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Vendor promise that a managed printing service will lower printing costs. Is it the truth? Scott Lowe discusses an underway pilot at Westminster College.
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When digital cameras were first introduced they were used mostly as digital replacement to film cameras. Users would shoot photos, print them and archive them in photo albums. As users became more sophisticated new ways to use digital photos were found. Here are a few. The most basic thing you can do with a digital photo is print it and view it on paper or save it on a computer's hard disk and view it on the computer screen...
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Legal professionals often need to access court documents and case information, but knowing where to find them most efficiently and cost effectively isn't always easy. There several services that provide access to recent court documents - some free and some fee based.The following is a run-down of available services of which I am aware. If you know of of any others, please share them in the comments.Federal CourtsPACER (http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov) -Most recent federal court documents are available via the PACER system. Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts. However, users must pay a fee to access PACER - much to the consternation of those who believe that government information should be free.Free public access to PACER is currently provided in Federal courthouses (see the clerk of courts). Note that the Western Dist of WI charges 50 cents per page for printing. If you wish to set up your own account, note that PACER waives the first $10 of annual costs for each registered user.FreeCourtDockets (http://freecourtdockets.com) - FreeCourtDockets is a new, free service which allows anyone to retrieve federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court dockets. The site is the product of Courtport LLC, but is ad-sponsored. No PACER account is required to view the dockets, but if you wish to view the filings for a case, a PACER account is needed. To retrieve all court dockets except U.S. Supreme cases, you must first obtain an invitation code. To request a free code, you'll need to complete a form on the FreeCourtDockets website.Justia Federal District Court Filings and Dockets (http://dockets.justia.com) - Justia contains case information from the Federal District Courts. Some cases also include opinions, orders, and other filings.RECAP (https://www.recapthelaw. ...
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This download includes the latest Epson printing and scanning software for Snow Leopard. Requires Mac OS X v10.6.1 or later.
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We heard more rotten economic news today. The Bank of England may have start to printing money soon, and that means the pound could fall further.
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Lawyers often receive or download a form that is not "fillable" in its native format. Options for filling out the form include printing it out and filling it in with a typewriter, creating a form with Acrobat or other similiar software, or running it through a program like OmniForm. However, all of these methods take time and if the form in question will be a one-time use there is a shorter, simpler way to fill out the form and send it out - the Acrobat Typewriter Tool.
In Acrobat 8.0, under the Tools menu select “Typewriterâ€. A cursor will appear. Place the cursor wherever you want to insert text and start typing. The default font for the Typewriter tools is Courier, and that cannot be altered in Acrobat 8. However some customization is possible through increase and decrease of font size and line spacing. An enhancement to the Typewriter Tool available in Acrobat 9.0 is the ability to change the font type, color, size, and spacing. Additionally in Acrobat 9 (Standard and Pro) there is no need to continue to select the Typewriter Tool each time the user moves to a new section of the page. Once finished filling out the form simply save it, and email or upload to the intended recipient.
For users of Acrobat 8.0 Pro and up another use of the Typewriter Tool is to enable it for those who only have the Acrobat Reader. If creating a fillable form is too time consuming or difficult simply enable the Typewriter Tool by going to Tools - Typewriter - Enable Typewriter Tool for Adobe Reader. Then save the document. When a user with only the Reader opens the document the Reader will prompt the user to use the Typewriter tool to fill out the form.
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More and more, our mobile devices are becoming tools to manage our business. No need to carry that big laptop everywhere, you can just check your email on your mobile phone!With calendar synchronization and text processors, handheld devices like the iPhone or Android have grown invaluable. And yet there’s one thing still missing from the [...]
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At CTIA Wireless 2008, conference attendees were asked to join the green effort by placing old show badges, unwanted show materials, and even old cell phones in collection bins placed around the Las Vegas Convention Center. Bill Detwiler, TechRepublic's Head Technology Editor, admires CTIA's effort but thinks they missed at least one big green opportunity.
From guardian.co
Organisational inertia means we're saddled with an ageing, vulnerable browser across our hospitals and key government departments. That's not good
Don't worry, said Microsoft a few days ago: the zero-day vulnerability that Chinese hackers exploited to infiltrate Google's network only affects Internet Explorer 6 (released in 2000) running on Windows XP (released in 2001).
The implication being that nobody uses that still, do they? Ed Bott, who has forgotten more about Microsoft than many people know, says in a vehement blogpost at ZDNet that:
"Any IT professional who is still allowing IE6 to be used in a corporate setting is guilty of malpractice. Think that judgment is too harsh? Ask the security experts at Google, Adobe, and dozens of other large corporations that are cleaning up the mess from a wave of targeted attacks that allowed source code and confidential data to fall into the hands of well-organized intruders. The entry point? According to Microsoft, it's IE6."
By Bott's measure, we'd have to conclude that there's a lot of malpractice going on in UK government. More than 750,000 workstations in the NHS and 500,000 in the Department of Work and Pensions use exactly that combination. (See the comment here from user "limbo".) The DWP installation of IE6/XP in 2002/3 took a total of three years, he suggests.
In fact it is still a requirement of any new web application being deployed in the NHS that it works on IE6/XP. You can see the 2008 machine requirements for the Primary Care Trust Prescription services report deployment, for example, which specifies machines that these days you'd have trouble finding outside eBay:
Client Machine Requirements for Report Deployment:
Windows: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0; Netscape Navigator 4.7, 6.2; Acrobat Reader 3.0, 4.05, 5.0 (If PDF viewing/printing is required)
Mac OS: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Netscape Navigator 6.2, Acrobat Reader 3.0, 4.05, 5.0 (If PDF viewing/printing is required)
OS/2: Netscape Navigator 4.61, Acrobat Reader 3.0 (If PDF viewing/printing is required)
Solaris: Netscape Navigator 6.2, Acrobat Reader 3.0, 4.0 (If PDF viewing/printing is required)
A year ago, Microsoft itself posted an NHS advisory recognising the problems around backwards compatibility with IE6, and noting that virtual machines (VMs) could do the job on newer machines, by hosting an instance of IE6/XP.
Neil Slater, who wrote the note, commented that he knew
"that the [NHS] IM&T Tools Project needs to remain focussed on the challenges you are facing today. One of these challenges is applications that require Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)."
He continues:
"Incompatibility of applications with Internet Explorer 7 (and soon 8) has been a much discussed problem for NHS Trusts planning upgrades to Windows Vista. Testing and migrating applications can be time consuming, and meanwhile users are unable to take advantage of the new capabilities and enhancements offered by the new OS. By delivering applications in a Virtual PC that runs Windows XP and IE6, IM&T teams can remove the barriers to OS upgrades. If you have an application that requires IE6, please get in touch. Whether it is a widely-deployed national application or a bespoke Trust-specific application, I would like to hear from you."
It's organisational inertia like this which is really dangerous. It's difficult enough of course to get the vast mass of people to upgrade their browsers; even more so to change their browsers to a different one. Yet the indications are that a significant proportion of individuals really do take an interest in what browser they're using: how else to explain that Firefox now looks like the most popular individual browser?
Part of the incentive for those upgrades must be personal security: Internet Explorer has had so many well-documented exploits targeting it that eventually the message permeates through to individuals.
The irony is that organisations like the NHS and DWP and all sorts of other government departments control personal information that is truly valuable, connected by systems which have woeful security holes. It's very easy to argue (and I'm sure that someone will) that the vast majority of those NHS and DWP workstations are not connected to the internet, and so don't face the same threats that you and I browsing the web would.
While that's true, it overlooks the point: it only takes one of those systems to be connected to the net, or to be forwarded an infected attachment over the intranet from someone – perhaps on a completely safe machine – and the entire network is, potentially, compromised. (A scenario like that is highly likely to have been the modus operandi at Google.)
The key question is, how do you solve that problem? How do you ensure that you won't be tied to outdated browsers and operating systems? Quite simple: write to web standards. Then all you need to do is upgrade (or move) to a browser that supports those standards.
And that's where the failing was when the NHS specification was written. In 2000, there were plenty of web standards around; IE6 didn't meet all of them. But because the NHS was a huge project, and the government wanted to use Microsoft, it went with IE6.
Short-term gain, long-term problem. Now we have to wonder if our medical records and national insurance data are safe against malware-driven intrusion on computers that use a decade-old browser which wasn't built for the hostile environment that the web has become.
Microsoft could make out that IE6/XP is the only system at risk (though it is now patching all versions of IE and Windows against the vulnerability - including a warning for the NHS). Unfortunately that "only" system turns out to be rather widely used.
It's ironic that this has happened in the week of the official launch of data.gov.uk – which is a browser- and platform-independent approach to using all the (non-personal) data that the government has got squirreled away, and is now being encouraged to open up. Yesterday, the civil servants who've worked so hard at the launch of that site, who I discussed this issue with, were covering their faces in horror at the thought of it.
But then a ray of light dawned. "I know!" said one. "We'll replace them all with modern browsers running HTML5!"
Well, we can hope. In the meantime, let's hope that Chinese hackers just don't think our health records or pension or national insurance details are that interesting. Fingers crossed.
From press.nationalgeographic
WASHINGTON (Oct. 2, 2009)—In a landmark publishing event, National Geographic presents its most expansive and sumptuous photography book ever, showcasing 120 years of world history, natural history and culture chronicled and preserved in the Society's unique archive of more than 11.5 million images. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION (National Geographic Focal Point; ISBN: 978-1-4262-0503-3; Oct. 6, 2009; $50; hardcover) is the largest single volume of world-renowned National Geographic photographs published by the organization that has set the gold standard for photographic coverage of the world.
Photography excellence is one of the foundations on which National Geographic is built, and its image collection, fittingly housed beneath the Society's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., is one of the finest, most extensive graphic resources on Earth.
The 500-page NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION allows readers for the first time to plumb the fascinating depths of this immense and ever-growing archive, from the earliest photographs collected in the 19th century to the cutting-edge work of today. Both iconic and never-before-seen images from virtually every corner of the globe, an array of wildlife and people, and amazing achievements in exploration, adventure, science and more are placed in historic, artistic, technical and journalistic context.
Spanning 12 decades of world events and photographic evolution, the book covers a cornucopia of subjects. From mountaineering in the Alps in the 1890s to Hiram Bingham's 1913 images of Machu Picchu to images of Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Einstein to the first aerial, flash, night, underwater and space photographs, this volume is a must for everyone who loves history or photography or has been captivated by National Geographic magazine.
"We are one of the few repositories that document the entire 20th century and the beginnings of the 21st century," says Maura Mulvihill, vice president, National Geographic Image Collection. "Our photographers focus not only on newsworthy events, but also on social documentation of the whole world and all its inhabitants. We have always made images of the things that people do in day-to-day life, the life that goes on outside of giant events. These images have a unique social and cultural value."
The work of 204 of the finest and most celebrated photographers in the world is included — from Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel and Luis Marden to James Stanfield, Sam Abell, Steve McCurry and Annie Griffiths Belt. Some 400 of their finest color and black-and-white images are presented, divided into four themes: Exploration, Wildlife, People & Culture, and Science & Climate Change.
Following the lavish visual journey through more than a century of photographic highlights is a behind-the-scenes profile of the entire Image Collection, including the delicate Autochromes, of which there are nearly 15,000 — one of the finest assemblages of these glass color transparencies in the world; the nearly 500,000 black-and-white prints, only a fraction of which have ever been published; the color transparencies, which played a central role in the evolution of National Geographic photography; and digital, which has opened new vistas for the photographers and which is growing rapidly every day.
There is also a listing of the artists, including N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth, whose fine maps, drawings, paintings, engravings and illustrations have graced the pages of National Geographic publications over the past 120 years. Finally, profiles of the 204 photographers represented in the book are a fitting tribute to those without whose tireless and brilliant efforts National Geographic's Image Collection would not exist.
In her introductory essay, Michelle Delaney, curator of the photographic history collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, provides a historical perspective of the National Geographic Image Collection, an archive she calls "a hidden treasure — millions of photographs that are rarely if ever seen, but are preserved with meticulous care for future research and publication."
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m., in a lecture presented by National Geographic Live and Kodak at National Geographic headquarters, National Geographic magazine editor in chief and wildlife photographer Chris Johns, "National Geographic Image Collection" editor Leah Bendavid-Val and Image Collection vice president Maura Mulvihill will be joined by photographers David Doubilet, Maria Stenzel, Michael Yamashita and Kodak digital photography pioneer Steve Sasson for an inside look at National Geographic's remarkable photography trove.
Also sponsored by Kodak, a major exhibition of nearly 90 images featured in the book will be held at National Geographic from Oct. 1, 2009, to April 12, 2010. For more than a century, National Geographic and Kodak have shared in breakthroughs in every sphere of traditional and digital photography. Kodak technology has made many of the pictures in the book possible, and the book itself was produced using Kodak digital prepress technology, including software, computer-to-plate machines and digital printing plates.
From feeds.pcworld
3D isn't just for TV anymore. A new partnership between HP and Stratasys aims to offer new line of affordable 3D printers for the desktop.
From businessweek.com
Kodak wants to change the digital photography game with a new line of printers that dramatically lowers the cost of home printing -- in order to compete with labs. Whether or not this is a winner for Kodak, it's good news for consumers
From apple.com
Utility for users who want prints from their digital photos quickly and easily.
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