IT tips #16: How to use iTunes to convert files to MP3 and back
If all you want to do with your music is play it on your computer or phone, the iTunes default setting which imports music files as AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)…
IT tips #15: Four ways to help you remember where you put things
In a comment on a previous tip, Ninette wanted to know how to make sure to be able to find tips again in the future because she’s ‘rubbish at remembering…
IT tips #14: Use Delicious to store and access web links anywhere
You might think that having a website is all about self-promotion, but the reason I got a website in the first place was to solve a particular problem: I wanted…
IT tips #13: Make a form in Word that you can *really* fill in
One of the annoyances of 21st century life is when you get sent what is called a ‘form’ to be filled in ‘electronically’ which is in fact just a Word…
Rain-mates! At last!
For all the many hundreds of people who’ve come across my site because of my posts about rain-mates this is for you: Bubble Betty™, “a vintage product brought back to…
IT tips #12: Select text in Word as a graphic block
Let’s say you’ve copied and pasted an enormous block of text from a document in such a way that you end up with bullet points or numbered lists or a…