A new start-up company wants to permanently end spam, and has a new program called MailBlocks. When the software intercepts an e-mail from an unknown source, it sends an e-mail to the sender with an image and a form to fill out. When the sender views the image and fills out the form (proving
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Speaking of e-mail…
By Tom Mighell on
PC World asks the question, why are you getting so much spam?. The article highlights a study from the Center for Democracy and Technology, and provides some good (if basic) recommendations on reducing the flood of spam. I’ll be posting more on this in the next few weeks.
Ethics for e-mailers
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
Another helpful article from Law.com discusses the ethical obligations inherent when lawyers practice law by e-mail. Follow these suggestions!
WiFi for lawyers
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Posted in Mobile Technology
Law.com discusses WiFi connections at coffee shops and airports today. WiFi stands for Wireless Fidelity, and it allows a user to wirelessly connect to the Internet wherever it happens to be available. Starbucks provides wireless access to its customers who have the right equipment on their laptop — pretty cool stuff.
Ready for an e-mail change? Check these programs out
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Posted in Email
I use MS Outlook on a daily basis, and I’m pretty satisfied with the way it works — I’m especially looking forward to the new version of Outlook currently being developed. But not everybody feels the same way, and several software companies have developed e-mail clients they hope will lure you away from Outlook.
New uses for RSS
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Those of you who read blogs on a regular basis should be familiar with the term RSS — for those of you who aren’t, RSS is simply a type of computer code that takes the “headlines” on a website and aggregates them for easy distribution to individuals or other websites. To read these aggregated headlines,…
E-filing confusion
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Posted in Technology
I got my refund today — it got here so fast because I e-filed last week. What a time-saver! Despite all the hubbub over its new piracy protection features, I was happy at how easy it was to use TurboTax to file. This year there are even more options for e-filing, and it’sgetting
More on e-filing and preparing your taxes online
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The New York Times weighs in on this year’s crop of online tax preparation services, as well as the I.R.S.’s new FreeFile program.
RSS Examined
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J.D. Lasica writes of his conversion to newsreaders, and notes that while it isn’t the Next Big Thing, it gives “news organizations another way to reach that most elusive of creatures: the wired, tech-savvy professional. And you can bet that within a year or so, students will be latching onto RSS subscriptions in a
RSS — if you improve it, will lawyers come?
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Jerry Lawson over at NetLawTools discusses the pros and cons of E-Mail updates over RSS. I agree with the proposition; RSS feeds and news aggregators have tremendous potential to revolutionize the way we use the Internet.
In fact, Jonas and Kevin have come up with an extension of a cool concept called the LazyWeb…