The Golden 80s

Geoff Hart rips apart the myths in technial writing. Great post.

Adobe FrameMaker – Adobe FrameMaker 8 software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators and an essential upgrade for existing FrameMaker users who want to author and publish technical documentation in multiple languages, says Adobe. It supports Unicode, rich media, DITA and single sourcing. RoboHelp - The most sought after Help authoring tool (HAT). RoboHelp 7 now supports Unicode, translational workflow, importing Word files, importing FrameMaker files and styles, user defined variables, and powerful collaboration. Microsoft Word – Needs no explanation. Unstable for big documents. Interleaf – Competitor of FrameMaker. Wikipedia says Interleaf provides an integrated set of tools for creating compound documents: word processing, graphics, data-driven business charts, tables, equations, image editing, automated page layout, book building-- including automatic index and table of contents, and conditional document assembly. Arbortext - XML-based publi...

1. Audiograbber - an excellent CD-ripper for Windows 95/98/NT 2. Audacity - A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. 3. Zortam Mp3 Media Studio - An all-in-one Mp3 aplications.It includes MP3 Organizer/ID3 Tag Editor(Mp3 Tag Editor),CD Ripper with freedb/ID3 support,Wav/Mp3 4. WavePad - a wav editor and MP3 editor, and supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, Real Audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more. 5. k-Lite Codec Pack - a collection of codecs and related tools