HOT TIPS!!

• No, not the weather in Texas -- ClipMate, an indispensable utility for Windows users. With this handy little workhorse you can cut, copy, paste, organize, edit, reformat, print, and save text and graphics to your heart's content. As they assert, "With ClipMate as a Windows companion, users will never accidentally lose a piece of clipboard data again." I also found that customer service (by e-mail) is incredibly good. Download an evaluation copy now!

Proofreading & Copyediting

• Copy Editor is a magazine just for us!
• We also have a comrade at THE SLOT: A Spot for Copy Editors.
• The Society of Editors and Proofreaders (SFEP) is an international organization.
• Wondering what all those symbols on the background mean?  Here's a translation chart.

Internet

• Lori Barber-Thomas and her associates can make your business a NetSuccess. 
• Feb. 13, 1993 brought my original client -- USFI!
• Freelancing isn't so intimidating with the National Association for the Self-Employed behind you.
• It's a busy world; to keep track of everything, use a Day Runner.
• C|Net's website has wide-ranging information.
• Turn on, tune in (or dial in) to Dallas-Fort Worth's own Net Talk Live, the first triple-cast.
• "Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?"
• Alta Vista, Yahoo!, Google or Excite can find whatever you're looking for.
• Find an old friend with Switchboard.
• Got the address -- need the ZIP code? Click to the USPS ZIP+4 Code Lookup.
• Adweek is a necessity for anyone in "the bidness"; here's the online version.