From inter alia: Remote Printing Made Easy PrinterAnywhere is an interesting application — it allows you to safely print documents on any printer, anywhere in the world — or to have documents printed on your …
Year: 2006
Librarian's Ultimate Guide to Search Engines Has Tips for Everyone
Scott Hawksworth over at DegreeTutor has created a very useful guide for online research called the Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines. It covers “things librarians understand about search – and things that anyone doing …
NYT on Why Spam Has Increased Lately
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the increase in spam in the last six months. According to the NYT: – Spammers are “conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly …
"A Corpse Has a Sense of Humor Compared to a Librarian!"
Following my post about Microsoft Live Books yesterday, I spent a little time digging around the database. I came across a 1919 book of fiction entitled, The Swing of the Pendulum. In it, we meet …
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Features Attorney-Friendly Improvements
The ABA reports that the newly released Adobe Acrobat 8.0 contains several new features of particular interest to attorneys. These include redaction, show metadata, Bates numbering, improved forms functions, collaboration tools, and more. For more, …
Microsoft Beta Releases Book Search
On Wednesday, Microsoft released Live Search Books in beta. Similar to Google Book Search, the Microsoft book search engine allows users to keyword search for scanned books. Unlike Google, however, Microsoft is scanning only noncopyright …
Your Life Work: The Librarian
A colleague passed along this little YouTube gem entitled, “Your Life Work: The Librarian,” a vocational guidance film from 1956. Prerequisites for a career in librarianship: love for books and love for people. It’s not …
WSLL After Hours Service
The Wisconsin State Law Library reminds users that it’s After Hours Service renewal/application time. Any Wisconsin-licensed attorney may subscribe to this service, which allows use of the library from 5 to 10 p.m. Monday – …
Track Web Site Changes
From WSLL @ Your Service: Keep Track of Competitors and Clients Looking for a free and easy competitive intelligence tool? Trackengine.com is a free service that can be used to track changes made to websites. …
Noah Wyle Returns as "The Librarian" this Sunday
Noah Wyle returns this Sunday night as The Librarian in the the TNT movie, Return to King Solomon’s Mines. I’ve got my TiVo all set. From the TNT site: This globe-trotting action-thriller from the producer …