TIM and Tim’s Top Tips by Tim Lambie & Tim Jones
However, in Tavistock and Plymouth it is really fast. This makes a real difference to how useful it is of course. A good place to start before you think it might be right for you would be the mobile providers website coverage map. Ever wanted to know the Beats Per Minute of a selection of songs to create a playlist for exercising with in iTunes or Windows Media Player? Well I did recently and found “mixmeister BPM analyzer”. It is free to download and use and when you set it off to look at your music directory, it will analyse each song and update your library with the BPM of each track. It does take a long time to do it though and it only works for mp3, so be warned. It means that you can charge off across the countryside with your legs flying at the same beat as the music you are listening to! On a similar subject, if you have quite a few PCs in the house and you share itunes libraries amongst each other, then you may already know you are allowed to authorise 5 computers on the one itunes account. Remember therefore that when you decommission a PC it will be a whole lot easier if you remember to de-authorise the PC
Mobile Broadband is great, in theory, but make sure that you know where you are likely to use it. This is because it is not true broadband speed everywhere. For example, in Yelverton and the outlying villages, it crawls along at not much better than dial-up speed.
before it gets wiped or thrown away. Otherwise, the only way to free up an authorisation is to log in to itunes, but you can only de-authorise all of the PCs instead of just one and have to do the whole thing from scratch. It is always worth mentioning that upgrading a PC’s RAM is still the cheapest way of making it “live” a little longer. We use
crucial.com/uk where it is easy to find out what your machine will take and how much. The trick though is knowing what you actually have in the box already. There is a guide on the site, but basically, you have to look inside. Only then can you really know what to order. Installing is easy too, but if you have any doubts, we can do it all for you.
Microsoft is no longer pre-loading Works on new PCs in the same way it did. If you buy a new PC it will come with Office 2010 pre-loaded which if you buy a code at the same time, you can activate and away you go. If however you have no desire to buy Office and really only need basic features you can now start Office 2010 in Starter mode. This will give you cut down versions Word & Excel for
nothing, but with their advertising popping up every now and then, in place of giving you Works. It is not a bad idea, as the starter product is now much more compatible than Works ever was.
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