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Simple Tech Productivity Tips

November 24, 2009

These beginner tips (optimized for PC users, but some equally applicable for Macs) might help you gain a few minutes back into your hectic day, or make some of your routine tasks easier and more efficient.

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Federal Courts Spread FUD About RECAP

August 24, 2009

Update: The federal courts are just fine with attorneys using RECAP. They just want you to be careful about computer security in general. Last week I wrote about RECAP, a Firefox extension that automatically uploads PACER documents to the free, public repository. Shortly afterward, the federal courts sent out an ominous warning full of FUD [...]

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Liberate PACER Documents With RECAP Firefox Extension

August 14, 2009

U.S. courts insist on charging for access to electronic court documents. Ostensibly, this is because the clumsy PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system is also overpriced—who would have guessed!? Fortunately, many PACER documents are also online and available for free at public.resource.org, an ambitious effort to collect public records and provide the public [...]

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Getting started with Ubiquity

February 9, 2009

When Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity last August, I boldly said that “Ubiquity will change the way you use the web.” As Ubiquity matures, it is doing just that. Ubiquity is sort of a dashboard for Firefox. When you bring up Ubiquity, you just tell it what you want to do. Let’s say you want to [...]

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Ubiquity will change the way you use the web

August 28, 2008

This is an early prototype—the .1 release—but even in its infacy, Ubiquity, a Firefox plugin, shows it has the potential to change the way we interact with the web. As it is now, you have to go visit a website in order to use a tool. Like an RSS reader, Ubiquity brings everything you want, [...]

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Download Firefox 3 today!

June 17, 2008

Mozilla is looking to set a world record for one-day software downloads with the release of Firefox 3, which should be released sometime today is available now at getfirefox.com. I have been using Firefox 3 for a little over a month now, and it really is a better browser. Better than Internet Explorer by a [...]

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