The ABA Journal for March, 2007 has a feature Fantasy life, Real Law. it is about lawyers who participate in the virtual community Second Life. I became interested in Second Life several months ago when I read that some people werre actually supporting themselves in the real world by their business activities in this
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Designing a Custom Google Search Page
Designing a custom Google Search Page, that would take forever right?
No, just about ten minutes.
Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet
Here is a nice Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet. If you use Firefox, you will like this collection of tips and shortcuts. Hat tip to Tom Mighell for the link.
Top Ten Lists You Don’t Want To Miss
Everyone loves a Top Ten list. After posting about the Top Ten Flicker Hacks a few days ago, I decided I’d spend some time looking for some more Top Ten lists. It has been several weeks since I had time for any semi-pointless Web surfing and it turned out to be fun. There are countless…
Web 2.0 – The Machine is Us/ing Us
Well, at some level I never thought I’d link to a YouTube video from this blog, and at some level I knew, of course, that I’d someday link to video from this blog. But this video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cutural Anthropology, Kansas State University, about the evolution of the World Wide Web…
Google Patent Search
Several months ago a group of nationally-known speakers on a 60 Tips in 60 Minutes panel were joking that we could probably do a presentation titled 60 Google Tips for Lawyers. With the speed at which Google has rolled out new services this past year, that is scarcely a joke any more. The current new…
OK, It’s Time To Upgrade Your Browser (or is it?)
New browser versions have been released for free public download: Firefox 2.0 today and Internet Explorer 7 last week. You can download the new Internet Explorer here and you can download Firefox here. A lot of people are busily installing these, while other veterans of many new software installations are hanging back, waiting for…
Download the entire US Code in PDF
I have just learned from the OBA-NET (our bar member’s only online service in Oklahoma) that you can download all titles of the US Code from a website provided by the US House of Representatives. Here’s the link: http://uscode.house.gov/download/downloadPDF.shtml
According to Robert Don Gifford, an OBA member currently working in the US Attorney’s office in…
Online Filing Cabinets
If you haven’t been paying attention lately, you may not have noticed that online storage space is getting cheap. I’ve been researching lately into the various potential uses of online storage space for lawyers, from online backup to file sharing to virtual drives for day-to-day work. You have probably noted that there is a lot…
Improving Your Life a Bit and Toward More Flat Fees
Self-Improvement and flat fees. What do these two topics have in common? Not much except that they were both the subject of good articles in June’s Law Practice Today.
Tom Mighell’s Strongest Links column is about web sites that help you improve. But these are not, for the most part, self-motivational websites. Rather as…