Mantext Newsletter - Issue 15

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Issue Number 15 - December 1999

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'The Whole Internet' - new edition
Krol cover

This is a comprehensive account of everything from email, newsgroups, and web searching, through to how the Net actually works. It explains what you can do to improve your efficiency in using it to best advantage. The first edition of this best-selling title appeared in 1992. It has now been re-written and updated to take account of developments in the last eight years. It's now more user-friendly and a much-improved resource. Full details and review at --

http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/krol.htm

Mailing Lists - Where to find them
Meta-List.net allows you to search for over 230,000 different mailing lists. You can search for several different languages, but at the moment the search interface is in just two different languages -- English and German. They will add other languages during 2000.

http://www.meta-list.net/

'Successful Writing for Research'
Woods cover When you come to tackle a research project, you'll probably need all the help you can get. Most people feel rather overwhelmed by the size of the task. This new writing guide offers you plenty of reassurance and advice. It covers organising your work, academic formats, editing, and even collaborative writing. The most original part of the book is the last section which provides practical tips on how to write effective proposals for publication - with real-life examples. Full details and review at --

http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/woods.htm

File Types - Guidance Notes
This is a simple information resource for students and beginners. Many people are baffled by filenames they don't recognise. Yet you can tell a lot about a file, merely from the three-letter name suffix. We've made a free downloadable guidance note on the most common types of file. Go to --

http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/t171/t171-05.htm

Typography - a select bibliography
Annotated bibliographies are very popular on our website right now - and this is the latest addition. It lists many of the classic titles voted 'indispensable' and 'best ever' by the members of typography mailing lists. We have reviews of many titles, and others have links to Amazon, where you can read reviews by readers and in some cases even the authors.

http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/bib-02.htm

Select-All Word Tip
To select an entire document in WordPad, Word, and many other word-processors or text-editors - to highlight it for cutting, copying, deleting, styling, and whatnot - simply choose EDIT/SELECT ALL. Alternatively, try the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-A.

Palm Pilots - Prices Down!
Palm Pilots have dropped in price again. The release of Palm VII with its wireless email and web access means that the Palm V is now 'standard'. Cheapest source for these in the UK continues to be Expansys - at just over £200 plus VAT

http://www.expansys.co.uk

palmpilot picture Meanwhile O'Reilly have just issued the second edition of their Definitive Guide to the Palm Pilot. This comes with a CD containing an astonishing 3,000-plus programs - for Windows, the Mac, and even Linux. Details and full length review at -

http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/pogue.htm

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