Monthly Archives: July 2010

Worldwide Photowalk

It was Scott Kelby’s third annual Worldwide Photo Walk on 24 July 2010 and I wasted no time in getting my name down for the Durban, South Africa, leg of the walk led by fellow camera club member Andrew Roos. … Continue reading

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A thief of time

One of the dangers in my line of work is being out on the Internet for work-related reasons and being ambushed by something interesting, just when I need to be concentrating on the important stuff. Using Ninite couldn’t be easier…

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Small things !

Programs come and go and I generally resist change for change’s sake. Of course, I often do make the change to new software and it’s usually because of some huge and miraculous new feature which has been introduced. Sometimes though, … Continue reading

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Caps Lock trials and tribulations

Once upon a time I was driven mad when I kept hitting the Caps Lock key on my keyboard and having to go back and correct my typing. i WOULD REGULARLY MAKE MISTAKES LIKE THIS and things got so frustrating … Continue reading

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Office 2010 arrives

A couple of weeks ago, a copy of Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 arrived for review.

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FREE: My Word 2010 QAT

Setting up the Quick Access Toolbar in Word 2010 does take a little bit of fiddling but, as I discovered, one can export the setup once you have it arranged to your satisfaction. You can then import that file into … Continue reading

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Word 2010: Blogging

I have the growing feeling that software can get too big and diffuse and difficult to update. Its much more unlikely, with small focused programs, that errors and omissions will be made when new versions come out.

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The end of print ??

The other day I bought a book, which would not have been unusual enough to mention, but it’s a book that was produced without any ink being used or trees being harmed.

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Shooting panoramas

I seem to be doing a fair bit on panoramas lately. One of the first articles I wrote concerned how to shoot them and I wrote that you had to shoot a series of overlapping pictures. The picture below shows … Continue reading

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Outlook 2010 – Part II

After my e-mail account settings import troubles last time, I manually entered the settings for my two e-mail accounts, including Gmail. I eventually got that done but Outlook took no heed of the messages I had already imported, and created … Continue reading

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