Can someone tell me how I can confirm my location (in the UK) of where I was a couple/few weeks ago please. At the time I was using an HTC Hero phone on the O2 network.
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posted by sockpim
on Oct 22, 2012 -
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I would like to create a font using someone's handwriting and am looking for a good software with which to do this. I'm not an expert in this, so it would have to have a small learning curve, unless it is really worth it for me to spend time learning so I can get reasonable results.
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posted by sciencegeek
on Oct 19, 2012 -
6 answers
How do I get a software internship? I feel like I have too little experience and won't be "good enough"
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posted by WCF
on Oct 13, 2012 -
19 answers
Do you ever just click without reading the fine print? I am wondering a few things about the old "Click here to signify that you have read and understood the blah blah blah" directive, particularly the type found in software downloads/updates.
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posted by klausman
on Oct 11, 2012 -
9 answers
Is there a music streaming program that will continuously cache a stream while a connection is available and play from that cache on demand, in a first-in-first-out manner?
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posted by Nameless
on Oct 10, 2012 -
2 answers
I am a software engineer, and my company has decided to open-source my project. Yaaay! Please help us find the right open source license.
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posted by Afroblanco
on Oct 8, 2012 -
17 answers
I wrote a bit of software that intercepts keystrokes and composes music, with some semantic awareness for programming. What should this be called?
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posted by tmcw
on Oct 7, 2012 -
15 answers
I was having one of those "I walked to to school uphill both ways" discussions with friends and the question came up: What software product shipped on the largest number of floppy disks? I'm having trouble tracking it down, but I have some recollection that A/UX shipped on some insane number of diskettes, like 20 or 30, before Apple started selling it on a hard drive.
posted by LastOfHisKind
on Oct 6, 2012 -
19 answers
I am looking for a 2D animation toolkit that helps me animate various actors, like man, woman, cat and helps in realising various actions like sleeping, running, etc. with programmatical ease. I have looked into processing.org and started to toy with simple geometric shapes, but yet to stumble across an animation with man/woman actors. Could you help me find some good resources where I could learn to animate such things? TIA.
posted by godugu
on Oct 4, 2012 -
3 answers
Inspired by Tiger and Woods'
Gin Nation (sampling Imagination's
Music & Lights), if I wanted to create some remixes of favorite old tracks, what software package would best enable me to do this?
Cost is not so much of an issue, but I don't want to buy some package that I'll drown in and don't necessarily need all the bells and whistles of. I know there's a lot out there - that all come in basic/ normal/ whizz-bang versions - but need some help navigating.
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posted by forallmankind
on Oct 2, 2012 -
3 answers
I am a software developer at [a big software company]. In a few hours here, I've got a one-hour meeting with my retiring-this-month corporate vice president. We are both women in tech. What should I ask her?
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posted by kthxbi
on Oct 1, 2012 -
8 answers
Is there any software that will dynamically re-project a map as you click-and-drag it?
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posted by Sleeper
on Sep 26, 2012 -
4 answers
My Mac (OS 10.6.8) is behaving wonkily, and I need to reinstall the system software. I'm wondering if there are any tricks for helping me reconfiguring my various prefs after the reinstall.
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posted by Quisp Lover
on Sep 25, 2012 -
4 answers
I left a good job at a bigger corporation early this year to join a startup. Nine months later, I'm not sure it was a good decision. Is it a bad idea to go back to my previous job?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 21, 2012 -
12 answers
Hi
I have programmed on eclipse, a reasonably straightforward program in Python 2.7 that applies image filters to user selected images e.g. by turning them to sepia, black & white, negative, etc. It uses Tkinter for the graphics user interface and the program functions ok. However, I was thinking about how to turn this into a web app. So to transfer this to an Amazon cloud server, I understand that for the client side user interface I would need to convert the program by adding html and javascript to the client side while python handles the server side? Does anyone know of any tutorials or other resources that are particularly good at covering web apps like this using python, html and javascript?
posted by conrad101
on Sep 19, 2012 -
3 answers
Looking for a website that lets me do this: For a set group of people, each submits a message. You can see who's sent a message, but not what the contents of the message are. When everyone's submitted a message, all the messages are revealed. This is for an online Magic: the Gathering tournament - we're having everyone submit an entry before anyone sees what anyone else submitted.
posted by LSK
on Sep 7, 2012 -
2 answers
I am looking for guidance on migrating an application to the cloud, from both a practical perspective as well as a theoretical perspective for a project.
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posted by conrad101
on Sep 5, 2012 -
2 answers
I'm looking for recommendations for online software for managing a database of customers.
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posted by rabbitfufu
on Sep 3, 2012 -
9 answers
I'm a physics graduate student and my PhD work is going to involve a fair amount of programming. Aside from the coding part, what habits and skills do I need to develop to become a competent programmer?
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posted by Zalzidrax
on Aug 31, 2012 -
21 answers
I am looking for a wonderful timer program for Mac (OS X 10.7.4 +).
It needs to have a Cocoa GUI (meaning a GUI that isn't ugly, and isn't unnecessarily complicated), the ability to run multiple timers, and the ability to name timers with a decent amount of detail. Sound is an important feature, too.
Command line alternatives are also cool, but not ideal.
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posted by oceanjesse
on Aug 31, 2012 -
5 answers
My retail business has non-calendar fiscal months on a 5-4-4, 13 week quarter. How can I assign custom fiscal month dates to Quickbooks to create budgets and reports based on the right periods? Or, what other accounting software handles this well?
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posted by ioesf
on Aug 31, 2012 -
0 answers
Looking for book recommendations for Software Product Manager interview questions.
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posted by unmodern
on Aug 31, 2012 -
2 answers
Can I Convert Video Footage to Animation? We are making a video documentary about college students and their attitudes towards dating and sex. Much of the documentary involves one interviewer interviewing different people on the same set. As you might guess, many of the potential subjects are reluctant to speak candidly onscreen, BUT, most of them will consent to their voices being used…I am wondering if there is some not-crazily-expensive way to take a video interview and, using some kind of software, animate it, turning the interviewer and subject into animated avatars. The animation does not have to be super super high quality—a fairly simple avatar for each of the people onscreen will do…We have a lot of technical and post-production people on the crew, so someone involved probably has access to almost any software program available…Any help—especially specific programs or plug-ins—would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
posted by laswingkid
on Aug 30, 2012 -
12 answers
I'm looking for software for a high school math teacher: first, a better/newer test generator, and second, in-classroom programs, bonus points for apps for an Apple laptop and/or an iPod touch. Details inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Aug 28, 2012 -
2 answers
My pre-k boy LOVES video games and adventure/superhero TV shows. It would be great to harness some of that love for learning purposes. What are your recommendations for software or online games that do that? We're a Mac household.
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posted by michaeldunaway
on Aug 24, 2012 -
5 answers
Suggestions for internet-blocking software for OS X 10.8 wanted; alternatives to Freedom and Anti Social.
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posted by FrereKhan
on Aug 16, 2012 -
3 answers
I am *finally* getting an assistant to help me tackle my workload and upcoming projects, which has been a chaotic undertaking for one person. She's really smart and retentive in exactly the way an awesome assistant should be... we're determined to get super organized as a team so I want to start off on the right foot and be able to focusing on monetizing instead of answering email all day. Here's my question: what are the best apps/sites/software nowadays to manage and document big workloads, contacts, meetings, tasks brainstorms, and overall projects and stay organized easily as a team? I know there has to be some great new stuff out there that I haven't heard of.
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posted by miss lynnster
on Aug 14, 2012 -
12 answers
Waa!?
Pummelvision shut down! Now how am I supposed to convert my hundreds of wedding photos into a 2 minute video, with music? Please, please, please tell me there's an alternative way to do this - weather an automatic service, or a stand alone program, or some multi-step conversion nightmare. Thanks!
posted by rebent
on Aug 13, 2012 -
14 answers
I inherited my desktop Mac from my girlfriend last year when she got a new one. We now live together and have our computers on the same network, and now MS Office complains that I don't have a license for this computer. Do I have any options other than buying a whole new MS Office license/package?
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posted by scaryblackdeath
on Aug 12, 2012 -
17 answers
A Mac app in which I want to force-hide the top menu bars and bottom status bar (not possible natively within the app): what third-party utilities or UI-hacking tools could help?
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posted by kalapierson
on Aug 10, 2012 -
1 answer
I'm to give a half an hour talk to a group of year 12 (snr high school) students as a really brief introduction to software development. Half an hour isn't a lot of time. Has anyone got an idea of an activity this small group (+/-10) can undertake to get them thinking as programmers? I'm generally casting around for ideas.
posted by mattoxic
on Aug 9, 2012 -
11 answers
I have a folder of JPG files. I want to create a PDF with one of those JPGs on each page. I don't want to spend any money. I am using a Windows computer.
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posted by Egg Shen
on Aug 9, 2012 -
11 answers
How can I make a Mac app crash reproducibly with the solution being to trash the app's preferences and have them rebuild automatically?
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posted by joshrholloway
on Aug 8, 2012 -
6 answers
Ok, aside from any morality issues, what are the actual dangers of using pirated software?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 3, 2012 -
19 answers
Are bitmapped fonts still not copyrightable? How have you used bitmapped fonts in your work?
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posted by ignignokt
on Aug 3, 2012 -
14 answers
I'm in need of client and accounts management software that is suited to newspaper (or at least publications) operations. It needs to be free or very inexpensive, web-based, and user friendly.
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posted by LillyBird
on Aug 2, 2012 -
3 answers
What video editing/effects software should I get when my hands are tied?
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posted by lpsguy
on Aug 1, 2012 -
6 answers
Can you recommend free/very cheap software for a Mac that allows me to slow down recorded music (mp3s) on the fly?
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posted by obliquicity
on Jul 31, 2012 -
19 answers
(Asking for a friend.) I need to find some sort of software that lets you both record yourself through a webcam (showing the image live in a window on the screen) and (not simultaneously) play a pre-recorded video in the same screen. Ideally it would have very minimalist buttons, or configurable buttons/toolbar.
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posted by lollusc
on Jul 31, 2012 -
3 answers
