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One of the problems for Apple newbies is that some of Windows? keys seem to be missing. An example of this is the Hash or # key - also know as the Pound key in the US.
The hash sign on a UK Apple Mac keyboard can be typed by pressing the ?alt? and the ?3? key together.
27 April 2014
Royal Mail has announced the last posting dates for Christmas 2011.
First Class - 20 December
Second Class - 17 December
Standard Parcel - 14 December
Airmail Western Europe - 12 December
Airmail Eastern Europe, USA and Canada - 9 December
Airmail Rest of World - 5 December
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27 April 2014
Universities will pay cash incentives of up to 3000 to bright sixth formers to compete for high-quality students.
The non-means tested academic rewards are in response to new Government rules which allow universities to take unlimited numbers of sixth formers gaining at least two As and a B at A-level - known as AAB+ students.
With the new freedom to recruit more high-achieving students, less prestigious institutions fear that good quality applicants will increasingly be poached by higher ranking universities.
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27 April 2014
?You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.? G.K. Chesterton
27 April 2014
Based on recent experience, I have listed a number of books that may be useful for those who are educating or contemplating education their children at home:
Home Education booklist
27 April 2014
Formal schooling should be delayed by at least 12 months because an over-emphasis on the three-Rs at an early age can cause significant long-term damage to bright children.
Dr Richard House, a senior lecturer at Research Centre for Therapeutic Education at Roehampton University, said that gifted pupils from relatively affluent backgrounds suffered the most from being pushed too far, too fast.
He quoted a major US study ? carried out over eight decades ? that showed children?s ?run-away intellect? actually benefited from being slowed down in the early years, allowing them to develop naturally.
Many bright children can grow up in an ?intellectually unbalanced way?, suffering lifelong negative health effects and even premature death, after being pushed into formal schooling too quickly, he said.
Most British schoolchildren already start classes earlier than their peers in many other European nations. Children are normally expected to be in lessons by five, although most are enrolled in reception classes aged four.
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27 April 2014
An online alcohol units calculator is now available in addition to the desktop version.
27 April 2014
The answer is that Apple thinks that it is an improvement to have one window for searching and entering URLs.
I find this is really annoying because if I click on a search result, the search phrase disappears and is replaced by a URL. If the page isn't what I?m looking for, I no longer have the search phrase to edit.
Google Chrome has always been like this so Firefox is now my default browser and will remain so until this problem has been fixed. Worryingly, there are rumours that Firefox will also go this way so I won't be downloading any updates.
Another 'improvement' in this version of Safari is that the tabs are evenly spaced so they are really huge if you have only two tabs open.
I'll contact customer service (www.apple.com/feedback/) but I expect that like most customers services, their job is to explain why they are not going to meet their customers' requirements.
Edited to add: Oh, I forgot I shouldn't expect to receive a reply at all from Apple. Why did I ever buy a computer from a company that isn't advanced enough to provide customer support via email?
27 April 2014
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