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Software and reference links for Effective Onscreen Editing (4th ed.)

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This page contains links to the following categories of software:

Antivirus, encryption, and security

Backups and file transfer

Communication software

Communities and organizations

Dictionaries and spell checkers

Grammar and style guides

Microsoft Word plug-ins and accessories

Miscellaneous

Reference and information sites

Running Windows on your Mac

Time tracking software

Utilities and scripting languages

Writing, desktop publishing, and editing

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Antivirus, backup, encryption, and security

1Password (password management software)

Ad-Aware antivirus and antispyware (Windows)

AES Crypt encryption (Mac, Windows)

AV Comparatives antivirus/antimalware reviews

AVG antivirus (Android, Mac, Windows)

Bitdefender antimalware suite (Mac, Windows)

ClamXav antivirus (Mac)

Comodo firewall (Windows)

F-Prot antivirus (Windows)

Intego antivirus, antispyware, and firewall (iOS, Mac)

Spybot Search and Destroy (Windows)

Symantec Norton Antivirus (Mac, Windows)

WebRoot Spy Sweeper (Windows)

Zonealarm antivirus and firewall (Windows)

Backups and file transfer

Acronis True Image disk cloning software (Windows)

Apple's iCloud (Mac, Windows)

Backblaze backups (Mac, Windows)

Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac)

Carbonite backups (Mac, Windows)

Crashplan backups (Mac, Windows)

Dropbox (Mac, Windows)

Google Drive (Mac, Windows)

How to backup and restore the Windows registry (How to Geek)

Mediafire (Mac, Windows)

Microsoft’s OneDrive (Mac, Windows)

Retrospect backup software (Mac, Windows)

SendThisFile (Mac, Windows)

SuperDuper (Mac)

Communication software

Adium (Mac)

Apple Facetime (iOS, Mac)

Google Hangouts (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)

Pidgin (Windows)

Skype (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)

Trillian (Mac, Windows)

Zoom Web conferencing system (Mac, Windows)

Communities and organizations

American Library Association

Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America

British Library's Ask the Reference Enquiry Team

Canadian Library Association

Copyediting-L (editors)

Editorial Freelancers Association

Editors Canada

Electric Editors Grapevine discussion group (editors)

Google's curated list of discussion groups

Library and Archives Canada's Ask Us a Question service

Society for Editors and Proofreaders

Society for Technical Communication

Society for Technical Communication Accessibility special interest group

Society for Technical Communication Technical Editing special interest group

Techwhirl (technical writers)

Unicode Consortium

U.S. Library of Congress Ask-a-Librarian service

Yahoo's curated list of discussion groups

Dictionaries and spell checkers

Acronym Finder (Web-based)

American Geological Institute dictionary for Earth and environmental science (Mac, Windows)

Azmanam’s chemistry dictionary (Mac, Windows)

BusinessDictionary.com (Web-based)

Dictionarynet (Web-based)

Exclusion dictionary: list of words to get you started

Free Online Dictionary of Computing (Web-based)

John Petrie’s custom scientific dictionaries

Merriam-Webster’s unabridged and collegiate dictionaries (Web-based)

OneLook multi-dictionary search (Web-based)

Oxford Dictionaries (Web-based)

Roger’s Profanisaurus

Stedman’s medical and pharmaceutical spell­checker

Spellex dictionaries (some for Mac, all for Windows)

StyleGuard software for Associated Press style in Microsoft Word (Mac, Windows)

Whitesmoke (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)

Wordnik (Web-based)

Grammar and style guides

American Medical Association style guide

Apple Publications style guide

Appleyard (David) World of English

Associated Press style guide

Brians (Paul) Common Errors in English Usage

BBC News style guide

Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing

Chicago Manual of Style

Council of Science Editors style guide

Hemingway style checker (Mac, Windows)

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors style guide

Microsoft style guide

Modern Language Association (MLA) style guide

NASA style guide for history authors and editors

Oxford Dictionaries grammar guide

Purdue University’s online writing lab

Rensselaer Center for Communication Practices Resources for Writers

Reuters Handbook of Journalism

Science terminology custom dictionaries (U.S. and U.K.; John Petrie)

Straus (Jane) The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

Sun computer style guide

The Tongue Untied guide to grammar, punctuation, and style

University of North Carolina’s Writing Center

U.S. Government Printing Office style manual

Verb conjugations

William Strunk’s classic The Elements of Style

Writing for Science Journals

Microsoft Word plug-ins and accessories

Adding menus to Windows Word:

ClassicMenu (Word 2007 and later)

UbitMenu (Word 2007 and later)

Editorium Author Tools Template (Mac, Windows)

Editor’s Toolkit Plus (Mac, Windows)

EditTools (Windows)

Jack Lyon’s WordCounter utility

Jack Lyon's Using found macros article

PerfectIt (Mac, Windows)

Miscellaneous

CNet curated utility software download site (Mac, Windows)

Distributed Proofreaders proofreading fonts (Web-based)

Ergociser (the) (Windows)

GraphPad t-test for statistical significance (Web-based)

MacUpdate curated software downloads (Mac)

Pinboard (Web-based)

Pinterest (Web-based)

Stretchware (Mac, Windows)

World Timeserver (look up times in other parts of the world)

Reference and information sites

ABE books used books catalog

Aerospace and Defence Industries Association ASD Simplified Technical English specification

Alibris used books catalog

Applescript tutorials (Mac):

Applescript: the language of automation

Introduction to AppleScript: What you can do with AppleScript, OS X's scripting language

Apple's Applescript language guide

Automator tutorials (Mac):

Apple's Automator user guide

Automator: your personal automation assistant

What Automator can do for you

Bing search site

BIOSIS list of organism names

Character codes (keyboard shortcuts):

Common Windows characters

Common Macintosh characters

ChemSpider chemical structures database

Cornell University Ergonomics Web

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

Specifications and other tools at the OASIS site

Wikipedia description

Docbook XML schema specification

Editing PDF files

Adrienne Montgomerie’s articles on editing in PDF

Katherine O’Moore Klopf’s curated list of tutorials on PDF editing

“Printing Goof Nullifies U.S. Reading Exam”

Techradar’s list of PDF editing options for Windows

Traditional Proofreading in PDF (Planet PDF)

Editorium Update newsletter

Editorium Web site (Jack Lyon)

Elsevier journals

Enable Text Subsitutions in Every App (MacWorld)

Encyclopaedia Britannica

ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center

Google scholar

ICT4LT Web site

Index Academicus list of journal author guidelines

Ingenta Connect journal article search

Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Language (locale) codes for Word dictionaries

Microsoft's Word support page

National Institute for Standards and Technology guide to metric units

National Library of Medicine PubMed biomedical literature database

Paul Beverley’s Macros for Editors

Refdesk curated reference collection

Reverse image-search suggestions

Revision-tracking primer for Word:

Word 2007, 2008, and 2011

Older versions of Word

Right Angels and Polo Bears (Adrienne Montgomerie)

SAGE journals

Save Time by Mastering the Basics (Geoff Hart)

Screenshots

How to take Screenshots in Windows 10 (How-To Geek)

How to take a screenshot on your Mac (Apple)

Scripting Windows:

Windows Powershell documentation

Windows Script Host

Learn how to automate Windows with Powershell

Microsoft's "Task Scheduler Overview"

Springer-Verlag journals plus the former Kluwer Academic Publishers

Teaching Tips' list of reference sites

Unicode character code lookups:

Alan Wood’s list for all languages

FileFormat.info Unicode Character Search tool

Unicode Organization's language reference

United States Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Library of Congress online catalogue

Visual basic for applications reference (Microsoft)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia article on concordances

Wiley journals plus the former Blackwell Publishing

Wolfram Alpha

Word 2010 command finder

WordTips newsletter (Allen Wyatt)

WorldCat library catalog

Running Windows on your Macintosh

Although you can run Windows on your Macintosh using Apple’s Bootcamp software, this prevents you from running your Macintosh software simultaneously; you need to reboot your computer each time you want to change operating systems. It’s far more efficient to use software that lets you run both operating systems side by side:

Parallels Desktop

VirtualBox

VMWare Fusion

Time tracking software

Inertrak (iOs, Mac, Windows)

Officetime (iOs, Mac, Windows)

Personal Timeclock (Windows)

Timeless Time & Expense (Windows)

Utilities and scripting languages

See also: Reference and information sites

Adobe’s Acrobat web capture tool

Adobe Acrobat help topic “Importing and exporting comments”

Adobe Acrobat help topic “Mark up text with edits”

Adobe Reader

Alan Wyatt’s macro for determining word frequency

Apple's Voiceover screen-reader software (Mac)

Boeing’s Simplified English Checker

Clipboard replacement utilities (MacWorld's list) (Mac)

Clipboard replacement utilities (Tech Support Alert's list) (Windows)

Concorder Pro (Mac)

Dragon speech recognition software

EasyCalculation.com’s hexadecimal to decimal or binary converter (Web-based)

EasyFind tool for searching your computer (Mac)

Everything search engine for searching your computer (Windows)

Hyper STE (simplified technical English) checker (Windows)

JAWS screen-reader software (Windows)

Keyboard Maestro (Mac)

Macro Express (Windows)

MegaReplacer (Windows versions of Word)

Microsoft’s XMLDiff utility or try here (Windows)

Recover corrupted Word files using GetData’s Repair My Word

Scrible web annotation software (Web-based)

Simple Concordance Program (Mac, Windows)

Simusearch Web searches from within Word (Windows)

StuffIt compression software (Mac, Windows)

Techscribe’s Term Checker for Simplified Technical English (browser-based)

Text-expansion utilities (Lifehacker’s list) (Windows)

Text-expansion utilities (Macworld's list) (Mac)

Use your iPad as a keyboard for your computer:

Air Keyboard (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)

RemoteMouse (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)

WinHotKey for customizing windows keyboard shortcuts

Windows 10 “Hear text read aloud with Narrator”

Writing, desktop publishing, and editing

Adobe Contribute (Mac, Windows)

Adobe Dreamweaver (Mac, Windows)

Adobe InCopy (Mac, Windows)

Adobe InDesign (Mac, Windows)

BBEdit text editor (Mac)

emacs text editor (Mac, Windows)

EtherPad (Mac, Windows)

FileMaker

FrameMaker (Windows)

Google Drive/Docs (Mac, Windows)

LibreOffice (Mac, Windows)

Lyx software for mathematical typesetting (Mac, Windows)

LyXConverter for Word (Windows versions of Word)

MadCap Contributor (Windows)

MadCap Flare (Windows)

Microsoft Sharepoint (Mac with Office 35, Windows)

Microsoft Word 365 (Mac, Windows)

OpenOffice (Mac, Windows)

PDFPen PDF editing software

PleaseReview (Mac, Windows)

SubEthaEdit (Mac)

TextWrangler text editor: replaced by BBEdit text editor (Mac)

WebWorks ePublisher for Word and FrameMaker (Windows)

WordPerfect (Windows)

WordPress blogging software

XMetal reviewer now part of XMetal Author (Windows)


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