Welcome to my archive of Fishnet columns which I’ve been doing continuously since 2006. I have also been able to find some earlier columns, which were originally published under a variety of other names, and I have added them to this page as well. I have written quite a few more pre-1995, but these were written on Independent Newspapers’ CSI mainframe and were lost when we converted to a desktop publishing system.
January 2011
- Au revoir FishNet
- Year of the tablet
- Go figure !!
- Quick viewer
- Mobiles & politeness
- Get off of my (Joli) cloud
- Born for the web
December 2010
- For next years’ list
- Gift shopping made easy – part II
- Festive shopping made easy – part I
- Collage or montage??
- Lights on in the room
November 2010
- Getting help online
- Right for monochrome
- Been there too…
- Blogging to print
- Photo layouts at high speed
- Temporarily offline
- Photoshop Elements 9 launch
- Photoshop Elements 9 links
October 2010
- Photobooks again
- A tale of two launches
- Intro to Rock 'n' Roll
- Computer essentials
- Supersonic surfing in KZN
September 2010
- Back door challenge
- Rock 'n' Roll links
- Beauty of the web
- Keeping files in a box
- A lightning Bolt?
- Mobile stuff
August 2010
- Applications on the go
- Restarting Windows 7
- Kindle – & the mystery place
- The impossible shot ??
- Damn that thieving YouTube
- The evil empire strikes back, belatedly.
July 2010
- Worldwide Photowalk
- A thief of time
- Small things !
- Caps Lock trials and tribulations
- Office 2010 arrives
- FREE: My Word 2010 QAT
- Word 2010: Blogging
- The end of print ??
- Shooting panoramas
- Outlook 2010 – Part II
- Outlook 2010 – Part I
- Fitting it all in
- Fitting it all in
- How true !!
June 2010
- AutoCollage 2008
- Panoramas yet again…
- Your office on the web
- A cute trick
- Photo fun
- Fun with PhotoScape
- Archives
- E-mail etiquette
- Making bad pictures
- Using belt and braces
May 2010
- Aspect ratios
- Making slideshows
- ProShow Gold 4.1
- Noise reduction in PS CS5
- D90 Rocks!!
- RTFM
- Internet radio and TV
- Doing the family history thing
- HDR (or an approximation)
- It actually is the equipment !!
- Talk can really be cheap
- Photo inspiration
- New photo packages
April 2010
- An overgrown throne
- Keeping abreast of technology
- Making the finals
- Photographer’s block
- A road warrior again
- Creating powerful presentations
- Why the hell not? II
- Ideas to steal
- Some humour
- Testing, testing, testing...
March 2010
- Why the hell not?
- Sacré bleu!
- Dead but not yet buried
- Sports action
- Free WordPress themes
- Making posting easy
- Icons of Photography
- Icons of Photography
- On the front page
- As You Do
- Clouds and silver linings
February 2010
- XP is a jealousy custard
- The Case of the Missing Servant
- PC woes
- Full House
- Talky talky
- Having a quiet word
- CD cover
- Durban @ night
- Letting the River Run
- Polishing the chrome
- This Week in Photography
- HDR master
- WordPress anyone??
- Sleek, shiny and desirable
- New blog feature
- Quite a coincidence
- Yay 2000 !
- Shooting for peanuts
- iPad Anger
January 2010
- Apple iPad. What do you think?
- Lucky dip goodies
- Out and about at the station
- Cool refreshing mint
- Rick made me do it
- Worldwide Photowalk
- Speech recognition
- Duck!
- Scrapbooking
- Exposure compensation
- Smart at last
- Beware of the YouTube
December 2009
- Wisdom
- Links found
- Gift guide: 2009
- The Best Camera
- They're playing our iTunes
- FxFoto
- Triscape FxFoto
- B+W Conversion
- A favourite
- Ubuntu Part III
November 2009
- Took a while
- A wonderful community
- Ubuntu Part II
- Ubuntu Part I
- Going off-camera
- Blurry good?
- Photo Critique
- Graffiti
- Huge big photo fun
- BigHugeLabs
- Lens longevity
- Panos again
- Near China Beach
- Live performances
- Doofus
October 2009
- Getting Bown away
- A new Windows opens
- On the stoep
- The Hot Shoe Diaries
- Getting the light right
- Pernicious pricing policies
- Night at the Opera
- Skies of black,
- Fast and wide
- How to buy a computer
- A momentous day
- Fifi and the fast lens
September 2009
- Exploring the Commons
- Pier
- New stadium
- Nice bokeh
- Weebling a web
- Picture gallery
- Photo Icons
- A flipping good news site
- Madiba magic
- Darn group shots!
- Winners and clunkers
- WTD
- Cool special effects
- Cool special effects
- Who can say??
- Now on Alltop
- Creative lighting
- A nice dead tree
- Some sort of wally
- Poladroid is alive and well
- Doing it off-camera
- UTP: attempt # 2
August 2009
- Upgrading the photographer
- Building digital castles
- Doorway to Infinity
- What the Duck? III
- What the Duck? II
- What The Duck?
- Pre-visualisation
- Shoot me Rankin
- Black and White
- On the wild side
- Going to the online office
- A new baby arrives
- Black cats in coal cellars
- Hitting a luck
- Making photo books
- Panoramas Part II
- That'll teach me !!
- Keeping up with the news
- A book bonanza
- Making photo books
- New blog
- Technically imperfect
- Fuss-free panoramas**
- Worldwide Photowalk
- Gotta publish
- Sublime imperfection ??
July 2009
June 2009
- High sugar can be good
- Here be a Dragon
- All the top stories
- Everyone’s a palooka sometimes
- A new Windows on the world
May 2009
April 2009
- Intimate relations with the stars
- Having their socks blown off
- Making order out of chaos
- Not so terrible after all
March 2009
- A sad announcement
- Getting your life in order
- Replacing my television set
- Light at the end of the bandwidth tunnel?
- The beauty is a beast
February 2009
- Thunderbirds are go!
- It's a funny old mobile world
- Chirpy Chirpy Tweet Tweet
- A memory like an elephant
January 2009
- Internet Explorer 8
- A great software freebie
- Streets and stadium
- Going gadget crazy
- Painting the windows
December 2008
- Looking back at 2008
- Is it just me ??
- The coastal cloaca
- Advance and be recognised
- Paradise is a kind of a library
- Voice computing has arrived
- Adobe Premiere Essentials 7
- The arms deal again
- Buses and renaming
November 2008
- Bus troubles again
- Websites with Jimdo
- Doing the video thing
- **So easy your granny can use it
- Another blue-light incident
- Freak storm hits Link Hills and Molweni
- Fire at Engen refinery
- Snippets from the week
- An angry white man?
- Point watersports good news
- Blue Flag rears its head again
- Not so racist after all ?
- Diwali & Moses Mabhida
- Web creation made simple
- City hall organ
- Quite a procession
- Harbour congestion
October 2008
- Banana Republic
- Into the wild Azure yonder
- Jet fuel woes
- Mismanagement or corruption?
- Bus strike over !!!
- Cellular silver anniversary ?
- DSW strike
- Stadium bags award
- Snippets from the week
- The 1980s as ancient history
- Taxi strike?
- Another truck torched
- Short updates
- What a relief!
- Coming back to haunt you
- Metro snippets
- Waste matters
- Secret audit
- Buying the aiyeeeeeee phone
- A hell of a fire
- Uh oh, is right
September 2008
- Uh oh!
- The litter crisis widens
- The bus strike continues
- Beachfront trashed
- The strike continues
- King Dinuzulu unwrapped
- Strike on the buses
- A good decongestant?
- Corduroy Mansions and other sundries
- All roads lead to Chrome??
- No corruption here!
- King Dinuzulu and others
- ANC backtracks, slightly
- Deadline will be met
- Sea water quality
- Making site building easier
- Brain drain
August 2008
- Rates errors
- Reversing street renaming
- No mass action, please
- Container port
- Petulance
- Simple, but a classic
- Right-wing sabotage
- On the buses, again
- SmartCity Experience
- Guest blogger: Niki Moore
- A Smart City
- Scaring off the skilled
- A land grab ??
- Encouraging developments
- Church bell stolen
- Moses Mabhida Stadium
- The full frame advantage
- A city's shame
- Mayoral Mazavaroo
- Thursday snippets
- Another day in La La Land
- iGoogle & the Mojave experiment
- Sunday odds and sods
- The Olympics and other tit bits..
- Harbour mouth widening
- Public transport lane
- Snake Park
- Somebody who isn’t Telkom
July 2008
- The fount of all Knol’edge
- For a good cause
- New plans for white elephant
- Beach quality
- An equality court
- Petty but so costly
- Easy peasy websites
- Beach disaster zone
- New helicopters
- An Apple iPhone a day...
- Fire fighter shortage
- Snake Park vanishes
- First test
- Calling back the past
- New Street names go up
- Flying the blue flag
June 2008
- Back surfing in the YouTube
- Durban Diaries Blog
- Electricity hikes
- Council snippets
- Speaking out on name changes
- Shipbuilding
- Water canons and shipbuilding
- Who let the fox out? Woof! Woof!
- Rubber bullets fired
- Just doodlin' around
- Cleanest Town Competition
- Floods
- Even more on the floods
- More on the flooding
- Flooding in KZN
- Street renaming
- Metro snippets
- A1 GP lost to Durban
- Beach Renovation
- Riding the YouTube
- Archaeolgy
- Public Transport Lanes
- Sound and fury
- Feeling the Buzzword at Adobe
May 2008
- More bus troubles
- A very unhappy birthday
- Wake up little Susie
- If you’ve got it, flauntR it!
- flauntR sample
- Happy birthday, dear worldwide web
April 2008
- The Old Bailey online
- The blog from Baghdad
- With a certain dark beauty
- G.HO.ST, the friendly website?
March 2008
- Climbing aboard the Photoshop Express
- Photoshop Express test
- Shopping up a storm
- It’s a real Lulu
- Bus debacle
- Elonex One
- Kindling a passion for reading
February 2008
- Pink and uncommonly cute
- eBooks: The wave of the future?
- Terrible telco troubles
- Searching at warp speed
January 2008
- Small and cute
- Keeping track of the Top 10
- Using shock tactics
- Going gadget crazy at CES
- Going wireless at Christmas
December 2007
- Looking back at Digicams
- Table saws and electronics
- Taking note of everything
- Log me in Scotty!
- Canopus is still OK!
November 2007
October 2007
- Laptops for Africa
- Social sites virtually take over
- Declaring e-mail bankruptcy
- Happy endings
- (Radio)heading off at a tangent
September 2007
- Many hands make light work
- Striving for archiving
- Having a blue (and Orange) Monday
- Unlimited storage with Yahoo Mail
August 2007
July 2007
- Internet access: peace at last?
- Paying as you go for Office
- Sidetracked into biofuels
- Apple iPhone arrives
- Swimming the Atlantic
June 2007
May 2007
- Books 'n things
- Internet disadvantage
- Getting a life
- Fighting for the computer
- That old sinking feeling
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
- No sex please, we’re historians
- Online Gmail e-mail
- Digg this crazy Internet, dude!
- Harry Potter will never die
January 2007
- Opening a new vista on the world
- Getting into the live writing thing
- Bookmarks and backflips
- Making spaces
- Becoming Spielberg
December 2006
November 2006
- Warning: No PC connectivity
- A bout with unplanned obsolescence
- Cellphone blues
- Photoshop Elements 5.0
- Ho-hum browsing
October 2006
September 2006
- Cyber Safety Rules (Part II)
- Cyber Safety Rules (Part I)
- Taking care of e-mail
- Handling digital photos
August 2006
July 2006
- Tickets get a hi-tech makeover
- Keeping control of pictures
- Venting yourself on the world
- One program displays all?
- The trouble with E-mail
- Welcome
February 2005
December 2004
November 2004
September 2004
July 2004
January 2004
September 2003
- Canon EOS 300D
- Foto Slate - Part 2
- ACDSee & Foto slate
- Works Suite 2004
- Cool Free Software
- Microsoft Photo Premium 10
July 2003
June 2003
February 2003
August 2002
October 2001
August 2001
July 2001
April 2001
February 2001
December 2000
November 2000
October 2000
- A New Work Machine
- The Windows ME Columns
- The Windows 2000 Pro Chronicles
- Reflections on WAP & DVD
- Fiddlings with Corel Linux & WordPerfect
- El Cheapo Products and ADSL
- Internet Connection Woes
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Early Windows 2000 Experiences
- Installing Corel Linux
- CorelDRAW 9 Office Edition & Norton Ghost
- Microsoft Encarta 2000 Deluxe
- Looking back at 1999 in Computing
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hi. maybe two years back i read your article about a website how to retrieve deleted/expunged information from my pc. can u assist me the article from ur archive. thanks.
Hi Ebrahim. The program I used is recover My Files and I talked about it here: http://allanjackson.co.za/2009/06/everyone%E2%80%99s-a-palooka-sometimes/. Cheers, Allan