Faster techniques for grabbing lines of a file and doing text manipulation and arithmetic via shell (or other) scripting? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2008 - 20 answers

Need help on a huge .Vob conversion to the best bandwidth saving format project. [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2008 - 2 answers

What are my options for including an auto-merged image file in the context of a website? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - 1 answers

Help me find the best real-time video generative software for someone with little programming experience (PC, no Mac.) [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - 3 answers

How can a new company track leads submitted via its website through the sales and post-sales process, simply, automatically, and online? [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 12 answers

Help me automate the splitting of an image into tiles. [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 8 answers

How can I generate a "visual average" from a group of digital images?

A few years ago, I saw a BoingBoing post in which a guy had taken the pixel means of Playboy centerfolds for several decades. I'd like to use the same technique and am wondering if there's any off-the-shelf (preferably free) stuff that can do that.
posted on Jan 22, 2008 - 5 answers

What's the best way to photograph a kid's judo tournament and have pictures ready for the parents right after awards are presented? [more inside]
posted on Dec 31, 2007 - 9 answers

What are the computing capabilities of a generic cell phone? [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - 15 answers

Where to process nude photos? [more inside]
posted on Nov 7, 2007 - 29 answers

How does autotune work? [more inside]
posted on Oct 22, 2007 - 7 answers

Opening ClarisWorks Documents on a PC? [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 6 answers

Railsfilter: I need to write an addition to an already-existing Rails app to allow it to accept large files (and some trivial metadata) uploaded from a Processing (Java) client I've written. The Rails app already supports this behavior via a web interface. I can see a few of the trees, how do I fit them into the forest and get a pair of working apps? [more inside]
posted on Sep 19, 2007 - 4 answers

Bezier Curves: Is there a way I can access the information about a path in Photoshop or illustrator (x,y positions of anchors and control points). [more inside]
posted on Jul 4, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I rotate batches of images based on a certain criteria? [more inside]
posted on May 29, 2007 - 1 answers

Help me find the best credit card processing solution for a very specific, slightly unusual non-profit need. [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2007 - 5 answers

I maintain a program that does something complex based on a simple set of explicit commands. For example, if it were a painting robot (the truth is far more boring), you give it an XML file with elements like (angles swapped for brackets) [rectangle x="40" y="40" w="10" h="10" color="red"/] and it goes and paints it. I have some users that would like to write loops, functions, and keep variables -- but I don't want to write a state machine or interpreter. Is there some sort of language/specification that compiles a simple XML-type language into "flat" XML? [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2007 - 6 answers

Where do I get 2.5 year old black and white film developed? [more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2007 - 11 answers

Whats the easiest and most cost effective way to process credit cards online for a web service? [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2007 - 10 answers

I'm handling a lot of the financial aspects for a small organization that would like to process credit card transactions. It's a non-profit with a small, part-year-only revenue stream. What's our best bet for avoiding insane fees? [more inside]
posted on Dec 21, 2006 - 9 answers

Looking for statistical data of United States economy / consumption / production in Excel (or other) format to convert to XML [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2006 - 6 answers

I have to use WordPerfect at work, and an awful thing started happening today out of nowhere-- whenver I type a comma, WordPerfect types a comma period-- so it looks like this ",." instead of just ","....how do I fix this permanently??? I have no idea what caused it to start happening. It's driving me insane.
posted on Jul 12, 2006 - 11 answers

computer vision: i need an algorithm to extract statistics about the diameters (in pixels) of some roughly-circular objects from an image file. [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2006 - 15 answers

I love this photograph (I don't remember where I found it, unfortunately). How would I go about taking similar photos with a 35mm and/or digital camera? What kind of lense/lighting/setup would have been used for something like this? Is there a name for this kind of effect? Is there a good way to duplicate this effect in digital post-processing?
posted on Apr 29, 2006 - 22 answers

I want to take a bunch of numerical data (say, survey results) found in Word documents in roughly tabular form (though not in tables per se) and run simple statistical analyses on them. What's the best way to do this? [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2006 - 10 answers

What is the approximate bandwidth of the human brain ? [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2006 - 50 answers

Where should I get my film processed in Los Angeles? [more inside]
posted on Jan 14, 2006 - 4 answers

I'm about to get my first Holga camera and am wondering where I can get 120 film developed in NYC. I live near the Queens border and am mostly home-bound because I care for my grandmother. I'd like to find an affordable 120 film developer that can also put the prints on a cd (a la drugstore processing). Preferably located along the E train line in Manhattan, but any location in Manhattan will do. Any suggestions?
posted on Jan 12, 2006 - 8 answers

What is a good and inexpensive option for getting high-resolution digital images from color print film? [more inside]
posted on Nov 16, 2005 - 5 answers

Is there a particularly good mail-in photo processing company that you can recommend? Or how about a good place in Philly? [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2005 - 11 answers

I want to start shooting 35mm black and white film after a 20 year absence. I used to get my film processed via the US Mail, but can't remember the vendor. [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2005 - 14 answers

I'm a freelance web developer, and I've recently set up a PayPal business-level account to take payment from clients who prefer that method. But I'm growing more and more upset with the fact that it inevitably takes about a week from the day I get the notice of pending payment for the money to actually show up in my PayPal account, and another 4-5 days to get it out and into my bank account. What's the holdup? [more inside]
posted on Sep 14, 2005 - 8 answers

One of the Dumber Microsoft Word Questions Ever. When I try to scroll up or down a document in MS Word to highlight a select amount of text, Word whips through at lightning speed and highlights everything in the document before or after my cursor. [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2005 - 16 answers

Can anyone recommend free (or dirt cheap) character recognition software for OSX? [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2005 - 4 answers

My budget web host does not have the GD or ImageMagick libraries installed. How can I get around this? More inside... [more inside]
posted on May 22, 2005 - 5 answers

WordFilter: I'm using Microsoft Word as my word processing software for a very, very large project (my PhD). I have a strict limit of 100,000 words to follow, and although it seems as if that's a lot, I'm feeling the pinch right about now. The issue I'm having is that I get conflicting reports when I do a word count, using 2 different methods... [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2005 - 14 answers

Jared Tarbell generously offers the source code to Binary Ring (click on "Thumbnail gallery" – "Binary Ring" – "Launch applet"). I’d like to modify this code to make larger images of the same type but I’m not getting anywhere. How do I do this? I’m a beginner idiot.
posted on Jan 2, 2005 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a software that will allow me to take a passage of music and slow it down but not change the pitch. [more inside]
posted on Dec 6, 2004 - 13 answers

The Windows task manager tells me the CPU and memory usage by each process. Is there a utility that can tell me which of the running processes are responsible for current HDD activity?
posted on Aug 19, 2004 - 5 answers

I am trying to download Processing, but after I put in my Email it gives me a server error message. Does anybody know of an alternate download location (or would be nice enough to send me the installer)?
posted on Jun 10, 2004 - 3 answers