Franco Castalone: LawTechTechnology and legal practiceFreeware suites- November 13, 2003 From the Business software section at TUCOWS, three freeware alternative suites, including Sun's redoubtable OpenOffice. I have looked at EasyOffice before; it is somewhat "cartoony", but would be an excellent introduction for your mother-in-law: EasyOffice with PDF Filter 5.95 This office suite is compatible with PDF, MS-Word and Excel files. The word processor supports RTF, DOC, HTML and PDF files. EasySpeaker is an English-voice reader. EasySpreadsheet reads and writes Excel XLS...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110436/categories/myProfession/2003/11/12.html#a482 Fighting spam - the positive approach- November 10, 2003 Dennis Kennedy, one of the most consistently insightful legal tech writers I know, has posted another incisive message, this time regarding spam and e-mail. So, here's the dirty little secret of spam filters. They have fundamentally broken the trust and confidence that was at the root of the whole e-mail system. Fundamentally broken the whole system. If I can't know for certain that I am getting the e-mail being sent to me that I want to see and that I can't know whether my...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110436/categories/myProfession/2003/11/09.html#a481 The new outrage- November 8, 2003 The newest e-atrocity: spam delivered by your Belkin Wi-Fi network router. (From the Register, via Dave Farber's Interesting People list) Update 11-9, also from the Farber list: The original Usenet posting by a Belkin manager has been cancelled (but got saved here: http:stevesobol.combelkin.txt ); and there is now a message hastily tacked onto their home page at www.belkin.com that attempts to paint their current actions as "addressing customer concerns". From the ongoing...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110436/categories/myProfession/2003/11/08.html#a479 |