Here’s a feature the folks at Topix.net need to implement: the ability to create keyword-specific RSS feeds. With such a feed I wouldn’t have to wade through lots of stories I don’t want to read, just to find the one or two stories meeting my needs. Lucky for us, there’s a site that’s generating such
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News That Comes to You
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in RSS, Useful Web Sites
I never thought I’d say I like a news site as well or better than Google News, but it’s true — Topix.net is a terrific news resource. The folks over at Topix launched a new version of the site this week, with a new front page and a bunch of improved features. Topix crawls…
The WSJ Finally Catches Up
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in RSS
It’s about time — the Wall Street Journal is offering RSS Feeds to its subscribers and the general public. All of the feeds offer free headlines, but only the feeds from the Online Journal Network of Free sites make the full story available free of charge.
A WordPerfect Resource
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software, Useful Web Sites
Any lawyers still using WordPerfect out there? Anyone? Anyone? I know several lawyers still use the Corel product, but the numbers are getting smaller. I imagine that resources for WordPerfect users must be hard to find, so that’s what makes A Common Person’s WordPerfect Macro Manual so great. I recently sat in an airport and…
Let’s hear it for the IT Managers
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
In a recent survey, over 50% of employees say that spam is not an issue at work, and 68% say the spam situation is under control. This is in contrast to 79% of IT Managers, who say that spam is still a problem. This must mean the IT Managers are doing a good job…
The Da Vinci notebooks, a page at a time
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in RSS
The complete Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1,565 pages in all, are available in e-text from Project Gutenberg. If you have jumped on the RSS bandwagon, however, and you have a newsreader, you can read the notebooks, a page at a time. At this pace, if you start today you’ll finish sometime in
Learn what that file does
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
If you have ever pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete and checked out the “Processes” that are running on your computer at the present moment, you may be baffled by the names you see. Some of them are easy to decipher: iexplore (Internet Explorer), AcroRd32.exe (Acrobat Reader), etc. But what about the others? What do those programs do, and…
A new forum for Office users
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Although Microsoft has offered newsgroups for its products for some time, this appears to be a new (or revamped) offering: Microsoft Discussion Groups. Looks like a nifty way to get help on Microsoft Office products.
Cell Phones in Court
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Mobile Technology
The administrative branch of the federal judiciary is considering a ban on cell phones with cameras, to prevent surreptitious recording of court proceedings.
Although I’m not in federal court a lot, this news almost makes me wish I had waited for the new camera-less Treo 600.
Yahoo’s toolbar takes it up a notch
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
In addition to the features most search toolbars have, the new Yahoo Toolbar also features Anti-Spy, which claims to find and remove spyware and other unwanted programs. Let’s see if it works better than Ad-Aware, Spybot, or Spy Sweeper on removing the bad stuff.