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Revised URLs for 8th Edition of "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet" June 2007
06/01/2007 - 00:00No matter how often we update "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet," resources on the Internet change more often. So to help keep book owners up to date, from time to time, we include changes to the current edition in our free e-mail newsletter. Owners should note: 8th Edition Virtual Reference Desk (aka "AskA") - page 75 This U.S. Department of Education-sponsored service is no...
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Ancestry Offers Free Military Records
05/31/2007 - 00:00For a Limited Time Only Ancestry.com has recently added a database of U.S. military enlistment and draft records purportedly beginning with the Jamestown settlement (1607) and running through the Vietnam era (1970). Records can be searched with as little as a last name. However, the results list will be pretty long for such a search. (It's also important to note that the...
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Internet For Lawyers Sets Continuing Legal Education Seminars Spring 2007
05/31/2007 - 00:00Internet For Lawyers Sets Continuing Legal Education Seminars Internet For Lawyers has set the following slate of live Continuing Legal Education seminars in Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Washington DC, and Northern & Southern California during the Spring/Summer 2007. These seminars are specifically designed to benefit all legal professionals, including lawyers, paralegals...
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Latest Gadgets to be Introduced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007
12/05/2006 - 01:00Latest Gadgets to be Introduced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Every year, barely after the New Year, the consumer technology industry comes together in Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES¨) - the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow. There they introduce and celebrate the latest products and technological innovations in consumer electronics, including...
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FindLaw Founder Launches Legal Blog Search
12/04/2006 - 01:00Under the auspices of his current company, Justia, FindLaw co-founder Tim Stanley has launched a new directory and search engine of law-related blogs (blawgs) at BlawgSearch.com. The site launched with an index of "around 600 blawgs...{with] an emphasis on academic and technology law blawgs," according to an announcement Stanley posted to an online discussion forum. At launch, the site offers...
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Replace Your Electric Typewriter with Adobe Acrobat Typewriter
12/03/2006 - 01:00New Feature Makes Creating Interactive Forms a Breeze Beginning with version 7.05 of its popular Acrobat Professional software, Adobe introduced a feature called "Typewriter" that reduces the creation of an interactive PDF form to just a few clicks. When owners of Adobe Acrobat Pro version 7.05, or newer, "Typewriter-enable" a PDF document, anyone using version 7 of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader...
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Internet For Lawyers Sets Additional Continuing Legal Education Seminars December 2006
11/25/2006 - 01:00Internet For Lawyers has set the following slate of live Continuing Legal Education seminars in Nevada, New Mexico and New York, in December 2006. These seminars are specifically designed to benefit all legal professionals, including lawyers, paralegals, law office administrators and other support staff. Scheduled seminars include: December 2006 December 2- The Lawyers...