R-Graphics for Networks

With R you can make beautiful graphics and the nice thing is, you can design your own customized graphics. For some nice graphs produced with R, have a look at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/.
 
At the moment I am working on a parking model (searching for parking lots in the city) and have a simple grid for the streets and the junctions. If you start working with network models you have the problem that there is basic information for every node and on top of that you have for every node your results. Trying to interprete the results is hard. Either
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Directory Opus: A great Windows Explorer replacement

I experimented with different replacements for the Windows Explorer. I tried several free replacements, but finally decided to buy Directory Opus (“Opus”). It can be found at http://www.gpsoft.com.au/index.html. It costs about 90 US Dollar. It has a manual of over 700 pages, so you can probably imagine that it will have many features. I have been using Opus for several years now, but never took the time of configuring it properly for my needs. Yesterday I discovered a nice article by Andy  (http://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/c_dopus.html) who shows how to make Opus more user-friendly. It is a great article and
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