Mac Tips – Trash Troubles Recently I had trouble moving some files to my trash and couldn’t work out what was going on. I did some searching online and came across this article in Apple Support: In Mac OS X, each user account has a separate, invisible Trash folder that is in the home folder.…
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Mac Tips – Showing Hidden Folders Showing the hidden folders on a Windows machine is easy, go into folder options and enable it. On a Mac, you can’t click a magic button and it happens. Here’s how: 1. Open the terminal shell (Utilities > Terminal) 2. Enter the following command at the prompt:defaults write com.apple.Finder…
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Excel Worksheet Tips: PDF Table to Excel – UPDATE On occasion I need to pull in a table of data from a PDF file into an excel spreadsheet to manipulate the data or to add to it. However, highlighting the table in the PDF, copying and then trying to import into excel doesn’t work. It…
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iTunes Basics: Introduction I recently started a post series, iTunes Basics. I aim to cover the basics of iTunes to help those that are new to iTunes and have found themselves overwhelmed or just confused as to what they can do with the program. The first thing to know about iTunes is that even though…
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iTunes Basics: Creating playlists and smart playlists I have been asked “how do you create smart playlists?” so I thought I would begin a new series of iTunes posts; iTunes Basics. I should probably start with an introduction to iTunes, but that will be next. Creating normal playlists A normal playlist allows you to add…
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Excel VBA Tips: Stop Users from Adding Sheets Do you have a spreadsheet that you want to stop users from adding sheets to? Of course, you could lock the workbook using the “protect workbook” feature and ensuring that the protect structure is selected. However, say that you need to protect the workbook via vba. Place…
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iTunes/iPod Tips – Charging your iPod/iPhone from a PC/Mac and playing at the same time If you use an iPod or iPhone as your personal music device, you will undoubtedly been in the position where you have wanted to listen to your device, but it was almost flat! Luckily, you are near a PC, but…
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iTunes help – Playlists: Scientific Random If you use the shuffle function on your iPod, you will notice that eventually, you will begin skipping songs to hear songs that you want to hear; not very random is it? This eventually ends up in switching to a known playlist and not embracing your music collection. What…
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Writing Tips: Online Verb Dictionary Yesterday I mentioned in my post about how I hate tenses. I was looking for an online verb dictionary that gives the past, present and future tenses of verbs. After a short search, I came across this site: http://conjugation.com/. Type in the verb and it will tell you the past,…
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Transferring Mixed In Key Data to iTunes Quickly For those that want to have a more up to date music library of for DJs that want to get into beat juggling and harmonic mixing, Mixed In Key (MiK) is some very useful software. If you are like me and use iTunes to manage your music…
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