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The Grapevine Page
This is the home of the resources that appear in Grapevine, the weekly online digest for people working with computers in the publishing industry. For more information about Grapevine, including how to subscribe, see the Grapevine top page. Back issue of Grapevine are available on the Electric Editors archives, and if macros are your thing, try the Electric Editors macros page.

Viruses and Virus Hoaxes

Dr Solomon
Dr Solomon's virus centre: a large range of documents on viruses, including some excellent material on the Word viruses
Virus Myths
Computer Virus Myths from a US software company, including virus hysteria awards, recommended books and web sites, a-z of hoaxes
IBM White Papers
A look at the virus problem from a corporate point of view
Symantec software's Antivirus Research Center
Virus hoax page, including a list of well-known virus hoaxes to watch out for, as well as information about real viruses

Software Sources

DOWNLOAD.COM
Master Converter program
Nonags shareware
PaintShop Pro
PKWARE® WWW Site Directory
RedSun Font Software
Wincode
WinZip Home Page
ZD Net UK Software Library

PC Software to Read Mac Discs

Duhem MacDisk
A program that reads, writes and formats Mac discs (1.44mB), and works under DOS, Windows 3.x or Windows 95; a free demo, with restricted functionality, is available. Duhem also produce programs called MacCD, MacSQ (for Syquest cartridges) and MacScuzzy
Acute Systems TransMac
Easy to use program for accessing Mac disks from a PC

SGML, HTML and Web Authoring

KAMA HTML Beginner's Guide
NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
SGML Web Page
HTML Goodies

Java

Javaworld
IDG'S online magazine for the java community
JavaScript site

Online Magazines

PC Pro
Internet magazine

Tips and Tricks

Dummies Daily
The website of the Dummies series of books. You can subscribe to up to thirteen newsletters to receive a free helpful daily tip on the topic of your choice
Windows 95 Annoyances
Fix all the things you don't like about Windows 95
Woody's Office Watch
Subscribe to WOW to get your weekly lowdown on Microsoft Office and Word
WordTips
Subscribe to the excellent weekly WordTips newsletter

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