Monthly Archives: January 2007

Opening a new vista on the world

You may have heard by now that Microsoft launched its new Vista operating system last Tuesday. Vista is the intended successor of Windows XP and has been in development for the last five years. I realised that I would encounter … Continue reading

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Getting into the live writing thing

This is a really interesting time in the online world as the big players compete with each to improve their online offerings to attract more and more users. The result of the competition is that there is a lot of … Continue reading

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Bookmarks and backflips

This week I’m grateful to Karen for suggesting a clever online service for saving your web favourites, or bookmarks, and allowing you to access them from anywhere on the Internet. The site to visit is http://www.backflip.com/, where you can very … Continue reading

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Making spaces

There are now quite a few free options for anyone wanting to publish stuff on the web and I looked at a couple of them last year. I have been using www.blogger.com to make back issues of my FishNet columns … Continue reading

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Becoming Spielberg

Regular readers will remember late last year that I had difficulties with a video camera which did not seem to offer a way to get video shot with it onto a computer for editing. A number of readers wrote in … Continue reading

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