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

I'm sitting on an extensive collection of ephemera and period clip-art. I use it a lot for designs, presentations, and assorted projects, but as it's grown organizing the contents has turned into an impossible task... [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2008 - 12 answers

My google-fu is failing me on this one. Years ago I found a program that would take all the email I recieved, add it to a database and then it would run some algorithm to associate all of the email information together; essentially tagging it all. I was then able to open up their web interface and search for any topic I wished from my past emails. Think of tagging bookmarks ala del.ic.ious but for email but it auto-tagged everything on it's own. Basically the flow of email would be Exchange server -> "this program" -> Outlook. I vaguely recall that the program was written in Java and was freely available.
posted on Apr 15, 2008 - 5 answers

In the summer me and three friends will be doing a 100km 30-hour walk for charity alongside lots of other teams. I was hoping to come up with a way in which friends, family and donors can check on our progress in real time, from afar. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2008 - 2 answers

Suggestions for Photo Management Software Shared Over a Network? [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - 1 answers

How best to use search folders with categories to search through Gmail-style tags, in Outlook? [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - 7 answers

Say I wanted to fill the genre tags of my whole mp3 library automatically. Say I trusted the last.fm community enough to use the three most used tags for a certain song/album listed there (for example: New Order's Ceremony would get "80s" "new wave" and "post-punk"). Say I wanted to do this automatically. Say I had a Mac. How would I go about this? [more inside]
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - 12 answers

How can I annotate and tag text within multiple documents, so that I can categorize and search through my annotations later? [more inside]
posted on Jan 20, 2008 - 5 answers

What's a good, idiot-proof way for my mom to scan and manage her old recipes on her iMac? [more inside]
posted on Jan 20, 2008 - 15 answers

I'm doing some research, a timeline, on the evolution of user-experience on the web. I know, via AskMeFi (thank you!) that it was late in 2005 when amazon.com began testing tagging in general but does anyone know, specifically, when amazon.com began allowing users to flag or vote on the relevance of individual tags?
posted on Dec 14, 2007 - 2 answers

What is a good program (preferably free) that I can use to embed tags in my photo collection? [more inside]
posted on Sep 10, 2007 - 6 answers

My friends and I are working - and when I say working, I should add that it is with only very vague direction as we are almost all self-taught - on a web project which we think would be very useful to many people. It is in some small respect tangentially similar to Metafilter, but would not compete with it. Are there any out-of-the-box products, commercial or free, that allow a similar question-and-answer (or comment-and-answer) functionality, where anyone can post and/or comment? [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - 17 answers

MP3 tagging: I have hundreds and hundreds of songs tagged with the title like this: Stairway_To_Heaven. In a Word file, fixing this is trivial, and I could save that to a txt file. Is there tagging software that will rename by pulling from a text file? Windows only, please.
posted on Aug 16, 2007 - 9 answers

Networked repository for Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, full-text indexed and tagged. Does it exist? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2007 - 4 answers

Looking for online photo hosting software that combines the good parts of flickr and facebook hosting, of course there is... [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2007 - 6 answers

What's the best way of tagging/labeling pictures on a Mac? [more inside]
posted on Mar 24, 2007 - 4 answers

Italian graffiti: questions about two common symbols in modern spray art. [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2007 - 8 answers

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

"Tagging" My Music.....oh my [more inside]
posted on Sep 17, 2006 - 11 answers

How much or how little and in what ways should one consider breaking up the "Rock" genre when tagging MP3s? [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2006 - 20 answers

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress: Can I pay someone to have it done? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2006 - 8 answers

What is this web revolution I see before me? [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2006 - 29 answers

I'm trying to clean up my del.icio.us links... [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2006 - 2 answers

I have a huge list of unique identifiers. A person needs to enter, for each one of those identifiers, a list of tags, and I'd like to make it really easy for them to tab-complete those tags, based on the ones they've already entered. [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2006 - 10 answers

I need to find networked photo management software, similar in function to Picasa or ACDSee, but with the ability to share "tags" between multiple users over a network. The products I've been able to find all allow tagging, but those tags are available only to that user, and my company needs to search the photo tags without each user having tagged each photo individually. [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2006 - 8 answers

I would like to build and host a del.icio.us clone on my Mac (Intel iMac running Tiger). It need not be accessible outside of my machine, although if you can advise me how to do that while still keeping my machine secure, that would be a very nice plus. I am able to build simple command-line apps in Unix and puzzle some stuff out, but I am very much not a l33t hax00r. Can anyone walk me through the process very simple step by very simple step? [more inside]
posted on Mar 31, 2006 - 8 answers

FeedFilter! How do I: a) get bloggers to tag their posts about X with “X”; b) subscribe to the “X” tag via RSS; c) feed the “X”-tagged posts into a non-profit web site I run about X? [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2006 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a web-based to-do application with a few very specific features, but, essentially, one that's almost a del.icio.us clone and is very much centralized not on categories, but on tags. [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2006 - 6 answers

Is there a wiki program out there that supports tagging content pages? Ideally I'd like to be able to tag pages to make it easier to navigate. PHP preferred but not entirely necessary.
posted on Feb 6, 2006 - 4 answers

Is there software available that lets me use tagging (a la del.icio.us and Flickr) to tag Word (or other) files on my local computer? Here's the scenario. I am new to a job where I write a lot of reports. Although these aren't cookie cutter reports, it is often helpful to look at old reports when writing new ones. I would love to be able to organize them by overlapping themes so the collection of files is more useful to me. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I'd like to be able to plug in a few tag words and find just what I need. Can you help?
posted on Dec 22, 2005 - 15 answers

Like many people, I have a "best of" directory on my web site where I keep various files I find on the net that I want to keep around in case the original host goes away. Right now it's just a raw directory of files, mostly with their original often cryptic filenames. I'd like some kind of drop-in file manager that would let me easily add descriptions and tags. Users could click on tags to narrow the listing to, say, just "flash toys" or "zero wing spinoffs".
posted on Nov 17, 2005 - 10 answers

I want to create my own social bookmarking site. I don't know much about coding, but I've got some good ideas. Is this possible? How do I begin? Am I insane/idiotic for even contemplating this? [more inside]
posted on Nov 16, 2005 - 25 answers

FolksonomyFilter: I'm looking for well-executed uses of tagging beyond the beaten path (flickr, del.icio.us, etc). I have several questions about user behavior when it comes to tagging schemes, and would love some pointers to places to go. [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2005 - 18 answers

Hi, I am looking for an mp3 tagger that can find the tag for just one mp3 not a hole album. [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2005 - 5 answers

Our small web development company is looking into project management software. I've been looking around, but can't seem to find something that really suits our needs. [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2005 - 13 answers

Is there an easy way to do tagging in Movabletype? [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2005 - 7 answers

I love tags. We all love tags. They're the greatest invention ever. But is there software that can help me organize my music collection using tags? (No, not the ID3 variety) [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2005 - 14 answers

What is a quick and easy way to convert all my del.icio.us tags from CamelCase to lowercase? Googling only turned up a python script, which I know nothing about.
posted on Apr 1, 2005 - 13 answers

Tags. They're used everywhere on the Web now to categorize stuff, but not everything has a unique name. Do you tag stuff in the most individual way possible, or do you let tags overlap? For instance, if I post a picture of my computer screen and one of my house, do I tag them both "windows"? Or do I tag one "Microsoft Windows" and the other "house windows"? Is someone named "Chris Smith" stuck with being conglomerated with other people with the same name, or should I ask Chris Smith what his middle name is and add it to the tag? It's easy for New York City to get the tag "NYC", but should photos of Springfield, Illinois be "Springfield", "Springfield, IL", or "Springfield, Illinois"?
posted on Mar 18, 2005 - 18 answers

Document management. I get a lot of paper documents (bills, letters, invoices, etc) and want to catalog them digitally. I want a program that scans a sheet (or multiple sheets), turns them into PDF and catalogs them (title, category, and maybe even del.icio.us style tags). Acrobat will do the first two stages, but I want something that does the cataloging too. Any suggestions? OCR not needed whatsoever.
posted on Jan 9, 2005 - 10 answers

So what's so cool about del.icio.us? I don't get it.
posted on Jan 6, 2005 - 54 answers

How do I make ID3 tags persistent? [+]
posted on Jan 2, 2005 - 11 answers

Can anyone help me find a personal information management utility that will let me "tag" different items (with multiple tags), much as one can do with photos in Adobe Photoshop Album? I'd like to be able to keep track of things by tags, not just a simple hierarchical tree and searching. My Google-fu is not powerful enough to find what I am looking for - the closest I have come is finding flags in ActionOutline, but they aren't customizable or useful for finding things.
posted on Dec 25, 2004 - 4 answers

I want a free piece of software that can recognize songs (mostly from mix cds) from iTunes and query CDDB for them. Google has failed me. I seem to recall seeing something on MeFi about it, but searching brings up nothing. Help!
posted on Aug 9, 2004 - 3 answers

I need to convert a scanned pdf to searchable text, without printing it out and scanning it back in using OCR. Also, I'd like a cheap or free solution since I'm not likely to use it often ever again.
posted on May 6, 2004 - 17 answers

I have a few Gb of mp3 which I want to sort into folders by artist (they are currently all lumped together in one single folder). My ID3 tags are in order. Is there any software that will allow me to do this in XP?
posted on Dec 27, 2003 - 15 answers

Quirky mp3 file format issue more inside
posted on Dec 9, 2003 - 9 answers