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 #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…
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…