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political initiative
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disintermedation
We
are such stuff - As
dreams are made on, and our little life - Is rounded with a sleep.
Visit our history and future of the net on PACKETS
StarOffice 5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65 MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shipping
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user experience and productivity.
StarOffice 5.1 includes:
- StarOffice Writer for document editing,
- StarOffice Calc for creating spreadsheets,
- StarOffice Impress for creating presentations,
- StarOffice Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
- StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
- StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail,
- StarOffice Base for creating interfaces to databases,
- StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news, and
- StarOffice Math for creating complex formulas,
- StarOffice Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations,
drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents,
diagrams, images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and
word.
And
it's free
Research methods for the Internet:
Many students and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why not both ? )
Then look at
http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5 to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea of their advantages and limitations.
Then find and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search work like
http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages ( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer right click "save picture as"
BE sure to give credit where credit is due.