Monthly Archives: July 2006

Tickets get a hi-tech makeover

There doesn’t seem to be any limit to what you can do with technology apart, that is, from your imagination.A South African company called mobicode is now offering concert promoters and other organisations the opportunity of selling tickets and vouchers … Continue reading

Posted in FishNet, General | Leave a comment

Keeping control of pictures

Recently I came across a very good little program that will be just the job for many people who have got involved with digital photography.Picasa is supplied free by Google and is amazingly capable at organising and editing pictures. It … Continue reading

Posted in FishNet, Imaging | 1 Comment

Venting yourself on the world

I must have been among the first Durban people outside the university to hear of the Internet and to see the worldwide web and I was completely unimpressed. This was in the early 1990s, when I had just started writing … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging, FishNet | Tagged , | Leave a comment

One program displays all?

There are more and more different kinds of computer files every day meaning that you have to have more and more programs on your computer to view them especially if you often receive files from other people.I still haven’t found … Continue reading

Posted in FishNet, Software | Leave a comment

The trouble with E-mail

There was a time when I thought e-mail was the greatest technology that I had ever encountered.I was fed up with the phone because it was getting harder and harder to get to talk to people. They were always away … Continue reading

Posted in FishNet, Software | 2 Comments

Welcome

Welcome to my FishNet Blog. Here you’ll find my columns (of the same name) as they appear in the Sunday Tribune newspaper in Durban, South Africa. You’re welcome to leave your comments but please note that these will not appear … Continue reading

Posted in FishNet, General | 1 Comment