Articles Posted in April, 2008

Two New Sites Simplify Life after Death

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Savvy estate-planning lawyers help their clients prepare for every contingency that may arise after they leave this life. This week brought announcements of two new Web sites, each aimed at simplifying the process of settling a decedent’s affairs, even when no estate planning was done.

The first, eDivvyup, is an online auction site specifically…

Hillary Would be Happy With These Results

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A new search engine, Picollator, purports to search for images on the Web that match images you upload. It uses pattern recognition to look for matching visual objects in other images. In this way, it claims, is helps “find photos of people more easily than any existing text-based search system. You can simply upload…

Perfect for Lawyers: Gmail Custom Time

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Ever wish you’d e-mailed that pleading to the court a few minutes or even a few days earlier? Ever regret having missed the deadline for exercising that option? Ever wish you’d e-mailed a birthday wish to your partner on the actual birthday? Never again miss a deadline — or at least never again