iTunes as a program is okay, it’s got a nice GUI, importing music is easy…but what personal music software doesn’t? Those are the two building blocks of the program; without them, the program is useless. One thing that makes iTunes nifty is Smart Playlists. The ability to create a playlist of songs that meet particular…
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iTunes Help – A Quick Way to Speed Up Your iTunes When you start to build a nice collection of music in iTunes, you may notice that when you move songs, rearrange song information or create playlists, it can start running slowly. One of the main reasons for this could be because you have a…
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iTunes help – Playlists: The Best of the Best If you have quite a bit of music, and you have rated all your songs (yes, this seems daunting, but there is a quicker way!) you will find yourself with a group of songs that have four and five stars. Now, currently in that list, I…
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iTunes help – finding ! (missing files) The reason why I’m not doing anything on my projects right now is that I discovered that my Mac has decided (of course without bothering (a.k.a consulting) me) that it should start to backup my music library onto my harddrive! Wow, thanks; how considerate. Unfortunately I NEVER want…
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Excel Worksheet Tips: Hyperlinks When you have multiple sources of data and you wish to reference them all in one worksheet, it can get a bit messy to put all the data on one worksheet. Maybe you want to link to a web page? No problem! Creating hyperlinks in excel 1. Create some text which…
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Excel String Tips – Part 3: TRIM and CLEAN functions When using data from the internet, either copied from a website or contained within a downloaded file, string data can be “dirty”. This could be unprintable characters or white space at either the front or end of the string. To remove excess space at the…
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Writing Tips: Spot the Difference (7): who vs whom I don’t see whom being used very often, maybe it has been lost as a word from a forgotten time. It’s quite a tricky rule, as it’s difficult to diffentiate when to use whom opposed to who. The difference between the two comes down to the…
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Excel Worksheet Tips: convert numbers to text and text to numbers I use excel on a daily basis and as I come across things that I have needed to look up, I will post them here. The first thing I have come across is converting numbers stored as text into actual numbers and vice versa.…
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