I’ve been having LOVEFiLM buffering problems for some time now. This only started when we changed broadband provider, so I’m tempted to say that it’s Virgin’s traffic shaping that is causing the issues. Anyway, I’m not writing to moan about that, I don’t know exactly what has caused the problem so I’m not pointing my […]
LOVEFiLM Buffering Problems? Here’s a workaround! Read More »
I recently had a need to unhide multiple sheets in Excel (maybe you call them tabs). Whoever sent me the original file had decided to spread their data out over so many extra sheets that it would have taken almost literally minutes to unhide them all. Naturally, I wasted even more time looking for a way
WordPress can’t edit category slug? WordPress wouldn’t allow me to edit the category slug “online-tools-2” down to “online-tools” no matter what I did. Just a quick shout out here to KAVDesign.net who have posted the answer to the problem I was having… thanks guys. The answer in my case was to delete the tag that already
What is Wordle? Wordle is a popular online tool that allows you to input a web page, block of text or list of keywords, and have it spit out a graphic known as a word cloud. Wordle does this job pretty well, but something that gets asked at work quite a lot is if there
There are a number of situations that you might want to paste as plain text, i.e. with all formatting removed. Lots of copy and pasting from the web results in formatted text. This is fine if you are only pasting into a search box, URL bar or Notepad, but if you are putting this into
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Okay, so this is nothing new but I still seem to sit through YouTube videos waiting for the one funny bit I’ve been told about. Imagine all the time that would be saved in the world if people would just right click on the YouTube video and select “Copy Video URL at current time”. Then
Why I can’t keep a resolution I make on New Year’s Eve Yes yes, I know it’s a bit early to be posting my New Year’s resolutions for 2013, but every December 31st I decide that I should probably choose to give up something, start doing something, start giving up something or whatever, and I
New Year’s Resolutions 2013: The Year of Aiming Low and Planning Ahead Read More »
I noticed a few people around the web asking how to convert PDFs into RTF (rich text) files, a more useful, accessible format if you are doing a lot of copying and pasting etc. So I’ve made a really simple Automator app that will create a RTF on your desktop of any PDF you drop
Automator for converting PDF to RTF on Mac OSX (download) Read More »
Introduction At this stage, I don’t know if I’m going to pass or fail my MPhil. I’ve written around 120,000 words in total over the past half a decade, and submitted 60,000 of those prior to my viva. Of those, 30,000 were utter rubbish and needed rewriting. I’m going through that rewriting process now —
How to write a thesis (including how not to write a thesis) Read More »