A list of freeware utilities compiled by Tech Support Alert which is a useful reference for everyones software needs.

• You Don’t Need Permission to Create from Ripples – some good, practical advice for getting started and getting better.
• Writing Gooder at ProBlogger – some excellent advice for writing. Aimed at bloggers, but just as relevant if you’re writing articles or even a novel. “Once you have the mad writing skillz, nothing will stand in your way of taking over the blogosphere.”
• Poynter Online – Fifty Writing Tools – an excellent series of articles on tips and tricks to improve your writing.
• Writerisms and other Sins – a useful guide to overused and misused language.

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It’s good to have a healthy skepticism about the claims of the hype-driven technology industry. But there are times when even a hardened skeptic has to admit to amazement at the sheer coolness of some of the things you can do on a personal computer. And one of those “wow” moments happens the first time you run a new program called Google Earth.

The program lets you view satellite and aerial photos of almost any spot on the planet. In big metropolitan areas in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe, you can zoom in on individual buildings and houses. You can overlay streets onto these urban images, as well as markers indicating restaurants, hotels and more. In other places, you can make out only towns and large geographical features, like lakes.

The program rapidly fetches the images from the Internet and visually “flies” you around the globe. The process is so fluid it feels like a Hollywood stunt. For instance, if you’re staring at a bird’s-eye view of St. Mark’s Square in Venice and you type in your address in Boston, Google Earth will zoom out till you seem high in the sky, then rapidly “fly” you west across the Atlantic into the U.S., and then stop right over your house.

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WildFinder is a map-driven, searchable database of more than 30,000 species worldwide, with a powerful search tool that allows users to discover where species live or explore wild places to find out what species live there. Containing information on birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, WildFinder is a valuable resource for scientists, students, educators, travelers, birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts alike.

? del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add web pages you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only among your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

? Once you’ve registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser. When you find a web page you’d like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you’ll be asked for information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together and add notes for yourself or for others.

? You can access your list of links from any web browser. Your links are shown to you with those you’ve added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links with a specific keywords (you define your own keywords as you add the links), or search your links for keywords.

Including:

Fallacies of Distraction
Syllogistic Errors
Changing the Subject
Inductive Fallacies
Causal Fallacies
Fallacies of Ambiguity

and everyone’s favorite

Non Sequitur!

At Google Maps you can click the button on the top right hand corner to get views of the ground via satalite.