Techie+Tips

=Techie Tip # 1 - Copy Paste Character -=

Ever need a special character like ✄ or ✎, but you can’t remember the key combination to create it? Well, this week’s tip will provide a quick and easy solution to that problem... CopyPasteCharacter http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ Instructions: > > > > > Options: >
 * 1) 1. Go to: http://www.copypastecharacter.com/
 * 1) 2. Click the desired character. (This will automatically copy it to your computer’s clipboard.)Note - Do not right-click or control-click. Just a regular mouse-click will copy it!
 * 1) <span class="Bullet" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">3. Go to wherever you want to paste the character. <span class="style_1" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This could be a Word document, a Google doc, an email message, a blog post, etc. You can paste the character anywhere!
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding-left: 17px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -17px; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -17px; vertical-align: auto;"><span class="Bullet" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">4. Paste!
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding-left: 17px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -17px; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -17px; vertical-align: auto;"><span class="Bullet" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">5. That’s it!
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding-left: 12px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -12px; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -12px; vertical-align: auto;"><span class="Bullet" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">• Hold the Alt or Option key while clicking to copy multiple characters.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; padding-left: 12px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -12px; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -12px; vertical-align: auto;"><span class="Bullet" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">• Click the “As HTML” link at the upper right to copy the html code for the character.

=Techie Tip # 2 ~ Google Advanced Search=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I may be in charge of pointing out the obvious here, but I just recently learnt this one! When you do a Googlesearch, click on "advanced search"? From there, scroll down to reading level and then choose basic. This eliminates many advanced reading level sites that may be for University students. You will notice that the sites that pop up now have about 60 % pictures and a much easier text. This is a great tip to share with students too.