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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.—Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

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Computer Information

If you want to get the most out of Microsoft Word, this newsletter is essential! Weekly
e-mail newsletter about Microsoft Word: WordTips by Allen L. Wyatt of Discovery Computing, Inc.

Woody's Office Watch logo Want to keep up with the latest news and tips on Microsoft Office?
Subscribe to Woody Leonhard's FREE weekly e-mail newsletter:
Woody's Office Watch.

Techbyter Worldwide: Bill Blinn's Technology Corner. A weekly report of current news in the computer world, from a thoughtful expert who has wide experience with many programs and operating systems.
Jason's Toolbox. Test the security of your browser.
Dover Publications. Free image samples every week; image collections on a huge variety of topics.

Publishing Technology

Web Style Guide: Typography Basics.
Library of Congress: The Center for the Book. The center was established to promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy. Serves as an advocate, a catalyst, and a source of ideas--both nationally and internationally.
The American Printing History Association. An association that encourages the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing.
Stop the Presses. The history of printing technology at the New York Times.
U&lc: Upper and Lower Case Magazine. All about fonts.
SHARP: Society for the History of Reading, Authorship, and Publishing. Links to everything you ever wanted to know about publishing.

Language and Languages

Word Play. From the interesting to the silly, this page links to many sites on the English language: lists of homonyms, antonyms, neologisms, idioms, and illogical phrases.
The Word Detective will even answer your language questions by e-mail. By Evan Morris, the man who wrote The Booklover's Guide to the Internet.
The Word Wizard. Mailing lists, quotations, slang, and more...
Wordsmyth English Dictionary and Thesaurus. The Educational Dictionary, by Robert Parks and the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.

Language Unlimited. Learn survival Spanish; improve your accent in Spanish;
help your employees learn Spanish; increase comprehension of English in the workplace.
Classes and individual consulting by language acquisition expert Dr. Lynn Reer.

Internet Research

Librarians' Internet Index: Websites you can trust.
WhatIs.com. Explanations of Internet terminology.
Webopedia. An on-line searchable encyclopedia of computer terms.
FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing. Dictionary of computer terms, from the Imperial College in London.
CMPNet TechWeb Encyclopedia. More than 20,000 IT terms defined.

Some of Margaret's Favorite Nonprofit Organizations

You can give food to a hungry person somewhere in the world just by clicking once, and you can do it once every day! At The Hunger Site, you click, corporate sponsors pay, and hungry people receive donated food. The Hunger Site was the first online activism site on the Web. To date more than 200 million visitors have given more than 300 million cups of staple food to people around the world.

Another way to give food to a hungry person is by contributing to the Heifer Project. Millions of people will be nourished by milk, eggs, and fresh vegetables through your donations that provide them with live animals that can improve their situation: a flock of ducks, a heifer, a sheep, a llama, a goat, a flock of geese, a trio of rabbits, a pig, a flock of chicks! And the recipients agree to share the offspring of gift animals with others in need, making them equal partners with Heifer in the fight to end world hunger. Great for gifts, and a wonderful teaching gift for children!

Support volunteers at Oregon Literacy who tutor in the areas of literacy, English as a second language, and basic education skills in Oregon. They offer many ways for individuals, businesses, libraries, and schools to participate in this much-needed work (an estimated 90 million Americans do not have adequate literacy). The year 2007 will see Oregon Literacy's forty-first year in Oregon.

Some of Margaret's Favorite Shareware and Computer Resources

IrfanView: Free Graphics Editor. Handy graphics-editing program; very easy to use.
TextPad from Helios Software. Highly capable, top-rated text editor.
Graphic Workshop. Manage your graphic images; batch-print graphic images.
Cookie Pal. Manage your cookies in Internet Explorer; from Kookaburra Software.
PC Club. Friendly, knowledgeable computer equipment sales and support.

Acknowledgements

Logos from WordTips, Woody's Office Watch, Language Unlimited, The Hunger Site, The Heifer Project, and Oregon Literacy are the property of their respective owners. This site has no connection to those sites/organizations other than admiration on Margaret's part. All other images are from CD collections purchased from Dover Publications.

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