Another reason why everyone should be using Firefox - you can improve your browsing experience so much with so many handy extensions. This one will pronounce words for you. This is particularly handy for academics who often run into words that are said outloud only infrequently (and this goes for both native and non-native speakers).

This screencast shows you how to change your email address, password, notification settings and more using the My Account page.

In this Google Tip, you will find out how to refine your searches by excluding words using the '-' (minus) sign.

This is not a screencast but it is an important lecture about searches and search engines! It offers many examples of users' difficulties with searching. It is aimed people designing search systems but can be equally useful to inquisitive search engine users who wish to expand their set of searching strategies. It was delivered in 2005 so it's a bit out of date on  a few things but most of the important points still hold.

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In this screencast you'll find out how to use the "quotation marks"to search for exact phrases.

In this screencast you can find out how to insert links, files, images and YouTube clips using the rich text editor.

This screencast shows you how to:

• Make text bold, italicised or struck-through
• Make bulletted or numbered lists
• Use indentation to quotet text
• Use indentation to make sub-lists
• Use keyboard shortcuts
• Use styles to format section headings
• Paste text form Word or other webpages using the Paste-from-Word button
• Get a quick preview of how to create links and insert images
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This screencast shows you how to:

• Start a blog post
• Quote text
• Tag your blog
• Start or contribute to a blog project
• Add your post to a group
• Make your post private, ie. visible only to members of a certain group
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First in a series of short screencasts on how to make the most of Google! The tip: Set Google preferences to display 50 results at once.

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PowerPoint has become ubiquitous in all presentations replacing slides in conference rooms all over the world. Academics may have different needs than business people but these seem like good tips.