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 -
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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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posted by yomimono
on Mar 1, 2011 -
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Is there an equivalent plugin for Chrome that duplicates
It's All Text for Firefox? I use a browser a lot to enter complicated text into things like wikis and I need a full featured text editor for Chrome. I currently use It's All Text which lets me use vim to do everything that vim can do to the text in a text box but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent for Chrome.
posted by octothorpe
on Feb 24, 2011 -
4 answers
Need to somehow retrieve SMS text messages from old, low-end Nokia 2610 cellphone. Please, someone save me from hours of mind-numbing thumbery. Details, including things I've tried, follow.
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posted by Alaska Jack
on Feb 17, 2011 -
17 answers
A friend, sent me a text that she in a work "retreat" all day it is really dulll and painfully boring. Please help me think of clever texts to send that are witty and will crack a smile.
posted by jennstra
on Jan 29, 2011 -
9 answers
How can I add line breaks to a text file? I'd like to insert line breaks into a text file so that each line of the text is no more than 33 characters, and I want to avoid line breaks inserted in the middle of words. I've seen online tools that add line breaks every X characters exactly, but this results in words cut in half. Is there an easy way to do what I'm hoping for? If I could just set the line length on Gmail, say, to 33 characters and email myself the text, that would be what I'm looking for. Thanks!
posted by surenoproblem
on Jan 26, 2011 -
4 answers
Anyone know a word cloud analyzer for the desktop which does similar things to wordle.com ?
posted by zaebiz
on Jan 23, 2011 -
3 answers
I was wondering if anyone could identify the font used for the "reprise" records vintage logo I have
this album and I've tried using tools like "what the font" etc. but I just can't seem to find one that matches exactly. Any suggestions on something similar?
posted by twoforty5am
on Jan 12, 2011 -
3 answers
MacFilter! How do you keep your documents organized? Is there an iTunes-ish program for organizing and working with lots of text files?
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posted by 2oh1
on Jan 10, 2011 -
29 answers
I use
Anki as a flashcard program to learn languages. I have an
XML file of an open source English-Swedish dictionary. I'd like to turn this file into a text file that Anki can
import.
I know nothing about XML files (I don't even quite know what to open it with. OSX tries to use Adobe Illustrator, but surely that can't be right?). Is there any way to do this more or less easily?
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posted by snoogles
on Jan 7, 2011 -
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Text on my Mac pro's monitor is behaving oddly, with intermittent horizontal bars of static across the lines of text. I think it might be the video card. Is it about to die?
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posted by Joe in Australia
on Jan 3, 2011 -
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What are some examples of media (movies, TV shows, commercials, or anything really) where text or data appears to have a real physical presence or materiality? Is there a name for the technique where you have words or graphics on screen that people or things can move around or destroy? When did this start becoming common? Are there similar examples from further back in the history of media?
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posted by mariokrat
on Dec 14, 2010 -
37 answers
Suggestions for text analysis tools, please! Following a short discussion in the Metatalk infodump thread with
cortex and
iamkimiam, I realized that we'd appreciate suggestions for tools that can analyze text corpora and text files. Thanks!
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posted by carter
on Dec 12, 2010 -
5 answers
Possibly a waste of a question but can you recover lost text in Word before it saved?
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posted by tweedle
on Dec 1, 2010 -
5 answers
Need some advice on polling a live audience via text message. Thinking of using Google voice, but have some questions.
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posted by kdern
on Nov 19, 2010 -
4 answers
What's the story behind the print version of "Behind the Green Door" that circulated for awhile before the porn film was made?
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posted by 1001 questions
on Nov 9, 2010 -
3 answers
Can I strip SOME formatting from text? I'd like to be able to strip all formatting
except HTML links. Even better I'd like to strip all formatting other than HTML, bold and italics. Are there any good workarounds for this?
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posted by barnone
on Nov 7, 2010 -
9 answers
Is anyone familiar with a German publisher of high-quality, thorough, foreign language grammars? I recall seeing a pretty comprehensive series for South Asian languages....but never made a note of the publisher.
posted by anelsewhere
on Oct 28, 2010 -
7 answers
Is there a free online service that allows me to create a form that, when the fields are filled in, generates a text document with both questions and answers that can be printed out?
posted by markcmyers
on Oct 11, 2010 -
2 answers
Trying to find a text generator I saw a while back. It was called a Cthulhu text generator, but it really had nothing to do with him. It would accept key words/phrases, then arrange them in an overlapping criss-cross pattern using only CSS.
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posted by AltReality
on Oct 4, 2010 -
3 answers
Could anyone identify this antique document written in an unknown script (Kashmiri?) and perhaps comment on its purpose? (Pictures inside)
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posted by Petromyzon
on Sep 22, 2010 -
13 answers
I'm looking for an animated GIF of someone sending a series of texts that are an ASCII representation of the "Deal With It" meme. Where did I see this?
posted by joshuaconner
on Sep 16, 2010 -
3 answers
Videos like the new
Cee Lo video, where the text appears on the screen as the words are spoken - what's that style called?
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posted by Lucinda
on Aug 27, 2010 -
19 answers
I have been the sole writer/editor for a small, free, newspaper for a couple of years. I have kept all original .doc files and published and unpublished photos. What I am looking for is software that will organize both pictures and text. It is easy to find organizing software for images, but not for photos and text. Does software like this even exist? Any help is appreciated.
posted by razorian
on Aug 22, 2010 -
9 answers
Can I change the mouseover qualities (the way mouseover/hover text is displayed) with CSS?
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posted by Tchad
on Aug 20, 2010 -
6 answers
How can I save/archive a very long string of text messages from my iPhone (3G)?
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posted by eggman
on Aug 13, 2010 -
7 answers
My friend wrote a novel and is having trouble getting it published. I'd like to make a print copy of it for her on Lulu but I'm having trouble figuring out how to layout the type correctly. Also, I have never done this before. Help a type n00b do something nice for a friend.
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posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth
on Aug 10, 2010 -
15 answers
How do I send a text message from a computer? This is maybe easy, maybe tricky.
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posted by mai
on Aug 6, 2010 -
21 answers
All the posts I've read about org-mode lately have me intrigued, and I'm wanting to check it out. Problem: my version of org is old (4.67c), and I want to upgrade to current. And I'm on a Mac (Snow Leopard)
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posted by middleclasstool
on Jul 31, 2010 -
1 answer
I'm seeking to write a shell script (probably using sed) that will be given some text and will abbreviate it for me. I've no need to reinvent the wheel, if such a shell script already exists. More inside.
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posted by WCityMike
on Jul 26, 2010 -
6 answers
I'll shortly be teaching a unit of work to senior high school students titled "Navigating the Global". I'm after short stories, preferably available for free online, that deal with the themes of global vs local culture.
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posted by robotot
on Jul 1, 2010 -
10 answers
I am in a new environment where the computers are locked down and are well-configured to use WordPerfect X3 rather than MS Word.
The one feature I badly miss, and haven't been able to locate anywhere, is the equivalent of of the MS Word "wrap to window" option, which will flow text to the width of your word processing window rather than always displaying it at the width of the printed page. This feature makes multiple-window desktop arrangements feasible.
Despite web searching and kicking the tires in WordPerfect X3, I haven't been able to locate this feature. Is it hidden somewhere? Or does it not exist?
posted by dgrobinson
on Jun 14, 2010 -
3 answers
I'm finally getting an iPhone when the new model is released. I have questions about integrating an iPhone with a Mac. Also: how can I save a little money on my soon-to-be hefty AT&T bill?
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posted by 2oh1
on Jun 5, 2010 -
14 answers
Is there a name for the video technique where text is "stuck" to an element of the video?
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posted by c:\awesome
on Jun 3, 2010 -
6 answers
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