Legal Research

Internet Librarian International II

Posted on October 08, 2007
So, my first day at ILI over. Highlights for me included: Dave Pattern, University of Huddersfield, speaking about web 2.0 and the OPAC, surprisingly interesting and rather exciting stuff - The Impact of 2.0: lipstick, cowbells and serendipity in the OPAC...

Internet Librarian International

Posted on October 08, 2007
Thought Id have a go at blogging live from Internet Librarian International. Here goes & Got to the hotel in Kensington with plenty of time, registered and got settled down for the keynote. Surprisingly, considering the theme of the conference, no one explained the wi-fi situation...

Blog Love

Posted on October 07, 2007
Ive been tagged in the Blawg Review meme, so here are 10 blogs I consider to be tops, with a decidedly law librarian flava: Slaw - if you have any kind of interest in Canadian legal materials this is a must stop. Enquiring Minds Want to Know - UK law librarian bloggers, thought provoking posts and generally [...

Feel Their Pain: A Pupillage Reader

Posted on October 07, 2007
Since it is that time of year I thought Id post a round up of pupil related blogs. From scary stories to good advice, must reads for new pupils: The Ramblings of a Paranoid Pupil - one of four pupils at a commercial set trying to beat the odds. The Pupillage Chronicles - a record of pupillage [...

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LawBore

Posted on October 02, 2007
City Universitys LawBore, brainchild of law librarian Emily Allbon, has undergone a redesign. If you havent already checked it out then its worth having a peak. Although created primarily with City students in mind, theres lots of stuff that can be accessed by anyone, including a directory of legal links, a forum and a wiki [...

Clutterme

Posted on October 01, 2007
Clutterme lets you build web pages quickly and simply. You can type anywhere on the page, paste in videos, pictures, upload files, drag different elements all over the shop, there are even a few widgets available (more promised soon). You can customise the design of your page adding backgrounds, changing fonts and colours...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on September 30, 2007
Bookmarked this week: PuriCute - Purikura for the web, upload your pics and make them PuriCute with frames and stamps. flauntR - photo editor, add lots of effects to your pictures and import directly from Flickr. rsizr - resize your photos. Pictobrowser - share your Flickr pics on your website or blog...

Uboontu

Posted on September 26, 2007
Uboontu is a Google custom search engine for Ubuntu related information. There is also a Firefox extension available. Very handy. Bookmark to:

Adventures in Ubuntu: Ubuntu Forums Firefox Add-on

Posted on September 23, 2007
I have mentioned before that the Ubuntu forums are a mine of information and can help get you out of almost any kind of fix. You can now have your forums a little closer to hand with this Firefox extension which gives you the option of having a Ubuntu Forums menu alongside the standard Firefox [...

Link Types

Posted on September 23, 2007
I came across a rather interesting post on Search Engine Journal which talks about the five different types of links bloggers should be employing. Sales links - not necessarily getting people to buy stuff, these could also be used to get people to do stuff or driving people to & take a specific path...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on September 23, 2007
Only a few this week: WEBi.org - Free and open source software directory. Treedolist - create simple structured to do lists. Can also be used to manage notes and RSS feeds. Keep Up - task and event manager note2email - email yourself quick notes, without having to login to anything...

Wixi

Posted on September 21, 2007
Wixi is your own personal media sharing desktop. You can upload pictures, music and video and organise your files into folders and subfolders on your desktop (which is customisable, just like at home!). You can set permissions for your files, making them private, public or just for friends...

Google Shared Stuff

Posted on September 20, 2007
Another little present from Google appeared today - Google Shared Stuff or social bookmarking Google style. You get a little bookmarklet which you can use to email or share a web page with others. If you choose to share you have the option of adding a description and tags and the post appears on your [...

TwitterNotes (or how many times can I say the word Twitter)

Posted on September 18, 2007
TwitterNotes is a Twitter app (oddly) that lets you create and manage notes you have made to your self. You can make notes via TwitterNotes or directly from Twitter. To make a note in Twitter simply prefix your note with a + and add any tags you want attached within asterisks...

Google Presentation

Posted on September 18, 2007
Google Presentation went live today and very nice it is too. One feature sadly lacking is the ability to embed, on the upside there is a fab chat facility (note you must be signed in to Google to take advantage of this). I have had a play and created my very own (and thankfully quite [...

Lifestreaming With Friends

Posted on September 17, 2007
My Soup and Intuuch are two sites that have recently caught my eye. Both let you create a lifestream, bringing together your del.icio.us bookmarks, items submitted to digg, Twitter posts etc., and republishing them in one place. Lots of people have started doing this sort of thing via Tumblr, creating a Tumblelog lifestream of all [...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on September 16, 2007
Bookmarked this week: Windows Live Translator - translation tool. iLighter - free download that lets you clip the parts of web pages you want to keep. You can also annotate, and include in documents, emails and blogs. Clip2Net - screen capture app with image hosting...

Yahoo! Mash

Posted on September 15, 2007
Yahoo! Mash is the new social network from Yahoo! I have only had a quick play with this, but first impressions tell me its not going to put FaceBook out of business just yet. All in all its not too bad, the apps arent really there yet, although there are a handful of quite decent [...

oSkope Visual Search

Posted on September 14, 2007
oSkope Visual Search lets you search Flickr, YouTube, Amazon and eBay, your results are displayed as thumbnail images with more information revealed as you hover. This is quite a cool way of searching sites like eBay, for example, where images are not always available in the list view of results...

Greasemonkey Script: Add to del.icio.us in Google Reader

Posted on September 10, 2007
I am totally taken with this Greasemonkey script that lets you add bookmarks to your del.icio.us directly from Google Reader. You can add your description, tags and notes as normal. Love it. If you havent got it already you can get the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox here...

Search Twitter With Terraminds

Posted on September 10, 2007
Terraminds micro search is a search engine for Twitter. You can search Twitter updates or users. Twitter recently introduced a Find folks! search, but the ability to search Tweets is kind of novel and no doubt useful. Results from the last 3 weeks are displayed and RSS is also available for your searches...

Legal Technology Awards

Posted on September 10, 2007
The Legal Technology Awards will be announced on 31st January 2008, the closing date for nominations is 16th November. The awards recognise and celebrate excellence in the provision and implementation of technology solutions for the benefit of legal practice and categories include most customer-focused supplier of the year and outstanding contribution to the legal market...

Adventures in Ubuntu: Fonts

Posted on September 10, 2007
This could be ultra important to you or something you really arent bothered by, but at some stage you might want to install some more fonts for your Ubuntu. Probably something you will want to do is install some Microsoft True Type fonts. This is very simply done and resolved a small problem I had [...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on September 08, 2007
Filefrog - image hosting. BigFileBox - send and receive big files securely by creating a filebox. UploadPod - file hosting, options to email, retrieve by ID or URL. Flickriver - another way to explore Flickr. pix.ie - attractive photo hosting, upload your pics, tag and create albums to share...

Snitter

Posted on September 06, 2007
Snitter is a desktop app for Twitter. It runs on Adobe AIR so you will need to have that installed. Snitter is really pretty basic, you can view you and your friends Tweets, check out replies and direct messages and access your lists of friends and followers all via the Snitter menu...

Adventures in Ubuntu: Introducing the Terminal

Posted on September 06, 2007
The Terminal runs the BASH shell inside a window on your desktop, this looks like a simple text editor and into which you can type your commands. The BASH shell? Ah, you mean the Bourne Again SHell, the type of shell Ubuntu uses. Indeed, but what is a shell?! The shell is the thing that [...

TouchGraph

Posted on September 03, 2007
TouchGraph is a kind of visual search, showing connections between websites in a graph format. You can search for phrases or URLs and manipulate results to display in a variety ways. You can also go exploring within the graph to reveal other webby connections...

BL iGoogle Gadget!

Posted on September 03, 2007
The British Library have an iGoogle gadget! Nuff said. Found via LI Issues Bookmark to:

Adventures in Ubuntu: the Games!!

Posted on September 01, 2007
The most important question to ask when considering Operating Systems is what free games dyou get, huh?. Indeed many copies of Vista have been sold on the strength of Purble Place alone. Sadly, Ubuntu has no Purble equivalent but it has a lot of other cool stuff, so dont sweat it...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on September 01, 2007
Bookmarked this week: You Swap and Transfer Big Files - email big files. Qipit - One for the scanner-less, photograph documents (with camera phone or digital camera), upload and Qipit will transform the picture into a clear digital copy. Heres one I made earlier...

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