Category Archives: Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools

Featured Link – Calendar-365.com

Written On April 28, 2010 By Bob Kraft

Calendar-365.com is a simple site that just has calendars. But the site makes it easy to move backward or forward to other years so you can check what day of the week a particular date fell on. Another handy feature is that you can click on a holiday in 2010 and see when that holiday [...]

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Tips to Keep Kids Safe Online

Written On February 3, 2010 By Bob Kraft

Keep computers in a common area of the home so you can monitor your child’s online activities.
Encourage your child to use nicknames rather than his or her real name when online.
Tell you child to be careful when posing for pic- tures or videos.
Remind your children that anything they post can be viewed by potentially millions [...]

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Featured Link — Pipl.com

Written On January 5, 2010 By Bob Kraft

Pipl.com is a search engine limited to finding people. It works exactly as you would expect. You enter a name and any other information you have, and you get page after page of possible links to that person. The link categories include the following:

Contact Details
Background Reports
Personal Profiles
Professional and Business
E-mail Address
Publications
Public Records, and more

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Featured Link

Legal Research On a Shoestring Budget

Written On November 20, 2009 By Bob Kraft

In a recent post by Anurag Acharya on the Official Google Blog, anyone can now find federal and state court case opinions with Google Scholar. By entering either party names or topic (for example, disability) you can now search for the full text of legal opinions and articles. And it’s free!
According to Acharya’s [...]

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Featured Link – Google Maps Gadgets

Written On September 9, 2009 By Bob Kraft

It’s really just astounding how many add-on applications people have dreamed up for Google Maps. You’ll find a big directory of them at the Google Maps site.

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Featured Link

Featured Link – Tweetake.com

Written On May 26, 2009 By Bob Kraft

Do you use Twitter a lot? Do you worry about losing a record of your friends and fans, and your old tweets? You can back up all that at Tweetake.com. It’s very simple to do, and dumps everything into a spreadsheet file.

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Featured Link – WolframAlpha

Written On May 20, 2009 By Bob Kraft

WolframAlpha is essentially an Internet search engine, in the same manner that Google is an Internet search engine. But WolframAlpha focuses on computational searches, and is simply astonishing in the depth of information it can present, and in the form that presentation takes. I have wasted long stretches of time playing with this search engine. [...]

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Featured Link – ZabaSearch.com

Written On May 4, 2009 By Bob Kraft

ZabaSearch is another of the many new search engines in the Internet. This one specializes in people searches and has a few feature Google doesn't. It's free, so take a look. Here's their one-paragraph description:
Telephone Numbers and Addresses Revealed Free. No Registration Required. Instant Results. Three Times More Residential Listings than White Pages Phone Directory

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Featured Link – Readability

Written On April 18, 2009 By Bob Kraft

Do you read a lot of articles on the Internet? If so, you're going to love this nifty tool. Readability is a Web browser plug-in that you add to your links toolbar. When you find a long article you want to read, just click on the Readability icon and suddenly everyone on the page disappears [...]

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Please Attend TECHSHOW – April in Chicago

Written On February 17, 2009 By Bob Kraft

I've been attending TECHSHOW, presented by the American Bar Association almost since the beginning, many years ago. It's always a highlight of my year. The enormous amount of technical information presented is only one reason to attend. Equally important to me is the opportunity to meet in person with many of the friends I correspond [...]

Posted in Bar Associations and Legal Groups, Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Practice Tips

Guard Against Identity Theft On Social Networks

Written On December 8, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Today’s Dallas Morning News has a good article about how to safeguard your confidential information while using Internet social networking Web sites.  Here are excerpts:
The next source of identity theft may be social networking Web sites.

Thieves are constantly searching for new ways to get you to divulge any
sliver of personal information so they can [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Consumer Information

Featured Link – SafeManuals.com

Written On November 20, 2008 By Bob Kraft

I have a bad habit of putting manuals and instructions for cameras, computers, etc. in safe places where I can never find them again. A site like SafeManuals.com helps me by proving user manuals for dozens of manufacturers and hundreds of products online for me to download as necessary. If you’ve lost a manual, check [...]

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Featured Link – YouConvertIt.com

Written On November 19, 2008 By Bob Kraft

YouConvertIt.com is a handy Web site for converting files from one format to another. The site handles pretty much every format I’ve ever heard of and many that I haven’t. Here is the explanation from the site:
YouConvertIt.com, the world’s first and most complete conversion, file
storage, units conversion website allowing internet users to convert
audio video images [...]

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Featured Link – Really, Really Basic Computer Tips

Written On November 15, 2008 By Bob Kraft

This article from the New York Times blog has a list of really basic computer tips that everyone should already know. But I admit that after using computers for at least 30 years, I didn’t know all of them. You might find a few little tricks that you either never knew or had forgotten. Check [...]

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Featured Link – Pixolu

Written On November 3, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Pixolu is an Internet search engine for images. The unique feature is that you can refine your searches by choosing images that you like best from the original search. You drag and drop your favorites over to the side, and then the engine searches again, using your "preferences" as a factor in the new search. [...]

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Featured Link – BrowserShots.org

Written On October 27, 2008 By Bob Kraft

If you maintain a Web site, you should know how it looks in different browsers. Although most people use Internet Explorer, more and more are using Firefox, Safari, or any of a dozen others. One Web site that lets you see how your own site appears in different browsers is BrowserShots. It’s very easy to [...]

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Computer Crash Hinders Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Case

Written On October 23, 2008 By Bob Kraft

According to the Dallas Morning News, the Texas Attorney General has hit a major speed bump in his investigation into Medicaid fraud in Texas, and all because of a computer crash and a failure to backup data. Let this be a lesson to all of us – back up your computer now!

A massive
computer crash [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Government, Medicaid

Featured Link – Rushmore Drive.com

Written On August 30, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Is Google too White? That’s the question posed by new search engine RushmoreDrive.
The developers of this site say that Google is unconsciously biased in
favor of sites sought out by Whites, and not those searched for by
Blacks. So at RushmoreDrive, the search results tend more toward
"Black" sites. This proposition seems a bit dubious to me, but [...]

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Information Service For Your Cell Phone – ChaCha.com

Written On August 26, 2008 By Bob Kraft

The information service at ChaCha is pretty well-established now, and the business has an interesting structure to it. ChaCha employs thousands of "guides" who answer questions sent in from cell phones. The guides are paid $.20 per answer, and frequently use Google or Wikipedia to find the answers they text back to the users. The [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Consumer Information

Featured Link – Sherpa Software

Written On August 5, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Sherpa Software is an Electronic Evidence Discovery company that offers e-mail management solutions to a wide variety of problem areas. Here is the company’s description from their Web site:
Archiving email software, email compliance – Sherpa’s archiving email software provides solutions for email compliance, email content management and email regulatory compliance and security protocols.

Sherpa Software is [...]

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