Archive for the ‘ Grrr…why doesn't this work?! ’ Category
As a happily married man, falling in love again is not generally thought to be a good thing. However last night I did. Not only that, but my wife was not happy. I had better explain… We are going away soon to the US so that I can be best man at my best mates [ READ MORE ]
Earlier this week, I came across a Guardian article about where schools were on strike – it included a Google map that had each Local Authority highlighted to show what percentage of schools are on strike. Now, I have made my own map in Google before, and carefully drawn around each territory to show where [ READ MORE ]
Ever wanted to add a flash object into PowerPoint and couldn’t work out how? It is possible, but hidden! Here is the how-to! Step 1 Go to ‘view’ Click ‘Toolbars’ Select ‘Control Toolbox’ Step 2 Click on the ‘More Controls’ icon Select ‘Shockwave Flash Object’ Step 3 Draw yourself the box that you want the [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a quick step-by-step guide on how to centre your Blogger header. For those of you who have a Blogger header, it is automatically justified left, without an option to centre or right align. For this, I am using my (very) old Blogger site, which as you’ll see had the grand total of zero posts! [ READ MORE ]
If you have ever used a hastag on Twitter, you know there are many different places that you can use to save these tweets, but not a lot of them are that reliable. I have used two or three, and have been let down by them on more than one occasion. Therefore I needed something [ READ MORE ]
As many of you will know, I am in the process of moving house, so am getting lots and lots (and lots) of receipts every day for different things. Rather than keeping everything on email, I needed to keep a track on what we’re spending, so decided to use Evernote to gather those receipts. But [ READ MORE ]
As many readers will know my wife, Jet, has a new job in September in a very small school in Oxfordshire. As a result, she needs a laptop she can rely on – and that definitely is not the Asus we have at the moment. The new laptop arrived on Tuesday, and I had it [ READ MORE ]
In WordPress, when you first set it up, your urls when you post look something like this: www.chrisrat.com/blog/?p=123. Not entirely the most descriptive! I have to thank my friends over at BrainPOP UK for the tip here to turn that into a descriptive URL. This is a short post, as it is super easy [ READ MORE ]
When I made my debut Teach Meet presentation at Teach Meet East (from about 1 hr 16m 30s), one of the services I talked about was Remember the Milk. I use RTM often, and although it isn’t new, and a lot of people have used it before, there seemed to be quite a few people who had [ READ MORE ]
Back in May, I started a series of posts that look at desktop apps, and namely productivity. So far, I have covered Evernote and Dropbox, and rather than being obvious and moving onto Remember the Milk, or Tweetdeck, I have plumped for Eye-Fi next. There are a three reasons I wanted to try Eye-Fi The [ READ MORE ]
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