I need someone to text me every 4-6 hours to keep myself accountable for one very specific, discrete thing. I don't want to ask any of my friends/family to do it. Reminders on my phone are too easy to brush off and ignore. Is there some sort of web service I can sign up for that will hook me up with someone who also needs to be kept accountable, or someone who wants to help?
posted by Night_owl
on Apr 26, 2012 -
13 answers
I want to create a number to send text messages (SMS) which will then post all the messages onto a Twitter feed...
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posted by iamck
on Apr 18, 2012 -
3 answers
Is there a text editor under Mac OS X which can split a plain text file using a string as delimiter?
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posted by yclipse
on Apr 9, 2012 -
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I want to have some sort of easily-editable text box floating on the top level of whatever I'm doing in Windows. Think, like, a sticky note or a ticker.
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posted by threeants
on Mar 26, 2012 -
3 answers
Please help me find the critical thinking textbook my grade-school class used in the early eighties.
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posted by hydrophonic
on Mar 11, 2012 -
3 answers
I want to do something ridiculously simple in Excel that doesn't seem to be possible. Please tell me that's not true.
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posted by cincinnatus c
on Feb 10, 2012 -
17 answers
Tell me how to efficiently get links from emails/text out of an HTC Sensation to work w/minimal effort?
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posted by prodevel
on Jan 25, 2012 -
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Is there any quick'n'easy anti-SOPA javascript I can add to my site's HTML to protest on 18th Jan? Crucially it must contain a concise description of the dangers of SOPA, and shouldn't assume an American audience (i.e. "contact your representatives"). I'm aware of WordPress plugins but that's NOT what I'm looking for.
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posted by humblepigeon
on Jan 14, 2012 -
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WordPad is a bare-bones RTF editor. What app will approximate WordPad on an Android? Bonus points if the editor also syncs itself between Android and Windows.
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posted by foursentences
on Dec 24, 2011 -
1 answer
Can you point me to recent surveys of reading habits in the United States? I'm hoping to find statistics from the last 3-4 years about anything from the average number of books read, time spent reading, digital reading, to whatever else you know about.
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posted by lilac girl
on Dec 14, 2011 -
6 answers
Help me catalog my youthful correspondence so that when I grow old and wither I may smile at a time well-spent but long-gone with those I love -- 21st CENTURY STYLE!!!11!!
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posted by Chipmazing
on Nov 25, 2011 -
5 answers
Which Twitter users post high-quality daily tweets? (one-liners, inspirational quotes, love/sex tips, that kind of thing)
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posted by harwons
on Nov 23, 2011 -
17 answers
I just bought an
LG Cosmos 2 VN251 phone, and I want to figure out how to export my texts, call history, etc. off the phone and onto my iMac. I was able to do this with my previous phone, an LG-VX9900, via the bluetooth connection using
BitPim—but BitPim doesn't seem to recognize this model, and my text inbox is getting full pretty quickly!
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posted by not_on_display
on Oct 19, 2011 -
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I have to read a lot of academic papers. They are usually formatted into 2 columns per page. This is fine if I print them out, but when I read them on a computer screen, it is difficult/annoying for me to scroll up and down - I lose my place easily (I recognize this may be unusual). Is there software out there that will strip the text from a pdf into one column (and maybe put all the figures at the end or somewhere)? Like the
Readability extension for text on the web, but for pdfs. Maybe a plugin for Adobe Acrobat? Linux or Windows, please. Thanks.
posted by bluefly
on Oct 19, 2011 -
6 answers
Textbooks or readers on social inequality / exclusion - especially with a global perspective?
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posted by k8t
on Oct 19, 2011 -
3 answers
The company I work for has offered to pay the cost to upgrade my personal iPhone 3gs to a 4s. I currently have unlimited data with the 200 SMS for $5 plan. I'm grandfathered in on the unlimited data plan but I've heard conflicting reports about the $5 message plan: a) to upgrade my phone I would have to either switch to a $20/month unlimited text message plan or go plan-less and pay $.20-.30/text, OR b) my $5 plan is safe and will survive the upgrade. So, which is it?
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posted by jamaro
on Oct 12, 2011 -
7 answers
What are the mysterious, apparently non-sensical, religious-sounding words that are appearing as small white text on white background on Craigslist car+truck ads across several cities?
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posted by Extopalopaketle
on Oct 10, 2011 -
3 answers
I have some questions regarding MMS charges and the Facebook Messenger app. Between it and the upcoming iOS messages in iOS5 I would like to completely eliminate my texting plan (in light of AT&T's total dick move of eliminating the $10/month text plan-which I was going to move to after iOS5). I figure between Facebook and my iphone-owning friends, family, and girlfriend I should be 99.9% covered and I'll eat the per-text charge on the 2-3 a month that may slip by. I just cant seem to find a clear answer on one point, though:
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posted by sourwookie
on Sep 22, 2011 -
5 answers
On a Win7 desktop, how can I open and read a 1.61 GB CSV file containing text (kind of an archive of e-mails) without freezing up the system?
posted by vidur
on Sep 1, 2011 -
12 answers
Looking for a document clustering application for a one-off search. Would prefer not to code my own.
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posted by benzenedream
on Aug 5, 2011 -
3 answers
iPhone: when I select some text to copy and use the grab points to expand the selection, how do I keep it from selecting the whole paragraph?
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posted by neuron
on Jul 31, 2011 -
10 answers
I want to play more games like Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, Liberal Crime Squad, etc. No, not rogue-likes: games with a similiar "made of text" interface.
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posted by Askiba
on Jul 26, 2011 -
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For the last several months, I have used an online text editor to write upcoming posts for my blog. When I had my computer reimaged, I lost my open tabs, and now I can't find the website I was using to edit text. I was 99% sure that the site was called QuickWrite or QuickWriter, but I can't seem to find it again.
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posted by allison00
on Jul 22, 2011 -
7 answers
Is there a text to speech tool that will allow me to control the speed in Words per minute?
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posted by TigerCrane
on Jun 28, 2011 -
1 answer
Is there a name for the text design style of the wall art in
this picture (particularly the vertical text column)? I've seen it used in certain retro-style ads, on some websites, and on the wall in the picture I just linked.
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posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Jun 25, 2011 -
12 answers
I want to be able to poll audience members via text message during a live event. What programs/apps/websites should I check out?
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posted by hermitosis
on Jun 6, 2011 -
6 answers
I would like to delete certain lines in a text document.
It's an SRT file, which is basically a TXT file that contains subtitles and in & out points.
I'd like to delete all the timecode numbers, and leave only the text.
Example inside...
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posted by Silky Slim
on May 30, 2011 -
9 answers
I'm trying to find a Twilight-related blog that I remember seeing recently. The blogger cut all the pages out of a copy of
Twilight, scanned or photographed them, and rearranged snippets of text to highlight and criticize odd or repetitive choices of language.
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posted by Orinda
on Apr 23, 2011 -
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For a community health project, I need automated capability to send text messages to participants' phones based on a specified schedule, content and sequence of messages. The volume would be in the range of 100 recipients grouped into 6 or 8 different categories (each category would receive a distinct sequence of messages), with perhaps 2 or 3 messages per day to each recipient. Any suggestions?
posted by pavi
on Apr 14, 2011 -
4 answers
I need to animate text (short quotes, one or two sentences each) for a video presentation. Are there any (free or cheap) softwares other than Keynote/Powerpoint that do this?
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posted by ddaavviidd
on Apr 7, 2011 -
5 answers
What options for word processors are there for Android tablets? How well do they work? Would a keyboard attachment make one equivalent to working on a netbook?
posted by Artw
on Apr 1, 2011 -
12 answers
How can I make a video like
this one for Cee-lo Green's Fuck You? What kind of program(s) would I need? Are there any tutorials? Any terms for what this is called would be helpful too, because my googling has been rather unsuccessful. Thanks!
posted by jouir
on Mar 29, 2011 -
5 answers
I would like to receive text messages from potential candidates without providing my cell phone number up front.
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posted by sandra_s
on Mar 22, 2011 -
11 answers
For a three month dating "anniversary" I'd like to create a bound book of all the text messages my girlfriend and I have sent back and forth.
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posted by talkingmuffin
on Mar 3, 2011 -
10 answers
Is there common text between the various bills that outlaw collective bargaining in some contexts, or limit the domains on which it applies? Do you know of a good way to find this automatically?
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on Mar 1, 2011 -
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