From TVC Alert Ask.com soon will retire the name, Ask Jeeves, to become simply Ask.
Year: 2006
Maximizing Your Browsing Experience
In the recent edition of LLRX, Fred Faulkner has compiled a useful guide to Maximize Your Browsing Experience. In it, he explains how to make the most of toolbars, bookmarklets, and extensions. Very handy stuff.
What to Do When the Network Goes Down
There were a lot of lost souls wandering around the UW Law Library in the last 24 hours. Horror of horrors – the Law School’s computer network was completely down thanks to an accidentally severed …
Create a 360 Degree Image
Picturecloud.com is a free, neat little tool that allows you to create a spinning 360 degree image. Take a series of still photos from all sides of an object and upload. The more you pictures …
Paralegal Blawg – The Estrin Report
There’s a new blawg in town – The Estrin Report, “created for professional paralegals — not of a certain level, specialty or firm — but of a particular attitude.” The author is Chere Estrin, CEO …
Your Very Own E-Nagging Service
In any relationship there is a fine line between reminding and nagging. When does too much of the former turn into the latter? Are you once, twice, three times a nagger? I’m sure that my …
Things That Make You Go Eww
A pair of articles to brighten your day: – From Reuters: Oddly Enough: Grocery shopping? Take your rubber gloves! “Shopping cart handles are the most bacteria-infested items among some commonly used objects while doorknobs on …
Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
My fellow UW Law Librarian, Jenny Zook has written a useful piece on protecting yourself from identity theft for our Law School newsletter.
Bookmobile Delivery by Camel
When I worked at the Eau Claire Public Library, I was the backup driver for their Bookmobile service to area nursing homes and senior centers. We had a van. But in Kenya, “ships of the …
People Like "Renting" CDs, DVDs from the Library
There is a forum I monitor from SlickDeals.net on freebies (’cause who doesn’t like free stuff?). Mostly posts are about free deals at restaurants and other promotional giveaways, but today there was a post from …