I think this is more of a blog but we don't have that option so it is here in a post.  Occassionally I like to use Maple to grab data from the internet. 

The problem is that everyone seems to be changing the formats of their webpages.  Out with the old simple txt fomatted data webpages and in with the new html formatted webpages. The trouble with that is, if you already have a worksheet setup to manipulate the data using sockets or HTTP[Get] you...

Most of the time I don't know what or why things are happening here on the mapleprimes site. 

I don't want it as a post or question as it gets shuffled down and is useless later on anyway. 

I would like a news section to inform me and everyone else of what is currently being worked on (ie the site programmers are currently working on ....  currently tags for posts are being updated), what is currently happening (spam attack - although this seems to be on the upswing lately...

Although the source is very old (Maple 6) the topic is interesting.  Should one come across the webpage Analysis and Synthesis of digital sound samples with Maple 6 located here http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=3940&view=html they may have a dissapointing maple browsing experience when 3 of the links they try to access are broken and not available.  

Time and time again you get caught up working with Maple and before you know it your 20 minutes of alloted time has turned into almost 1 hour.

Here's a little procedure alarm message to remind you it's time to start shutting down.  Start this procedure in a seperate worksheet and enter the number of minutes before you want your Maple alarm message popping up.  Open a new worksheet and start your work.  When the time is up, your message will pop up unless...

All too often one wants a list of dates from one date to another for use in a graph or table. 

All searches on the subject have evaded me.  I do not have Maple15 but I think the tools for such luxuries are there in the new Finance package. 

Without Maple 15, how can I do this in a simple manner?

** edit ** I have converted this to a post, plus added more info below

Well I have created a procedure with one way to achieve...