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 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 on Apr 30, 2008 - 7 answers

Offline Drive Indexing for Macs? [more inside]
posted 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 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 on Nov 7, 2007 - 15 answers

Is there a way to force Google to reindex a webpage right away? [more inside]
posted 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 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 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 on Apr 4, 2007 - 4 answers

Is there a way of tagging paper? [more inside]
posted 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 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 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 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 on Sep 3, 2006 - 12 answers

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.
posted on Oct 7, 2004 - 14 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 on Sep 5, 2004 - 1 answers

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 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)
posted on Jun 8, 2004 - 3 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.
posted on Feb 20, 2004 - 13 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 on Jan 22, 2004 - 17 answers