20 MOST ANNOYING TECH PRODUCTS

PC World has a marvelous article on the twenty most annoying tech products ever made.The number one slot is appropriately awarded to the carpet bombing of free AOL CDs, estimated at 1 billion discs distributed over a period of 13 years.Others on the list that...

AMICUS V SUPPORT ENDING

Law office alert: According to this blog, Gavel & Gown will be ending technical support for Amicus Attorney version V on June 1, 2007.That creates a business-critical problem for law offices using Amicus – the simple reality is that database-driven programs...

TIMESLIPS & VISTA FOLLOWUP

Timeslips has updated its web site with information about Vista compatibility – or more accurately, lack of compatibility. Other vendors are working out their Vista issues; Timeslips is beginning to stand out like a sore thumb.The company reports firmly that...

MICROSOFT EXPRESSION

Back in ancient times – 4 or 5 years ago – many people tried their hands at learning a little HTML and creating a web site. Microsoft FrontPage wasn’t easy to learn but other programs were harder and FrontPage is the only one to develop any name...

MORE PATCH THOUGHTS

I recently reformatted a hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP from scratch, using a CD for Windows that included Service Pack 2.The next step was to download the patches and updates released since Service Pack 2 – almost a hundred of them, almost two hundred...