I haven’t used my wordpress.com account for a while. But I was shocked. Shocked and horrified. By the total lack of user friendliness in this new UI!! For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Classic Editor, here’s a quick look: I spent a while trawling the internet for clues as to how to… Read More How to Use the WordPress.com Classic WITHOUT the Plugin
I mentioned previously that you can write notes and play Sudoku on a Kobo Touch. And a request came up about how exactly you find the Sudoku and other extras. So, here we go. 1.) Press the Home tab and from there choose Settings. 2.) At the bottom of the Settings Menu choose Extras. 3.) … Read More How to Use the Extras on the Kobo Touch
Sometimes you want to move a file or folder from another computer to your Mac. And every time you want to change the information, move it or change it in any way it wants you to give Admin permission. Every single time! How annoying! This is because the permissions for whatever reason are set to… Read More Changing File/Folder Permissions and Privileges in OS X
This is obviously not a problem for everyone, but for those who type in different languages it might be useful. All the settings for language input are in System Preferences, to edit them go to: Apple mark (in the top menubar) > System Preferences > Language & Text a.) Language tab Pretty straightforward, just arrange… Read More Configuring the Language & Text Settings on a Mac
For reference, I am using Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, on a Macbook Pro. I don’t use external speakers, just the normal built in ones. Recently, I had some problems with the volume in OS X. The symptoms were as follows: – the volume keys on the keyboard (F10, F11, F12) stopped working – if I pressed… Read More A Solution for Volume Problems in OS X
There are many helpful posts about this on the WordPress Support. But trawling through scores of posts to find a specifically relevant AND detailed one can be a bit of a nightmare. So I thought I’d write a post on it myself. ***************** Using HTML in wordpress.com Most themes in wordpress.com have an inbuilt font. … Read More How to change font style, size and colour in WordPress.com
So I’m finally getting used to using OS X after about a year. I spent a lot of that time shouting at my Macbook Pro for not being able to do things I consider to be mandatory. So to save others the hours of hassle and frustrated shrieking, I’m writing a series of (hopefully) useful… Read More A Few Tips for Setting up a Mac/OS X
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