Monthly Archives: June 2010

AutoCollage 2008

The other day I was visiting the Microsoft website and I discovered a couple of interesting little programs including AutoCollage 2008. It is a program which will produce various sizes of blended collages from the pictures in a folder on … Continue reading

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Panoramas yet again…

I’ve been fiddling with panoramas again and came up with this one of Durban’s new Moses Mabhida Stadium on the night Nigeria were playing South Korea in the 2010 Soccer World Cup. We were on the old Mutual Building in … Continue reading

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Your office on the web

Many software companies are betting that the Internet is going to be an even bigger part of our lives than it is now. There is a growing feeling that most software programs will one day live on an Internet server … Continue reading

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A cute trick

One of the frustrations I often encounter as an editor is that people will load pictures into a word processing document before sending  them to me for publication. It is a problem because there was no way of getting the pictures … Continue reading

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Photo fun

I have posted a review of the PhotoScape image manipulation program on my photo blog. A PhotoScape decorative edge.

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Fun with PhotoScape

Last week I downloaded the latest addition of FastStone, my favourite image viewer. I like it because it is just as fast as its name implies and one of the quickest ways I know of to view a folder of … Continue reading

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Archives

I have been doing the FishNet column for nearly four years non-stop, and the list of posts has gotten pretty long. While the search box at the right-hand top corner of the page is the quickest way of finding a … Continue reading

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E-mail etiquette

Many of my columns over the years are stored on this blog and the reason I started doing that was to be able to point readers to the archive, and cunningly save myself the work of answering some of the … Continue reading

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Making bad pictures

I went through a phase of playing lawn bowls but, although I haven’t played for a number of years, I have retained a piece of wisdom imparted by a grizzled veteran. He said that, no matter how good I got, … Continue reading

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Using belt and braces

Looking back over previous columns, I see it’s been nearly a year since I accidentally formatted my hard drive. I can’t believe it’s been that long because my wounds are still smarting from that unfortunate incident. One result of the … Continue reading

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