While doing some corrections on my diploma thesis I found that the spellchecking functionalities coming with TeXnicCenter (my LaTeX editor) were not sufficient.
So I started searching for other solutions. The best solution I have found yet, is to convert the LaTeX document to RTF. Then you can use the spellchecking of e.g. Open Office or MS Word. The tool that does the conversion job is called LaTeX2rtf. It often has some difficulties with including images but that did not matter for my purposes.
Link ListTeXnicCenter LaTeX2rtf

Even in research context citing online resources becomes more and more common. Their is a well established standard for citing scientific papers in LaTeX but online resources are to some degree different and the standard does not apply to them as they are to some degree transiert.
I stick to this pseudo standard for LaTeX as proposed by Wikipedia.
e.g. thats how you would cite the Wikipedia page about Blogs.
Also check the LaTeX url package to create more nicely formatted web addresses.

To all the LaTeX users out there: Did you every mess up your bibliography files? I did, more than once.
I frequently quote papers from ACM and IEEE. They normally add a bibtex entry for each paper, so it is pretty convenient to integrate them into your your document.
But what about other papers and books? Typing bibtex entries by hand can really be horrible. One forgets about the different parameters of different bibtex types all the time and thats how you can get astonishing results in your references.
If you dont know …