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Issue number 81 (July 2007) in a series of Signposts sent by the U3A International Group UK and U3AOnline Australia, once a month, to any and all U3A members anywhere in the world.

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o Please click on http://worldu3a.org to see (and join?) our project MY U3A and also click on the 'Cooperation' button for our new project 'International Links'.

o Gardening Groups: Lots of free advice (on slideshows) on designs http://www.applegategardens.co.uk/acatalog/online_garden_design.html

o An American teachers resource website - 3,000 Lesson Plans can be found and downloaded at HOTCHALK. Lots of good ideas to be found at http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

o Photographic Groups: The Ordnance Survey want a pictorial record of England, and you can help them. Please have a look at http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php (Thank you RWG7NDT)

o Leave the car at home and investigate the world of free or very cheap bus travel in the UK - it may be lots cheaper than you think; see

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/PublicTransport/BusAndCoachTravel/

o Free Audiobooks! LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.

The goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. Click on http://librivox.org/ to learn more.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

o Hard Drive Failure? - maybe you can recover those files. See the advice at http://askbobrankin.com/hard_drive_recovery.html

o Checking each non-Microsoft program on a Windows machine to see if you have the latest version is time-consuming and annoying. There's a solution at http://filehippo.com/ (Thanks Mike Godfrey)

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