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Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style
Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

the sydney opera house virtual tour A Virtual Tour of the Sidney Opera House – requires QuickTimeVR and Flash 5.

Download GreatFamily – 100% FREEWARE
GreatFamily is a unique, powerful and easy-to-use tool for graphical family tree editing and web page creation. It’s completely free

metapad home
metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x and Windows NT with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad’s features and much, much more

Ximian : Products : Ximian Evolution
Ximian Evolution%u2122 is the premier personal and workgroup information management solution for Linux and UNIX. The software seamlessly integrates email, calendaring, meeting scheduling, contact management and online task lists in one powerful, fast, and easy to use application. Ximian Evolution also delivers a comprehensive set of features that help you keep your work organized and your projects on track. Automatic email indexing keeps your information at your fingertips. The unique Ximian vFolders%u2122 are virtual folders you use to create and save powerful contextual views of your email messages.

Gimpster.com: Home > PHP > PHP Weather
PHP Weather is a script written in PHP, that will decode a METAR weather report. Every hour a round the clock airports make a METAR-report where they measure things like the temperature, the wind speed and direction etc. This information is available on the Internet here. Choose a country and then a observing location and you’ll get the latest report. It even caches the METARs in a database so subsequent request for the same station will be served as fast as possible.

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Any one of these five free batch files can scrub your hard drive clean of many junk files, freeing up (typically) anywhere from tens to thousands of megabytes of otherwise-wasted disk space. You can pick any or all of the files (they’re all free); the files are listed below in roughly-increasing order of “cleaning power.”

Signwave Auto-Illustrator
Signwave Auto-Illustrator is an experimental, semi-autonomous, generative software artwork and a fully functional vector graphic design application to sit alongside your existing professional graphic design utilities.

AmphetaDesk Documentation
AmphetaDesk is a news aggregator – it sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage. With thousands of channels for selection, AmphetaDesk can shave hours off your day – and you’ll look smart to all your friends! Egotism never had it better!

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onfocus.com : snapGallery!
snapGallery is a fast, easy way to create a quick web gallery of pictures. After you select a folder on your machine that contains images (.jpg files), this script generates a series of web pages to display them. By editing a few lines in the script, you can even custimze the font, page colors, and add a link to your home page. When the pages are finished you can transfer the folder contents to your server and share your pictures with the world!

Common Errors in English
What is an error in English?
The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.