March 2006

Last week I featured 30 Boxes, the online calendar. Since then several people directed my attention to another online calendar, Trumba, which gets the nod for this week’s Website of the Week. Trumba has many advanced features like RSS Newsfeeds and subscribing to e-mail alerts. But a couple of features really caught

Did you know that Microsoft Outlook will calculate future dates for you easily? In a new Appointment or Task, you can type 30d and when you hit tab, the date displayed is 30 days from today. Even more interesting is that you can type phrases like "45 days from April 25th" and it will calculate

Technolawyer’s BlawgWorld 2006 was released near the end of November, 2005. It was a nice little e-book profiling many popular legal blogs. I noted its release then, but many of you may have declined to download it because you had to register with Technolawyer. Now it has been released for a free, public, no-strings-attached download.

Many people now participate in online communities of interest. Getting several opinions when you have a question about something is good, whether you do it in the courthouse snack bar or electronically. I’ve mentioned Solosez before as an example of a large online community, primarily of lawyers, that operates via an electronic mailing list.  Well

30 Boxes is a nifty free Web 2.0 calendaring application. It is an online calendar you can share with certain others or make public. It may not be appropriate for a lawyer’s calendar or for a single trying to date several people without the others finding out. But it might well be appropriate for a

I get a few e-mails tagged as high priority or urgent, e.g. tagged with that red exclamation mark. I’m not sure how many end users even know what means. If someone e-mailing me thinks it is urgent, they usually begin the subject line with URGENT!!! That usually gets my attention, especially if they fall into

Welcome to Blawg Review #49

For those of you who have never partaken of the Blawg Review, it is what is referred to as a carnival. I am this week’s guest host. Yes, this is a carnival, an online traveling sideshow of sorts. Carnivals are where one plays what one may believe to be rigged

If you slipped up last week and forget to register for ABA TECHSHOW before the Early Bird Deadline expired, I have some good news for you. The Early Bird Deadline has been extended until March 17th. Since this is a $200 discount, it is important to register early. Oklahoma Bar members can contact me for

It’s been a busy week for roll-outs and rumors of new online services. We are seeing the early rounds of an escalating battle between Google and Microsoft to become the dominant online user service provider. But don’t expect Yahoo or AOL to sit this one out on the sidelines.

Microsoft launched its new search engine