Category Archives: Review

Quick viewer

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Allan Jackson

A new version of one of my favourite free imaging program has just been released. The program, FastStone Image Viewer, has been mentioned in these columns before and is available from the website FastStone.org. I use it every day even … Continue reading →

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Lights on in the room

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Allan Jackson

An interesting package arrived in the post the other day from Adobe’s PR company. It was a copy of the latest version of their Lightroom package, Version 3, which reminded me that I have never really discussed it in these … Continue reading →

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Photo layouts at high speed

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Allan Jackson

Over the past few weeks I seem to have had a mini-season of columns on the topic of what to do with digital images. Before going on to something else, however, I thought I would mention a specialised little program … Continue reading →

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Photoshop Elements 9 launch

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Allan Jackson

300 posts and counting It seems incredible to believe that this is really the 300th post on this blog. I have been posting my weekly computer columns here since 2006 and I recently added all the earlier columns I could … Continue reading →

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Photobooks again

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Allan Jackson

And so on to another in my occasional series on things to do with your digital photos. I have mentioned making photo books before and there have been a number of services available, but now I have found another South … Continue reading →

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A tale of two launches

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Allan Jackson

There have been two important launches in recent times in the mobile arena in South Africa and the difference between them couldn’t be greater. The first one I’ll mention is Telkom’s launch of its lamely-named 8.ta mobile service. Interested parties … Continue reading →

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Computer essentials

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Allan Jackson

In previous columns I’ve mentioned a suite of free Microsoft programs called Windows Live Essentials and new versions have just been launched for 2011. The programs in the suite include Writer, Photo Gallery, Messenger, Movie Maker, Family Safety, Mail and … Continue reading →

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Beauty of the web

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Allan Jackson

One of the biggest news items in the last few weeks is Microsoft’s launch of a beta-test version of its Internet Explorer 9 web browser and a website showing of its many talents.                             ** Will only work with Windows … Continue reading →

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Keeping files in a box

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Allan Jackson

Over the last few months, I have been experimenting with a web-based service called Dropbox, which you can use to store and share computer files.   Painless to use.

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A lightning Bolt?

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Allan Jackson

One of the hazards of fiddling with new technology, as I do, is that you become prone to sudden urges to spend large sums of money. There I was experimenting with a couple of mobile Internet browsers, when I came … Continue reading →

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