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When You Really Need to Send Me a Terabyte of Information
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Cloud Computing, Useful Web Sites
Getting big files to people through e-mail is a problem; most ISPs have size limits on e-mail, and so files bigger than 3-5MB frequently don’t get through. A number of services have popped up to address this issue — companies like YouSendIt and FileCourier provide for safe and secure file transfer. Now Streamload is getting…
Meet Mr. Sapo
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
I have no idea who MrSapo is, but he/she/they have an interesting search interface. As Tara Calishain puts it, it’s not exactly a meta-search engine — more like a “meta-interface” site. But it’s pretty cool — you can run your search on multiple engines all in the same window. You can even run different…
Because You Can Never Have Enough Cool Tools
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search, Useful Web Sites
Check out Chris Sherman’s Three Cool Search Gizmos], with some nifty tools to enhance your searching experience. I especially like the Printer Friendly bookmarklet, which automatically finds the “Printer Friendly” page so you don’t have to scour the page looking for the tiny link.
Resolved: Better Searching
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search, Search Engines
Chris Sherman posted his Search Resolutions for the New Year over at SearchDay, and he’s got some good stuff. Interestingly, though, when he resolves to “Break the Google Toolbar Habit,” he doesn’t plan to wander far from it. What he really means is to stop using Internet Explorer, the only platform for which Google Toolbar…
Google Groups Relaunches
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Google Groups launched a new version of itself, replacing the old iteration. The new features allow users to create their own groups, as well as the ability to create a mailing list. These features were first introduced a few months ago, as Danny Sullivan discussed here. John Battelle has a lot more on Google
Step Right Up and Win a Prize!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Blawg of the Day – Skallawwag
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Keep up with the comings and goings of lawyers working in AmLaw 100 firms with Skallawwag.
An Online Grinch, For Real
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Security
Those dastardly phisherpersons are at it again. Now they are setting up legitimate-looking shopping sites for the purposes of downloading a trojan to your computer. When you click on an image of a product, it instead downloads a zip file that automatically installs itself, and it’s then poised to steal your personal and financial information.…
Blawg of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
The law librarians are organizing…the CS-SIS (Computer Services, Special Interest Section) of the American Association of Law Libraries has created a Blawgs Committee, and they’re blogging about it.