Cool Shareware Shelf (2 Items)
Here are a couple pieces of shareware that could save you some time, aggravation, and money.
1) NetSnippets (IE Only)
You can quickly and easily (drag and drop) save, annotate, and organize some or all the content (text, images) from web pages or other Windows programs (Word, Outlook, etc). Material is saved with original fonts, layout, point sizes, etc. Embedded hotlinks are live. One click to grab all images from a site. Free 30 day trial, $19.95 to unlock. See Also: An All-Time Fave That We Mentioned Last August, SurfSaver (for IE and Netscape)
Surfsaver allows you to save an entire page(s) to your hard drive, useful. Once saved, you're able to keyword search the full-text of all saved pages along with a few basic index fields, awesome. Limited Version: Free, Pro Version: $29.95.
- It's Free! An Award Winning Word Processor
2) AbiWord (for Windows)
It's not as complete as Word but this is one very robust word processor that's available for free. Here's a short review from PC World.
Image Search--Copyright Issues "Search Engine's Display of Copyright Photos Ruled Infringement"
From the AP story, "An Internet search engine violated a professional photographer's copyright by displaying full-sized images of his work through ``inline linking,'' a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that small, low-quality thumbnail images were covered by the ``fair use'' provision of the Copyright Act, but reversed a lower court opinion that found the display of larger high-quality images also was protected. The appeals court sent the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to determine damages and the need for an injunction against the search engine company, Arriba Soft Corp., now known as Ditto.com." See Also: Read the Full-Text of the Opinion (via 9th Circuit Court of Appeals)
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Entries) Online Information Industry--OCLC Bibliographic Databases FirstSearch Database of the Month for February: Free Access to OCLC's ArticleFirst Database
The trial allows you to search the ArticleFirst database containg the tables of contents from over 12,000 journals using the FirstSearch interface. Coverage begins in 1990. ArticleFirst is updated daily. To access click on the "Try it now" button located on the left side of the page (blue box).
- Bibliographic Databases--Latin America More than 100 Bibliographic Databases Now Online Through the UNESCO Supported LATINO Project
From the announcement, "The Colima University in Mexico and UNESCO have now launched the online version of the LATINO project of bibliographic databases of Latin America and the Caribbean area. The portal gathers 114 data bases with bibliographic descriptions from libraries of institutions in 14 countries of the region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Data from Spain are also available." See Also: Direct to the LATINO Bibliographic Database Site (In Spanish)
- Demographics--United States
Foreign Born Population--United States
Source: U.S. Census Full-Text: Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000 Summary/Highlights ||| Direct to Full-Text
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