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Ross Ipsa Loquitur

Legal technology and law practice management issues including product reviews, CLE materials, corporate legal department technology, mobile lawyering and smartphones, Paper LESS Office(tm) developments, case/practice management system comments/tips/ideas, document management, legal billing, and interesting utilities. Also covers Factum, an online legal tech and practice management CLE.
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Last Entry: January 06, 2011 at 20:23:49

First Reaction to the Dell Adamo - Are These Guys Total Retards???

Posted on March 18, 2009
I haven’t touched a Dell Adamo yet but I’m blown away by the seemingly obvious stupidity of this new product release. One look at their emailed promo today and it’s apparent. It looks like a Versace or Chanel ad. Models doing their lashes...

Renee on Worldox: ?Electronic File Manila Folders? Rock!

Posted on March 18, 2009
Many of you know that I spend a lot of time working with MicroLaw clients and their document, email and practice management systems - it’s what I do. I’d like to talk about an aspect of the popular Worldox document management system that makes it easier for the unitiated to understand...

More on ?Exchange Server Without the Server?

Posted on March 18, 2009
Home, home on the Exchange. Where the mail and the attachments roam. — Ross after a little too much caffeine — ROSS HERE: Thanks for all the great comments about Abe’s post from yesterday. Here are my own thoughts and responses to some of the commenters: Why not use Google Apps or Gmail? Because Outlook specifically and tight [...

Exchange Server without the server

Posted on March 17, 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server is the Microsoft software that works behind the scenes to manage your firm’s email flow, and stores all your email in server mailboxes. This is what makes the goal of near-universal access to your email a practical possibility...

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Copy/Paste from One PC to Another - Thanks Ellen!

Posted on March 16, 2009
Courtesy of Techno.pal Ellen Freedman, legendary Practice Management Advisor (and unbelievably nice person) for the Pennsylvania Bar, take a look at Hey!PasteIt. As Ellen points out “most computer users have encountered the situation where they want to copy some text from one computer to another...

Damn the Torpedos, 1080p 10? Diagonal Video Ahead!

Posted on March 16, 2009
Thanks to Lifehacker.com for this one. Wouldn’t we all want our offices or living rooms to be like this? Come on, admit it. Add in a bank of 6 x 30″ panel LCD displays driven by one of the multimonitor controllers from Digitaltigers.coand and you’re set...

Dare I Criticize Twittering? I Love It - THAT?s the Problem?

Posted on March 16, 2009
I’ve given Twitter a pretty fair shot, following all sorts of feeds, Twittering some days a dozen or more times. First, let me be clear, Twittering is both really fun and really addictive. If, like me, you were born without any sense of impulse control, are a way out there Type A mega-multitasker, you can [...

A Green Step for HP Laptop Batteries

Posted on March 16, 2009
According to cnet News today, HP is now selling the “Enviro” series of laptop batteries which will fit 18 models of HP laptops. The products of startup Boston Power, HP indicates the batteries will last longer (up to approximately 1000 charges) and thus saving on landfill situations...

Monica?s Recipe for Economic Survival

Posted on March 16, 2009
I love techno.pal Monica Bay’s recent post on The Common Scold about how to tighten the belt in this whackjob economy. See her list of Manhattan-oriented survival tips here. I particularly liked the one about recycling ancient white-out as toenail polish...

Paper LESS: Now More Than Ever

Posted on March 16, 2009
I’m always pleased to see my now 16 year old Paper LESS Office process continue to gain acceptance. A little radical back in 1993 when the idea sprouted, now it’s common sense and in the mainstream. The acknowledgement that ridding one’s life and practice of paper may be a pipe dream, paves the way to [...

Looking forward to Leg@lIT 3.0 in Montreal

Posted on March 16, 2009
Looking forward to visiting one of my favorite cities and getting a chance to put my mostly dormant undergraduate French minor to work next month. I’ve had the great privilege of being invited to take part in the Leg@lIT 3.0 conference in Montreal on 20/21 Avril 2009 at the Centre Mont-Royal...

Like Minds . . . the Cone of Silence/Stupidity

Posted on March 16, 2009
As the old saying goes. While I was posting recently about overhearing a Foley partner loudly talking on an Amtrak commuter train to Chicago on his cell about health insurance for some newly rescued Heller and Thelen lawyers, techno.pal Jim Calloway was reporting on almost exactly the same thing...

WordPerfect 5.1 - Just Right for a ?Less is More? World?

Posted on March 15, 2009
WordPerfect 5.1 hasn’t existed as a product since the late 1980’s. But this venerable and venerated word processor is remarkably tenacious. I am continually surprised by the number of people I know who run it, clandestinely, on modern PC systems...

WordPerfect 5.1 - Just Right for a ?Less is More? World?

Memories of a More Fashionable/Athletic Me . . . Rewind to 1973

Posted on March 13, 2009
In 1973 I was in 7th grade. Part of being “cool” was all wrapped up in one’s choice of sneakers. In my neck of the woods, the prestige shoes were Adidas and not just any Adidas models. Not the red-striped Viennas. Not cool enough. The then-pinnacle of tweener footware for guys at Lakeshore Middle School [...

He?s Baaack . . . The Return of Bob (Butler) That Is

Posted on March 13, 2009
Many of us have missed our colleague and friend, Bob Butler, of TimeMatters co-founding fame. After departing LexisNexis (hey, how long could a visionary like Bob have lasted in a corporate hierarchy - longer than I had predicted actually), Bob seemed to disappear...

An Apple NetTouch? A Netbook from Apple After the Third Quarter?

Posted on March 13, 2009
OK, I’m the first to admit there’s some speculation going on here because of course, Apple won’t confirm, deny or comment on the question of its netbook plans. A Reuters article from March 11th quoted a “source” as saying that Apple will take “delivery of newly developed 10-inch touchscreens from Taiwan ...

At First it Seems Like a Good Idea, But Then ?

Posted on March 12, 2009
My good friend Nerino Petro, Jr. of Compujurist fame recently wrote a product view for the ABA LPM’s LawPractice.org - he reviewed the KeyScan keyboard scanners. Nerino gave the combination PC keyboard/built-in single-page-fed scanner a positive review...

So Where do Out of Work BigLawyers Go? Heard Live, Right Now!

Posted on March 03, 2009

Best LCD Picture Frame Offer I?ve Ever Seen

Posted on March 02, 2009

ABA TECHSHOW Early Bird Deadline Extended to March 6th

Posted on March 02, 2009

Can a Netbook REPLACE Your Workhorse Laptop?

Posted on February 06, 2009
You’ve all seen me write about my netbook experiences, from my very first Asus EEE PC 701 to its successor 1000H to my current Lenovo Ideapad S10. In my October Technolawyer SmallLaw column, I talked about how my 2.5 decade long uest for the “perfect laptop” was finally realized - carrying TWO laptops - my [...

All a Twitter About OutTwit

Posted on February 06, 2009
While I’m personally still baffled about why Twittering is a rational way to spend otherwise valuable time, especially if your ADD like me - it’s the ultimate passtime for the Short Attention Span Generation - there’s a tool all Outlook users need...

Coolest Demand Letter Ever

Posted on February 06, 2009
Just ask El Paso lawyer David Ferrell who demonstrated it at the 2nd Annual Texas Bar Law Practice Management & Technology Conference today. He showed a PDF demand letter done in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, which allows you to create and embed Flash video in documents that can open and play via a click or [...

No Longer a SkyFi Virgin! Now a Member of the 7 Mile High Club!

Posted on February 06, 2009
Yes, on the way back from Houston to Milwaukee on Delta (whose customer service is so bad it makes my regular carrier, Northwest look like a luxury concierge service in comparison), I’m blogging for the very first time using the GoGo SkyFi service - wifi at 38,000 feet...

12 of 14 . . . No, it?s Not a New Star Trek Character

Posted on February 06, 2009
No, it’s not a new Star Trek character. It’s my on the road v. at home ratio for the last two weeks. So sorry for the two week hiatus - I’ve been on the road literally 12 of the last 14 days. First a client implementation of a new Paper LESS Office network system for the [...

The Inauguration Live!

Posted on January 20, 2009
See it unfold live at www.hulu.com! Wow! May God Bless America and all the people of Earth.

Cue Rod Serling

Posted on January 18, 2009
Otherworldly is the word that comes to mind about a comment I received about a recent post where I once again maligned, SO deservedly so, all things Vista. Here’s the comment: “Ross, I am not sure whether you are being serious or not with some of your blogs...

Windows 7 Watch: Gizmodo?s Links to Tips/Issues/News

Posted on January 17, 2009
One of my favorite gadgetblogs, Gizmodo, has a great compilation of initial Windows 7 thoughts, tips, observations, critiques, problem-spotting. So far, for those wondering, it’s a mix of encouraging and discouraging news - more the former fortunately than the latter...

Watch for My Next Two SmallLaw Columns

Posted on January 17, 2009
I’ve been overwhelmed by all the positive comments about my new Technolawyer column called “SmallLaw.” All my columns are posted on the Technolawyer blog after their initial community distributions. I just finished my next two columns, both appearing soon...

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