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Ergonomic Mouse Helps - Monday, November 09, 2009 Your CTB editor has been plagued by hand pain. A new mouse helps. |
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Some Cool New Tech - Late Summer Edition - Friday, August 28, 2009 A new e-Ink technology reader from Sony and a touch screen Tablet PC netbook with all the buzz words from Asus. |
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Graphical Visualization Tools - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Graphical presentation of complex relationships is demonstrated. |
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Paper Has A Fingerprint - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Princeton University researchers have figured out how to use office paper scanners to create a document fingerprint. |
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E-Ink Devices Growing Larger - Monday, June 15, 2009 Amazon.coms Kindle DX introduces a larger format E-Ink technology reader. |
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New IJIS Blog - Monday, May 18, 2009 Paul Wormeli, the Executive Director of the IJIS Institute has started a new blog. |
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Tweeting the Courtroom - Monday, March 09, 2009 A US Federal Court Judge is allowing Twitter to be used by a reporter during a criminal trial. |
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10 Cents a Gigabyte - Thursday, February 19, 2009 Another computer technology milestone is reached. |
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New Tech - iPaper - Tuesday, January 20, 2009 We recently stumbled upon a new piece of technology that might be of use to courts. |
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PC Magazine Solutions Articles - Thursday, November 13, 2008 Since the majority of court staff use Microsoft Office software, the Solutions articles by the PC Magazine might be of interest. |
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Testing Virtual Machines - Friday, August 08, 2008 Your CTB editor, Jim McMillan has been trying Virtual Machine software recently. |
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Jonathan Zittrain Interview - Friday, May 16, 2008 CTC6 keynote speaker, Oxford/Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain was interviewed on the Charlie Rose show. |
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Internet Overhaul Begins - Friday, February 22, 2008 On February 4, 2008, the first small steps toward the implementation of the IPv6 protocol began on the Internet. |
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Technology to Watch - Thursday, January 17, 2008 Court technology planners should monitor the progress and implications of the upcoming auction of radio frequency spectrum and the creation of a shared public safety wireless broadband network by the Public Safety Spectrum Trust. |
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Some Articles on Digital Signature and Validation - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Federal Computer Week and Government Computer News published a couple of interesting articles on digital signatures and validation that may be of interest. |
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Are you prepared for Daylight Savings Time changes? - Sunday, January 21, 2007 Recent communications from our friend Tom Hoffmann (Systems Manager at the Orange County, Florida Clerk of Courts) reminded us of the possible impact of Daylight Savings Time changes on IT systems. In August of 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act extends Daylight Savings Time by four weeks beginning in 2007, with the intended benefit being reduced energy consumption. DST will now begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November. |
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US Federal Courts Report on Technology - Monday, December 18, 2006 The November issue of The Third Branch newsletter published by the US Federal Courts is chock full of articles regarding technology use in their system. Articles include: |
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Using Search to Count - Friday, September 15, 2006 Or, in other words, not all information has to be captured and stored in a database to be counted. Sometimes working with an information technology professional is like working with a craftsman who knows how to use only one tool. Whether it's a nail or a screw, they want to use their hammer. They like their hammer and are very proficient in using it. But you protest. It is a screw you say. But the hammer will work faster they respond. And so it goes. |
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Clark County Regional Justice Center Adds WiFi Access - Thursday, August 10, 2006 A press release from Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) shares information regarding their new wireless network system. |
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Agile Software Development - Wednesday, August 09, 2006 I just finished reading the September 2006 digital edition of "Dr. Dobb's Journal". I was intrigued by Scott Ambler's article "Survey Says: Agile Works in Practice". |
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A Lawyer's View of Appellate Technology - Thursday, July 06, 2006 Mr. Howard Bashman of Law.com shares his experiences on video and teleconferencing in his article, Commentary: Predicting Technology's Impact on Appellate Oral Argument. He also muses about the use of collaboration software in Appellate Court proceedings. |
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Setting Up Multiple Monitors From One PC - Friday, April 21, 2006 Being the techno wizards that we are here at the NCSC, we of course are always trying to figure out a way to buy more technology. The other day we were looking into the ways that we could setup multiple video monitors from one PC or laptop and found this article on Microsoft's website that provides a good starting point for investigation. |
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Future Trends - RFID Technology - Friday, March 17, 2006 Last year former NCSC'er, Doug Walker wrote a Future Trends article on Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) and the courts. |
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Georgia Courts Applying BI Technology - Friday, March 03, 2006 Jorge Basto, Director of Technology for the Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts was the subject of a recent ComputerWorld magazine article titled: Central Intelligence: Large organizations are moving to consolidated BI suites; (w)hy many large organizations are moving to consolidated business intelligence suites. |
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US National Archives Awards Electronic Archive Contract - Wednesday, October 12, 2005 We missed this announcement somehow last month in the run up to CTC9; but after a year long competition the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) held a press conference on September 8, 2005 to announce that the team headed by Lockheed-Martin had won. |
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Adobe Acrobat Reader Security Problem - Friday, August 19, 2005 An advisory warning of a critical (most serious) security threat for Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 5, 6, and 7 has been announced. It is recommended that users download and install new patched versions of Acrobat 6.0.4 or Acrobat 7.0.3 from Adobe's Reader Download Web Page. |
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PDF for Lawyers Web Site - Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Wandering around the web today I found a blog called PDF for Lawyers. It has good information generally about PDF files and has links to information about digital signatures, scanners for lawyers, and, most interesting, PDF redaction |
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RFID Technology Tested in Los Angeles Jail - Thursday, May 19, 2005 According to "L.A. County Jail to Track Inmates" from RFID News (via Slashdot), the Los Angeles County Jail will be testing RFID technology to track detainees in their facility. |
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Outlook Calendar Tip - Tuesday, May 17, 2005 The default block of time for Microsoft Outlook Calendar is 30 minutes. A recent tip from the June 7, 2005 edition of PC Magazine (page 107) shows how to easily change that setting. |
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Utility Computing On Its Way? - Wednesday, March 16, 2005 There is an interesting article posted by C|Net called Goodbye Computer, Hello World! that reports on Google as a possible challenge to Microsoft in the near future. Google now offers services such as GMail, Google Maps, and soon their new calendaring software that possibly portend the era of what has been called "utility computing." |
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Cool Simple Software - Monday, March 14, 2005 I received an e-mail today from a company that makes a little piece of utility software called Snapture that looked really useful. Snapture runs on your PC or Laptop. |
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The Future of IT - Thursday, March 10, 2005 ComputerWorld magazine has posted an interesting series of articles this week on The Future of IT: The Views Ahead. (This article is no longer available.) For you ancient IT professionals, there is a sidebar interview with Gordon Bell who is known as the father of the Digital VAX minicomputer, now with Microsoft. |
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US Department of Justice Sticks with WordPerfect - Tuesday, March 08, 2005 The other announcement today from Federal Computer Week was that US-DOJ decided to stay with WordPerfect as their word processor of choice. Read Justice sticks with WordPerfect. |
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A Little Bit About Wi-Fi Wireless Networking - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 According to my favorite techno-dictionary, Webopedia, it stands for Wireless-Fidelity. Wi-Fi is equipment and software that use several radio and computer standards allowing, say a laptop computer, to wirelessly connect to a computer network. |
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National Archives Announces Electronic Records Contract - Monday, October 18, 2004 The National Archives and Records Administration is pleased to announce that it has awarded two contracts for the development of ERA to Lockeed Martin and Harris Company after a rigorous competitive process. |
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Being Embarassed by your Word Processing Program - Thursday, May 27, 2004 A word of warning to the Jurist_L'ers who use Microsoft Word for their word processing program. Earlier today embarrassing information was found in a Microsoft Word document relating to the SCO lawsuits here in the USA. Here is a link to the article: |
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Slashdot Discusses Large Document Scanning Projects - Monday, May 24, 2004 The Slashdot technical news bulletin site discussed various options to the problem of scanning a large number of documents. This is a problem that all courts have or will face. The discussion can be read at: Large-Scale Scanning |
