I want to promote my Young Adult fantasy novel about Morgan le Fay on the web. The biggest audience should be young women and libraries; Wiccans, medieval re-enactors and King Arthur fans would dig it, too (I hope). How can I best promote the book myself? What sites and blogs should I contact? Are author's tours effective? What should I definitely put my efforts into and what's not worth my time? [more inside]
posted by musofire on Oct 11, 2009 - 12 answers

Help me find a temporary stopgap for legacy software? [more inside]
posted by unvivid on Oct 2, 2009 - 7 answers

Is there an actively developed virtual desktop manager for OS X that lets you assign windows and documents (rather than applications) to different desktops? [more inside]
posted by namespan on Jul 21, 2009 - 7 answers

I'm putting together a business model for my web application. As part of my expenditure, I need to estimate how many servers I need as a function of number of users. What's a good first step to finding this out? [more inside]
posted by tomargue on Jun 26, 2009 - 4 answers

Best way to add virtual guests to a physical meetup? [more inside]
posted by jeffmacintyre on Mar 13, 2009 - 4 answers

Lucrative work-from-home opportunity or obvious scam? [more inside]
posted by Acey on Feb 7, 2009 - 25 answers

How can I set up the virtual server environment I want, using as much open source and as little proprietary software as possible? [more inside]
posted by flabdablet on Dec 20, 2008 - 11 answers

Is it wise to setup Ubuntu for my parents virtual box for ie? [more inside]
posted by erifneerg on Dec 20, 2008 - 10 answers

I need help finding a replacement service for the very recently defunct Convenos, a web-based meeting application for use with PCs. [more inside]
posted by mrmojoflying on Dec 2, 2008 - 6 answers

I am looking for a call forwarding service. I would like to have a single phone number that would not change. I would then like to forward any calls to this number to multiple phones simultaneously. No call screening needed, just have whichever phone picks up the call first take the call. [more inside]
posted by DerekTheGeek on Nov 30, 2008 - 5 answers

I'd like to work for a virtual company, or work virtually for a real company. [more inside]
posted by device55 on Nov 16, 2008 - 3 answers

What's the best way to create a video tour to teach people how to navigate/use a web site? [more inside]
posted by juliplease on Oct 2, 2008 - 7 answers

What is the best way to set up a virtual storefront website for a mom-and-pop outfit in the business of selling hand-painted porcelain dolls and ceramics? [more inside]
posted by Roach on Aug 26, 2008 - 11 answers

Why aren't there universal 32->64 bit driver translator/emulators? [more inside]
posted by Mokusatsu on Aug 23, 2008 - 9 answers

Would this OS/RAM/VM trick work, you think? Linux seems to allow this PC mobo double the RAM XP shows as possible; can I VM XP on a Linux host and split the RAM between the two? [more inside]
posted by penciltopper on Aug 1, 2008 - 10 answers

What technology do you used at your work place to communicate between workers / organizational members? Bonus points if you're on a Virtual Team. [more inside]
posted by bleucube on Jun 18, 2008 - 11 answers

Will VMWare Fusion allow me to run Microsoft OneNote smoothly? [more inside]
posted by boubelium on May 7, 2008 - 6 answers

Moving towards virtual machines for IT support at a business, and I have some questions. [more inside]
posted by bartleby on Apr 4, 2008 - 7 answers

Aumented Realityfilter- Please, Me-Fites give me your examples of films/video clips of humans with built-in H.U.D.s...? [more inside]
posted by Joe Rocket on Feb 22, 2008 - 6 answers

I am looking for examples of 3D virtual environments created in a Wikipedia-like manner. [more inside]
posted by badstone on Feb 14, 2008 - 9 answers

my daughter has received a webkinz for her birthday, and I am having difficulty registering her webkinz on the website. Has anyone else experienced problems with this process? Any advice?
posted by rudy26 on Feb 6, 2008 - 11 answers

Where can I find Virtual Reality goggles or something similar? [more inside]
posted by Savvas on Jan 29, 2008 - 5 answers

How do I make fake windows? [more inside]
posted by Lord_Pall on Jan 16, 2008 - 7 answers

Do you use a virtual office? [more inside]
posted by Kimpossible on Nov 18, 2007 - 4 answers

Is my virtual girlfriend a real woman? [more inside]
posted by germanguy on Oct 22, 2007 - 46 answers

It's hell being the rage, so I am trying to centralize and virtual-office-ify my scattered work life. E-mail and voicemail is easy enough to virtualize, but is there a good birectional online fax system? [much more inside] [more inside]
posted by rokusan on Oct 16, 2007 - 8 answers

Should I be worried about this transaction? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by ngn01 on Apr 30, 2007 - 19 answers

Online interactive whiteboards. Are there any alternatives to GE's imagination3.com (can't move things around, you have to erase the whole thing and start over), groupboard (I'm looking for a free one, not a demo that expires) or sharing a desktop and using powerpoint? What about FF extensions? Open source?
posted by yoga on Feb 8, 2007 - 6 answers

Are their any good virtual diaries / organizers for XP? [more inside]
posted by jacobean on Nov 25, 2006 - 7 answers

Does anyone know of a restaurant (in Israel, I believe), where people act as if they are eating, the waiters as if they are serving, the ambience is set up as if it were a real restaurant, and there is a real tab -- but there is neither real food nor beverage to be found anywhere?
posted by shivohum on Sep 5, 2006 - 6 answers

Recommendation for free windows virtual printer driver that outputs JPEGs? Like PDF Creator but creates jpegs instead. [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on Mar 27, 2006 - 13 answers

Can I use a 3D FPS game engine (i.e. Half-Life 2 or the like) to render and control virtual scenes in real-time? Game modders, is what I want to do possible? [more inside]
posted by chos on Jan 16, 2006 - 8 answers

Weird question of the day: is there a preferably free utility (for Mac or PC) or website that allows you to interact with a realistic virtual skeleton and allow you to position it in various poses?
posted by robbie01 on Sep 21, 2005 - 5 answers

Hi, My kids have a number of old cheap games from discount houses and Walmart. A bunch of them are circa 1998 or so. The problem is that they scratch the heck out the cds. [more inside]
posted by mecran01 on May 31, 2005 - 5 answers

Help me track down any information I can about the remote possibility of getting a program designed for Win 98 and ME to work in XP... [more inside]
posted by emptybowl on May 25, 2005 - 5 answers

I need to make an audio application work on a windows xp computer that doesn't have audio hardware. [more inside]
posted by b1tr0t on Mar 20, 2005 - 7 answers