Year: 2008

Busted by YouTube

BBC News has an interesting article on the increasing use of YouTube videos as criminal evidence. Source: law.librarians

Send and Receive Faxes from Your Computer at No Cost

Here are a couple of useful tools for sending and receiving faxes from you computer at no charge: To Send: FaxZero Simply enter your name and email, the recipient’s name and fax number, upload the document to fax, and send. There is no cost for this service, however there will be an ad on the …

Cool RSS Tools

RSS aficionados will appreciate 14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS Feeds from makeuseof.com. With these tools, you can do all sorts of interesting things with RSS feeds, such as: filter feeds by keyword send feed content to email, cell phone, chat, etc combine multiple feeds into one format feed content for print display feed content …

Researching "Green" Issues

Bev Butula over at the Wisconsin Law Journal blog has put together a useful guide to researching “green” issues. The list also appeared in the print edition of this week’s Wisconsin Law Journal on page 10A.

Photos of Milwaukee Businesses, Homes Now on Google

Google Street Views has made its way to Milwaukee. Simply do a Google search for an address in Milwaukee and click on the “Street Views” link in the resulting map. You’ll see a panoramic view from the street like the one below. Notice that you can pan, rotate and zoom, as well as, move forward …

AALL Annual Meeting Web Site & Blog

It seems to be the day for AALL blogs. In addition to the afore mentioned Washington Affairs blog, the AALL Annual Meeting blog also makes its debut today. Actually, it’s more than just a blog – it’s a whole Web site. Here are some of creator Jason Eiseman’s favorite features: It’s a single website: in …

New Blog from AALL Washington Affairs Office

Washington Blawg is the new blog from the AALL Washington Affairs Office. Here at the Washington Affairs Office (WAO) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), we’re always trying to find new ways to update our members and others about the latest policy news, resources, and activities in D.C. and around the country. After …

Cell Phones Added to "Do Not Call" List?

From JS Online: The state Senate unanimously voted Tuesday to add cell phones to the state’s “do not call” list and raise the maximum fine for violating that law from $100 to $1,000.

Law Library of Congress RSS Feeds

The Law Library of Congress is now offering a handful of RSS feeds. News & Events Research Reports Webcasts Global Legal Monitor Source: AbsTracked

Law Library Closing at 1:00 pm on Sunday

Due to weather conditions, the UW Law Library will be closing at 1:00 pm on Sunday, February 17th.