Category Archives: Software

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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Collage or montage??

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Allan Jackson

I bought FotoFusion Scrapbook Essentials a little while ago and have been creating a few layouts with it. This one was done as the icon picture for my Flickr set containing pictures from a gig I went to a little … 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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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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Small things !

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Allan Jackson

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

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Allan Jackson

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

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Allan Jackson

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

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