What is the best / cheapest / most reliable Email to SMS service? I want to find out when certain people email me (friends, family, work colleagues), ignoring the spam or the newletters.
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posted by philsi
on Mar 26, 2007 -
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How can I convert a Dynatext book (with SGML exporting capabilities) to something that can be viewed on a web server ?
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posted by vincentm
on Mar 21, 2007 -
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Help! Opening any text messages or emails displays a blank white screen on my Cingular 2125 (HTC Faraday) Windows Mobile 5 smartphone.
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posted by sprocket87
on Mar 14, 2007 -
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How can I extract relevant terms from big chunks of text in a similar style to the Yahoo Term Extraction API?
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posted by dasfreak
on Mar 1, 2007 -
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How can I find real Java software for a Motorola SLVR L7? I've only ever seen stupid games. I need a PDF reader, a text editor, and a French-English dictionary, or else dictd and a dict client.
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posted by jeffburdges
on Feb 20, 2007 -
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How can I submit my own text, have it cut up, and use it as a typing test?
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posted by 913
on Feb 13, 2007 -
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My wife is working very difficult and stressful night shifts for the next few weeks. To help her keep from becoming emotionally overwhelmed, I like to send her jokes to her text pager. It's quickly become hard to find quality jokes that are short enough, though. Little help?
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posted by Plutor
on Feb 8, 2007 -
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What word processing program will allow most easily allow me to do unusual things with form--with the way text appears on the page?
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posted by scarylarry
on Feb 5, 2007 -
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I'm attempting to transcribe some scanned documents. The quality of the .pdf files is low. Is there a way to play around with the images in order to help me make out the mangled words?
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posted by moira
on Jan 15, 2007 -
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I'm trying to create a Flash application that will accept user-inputted text, then turn it into cheesy computer-generated speech. I'm hoping there's a Flash library or pre-built application that does this, but I haven't been able to find such a thing. I would prefer the final app be in Flash, but I am open to other solutions. Cost not an issue.
posted by phonepimpster
on Jan 2, 2007 -
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Coding question: What is the best/easiest way to preserve typographical formatting (like nbsp's, line breaks) of pasted text that will be stored in a database and later displayed in boxes of arbitrary size?
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posted by shownomercy
on Dec 31, 2006 -
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Regex experts: I need a regular expression to help trim some lines in a text file. I haven't done regex in some time and I'm not having any luck with this. Hope it'll be easy for a wiz.
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posted by Tubes
on Dec 14, 2006 -
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What is the fastest way to trasfer pages from an old physical book to a searchable computer text file?
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posted by cluelessguru
on Dec 5, 2006 -
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I want to create a web application in which the user enters text into a field and clicks on a submit button, and the text is then altered based on a set of conditions and given back to the user. What's the easiest way of doing this? I have a vague idea that I should use Perl and CGI. I don't know Perl or CGI, but I do know a bit of Java, a bit about servlets and JSPs, some Visual Basic, and quite a bit about http.
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posted by bingo
on Nov 29, 2006 -
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Do any United States credit cards/banks send text alerts when transactions take place? I am looking for one that will send me a text alert when something is charged or withdrawn from my accounts. Are any online banks especially savvy and up to date on such things (even if they don't offer text)?
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posted by geoff.
on Nov 3, 2006 -
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Is there a firefox plugin that will allow me to search ALL text on a webpage including dropdown menus and otherwise unsearchable fields?
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posted by hypocritical ross
on Oct 23, 2006 -
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Access Field question: On a linked ODBC table, I have part number information in a MEMO field, in this format: xx-xxx-xxxx. I would like to make this a TEXT field so that I can link it to another ITEM field that is associated with cost data. How can I do this in a query?
Thanks
posted by strangelove
on Oct 21, 2006 -
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How can I convert few lines of text to a png or gif image? (With perl/python/ruby). Need it for a web-site to make text not copy-able.
posted by chexov
on Aug 18, 2006 -
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Trying to open a 200MB .txt file on my Win2KPro machine, and all I get is hard drive spinning, CPU cycling, but nothing opening...
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posted by LGCNo6
on Aug 16, 2006 -
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I want to limit the number of lines that users can input in a printable pdf form text field so that there is no overflow/scroll bars or auto-resizing of the text. How can i do that?
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posted by FidelDonson
on Jul 19, 2006 -
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How can I save money sending hundreds of SMS messages (and making occasional phonecalls) from my UK mobile phone to a USA cell?
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posted by Marquis
on Jul 16, 2006 -
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Any thoughts on Homesite vs. UltraEdit? Looking to purchase one of them...
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posted by jak68
on Jun 9, 2006 -
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I want to append a line of text to the end of a text file in a password protected WebDAV directory on my webserver from a normal php webpage outside this directory. Can this be done?
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posted by ontic
on May 25, 2006 -
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so my friend is trying to locate an online service whereby one can type a message to a phone number over the web, and an operator than reads that message to the other end over the phone. So essentially its a computer text-to-voice over phone service, it may be intended for deaf-blind individuals. any ideas?
posted by Kifer85
on May 6, 2006 -
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I wanted to create a banner image for a blog and wanted to take a jpg image and 'burn' some text into it (using different typefaces) -- anyone know the best way to do this? I don't have photoshop -- is there any other way? (I own an ibook)
posted by dearleader
on Mar 25, 2006 -
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A friend of mine recently told me that she can't read comic books. She doesn't have problems with understanding text or visual information. She's been a voracious book reader since a very early age and she's a dedicated film watcher. I didn't entirely understand her explanation but she says that she never learn to decode the tight coupling of textual and visual information in comic books. Has anyone heard about or experienced something similar?
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posted by rdr
on Mar 20, 2006 -
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Script-fu for arbitary text: Across applications (but especially in text editors) I want to be able to (a) right click on a bit of selected text (b) have the usual contextual menu pop up upon doing so, but with options to (c) send said text to an arbitrary script (perl, python, whatever) and (d) potentially have the selected text replaced by script results, if the context is right. What are my best options for both the Mac and Windows?
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posted by namespan
on Feb 25, 2006 -
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Hi, hoping some MS Excel or HTML wizards can help me out with this. The goal is as follows; format a list of domain names so I can publish them on a webpage with hyperlinks to their individual addresses
(currently they are all in Excel with each domain occupying a single cell in a single row; they are currently formatted like this: "domain.com"). There are just to many to go through and add this to each one.
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posted by Jhaus
on Feb 21, 2006 -
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What's the easiest way to convert a plain text list of URLs with descriptions into an HTML page of clickable links?
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posted by jack_mo
on Feb 21, 2006 -
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How do I make Windows XP search inside TPL files? I know they're text files, but because Windows doesn't recognise the extension, when I try to search for "a word or phrase in the file" it won't search inside the TPL files.
I know I did this once before to get it to search PHP files, but I can't remember how I did it.
posted by RobotHero
on Dec 13, 2005 -
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What's an easy way to append to a text file in Windows XP, like Quicksilver does in OS X? I know about
the solution for ActiveWords, but I'd rather not shell out for what seems like basic functionality.
posted by monju_bosatsu
on Dec 12, 2005 -
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I need to find a lengthy list of English-language personality traits. Allport and Odbert's 1936 list would be awesome, and a searchable text version (meaning, not a scanned book) would be even better.
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posted by electric_counterpoint
on Dec 11, 2005 -
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How do I convert basic text formatting (italics, bold, underline, superscript, etc.) into HTML formatting on a semi-automated basis?
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posted by waldo
on Nov 29, 2005 -
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GeekFilter: I want to strip all HTML tags from a page of text, leaving plain text. I have Text Wrangler and OS X.4. I thought it would be easy…
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posted by al_fresco
on Oct 31, 2005 -
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I'm looking for a Windows tool that will allow you to "Copy as Text" from Windows Explorer. Anybody know of anything?
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posted by bwilms
on Oct 15, 2005 -
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What is your fav. text editing OS X application? I need syntax highlighting for as many languages as possible, S/FTP, among most other common funtions (line numbering, block un/commenting, block indentation, etc). The best on the PC in my opinion is UltraEdit, nothing i've used on the Mac comes close. I'm currently using TextWrangler but I miss much of what UltraEdit offers. Any suggestions?
posted by joshgray
on Oct 2, 2005 -
16 answers
