What are good dedicated indexing applications for creating indexes for print books? [more inside]
posted by mc2000 on Oct 22, 2009 - 3 answers

Please recommend OS X software which can generate indexes from PDF files. Freeware is best, but shareware is also fine. [more inside]
posted by NucleophilicAttack on Sep 13, 2009 - 2 answers

Do Google and Bing spider XML pages? [more inside]
posted by netbros on Jul 28, 2009 - 2 answers

Creating my book's own index, crazy or sensible? [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Jun 10, 2009 - 19 answers

With a personal domain how do you submit a sitemap in webmaster tools for a google site? [more inside]
posted by doorsfan on Apr 3, 2009 - 5 answers

Two questions about Word 2008, on a Mac. [more inside]
posted by interrobang on Apr 3, 2009 - 4 answers

I've been browsing through a website whose pages are set up to be viewed as indexes/directories with no HTML. Many of the files listed are image files, and I'd like to be able to see them without having to click on each one individually. Is there some kind of add-on or plugin that will automatically show thumbnails of all the images on the page or am I stuck clicking on each one?
posted by elfgirl on Nov 23, 2008 - 6 answers

The Dow Jones average on November 5th: Is it going up or down, help me decide. [more inside]
posted by clearly on Oct 29, 2008 - 33 answers

Are market indexes usually at their historical low before a "declared" recession (or when the indicators are there even if not officially declared), do those market indexes tend to continue rising or falling afterward, by how much and usually for how long?
posted by CollectiveMind on Oct 29, 2008 - 4 answers

I have a MySQL table with about 100,000 items in it. Question about setting up indexes for efficient querying. [more inside]
posted by maxwelton on Oct 15, 2008 - 8 answers

Given today's equity market conditions, when should I change my 401K investment strategy from active to passive? [more inside]
posted by shinybeast on Sep 24, 2008 - 6 answers

How should I optimize a SQL Server 2000 table which will only ever be used for INSERTs? [more inside]
posted by ParsonWreck on Sep 15, 2008 - 9 answers

I am trying to construct a index with variables such as population density, population age, gross individual income and the likes. Yet as it is my first attempt, I certainly could use directions to books/websites/papers on the subject. A more detailed explanation with math details is avaiable inside. [more inside]
posted by elpapacito on Sep 7, 2008 - 6 answers

My company is looking to build a search engine to index our web site and I'm wondering if anyone has used any open package to do the task. Names, URLs, experience would be highly appreciated,
posted by seeminglee on Aug 26, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I add summary data to my video files? [more inside]
posted by verisimilitude on Jul 23, 2008 - 4 answers

Why is my Wordpress blog showing up in Google when I have specifically chosen the option to keep it private from search engines? [more inside]
posted by Drohan on Jun 21, 2008 - 9 answers

At work, we have an extensive amount of applications that are just dumped, seemingly randomly, into various folders on a network share. Is there an application that can scan or index these folders in some way, and present the results in a way that can be sorted by name, date, etc.?
posted by Shakes the Clown on Apr 30, 2008 - 7 answers

Offline Drive Indexing for Macs? [more inside]
posted by ransom on Feb 27, 2008 - 5 answers

Can you tweak this Nigella Lawson peanut butter cup recipe to be lower on the glycemic index? [more inside]
posted by cda on Nov 16, 2007 - 18 answers

Is there such a thing as a currency-neutral measure of the price of a commodity? [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Nov 7, 2007 - 15 answers

Is there a way to force Google to reindex a webpage right away? [more inside]
posted by ssmith on Oct 7, 2007 - 7 answers

Index card quest! I'm looking for a very particular kind I've seen in the past: a small (smaller than standard 3"-by-5", like 2"-by-1"!), possibly pastel-colored set of cards that come on a single, small binder ring (not spiral-bound!) and are enclosed in a plastic cover (not a fabric one!), almost certainly with a snap. [more inside]
posted by mdonley on Aug 4, 2007 - 12 answers

Help me find a Windows-based cataloging program that can handle indexing of Word documents and can crawl network (SMB) shares. [more inside]
posted by ostranenie on Jul 9, 2007 - 6 answers

Help me find a 401(k) plan or retirement plan managed through a payroll service that offers index funds. [more inside]
posted by bananafish on Apr 4, 2007 - 4 answers

Is there a way of tagging paper? [more inside]
posted by ajp on Jan 9, 2007 - 19 answers

Is there a smart way of indexing/cataloging my offline media? This has been partially asked before (I can't work out how to establish a link in here) - but the links that were in the post (diskbase), were mostly dead (and I didn't like 'Cathy' much). There is of course more inside. [more inside]
posted by mattr on Jan 1, 2007 - 4 answers

Is there an easy way to automatically generate an MSWord (or text) document that contains the titles and folder structure for all files on a hard drive? In other words, to create an index of a hard drive's contents? [more inside]
posted by lionelhutz5 on Nov 7, 2006 - 8 answers

I am trying to make index tab dividers for a group of three ring binders I am producing for a training class at my work. I would like to have them look as professional as possible. The image below illustrates how I am creating them now.. and how I would LIKE them to look. (These are for 5.5 x 8.5 size sheets): http://cybis.indirect.com/AskMeta/IndexTabs.jpg Aside from spending a zillion dollar with a professional service bureau, does anyone have any ideas how to achieve good results 'at home'?
posted by tucsongal on Sep 4, 2006 - 4 answers

Attention SQL gurus. This has me completely stumped. How can I find the index (position) of a row in a table without querying the entire set? [more inside]
posted by Civil_Disobedient on Sep 3, 2006 - 12 answers

Does a meta index of books that reference each other exist? [more inside]
posted by MrMulan on Feb 23, 2006 - 12 answers

Can I create a collapsible index of hard and soft documents? [more inside]
posted by russmail on Feb 11, 2006 - 2 answers

Why does Windows Desktop Search keep "forgetting" my Outlook items? [more inside]
posted by JudgeBork on Nov 30, 2005 - 1 answer

How do I get swish-e to index the contents of a specific HTML tag (not a meta tag)? [more inside]
posted by expialidocious on Oct 31, 2005 - 1 answer

Spotlight in OS X 10.4 -- doesn't seem to index the actual contents of files and emails. Searching for known terms produces no hits. Mac Mini, 3 mos. old. Any ideas?
posted by words1 on Sep 26, 2005 - 9 answers

Is there a reverse-linking wiki? I'm looking for an indexing feature in a wiki. [more inside]
posted by joaquim on Jul 7, 2005 - 2 answers

I am looking for an index data structure and query algorithm to solve a specific problem. Each row in the table represents a range, with a start/end value; I want to look up all the rows that overlap a certain value. [more inside]
posted by Mars Saxman on Oct 7, 2004 - 13 answers

I know, I know -- not another web photogallery AskMe question, but: I've actually settled on the gallery itself. I'm using JAlbum. Having made the choice, though, I'm left with two questions:

1. JAlbum makes nice galleries, but doesn't create a top-level index page. (I could hand-code it, but my wife will be doing most of the updating and I don't want her to have to go mucking around in HTML.) The easiest solution, I'd think, would be just to reformat the directory listing into something attractive -- all I really need to communicate to the user is descriptive folder names and upload dates, but I'd prefer to make something more handsome than the standard Apache page. Can anyone recommend a particular PHP file system manager or other solution?

2. JAlbum's auto upload is ridiculously slow -- better just to FTP it. When JAblum makes a gallery, though, it includes a lot of stuff I'm not using -- icon sets, borders, etc. It's not a ton of space, but I'm going to uploading a lot of these galleries, and it'll add up. Is there a programmatic way I can stop JAlbum from including all this, instead of weeding it out before each upload? (I'm using the BluPlusPlus skin.)
posted by blueshammer on Sep 5, 2004 - 1 answer

Does anyone know of any search engines that will also index non-plaintext documents (i.e. PDF's and Powerpoint)? Google has a search appliance, but we're looking to spend less than $2K.
posted by hobbes on Jul 25, 2004 - 15 answers

anyone know where one might find a visual index of the linotype gold collection? meaning a list of each of the 3,000 fonts rendered? tall order i know. (more inside) [more inside]
posted by specialk420 on Jun 8, 2004 - 2 answers

I need help create a word list for a book index. You can mark words in MS Word, and it will then create an index for you, but my publisher wants to create the index. From me, she just needs a list of the words that are going to be in the index. [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Feb 20, 2004 - 12 answers

How do they create book indexes? I have a friend who's a grad student, and she needs to create an index for her hundred page scientific thesis. Is there any easy way to do it in MS Word, or another software product -- something that a non-geek could churn and burn with in a couple of hours?
posted by SpecialK on Jan 22, 2004 - 17 answers