Joe, I'm not saying this would or would not be useful, I just found it with a search... http://www.bbcode-to-html.com/ Personally though, just because I like to do things the difficult way I'd probably throw copies of all the text files containing the bbcode into a folder and attempt to develop a script to convert them all in one go. I'm not saying I could do it, but I'd likely try. For instance, this rough beginning using "sed" works on the bbcode you posted above. It's missing a bunch of tags, even the regular [URL] one, but maybe it wouldn't be that difficult to extend. Or maybe it would, I don't really know. sed -e 's/\[b\]/\<strong\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/b\]/\<\/strong\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[u\]/\<u\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/u\]/\<\/u\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[url=\([^]]*\)\]/\<a href="\1"\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/url\]/\<\/a\>/gi' \ -e 's/\[img\]/\<img src\=\"/gi' \ -e 's/\[\/img\]/"\>/gi' Running the bbcode you posted above through that script yields this HTML: Download Autoruns for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx No installation required. Simply unzip <strong>Autoruns.zip</strong> file, and double click on <strong>autoruns.exe</strong> file to run the program. Go <strong>File>Save,</strong> and save it as <strong>AutoRuns.<u>txt</u></strong> file to desktop You must select <strong>Text</strong> from drop-down menu as a file type: <a href="http://s175.photobucket.com/user/ZEP516/media/p4436801_zps3defde9d.gif.html"><img src="http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w159/ZEP516/p4436801_zps3defde9d.gif"></a> Upload the file(s) here: http://www.sendspace.com/ Click on <strong>Browse</strong> button and navigate to the file you want to upload. Click on <strong>Upload button.</strong> Click on FIRST <strong>Copy Link</strong> button and paste the link in your next reply. Which when posted here gives: Download Autoruns for Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx No installation required. Simply unzip Autoruns.zip file, and double click on autoruns.exe file to run the program. Go File>Save, and save it as AutoRuns.txt file to desktop You must select Text from drop-down menu as a file type: Upload the file(s) here: http://www.sendspace.com/ Click on Browse button and navigate to the file you want to upload. Click on Upload button. Click on FIRST Copy Link button and paste the link in your next reply. The good thing about it is that once written, it would just as easily handle five hundred files as one. The bad thing is, I don't know "regular expressions", although I wouldn't mind learning. Actually, I did learn a wee bit just now. Thanks. :) Edit: line-spacing This post was edited by chuggerguy on Fri, Jan 24, 14 at 16:46

I fired up 2003 Server in Virtualbox to do the screenshot above, so it should look like XP. Sometimes I do post screens using Linux Firefox. Not this time though. There's not much difference. Linux Firefox "Options" are called "Preferences" and are found under "Edit". So in Linux it is Edit->Preferences->General. In Linux in looks like this: The title looks to be the only real difference?

I don't know how it is on a Mac, but on a PC I have found it for the three browsers I use: Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. I also installed it for Firefox on an Android tablet, and it works there too. I think there are less options on the tablet though. Very few use Opera, so I will elaborate on the others. In my Firefox and Chrome on the PC all the way in the upper right below the close window button there is a button that looks like three horizontal lines. Click that to see more menus. In Firefox you want to select "Add-ons" then search for add-ons. In Chrome select "More Tools", then "Extensions", then go to get more extensions. Search for "Stylish" made by userstyles.org, the logo is a white S with color blocks behind it. Install it. Then on your browser toolbar there will be a button with an S on it. When you are on a website that you want to see if there are any styles for, just click it to find styles for that site. You can pick a style and install it which just means copying some stylesheet text to your computer that is applied just when you visit that site. You can use the button in the toolbar to toggle the style on and off, and even use multiple styles on the same site. I made one to change color and font, and another to experiment with layout, but have both enabled at the same time. You can update or remove the styles and the add-on at any time. Anyone can create and submit a style to the site, and you can always change the style after it is on your computer too if you know a little css code. I just found a good color selector that gives you the color codes to use either for handcoding or entering into the form at userstyles before downloading the styles with options. I made my default style with grey because it was easier on my eyes, but it is very blah. The other ones are dressier. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp Probably more than you want to know, but I thought it would be helpful for anyone not familiar with installing add-ons. Stylish has been helpful to me. At first I tried just darkening my screen to avoid the eye strain, but that just made all the pictures too dark to see.

I'm happy - I don't Skype either, so also not 'data limit' smart. I was told Skype was free. but that's their access, sounds like the data minutes $s is due to the data svc provider. It's all confusing to me. my nephew is over visiting my sister - and she'll be leaving next week for 5 days in HI, so he's going to come over and do some things for me (she says). I have lots to be done here since Jed's been so busy this past yr with family problems and work. hoping he'll be able to set up a router for me, put my new tv on the wall, hook up the dvd his mother gave me, kill a bunch of weeds and lots of other things that need done. hopefully, I'll learn a lot from him about data minutes, skyping etc. my town was 3200 in 2000 - no library. we got one maybe 8-10 yrs ago with pop of around 20,000. pop now is about 34,000. maybe it depends on the anticipated growth for the town. ours knew in 2000 that it was booming. writersblock - I don't mind the 'ears' if it saves me $s. would rather have the more current technology tho. I didn't think I had much to use the wifi for but as I started counting things up, I'm up to about 5 things to use it. add another if I decide to get roku later this year. another if I break down and buy an echo (tho I have serious doubts on that now since THEY can evidently hear into my house with it). add in a wifi speaker or 2... and I'll be over run with this stuff! i'll pull up the new Staples ad and see what they have and how much.