008 - 12 answers

Where can I buy a new, 3G iPhone for the Optus network (in Australia) without having to sign a contract? Optus certainly won't let me... [more inside]
posted by TooManyGadgets on Aug 31, 2008 - 7 answers

SAS guru question: Is there an easy way to turn voluminous txt multi-page SAS reports generated with PROC REPORT back into a series "one observation per row" SAS tables? I know I can do it with a medium size Perl or Python script but I'm assuming someone must have dealt with this problem before, likely in SAS itself. [more inside]
posted by benzenedream on Aug 14, 2008 - 3 answers

How much sense does it make for a business to expand horizontally in the supply chain? [more inside]
posted by willy_dilly on Aug 5, 2008 - 4 answers

I have imported three DV tapes into Final Cut and they are all out of sync, by what seems like 1 second (but maybe less?). It's out of sync in the viewer, out of sync in the timeline, when I render it, and when I export it. [more inside]
posted by eric1200 on Jul 23, 2008 - 7 answers

I need to import a database into MS SQL but I do not want to end up with a transaction log as large as the database. What's the best way to do the import? [more inside]
posted by odinsdream on May 29, 2008 - 4 answers

[igiveupfilter] Trying to export my current wordpress-run blog onto a new wordpress-run blog. I keep getting an XML error that says "XML document must have a top level element. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Users/damnjezebel/Desktop/wordpress.2008-05-16.xml". I've tried this link which helped me the last time I moved my blog, but that's not working this time. I've tried changing permissions as well and no luck. please help me import my old blog before i pull all of my damn hair out!
posted by damnjezebel on May 16, 2008 - 8 answers

I have a list of a few hundred sites that I need to subscribe to via RSS. I have the URLs, but not the feed URLs. Is there a way to subscribe en masse without knowing the feed URLs? I need a way to automate this as it's something I'll need to do again in the future. [more inside]
posted by o2b on May 14, 2008 - 2 answers

I'm using Avid Xpress Pro HD 5.2. I have found that it won't import .mov files unless the latest version of quicktime is installed on the computer. However, it won't export unless I install a much older version of quicktime (6.1) (Otherwise I get error message "export format may require audio or video tracks.") [more inside]
posted by eric1200 on May 13, 2008 - 2 answers

Need to find very specific type of hat on the INTARWEBS. First seen in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picture follows... [more inside]
posted by rhoticity on Dec 24, 2007 - 4 answers

Cleaning up imported data in excel using VBA. [more inside]
posted by corpse on Dec 21, 2007 - 1 answer

As a follow up to this question, can I use the following scheme to get all my popped emails back into my Yahoo account? [more inside]
posted by sk381 on Dec 18, 2007 - 0 answers

Im looking into buying a boat... 17-18 foot bowrider... I dont know too much about them, i found a 1999 larson sei with the 3.0litre volvo penta and only 22 hours for $9000usd, its just across the border (im in canada)... its either that or a bayliner which sem to be very popular... has anyone had good or bad experiences with these boats and could reccomend one or the other? (or something else) Also anyone imported a boat into canada from the states and have advice on what to watch out for? Thanks all :) [more inside]
posted by frogger12 on Dec 10, 2007 - 10 answers

Is there a way I can upload old emails into my Yahoo account? I was previously using Thunderbird as my client but now want to exclusively use Yahoo webmail, and would like to have my 'Sent' mail and the contents of a couple of other email folders that I've downloaded locally to be available online. [more inside]
posted by sk381 on Dec 9, 2007 - 3 answers

I'm in the UK. I need to play R1 and R2 DVDs on my laptop - can it be as easy as buying a £15 external DVD drive and setting that R1? [more inside]
posted by oxala on Nov 27, 2007 - 10 answers

I'd like to supplement my income by selling a few used cars from the Southern US to Canadians— at a fair price. What are the drawbacks? [more inside]
posted by tempest in a teapot on Nov 6, 2007 - 15 answers

I want to import transactions into QuickBooks. Anyone have a template .csv file used to import large numbers of invoices at a time? [more inside]
posted by quinoa on Nov 1, 2007 - 6 answers