Technology can serve the writer who both knows about it and knows how to
use it. These sites will help you in both these areas.
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AceProject
http://www.aceproject.com
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From collaboration software
to an online planning tool, AceProject lets you manage all kinds
of projects within your organization. You will find a basic free
system, which you might want to use on a group writing project,
as well as a more powerful hosted package and even a source code
a business can install on its server.
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CIOs Wireless Page
http://www.cio.com/communications/edit/120701_abc_wireless.html
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This pages give the ABC's of Wireless Communication technologies.
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CIOs Wireless Research Center
http://www.cio.com/research/communications
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CIO presents an excellent collection of annotated links to its
articles, interviews, and more on its web site.
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CNET Radio Direct
http://news.com.com/1300-12-10.html?path=/1202-2-983707.html
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You can sign up here for twice daily tech news reports delivered
directly to your desktop, laptop, or palmtop.
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CNET Reviews
http://reviews.cnet.com/2001-1_7-0.html?
legacy=cnet&tag=st.vid.nws.ces.wrap
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This is truly a resource page for up-to-date reviews on over
250,000 products. Additionally, it separates recent reviews,
top products, and commentary for fast access. And it has some
quick tools for determining bandwidth, hotspots, and domain name
search.
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Computing Out Loud
http://www.out-loud.com
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This site is intended
to help people using speech recognition software, whatever the
variety.
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Creating two-page numbering
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/course/mflatley/BBC10/animations/TwoPage.htm
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This short animation shows how to create a two-page numbering
system using Word 2003.
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Dasher
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher
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You will get
a look here at a new text entry technology using eye movement.
Its demonstration page is clearly worth reviewing to understand
how it works.
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DevX.com
http://www.devx.com/gethelpOn/door/15766
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DevX.com is
a site to go for discussions of technology, searches for full-text
articles, and information on the newest web technology. It is
particularly helpful in computer languages and development tools.
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Dummies.com E-tips
http://etips.dummies.com/signup.asp
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Two excellent
sites for learning a little new each day are Dummies Daily, sponsored
by the Dummies Books, and TIPWORLD. At these sites you can choose
from a list of topic areas to view tips. You can also register
to have the tips on the topic e-mailed to you regularly. PC World
also provides a links page to its articles with tips on various
applications.
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eBookExpress
http://ebookexpress.com/5064652E-1684-47EB-BCC1-194DFA63C92C/10/5/en/default.htm
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This shopping site provides a collection of computer, finance,
self-improvement, and travel books you can read with Microsoft's
ebook reader.
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ExtremeTech
http://www.extremetech.com
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An excellent for up-to-date
articles on the most recent technology and issues.
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Groupware
Links
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/groupware/cscw.txl
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This page is a rich source of links to a variety of resources
on groupware. It is intended to be as comprehensive an index
as possible for Groupware resources.
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HotSpot Finder
http://www.youcanworkfromanywhere.com/wi-fi
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Phil
Montero's YouCanWorkFromAnywhere finds hotspots, presents addresses
and maps, and pricing when not free.
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Ibackup
http://www.ibackup.com
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Sites like this one will provide
backup technologies for both individuals and businesses.
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IBTE
http://www.ethix.org
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On the homepage of the Institute
for Business Technology and Ethics, you can view the current
issue of the publication it offers its members as well as learn
about other benefits of membership. Links to its tools on ethical
business leadership, behavior, and culture are particularly good.
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Kadow's Internet Dictionary
http://www.msg.net/kadow/answers
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Kadow's Internet Dictionary is an excellent source for finding
the meaning of terms used in reference to the internet, the web,
and technologies used with them. It is currently being updated
to include pronunciations as well.
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Megapixel.net
http://megapixel.net
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This webzine is dedicated
to digital still cameras. It contains articles, reviews, and
outstanding photo examples.
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Microsoft Office Online: Page Numbering
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?
AssetID=HA010349001033&CTT=6
&Origin=EC010553071033
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This sites provides directions for using a two-page numbering
system within a document using Word 2002. You will find it particularly
helpful on documents where you need to number preliminary pages
one page and the following pages another way.
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Microsoft Research Page
http://www.research.microsoft.com
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This
page keeps one up-to-date on the latest research Microsoft is
doing. Not only can you learn of technologies that may help you
in the near future, but you can begin to plan how some might
help you become more productive or gain competitive advantage
over others not keeping up-to-date.
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MSDN TV Home Page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/default.aspx
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MSDN TV is a short weekly video featuring useful technology tips
and insights from the behind-the-scenes folks at Microsoft. You
will find the current video as well as a schedule of upcoming
ones and an archive of past videos.
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NetLingo
http://www.netlingo.com
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NetLingo is an award winning
reference site for the language of the Internet. It contains
thousands of words and definitions that describe the online world
of business, technology, and communication.
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Office Demos
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?
assetid=FX010804491033&CTT=98
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This page presents a large collection of demos for Office tools.
These demos are helpful in learning new features as well as in
troubleshooting problems with using particular features.
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OfficeZealot.com
http://officezealot.com
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This site provides
links to other useful websites, blogs, books, utilities, news,
events and articles that will interest you as an Office user.
It is always relevant, concise, focused and practical.
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OneNote
http://office.microsoft.com/onenote
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Microsoft Office's resource page for OneNote is rich with information on how to
use this powerful tool.
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PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/browse/0,cat,1651,sortIdx,1,00.asp
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PC Wold collection of tips, troubleshooting topics, and applications
tips.
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Set Up ClearType
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/1.htm
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Use this interactive page to set up Clear Type on your Windows
XP system with LCD display. ClearType delivers improved font
display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing.
ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital
interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel
displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.
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SlashDot
http://slashdot.org
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This online technology news source
presents itself as the news source for nerds. While its content
is a bit technical, it is highly readable.
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Smart Display
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/smartdisplay
/evaluation/tours/default.asp#
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This flash video animation shows options for using smart display
panels.
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StreetTech Glossary
http://www.streettech.com/glossary.html
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This page in StreetTech's site defines terms
with technological meanings.
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TechWeb: TechEncyclopedia
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia
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This clean search page lets you search for meanings,
get a randomly generated term, or view the list of top terms.
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The Future of Technology
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,,415483,00.asp
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A fun page from PC Magazine is filled with information and prototypes
on all kinds of emerging technologies.
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TIPWORLD
http://www.tipworld.com
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Great tips covering topics that matter, served fresh daily!
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Top Tips for Word
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?
AssetID=HA010963811033&CTT=1&
Origin=EC790000701033&QueryID=yNu4NAqho0&
Query=tips+and+tricks
&Scope=TC%2cHP%2cHA%2cRC%2cFX%2cES%2cEP%2cDC%2cXT
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You will find the top tips for using Microsoft
Word here organized
by function.
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Using Speech Recognition in Office
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?
AssetID=HA010348931033&CTT=6&Origin=EC010553071033
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This page provides set up information for Microsoft's speech
recognition. You will also find links to examples and commands.
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Verizon's TXT Messaging Send Page
http://www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp
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From this page you can send text messages to Verizon customers.
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whatis.com
http://whatis.techtarget.com
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whatis.com is a knowledge
exploration tool about information technology, especially about
the Internet and computers. It contains over 4,500 individual
encyclopedic definition/topics and a number of quick-reference
pages. The topics contain hyperlinked cross-references between
definition-topics and to other sites for further information.
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ZDnet.com
http://www.zdnet.com
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One of the best sites for complete
technology coverage. You will find news, white papers, downloads,
and more here.
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