Find and Manage Legal Information on the Internet
Desktop search remains an underutilized and underappreciated productivity tool for lawyers. Windows 7 has finally delivered a powerful search feature that will uncover content quickly. In what seems typical, the default settings are not the most powerful. Check out these …
Google has delivered two new sidebar research tools in the past month. The first, the Research sidebar, appeared in Google Docs and copies the Microsoft Office research sidebar. Neither one is especially powerful unless the research resources you are …
One of the powerful components of the cloud-based services lawyers are using is the API. This enables services to talk to each other and for developers to create new tools to use those services. I am seeing more file …
Someone sent me a PDF the other day, needing it quickly turned into an editable file (Microsoft Word or some similar format). Our organization long ago dropped a PDF editor from the standard software installed on our PCs so I …
I am always on the lookout for easy to use, right-click tools that can be added to a Web browser to speed up research. A recent addition is Liquid Information, formerly known as Hyperwords, that brings together a bunch of …
The Web browser toolbar was for many years the way that expert researchers improved their Web browser. It provided nice added features (term jumping, highlighting) and saved search history. Google had one, Yahoo! had one, in fact nearly everyone who …
When I moved to the Incredible Start Page as my replacement home page, I found that my bookmarks bar was too cluttered to work well in this new layout. I moved most of my bookmarks into one of two folders, …