"A Desktop Search Primer" was the title of my Oklahoma Bar Journal story this month. I generally outlined what desktop search is and noted several of the leading products. An important point was that you should make sure the product indexes the files you need to search. For example, some products do not index WordPerfect
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Is Your Spyware Detector Being Censored?
By Jim Calloway on
Check out Law Tech Guru’s post "How Good is Your Spyware Scanner?" He includes a link to a PC World article on the same topic. It seems that some adware companies are petitioning and threatening legal action to get their products removed from the databases of the various spyware/adware detection software packages. The result for…
How to post a PowerPoint to the Web
By Jim Calloway on
After our OBA Solo and Small Firm Conference is over, I’m going to experiment with posting a few of my old PowerPoints to www.okbar.org. Someone asked me about how to do this and I recalled reading a post titled "How do I put a PowerPoint presentation on the web?" by Andy Havens on his…
Utilities Power Up Your PC
By Jim Calloway on
My April Oklahoma Bar Journal column is titled "Utilities Power Up Your PC." I cover a few of the basic utility software programs that most of us have on our PC’s. If you are a user of OSCN.Net and have had a problem with your computer only displaying the first page of the scanned image…
Review of Desktop Search Tools
By Jim Calloway on
From Tom Mighell, I learned of Adam Baratz’s review of desktop search tools, posted earlier this week. Put this on your required reading list and then start using one of these products if you haven’t tried one yet.
Managing Your Digital Photos
By Jim Calloway on
By now many of us have hundreds, or thousands, of digital images on our computer hard drives or CD-ROMs which we have downloaded from our digital cameras. You can potentially acquire quite a collection of these over the years. How do you manage (and edit) all of these digital images? I know what tools most…
The Mirra Personal Server 2.0
By Jim Calloway on
I was very intrigued when I read Brett Burney’s Review of the Mirra Personal Server 2.0 on LLRX.com. I didn’t get one of these for Christmas, so I may have to buy one myself for my home system. I think that many lawyers should be investigating external hard drives as a part of their disaster…