Microsystems, a leading document lifecycle solution provider for the legal and life sciences sectors, announces the integration of DocXtools™ with Litéra® Corp.'s Change-Pro® for enhanced legal document comparison.
This is pretty exciting. It's nice to see DocX integrate with Change-Pro. I look forward to seeing it in action.
With the increase in the number of mobile users, growing organizations are finding it difficult to maintain connectivity with their mobile workforce, when they are not connected to the network. This has an adverse impact on the productivity because the users are unable to connect to corporate resources easily. Also, because mobile users remain disconnected when they are outside the network, it is difficult for the administrators to keep the mobile computers up-to-date.
Windows 7 improves connectivity with the help of features such as Mobile Broadband DirectAccess, VPN Reconnect, and BranchCache.
This is huge! Windows 7 + Windows Server 2008 R2 enable mobile users to access the corporate LAN more readily and cut down the need to connect via VPN.
Outlook Anywhere
allows Outlook 2007 to connect to the Exchange 2007 server using any
Internet connection. It makes it simple to check e-mail during those 15
minutes you're at the airport connected via your Mobile Broadband card
or those 30 minutes you're connected via wi-fi at Starbucks while
enjoying your latte.
Anywhere Access goes one step (one giant
step) forward to include the corporate LAN. While there will still be
applications that require a VPN connection, there should be far fewer
now.
Windows 7 can connect directly with your Mobile Broadband
card and no longer requires the proprietary dialer application. Anyone
with a Mobile Broadband card knows the dialers are not without their
quirks and add an additional layer of complexity to the connection.
That alone is worth the price of admission.
Administrators can push security updates or policy changes to the remote computer without waiting for the user to connect via VPN or return to the office. This should make all those machines more secure and reduce the amount of time spent applying updates when re-connecting to the LAN or connecting via VPN on a slower Internet connection.
When a patient shows up at a doctor's office with a bruise after falling and bumping his head, the physician might order a CT scan even if she believes the injury is superficial.
Worries about a malpractice lawsuit might prompt her to take steps that aren't medically necessary. "If I don't get a CAT scan, this is that one case where I'll end up in court," the doctor might think, says Cecil Wilson, a physician who is president-elect of the American Medical Association.
This is defensive medicine -- a careful, fretful approach to treating patients, in which doctors authorize tests in part to reduce the risk that they will be sued. In the national debate over health care, doctors and policy makers often point to spending on defensive medicine as a key driver of soaring costs.
This is a huge deal. There have been several instances where a doctor's suggested an MRI for me "just to make sure" where "watchful waiting" would have been perfectly adequate. (I once learned from an MRI that I had a sinus infection, even though that wasn't at all related to the initial problem.) The MRIs would have (and some did) greatly increased the cost of care and would not have changed the outcome.
Until we get a handle on medical malpractice and our litigious society, the cost of care will remain high.
Open-With Manager lets you edit the list of file types a given application thinks it can open. This is most useful with regard to the Finder's "Open with" context menu; and it also affects the way applications behave when you drag files to their Dock symbols.
This is one of my favorite Mac utilities. I use Fluid to create a lot of SSBs, and I also have multiple Fusion VMs. The problem is they all like to impose upon the Finder Open With menu. No, I don't want to use my Gmail SSB to open an MP3 (though thanks for asking), and I don't want to open a Word document in Word 2010 or my XP VM.
Open-With Manager makes it very quick and easy to clean up the Open with menu. And there was much rejoicing.
Open-With Manager is free, but donations are appreciated.
Problem: You spend too much on books and don't have time to go to the library.
Solution: Rent classics or new releases from sites like Paperspine.com. Much like Netflix, the online movie-rental service, Paperspine sends books to your mailbox for a fee. Monthly plans start at $14.95 for up to three books at a time, with free two-way shipping, no late fees and an unlimited rotation of copies. The site stocks more than 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles, searchable by genre or categories such as "bestsellers" and "at the movies." Members can also purchase over 400,000 unused titles at discounts of up to 50%; nonmembers pay a yearly fee of $19.95 to get the reduced book-purchasing rates. Bookswim.com, another rental service, lets monthly subscribers keep the books they like, at second-hand prices. The site focuses on recently released best-selling paperbacks and hardcovers. Their starter rental plan, for $19.98 a month, delivers three books at a time with no shipping or late fees. Students also can rent textbooks at pay-per-book semester rates (delivered through a third party, Chegg.com). Booksfree.com rents paperbacks and audiobooks in CD or MP3 formats, with plans starting at $10.99 a month. Audible.com, owned by Amazon.com, has more than 60,000 audiobooks, podcasts and audible magazines, which can be downloaded to most digital players or streamed to a computer.
--Paola Singer
I love the idea of renting books. Since the Kindle, though, if it's not an eBook, I think twice about if I really want to read the book right now.
I would love the ability to rent, or at least resell, eBooks (Kindle or others).