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Le Rouleau des prépositions

Posted by Roger McKeon on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, In : Tools

Le Rouleau des prépositions is a must-have reference work for anyone interested in mastering French prepositions.For example, should you say se fier à or se fier sur quelqu'un?This prepositionary will help learners of French, occasional writers and language professionals easily find the preposition that goes with the verb, adverb or adjective they wish to use.Le Rouleau des prépositions is the work of Maurice Rouleau and is published by Linguatech, under the title Est-ce à, de, en, p...

The Best Free Software of 2011 -- Les meilleurs gratuiciels de 2011

Posted by Roger McKeon on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, In : Tools

The Best Free Software of 2011

Those of you who are as addicted as I am might want to check out PC Magazine on this one: The Best Free Software of 2011. "Got Windows? These 208 free products are yours to download and install to help you with just about any computing job you can imagine."Categories covered include Anti-Malware; App Launchers; Archivers; Audio; Backup/Synch/Storage; BitTorrent; Blogging; Browsers; Calendar/PIM; Conferencing/VoIP; Disk Utilities; Displays; E...
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CopyPasteCharacter

Posted by Roger McKeon on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, In : Tools

CopyPasteCharacter is a website that does one simple thing: It allows users to copy special characters/symbols to Windows clipboard, after which users can paste the characters/symbols wherever they like. Do take note, though, many of characters/symbols will only work where Unicode is supported.
Using CopyPasteCharacter is very easy:

     • Visit their website.

     • Click on the character/symbol you want to copy.

     • Paste it wherever you want.

     • Users who want to copy...
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Ax accenting -- Ax accentuation

Posted by Roger McKeon on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, In : Tools

Welcome to AX the simple accenting solution

INTRODUCTION

How do you do your French homework? Are you often wanting characters that aren't on your keyboard? If instant, simple accents and special characters is what you want, wherever you are in Windows then AX is just the very thing you need. And it's free.

AX allows you to alter any character's accent always using the same key. This applies to symbols as well. For example "2" then F8 gives "²", "a" then F8 gives à, p...
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OECD Style Guide -- Guide de style de l'OCDE

Posted by Roger McKeon on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, In : Tools

For those of you who care about correction, precision and detail, the OECD Style Guide, in particular Chapter 3 : Rules and Conventions, could prove to be an extremely useful reference source. It can be downloaded in PDF format here : http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/8/39/40500006.pdf.

"The OECD Style Guide highlights the standards and conventions that should be used for all OECD publications. It serves as a useful reference tool to writing. But whatever your style, just be consiste...
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