Well, that’s not entirely true — the major anti-virus companies care when new viruses are released. However, the new Sober worm, while having the potential to cause harm to your PC, is moving rather slowly and not having much of an affect on PC users. Still, make sure your anti-virus definitions are up
Too strong for its own good
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
The New York Times profiled the Google Toolbar yesterday, specifically discussing the utility’s pop-up blocker and its apparent super-strength. The article is right — the pop-up blocker is very strong, blocking nearly 100% of the popups I have encountered. In fact, the tracker tells me I have blocked 4,028 pop-ups since I installed the toolbar…
Blawg of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Elaine Cassell brings us Civil Liberties Watch, where she invites us to “follow the war on civil liberties and watch the government rewrite our bill of rights.”
Wednesday’s Best TV Quote
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Fun Stuff
“Ah…memories fade, but a Google search will live forever.”
— Michael McKean as Perry White, in Smallville
Blawg of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
The MacLean Family Law Group of British Columbia is blogging on family law issues in two places: here and here.
Google Goodies
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Posted in Search Engines
The October Pandia Post offers up some hidden features of Google, many of which you may already know about from reading this blog. They are still good to know.
Bueno
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites
Government portal FirstGov now offers a Spanish language version of its site.
A helping hand to fight spam
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
Chances are your ISP is increasing its anti-spam efforts, to keep junk mail out of your inbox. I’m generally in favor anything that’s done to fight spam, but I’m just not sure about a solution at the ISP level. The technology is just not good enough yet that “false positives” (legitimate mail that is…
Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- Alex Wellen is the voice behind Barman, as well as the author of the book of the same name.
- unSecure Privacy is written by Joshua L. Smith, a lawyer at Wildman Harrold.
Making the Invisible Web Visible
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
In my seminars, I tell people that the best way to find resources on the Invisible Web is to “know where you need to go before you need to go there.” A little counter-intuitive, but it’s true. Now, researchers in England are developing a technology that will allow users to search for something without knowing…