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I remember being introduced to HyperCard in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Does a modern day equivalent exist? [more inside]
posted by zooropa at 2:26 PM - 18 answers

Hello! I am wondering about the logisitics of getting a new sim card. [more inside]
posted by aetg at 6:41 AM - 7 answers

I’m building a business course for a client and looking for an LMS software recommendation. Following on from my most recent question, it would be very helpful if the course software would have students register / log on to take the course with their Twitter login. Suggestions gratefully received!
posted by The Last Sockpuppet at 5:57 PM - 4 answers

I'm in the long address list of an email string that's trying to set up a dinner for an alumni event. I feel I need to stay on the thread because the same address list will be used again in the future, and because it might even contain pertinent messages about the dinner. However, some of the alumni feel that this is the forum to verbally attack each other for their ideas, or their agnosticism, about what people in the Middle East should or shouldn't do, and what the university officers should or shouldn't do. [more inside]
posted by JimN2TAW at 2:13 PM - 12 answers

I have a 200-page doc that was created over 20 years ago and edited annually by different people with poor knowledge of MS Word. Should I try to fix it or start over? [more inside]
posted by Frenchy67 at 8:55 AM - 14 answers

I have sets of 10-20 individual TIFFs that I need to convert into single PDFs - so far, I'm stumped as to how to do this seemingly simple task. [more inside]
posted by ryanshepard at 8:33 AM - 8 answers

In Google Docs, I have a list of dozens of words that runs down the page on the left-hand margin. How can I easily "spread" these words out horizontally as well, effectively making several columns of words? [more inside]
posted by zardoz at 1:57 AM - 8 answers

This is a bit beyond my expertise with networking and certificate signing. I want to create a template that replicates a prod environment. Keeping this a bit abstract, I want to have a monorepo or polyrepo for dev, a way to test dev, push it into a private git repo, use build actions on pre-commit, then on post-commit run the equivalent of a "GitHub Action" to push the resulting OCI image to a private image repository, then eventually into a K8s cluster. It obviously doesn't have to be accessible outside my machine, but I'd like to add a host entry for each "workspace" using certs and a daemon for the various services to talk to each other. More details inside. [more inside]
posted by geoff. at 12:35 PM - 6 answers

I'm looking for simple reliable software that will backup several Macs to a Synology NAS in my home. Does such a thing exist? [more inside]
posted by Winnie the Proust at 12:31 PM - 10 answers

So I have a budget for a project that will include a fairly uncomplicated website. The trick is that the state government appropriation for the project only runs another year, and I would like the website to be available for much longer. My idea is to use the project funds I have now to pay for at least a decade of hosting, maybe more. Where can I do that?
posted by LarryC at 8:08 PM - 11 answers

meme features photo of two cats. one, very sleek, put together, labeled “dr pepper” — the other, similar colors, but a bit scraggly, bruisery, labeled “dr thunder.” google image search has been fruitless! help!
posted by Gymnopedist at 10:09 PM - 0 answers

I have been using various speech to text tools in my legal practice (and personal life). Some of these tools allow you to upload a custom dictionary of words to improve accuracy. I'd like to upload a list of terms that are specific to U.S. legal practice, but I don't want the hard work of constructing that list myself. [more inside]
posted by dredge at 3:45 PM - 2 answers

As an elder millennial, I was trained to double-space after periods at the end of sentences. How do I train myself out of it? [more inside]
posted by greta simone at 12:26 PM - 24 answers

I have four large (but not full) hard drives on my desk that are getting old--two 4TB and two 3TB (one of each pair is a backup for the other). One drive holds media files and the other my Lightroom library. Given technology developments, I could fit all of my data on a single 5TB portable drive (I'd get a second for backups). Is this a bad idea, and should I just stick with desktop drives if I don't actually need a portable drive? [more inside]
posted by Admiral Haddock at 7:03 AM - 24 answers

I opened an attachment in a scam email but only previewed it (I didn't download the file) and I didn't click any other links. Do I need to do anything like run a search for malware, etc.? I've heard that's only for if you download the file, give away information, or click a link. but wanted to make sure.
posted by ygmiaa at 1:58 PM - 5 answers

I got my current ThinkPad laptop around 2020 and have never had any issues with it. Yesterday it started just randomly shutting down with no warning. I ran Lenovo Vantage and double-checked to make sure everything (BIOS, drivers, Windows updates) are all up to date. I ran scans with Lenovo Vantage that found nothing off. Starting yesterday the laptop tray will show the battery immediately displaying 100% charged to 0% charged and will flicker back and forth between 0% and 100%. Just ran Lenovo Vantage battery diagnostics which are currently showing "the primary battery is not detected." [more inside]
posted by forkisbetter at 1:33 PM - 11 answers

I am leaving my job as a secretary to the Chair of an academic department. I have sent out calendar invites that go into the future and am hoping there's an easy way to transfer all of those onto my successor's calendar either in one fell swoop or one by one if needed without having to recreate them - with the end result that those invites come from her calendar and she receives the notice if somebody cancels/declines/etc. Is there a way to do this? My googlefu is failing me.
posted by joannemerriam at 10:21 AM - 8 answers

Why does the Android messages website keep crashing Chrome? [more inside]
posted by saladin at 5:30 AM - 3 answers

I am rebranding my business. I created emails and bought URLs to match. Then, I built a website on Google Sites. I thought it would be easy peasy to replace the indecipherable Google URLs for my own, and then the sites would be available for the world to see. But I am having heck of a time. [more inside]
posted by CollectiveMind at 2:21 AM - 8 answers

Just like this question on laptops, my MacBook died recently and I am wide open to new choices. I don’t need a laptop though and actually want a box I can put somewhere on a shelf to use as a home server for media and various messing around, no serious gaming or high end use. Ten years ago, I’d have got a Mac mini - what are my options now?
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 1:48 AM - 8 answers