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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Warning: No PC connectivity
First of all, I would like to thank all the readers who responded to last week’s column about my RAM woes. To recap as briefly as possible, I own a two-year-old computer and had been unable to buy any extra … Continue reading
Posted in FishNet, Hardware
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A bout with unplanned obsolescence
Two years ago, having run out of names of Goon Show characters, I named my new desktop computer Canopus, after one of the Imperial Airways flying boats which used to visit Durban in the 1930s and 1940s. The machine is … Continue reading
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Cellphone blues
My ambition was to have the oldest working cellphone in the world and I was heading in the right direction, having bought my hardy little Nokia 3310 in Dublin in 2001. It had an alarm clock with snooze, its most-used … Continue reading
Posted in FishNet, Mobile
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Photoshop Elements 5.0
Adobe Photoshop is the undoubted heavyweight of the digital world and, if you’re a professional, it’ll probably be what you’ll use because it offers the ultimate in control over every pixel in your pictures. All that control comes with a … Continue reading
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Ho-hum browsing
In the last few weeks both Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation have released new versions of their Internet browsers. Internet Explorer 6 has been around for about five years, if my memory serves me correctly, and it had been looking … Continue reading
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