| This Is What Happens When All Your Eggs Are In One Basket |
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Here’s a warning posted on the Google Online Security Blog: beware of phishing sites that want to steal your Gmail account credentials: “To keep your Google account secure online, we recommend you only ever enter your Gmail sign-in credentials to web addresses starting with https://www.google.com/accounts, and never click-through any warnings your browser may raise about certificates.” Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Web History, Google Health, Blogger, Picasa … all that stuff (and more), tied to one email account. Oy! |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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Comments (2)November 25, 2008
| No Kindle 2 Under The Tree This Year |
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Apparently Amazon has delayed the release of the Kindle 2 until 1Q of 2009. If the leaked images of the next-gen version that made the rounds in October are real, it looks much more polished that its predecessor. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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November 24, 2008
| Microsoft Knows It Has a Branding Problem |
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MSN Search just didn’t sound Googley enough. So Microsoft changed the name to Live Search. Still not catchy. Next year, they may call their search service … Kumo? Personally, I vote for Moist and Chewy Search. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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| Death Penalty in a Nutshell |
 By Victor StreibCovering both the substantive and the procedural law of the death penalty, this title begins with an explanation of its basic constitutional challenges and limitations. Major sections cover capital crimes and defenses, as well as trial level and post trial procedural issues. Topics such as race and gender bias and executing the innocent are included, as well as a section on international and foreign law issues. Current as of July 2008, this book serves both as supplemental reading for death penalty courses and as a concise, narrative explanation of death penalty law. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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November 21, 2008
| If You Build It, They Will Come |
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And then you’ll have to build it again. The architects of the new Europeana digital cultural library designed the site to handle 5 million hits (to oversimplify, think “visits”) per hour. They got 10 million instead, so the site’s now down a day after it launched. They hope to have Europeana back up by mid-December. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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| Google SearchWiki |
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Yesterday Google launched SearchWiki, which allows you to reorder your Google search results, delete sites from the hit list, add sites to the results, and annotate your results page. For each hit, you’ll see an up-arrow (to reorder), an “X” (to delete), and a speech balloon (for comments). SearchWiki is available to you only if you’ve logged into Google with your Gmail account. The changes you make to the results page will also only apply to your account. However, if you want to see how others have customized the results, click on “See all notes for this SearchWiki” at the bottom of the results page. I’m not going to edit a results page. I’m either going to find what I want in the top 10 or 20 hits, or I’m not. If I find a site that I like, and that I think I’ll use again, I’ll bookmark it. It’s bad enough that Google has my Database of Intentions, but I’m not going to teach it what I like as well. This is simply another way for Google to benefit from my free labor. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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November 20, 2008
| A Half-Hour to Boot? Even Vista’s Not That Slow |
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The National Law Journal reports on a spate of lawsuits being filed by hourly workers against their employers over time spent booting their computers. The article quotes Las Vegas solo lawyer Mark Thierman, who has filed of few of these suits himself: “‘These are hourly employees who are not making much more than minimum wage,’ Thierman said. ‘There’s a good half-hour a day that they’re not being paid for. It adds up.’” Puh-leeze. I know Windows Vista (like my wife) takes a while to get going in the morning. But no way does it take 30 minutes to boot up and/or shut down. Link via TaxProf Blog, via Lifehacker. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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November 19, 2008
| From Hurricanes to Hollywood |
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1) Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Outstanding Need, Slow Progress 2) Editing Hollywood’s Editors: Cleaning Flicks for Families 3) Steroids in Sports: Cheating the System… What do all of these things have in common? They are all the titles of hearings before the U.S. Congress. Although other documents, such as Committee Reports, are considered more valuable sources of legislative history, hearings are still a piece of the puzzle. They provide great background and include a range of useful information. Hearings are usually held to assist Congress with proposed legislation and give committee members the opportunity to ask questions and collect information from experts, scholars, and officials. Hearings commonly contain transcripts of Q & A sessions, prepared statements by witnesses and exhibits. LexisNexis Congressional is available to members 24/7 and has complete versions of hearings from 2004 - present. In addition, select testimony transcripts and submitted statements are available from 1988-present. If you need any help with your research, call the Reference Desk at 215-574-1505 or email research@jenkinslaw.org |
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Submitted by: Jenny Hohenstein, Reference/Electronic Services Librarian
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| Microsoft Will Offer Free Security Software Next Year |
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From the announcement: “Code-named ‘Morro’, this streamlined solution will be available in the second half of 2009 and will provide comprehensive protection from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. This new solution, to be offered at no charge to consumers, will be architected for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios or less powerful PCs.” Currently I’m running AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition on my personal laptop, which I use for testing all sorts of apps. I’m happy with AVG, but I’d definitely be open to testing Morro, just to see how it works. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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| Free Download: Doc Scrubber |
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If you create and distribute documents with MS Office, you need to be aware of metadata. What’s that, you say? Metadata is data about data. It describes how, when, and by whom a document was created. You can manually remove this hidden information, or you can purchase one of the metadata scrubbers available on the market to do it for you automatically. Yesterday Lifehacker featured a free metadata scrubber: Doc Scrubber, which works with Windows versions 98 through XP. (Please note that I haven’t tested or used this product yet, but since it’s a freebie, it’s certainly worth a try.) For more info, including some great examples of actual embarrassing metadata slip-ups perpetrated by the Democratic National Committee, U.S. Central Command, United Nations, U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, and the FBI, come to our one-hour Internet Ethics CLE class. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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