Selected links

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Work-related

Specialty sites (or, our current favourite search engines)

• Bibliofind: book search, antiquarian, old, used, rare...
• IDRC Books online

Editing and publishing tools

• Useful editing links at the Editors' Association of Canada
• Order an ISBN bar code online (delivered by email)

Travel and travel writing

• Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC)
• TravelPress.com, Canada's travel trade site
• Share some real time Cyber Adventures (articles, short stories)
• Katharine attends the annual Travel Classics Conference
• Travel on the cheap as an air courier?

Travel resources

• For the lowest fare, check Travelocity or Expedia (and book it too!)
• Links from PlanetRider Internet Travel Resources
• Canadian Tourism Commission tells what you can do in Canada
• Everything you would want to know about Atlases (many links!)

Personal interest

• If we want something, eBay is a good place to check current pricing
• One of Eric's interests is home automation using X10 devices (Canadian X10 orders and a bigger selection of Home Automation products)
• Where to get GPS stuff online in Canada; and neat mapping SW to go with it.

HW and SW for our systems

• Video performance might be improved with new drivers from ATI
• We capture digital images on our Nikon CoolPix 990 or 8800 and get them into the PC through a Sandisk CompactFlash reader
• Modem information from US Robotics (for 2 Pentium systems and router)
• Illustrator, PageMaker and Acrobat from Adobe Systems
• Microsoft Office Update - Update info (downloads)
• Front Page was our main tool for website management but Dreamweaver has recently edged it out
• Our -mail SW is Eudora
• Review about our HP PhotoSmart Film Scanner and detailed spec sheet; and some tips about scanning slides

Back to the land

• Lots of Canadian alternative lifestyle links from Natural Life
• How to prune mature apple trees

Gardening

• Trade seeds and plants within Canada through the Canadian Garden Exchange forum (one of many forums at Gardenweb)
• Online seed catalogs
• Canada's Heritage Seed Program (heirloom varieties)

Weather and Sky stuff

• Underground's detailed current conditions and forecasts for Canada and Ottawa
• The latest Canadian regional conditions and forecasts and Environment Canada's weather office with Canadian weather history and information
• The Weather Network interface updates maps with current weather info (a bit slow to load but interesting); also has satellite view links
• Ottawa Weather from Intellicast

Interesting personal home pages

• Norbert Senf's Masonry Stove Builders
• Art in the Pontiac at Pontiac Artists' Studio Tour home page
• Laura and Paul Paquet at Cornerstone Creative Communications Writers and Editors

Media connections

• Programming for CBC Radio
• Katharine has been writing a weekly column for The Equity since 1990

Governments

• Canadian government departments
• Government of Québec (in English)

Geography resources

• Find places anywhere in Canada and then find features or places nearby; also shows map coordinates
• The definitive source for Canadian Geographical Names

Language-related information

• Machine Translation Products - background discussion; they sell products too
• Lots of links about foreign languages and how to start learning them
• Eric's comparison of selected free translation services online

Web page tools

• A good selection of clip art maps (free to use)
• Links and tutorials from the HTML Writers Guild
• A grid showing different screen sizes
• Here are some Greek Letters and special symbols as GIFs and a generated table to show all HTML characters on the fly
• Microsoft Typography - info about type from Microsoft

Google Earth

2006-01-24: Find us with GoogleEarth

Last updated 25-Jan-2006