IT tips #11: Use dummy text to help you write
Dummy text for dummies This much I know – it’s much harder to write an article of 250 words than one of 2,500. The word count of articles I’ve written…
IT tips #10: Customise keyboard shortcuts to enter weird characters in Word
If there’s an off-beat symbol that you have to put in to documents regularly (in my case, it’s the P in a circle that means ‘phonographic copyright’) you can cut…
IT tips #9: Download Youtube videos as MP4/FLV files
There are many, many ways of doing this, but Download YouTube Videos as MP4 is one of the simplest and most reliable plugins I’ve ever used. I use it for…
IT tips #8: How to embed a Youtube clip in a post
I’m going to explain this in relation to WordPress, but the principle is broadly the same in several other contexts. It’s very straightforward, but it’s the part in point 7…
IT Tips #7: use PureText to strip off unwanted formatting
Yet another copy-and-paste trick this: if you copy and paste text from a website, the likelihood is that it’s got all kinds of fancy text decoration, tables round it, different…
IT tips #6: Print just a portion of a PDF file
For the first time ever in the eight and half-year history of my blog, I have a guest blogger! Thank you to David Leonard of Dance Books for contributing today’s…