Tag Archives: Information science

Update: Office Update You Should Probably Have

 If you’ve already upgraded to Microsoft Office 2003 (why, exactly?) there’s an update you should download. This update, Microsoft says in its understated way, “fixes a problem that occurs when you try to open or to save a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 file, a Microsoft Office Word 2003 file, or a Microsoft Office Excel 2003… Read More »

Q&A: X1 and The Future of Finding Stuff

  Full text of email interview with Mark Goodstein of X1 (see my column in WSJE and FEER this week)   — Who are you aiming at with this product?   Not to be too simplistic, we’re aiming at two groups: consumers and professionals, specifically those who have a lot of email and files and… Read More »

Column: Finding The Holy Grail of Finding Things

 I have lost count of the number of times I have written about finding text in files on your computer.  It’s such a basic idea that you would think it would come as a standard function on most operating systems.  In fact, if you’re a Mac user, it does.  For the rest of us, finding… Read More »

Column: search software

Loose Wire — Organize Me: Give us some software that really makes the information age meaningful   By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 3 April 2003 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review, (c) 2003, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Every time I visit a computer shop I get nostalgic for the dotcom boom. In those… Read More »

Loose Wire — Click Here

Loose Wire — Click Here to Read Summary By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 21 February 2002 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review, (c) 2003, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. If you work for a corporation, institution or any set-up which considers a vision statement to be worthy of its resources, chances are you’ll be… Read More »