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July 11

How to transfer Favorites/Bookmarked Sites to an Email message?

I have a lot of sites in my favorites bar on Explorer and bookmarked in Firefox. Is there an easy way of copying them to an email and sending them to someone? 92.1.124.26 (talk) 00:11, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In firefox, click on Organize Bookmarks, then Import and Export, and export as HTML. Then, copy/paste that HTML or attach the HTML file to an email. -- kainaw ™ 00:28, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In Firefox, you can import the Internet Explorer Bookmarks then send use the above method of creating a HTML file by Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks->File->Import->from: Microsoft Internet Explorer->Next->Finish.--droptone (talk) 12:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You can export them directly from Internet Explorer 7 by going to File --> Import and Export... --> Export Favorites.--Hello. I'm new here, but I'm sure I can help out. (talk) 18:57, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source videos

I recorded a video via the in game console in Team Fortress 2. Is there a way to view it out of the game? Also, if it's in some weird video file, how can i convert it to something more common (.avi .wmv)? --Randoman412 (talk) 02:50, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on whether it is truly recording it as "video" or if it is storing it as in-game information (it's the difference between it saying, "pixel 1 goes here, pixel 2 goes there" and it saying, "render player 1 shooting his gun from this angle, render player 2 shooting it from another." My bet is that it doing the latter, in which case you won't be able to view it outside the game unless you actually record it as "real" video (e.g. through something that captures the current image on the screen). But knowing the file name/format would help out a lot in answering a question like that.

In general, converting (specifically, transcoding) between video formats ("real" video formats) can be done with ffmpeg, though keep in mind you're going to lose some-to-a-lot of quality when you do so. --98.217.8.46 (talk) 03:57, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might try something like fraps APL (talk) 03:59, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I looked into it a little more (aren't I nice?), and this page seems to describe how to convert the in-game files into "true" video files that you could view with normal video programs. It seems like the best you can do is export all the sound as a WAV and then export individual frame from the movie as TarGA files, and then you can use VirtualDub to combine them together into an AVI file.--98.217.8.46 (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an easy way to get this video together without taking 10+ gigs hard drive space? Or something other then fraps? --Randoman412 (talk) 01:38, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You can easily convert an uncompressed AVI to use any number of video compression codecs Nil Einne (talk) 13:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Like...? --69.127.64.22 (talk) 23:11, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Turn off

Everytime I get an e-mail from someone not on my mailing list, I get a "Spam Mail Summary" message about a day after I get the message. How can I turn off these "Spam Mail Summary" messages? I've tried replying to the sender of that junk, saying "Stop giving me this 'you may have got spam mail' junk; I don't need it", but not only do I not get a reply back, but I *still* get "Spam Mail Summary" messages. Please help. 208.76.245.162 (talk) 06:15, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to be a feature of Lightspeed Systems' email programs. Who provides your email service? — Matt Eason ^{(Talk  Contribs)} 09:59, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Summaries aside, you will get further faster with better filters. Many spammers will simply ignore "please stop" messages, especially since many spammers are botnets.89.241.136.11 (talk) 11:05, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The OP is sending those to the address the summaries are coming from (presumably an unmonitored address), not to spammers. — Matt Eason ^{(Talk  Contribs)} 12:33, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, they send you an unwanted e-mail to warn you that you may have been sent an unwanted e-mail ? I wonder who the brilliant person is who came up with that idea. I think AOL did that briefly, but soon figured it out. StuRat (talk) 21:35, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How about marking the spam mail summary email as spam in Mozilla Thunderbird (or your other email client)? 67.173.249.88 (talk) 22:58, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Which email client or webmail service are you using? The good ones allow you to set up simple filter rules which will automatically block emails based on certain criteria. For instance, you could have it auto-delete an emails with "Spam Mail Summary" in the title. Nice and easy. 24.76.161.28 (talk) 06:19, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

microsoft outlook won't open if i'm offline..

I don't know why, can I open the attachments in my pst file at least? Thanx in advance --Ulisse0 (talk) 20:06, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As long as your data files are uncorrupted, you have nothing to worry about. MS Outlook is a fine (though very huge) program that was designed to work in online as well as offline modes. It seems strange why it would not open when you are not on the Internet. Could you give us more information on the attachments, have ample disk space, you might want to import your pst files into Mozilla Thunderbird. Kushal (talk) 01:28, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]