| Your Online Office |
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There was a time when the Internet was just for reading, but things are changing rapidly. Now you can create a web page without knowing how to program, you can collaborate with others on an encyclopedia (like the Wikipedia) and you can do your office work online (and share your work with others) with only your browser. Enter the Office 2.0 Database. This database lists all (or at least most) of the web-based office applications. Browse through categories like: calendar, bookmarks, database, email, fax, spreadsheet, and more. |
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Submitted by: Nicole Engard, Former Web Manager
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Comments (0)April 26, 2006
| Moe Would Be So Proud |
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And this morning they devoted a slice of precious real estate on the Google homepage to an ad for Firefox. It just occurred to me that the Google logo incorporates the same 4 happy colors that the Windows logo uses … |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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April 24, 2006
| Representing Agencies And Complainants Before the EEOC, 2nd |
 By Ernest C. HadleyUpdated for 2005, the Second Edition of Representing Agencies and Complainants before the EEOC contains even more practical advice for preparing and trying cases before the EEOC. This guide outlines principles and guidelines that can be applied to the wide variety of circumstances confronted by the practitioner. It provides an interesting and comprehensive analysis of the federal sector EEO process, with contributions from EEOC judges who provide their own tips on practice before the EEOC, along with insightful practice guidance from the author. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Digital Content Coordinator
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April 21, 2006
| Woudja Just Make Up Your Mind!?! |
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Google has renamed Google Local. It’s now called … drumroll please … Google Maps. Sound familiar? We’ve been (ahem) down this road before. BTW local.google.com and maps.google.com both still wind up in the same place. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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April 18, 2006
| Gas Shopping – $$$ Frugal Way |
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For all of you shoppers out there I would like to reveal a couple of gas shopping tips:
Be a good neighbor and pass this along… |
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Submitted by: Katrina Piechnik, Library Systems Manager
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April 17, 2006
| Can you draw me a picture? |
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Using the U.S. Census Bureau’s table-formatted demographic data can be a mindnumbing experience. The University of Michigan Social Science Data Analysis Network’s Web site allows you to create graphical interpretations of the data using colorful charts and graphs. These graphics can be placed in documents and Powerpoint presentation. |
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Submitted by: Nancy Garner, Assistant Director of Knowledge Services
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| Deposition Dissection: A Handbook For Doctors Facing Deposition |
 By Susanne MooreInformative and easy-to-read, Deposition Dissection makes the deposition process easy to understand and help the readers be more at ease in the deposition room. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Digital Content Coordinator
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April 15, 2006
| Spoliation Of Evidence: Sanctions And Remedies For Destruction Of Evidence In Civil Litigation, 2nd Edition |
 By Daniel F. Gourash , EditorThis new book, is a practical guide to addressing spoliation issues in your civil practice. It will help you determine what law applies to spoliation issues that arise during pending litigation or in the context of an independent tort claim for spoliation. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Digital Content Coordinator
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April 13, 2006
| New Stuff From the Big Three This Week |
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Google finally unveiled Google Calendar. (Rumors have been circulating about this since last autumn.)
So … You email and chat via Gmail. You index your computer with Google Desktop (and they store the data on their servers so you can search it remotely.) You store your pictures with Picasa. Don’t forget the stuff you created with Blogger or Writely. And now you create a Google calendar. All your clickstreams tied up in one neat package. Does that bother you as much as it bothers me? Microsoft launched Windows Live Academic, a competitor to Google Scholar. Currently WLA covers computer science, electrical engineering, and physics. Instead of crawling the Web for content (as Google does), Microsoft gets its literature directly from publishers.
Do I like it? I hate it. It’s so … tofu. You can’t search by author or title/abstract or by cited reference. Unlike Google Scholar, you don’t have a good chance of getting the full text of an article, since WLA gets the information directly from publishers. (And how many publishers like giving away info for free?) Microsoft is also doing this interface thing with all of the “Windows Live” services — it’s sort of minimal and sterile and, well, confusing. There are all these sliders and arrows. What do they do? Hover your cursor over them and wait for the bubble help. And wait. And wait. ‘Cause there is no bubble help. You can’t permanently customize the interface, either – if you eliminate the spilt screen, for example, then view an article, the interface returns to the default mode when you click the back button. I can’t image trying to work with WLA in a CLE class of 8 or 10 attorneys. Though they’re late to the dance, Yahoo finally added satellite images to Yahoo Maps Beta. I was prepared to ignore it. After all, Google Local is great, Windows Live Local has beautiful aerial images — at least Microsoft got that right — A9 Maps has Block View shots, and Ask.com plays animated driving directions. What’s left? Well I have to admit, I do like having “live” — that word is relative, they can be up to an hour old — traffic conditions superimposed on Yahoo’s satellite maps. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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April 11, 2006
| MSN Search Doesn’t Exactly Inspire Confidence |
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Last Thursday MSN Search was unavailable for most of the day. Not a big deal for me personally or professionally, but an embarrassment for them. What’s interesting to me, however, is the mea culpa posted on the MSN blog. I’ve excepted 2 of the comments and added my own annotations in italics:
I know there are lots of very intelligent people who work for Microsoft. But they just do not get the whole concept of Web search. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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