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Keep Your WiFi Sessions Secure

Posted on April 29, 2008
Web Worker Daily gives us four simple tips that can help you keep your public wifi sessions secure. His tips are: Use a VPN Don’t forget the firewall Avoid using Internet Explorer Keep your logins secure Check out his entire post to see an explanation of each and how you can easily implement them.

Creating PDFs in Office 2007

Posted on April 29, 2008
Here’s a great tip from Affinity Law Office Technology Blog about a free plugin from Microsoft to create PDFs from Office 2007. I am a firm believer in using Adobe Acrobat. If you haven’t bought my argument yet, however, and you are using Office 2007, you should install this plugin.

An Interview with Larry Port from Rocket Matter

Posted on April 28, 2008
Last week I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Larry Port from Rocket Matter. Rocket Matter is a web based practice management and time and billing solution. In the interview, Larry tells us about Rocket Matter and a little about how it works...

Rick Borstein Does it Again!

Posted on April 25, 2008
I am not sure how it does it, but Rick is able to figure out what problems I am encountering in Acrobat and tell me the solutions. All without me having to bug him by email. Earlier this week, Rick posted on his blog an answer to the question of how to extract nonsequential pages [...

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The Fear of Getting Rid of Paper

Posted on April 23, 2008
Chuck Newton addresses our fear of getting rid of paper. Chuck has some great thoughts here and it is a post that anyone who is moving to a paperless practice should read. Chuck describes this fear as: So fear fits.� You want to scan and destroy the document, but you cannot because of lingering doubts that [...

Answering Simple Questions

Posted on April 23, 2008
I just read a great article by Jim Calloway. He points people to an article that he recently wrote for the Oklahoma Bar Association explaining how to answer simple questions by searching the internet. I can think of several people off the top of my head who would benefit from reading this article...

Zits & Blogging

Posted on April 22, 2008
I have a Zits calendar on my desk. For those of you not familiar with Zits, it’s a comic about a teenage boy. Really, it’s much funnier than it sounds. Anyway, yesterday’s comic from my calendar was too good not to share.

WiFi in the Southern District of Illinois

Posted on April 22, 2008
I recently received an email from the Southern District of Illinois announcing that they will have a wireless network available for attorneys in all court buildings in East St. Louis and Benton. To use the service, you have to obtain login credentials from the Intake desk...

ConXPoint: The Future is Here

Posted on April 21, 2008
To the extent possible, I try to make my practice as paperless as possible. The benefits of doing so are innumerable. Of course, one of the problems is that some people still require an original signature on documents. One of the solutions to this problem is to use digital signatures...

Infected by Scott Sigler

Posted on April 20, 2008
I just finished Infected by Scott Sigler. It is a classic horror novel that gave me chills like I haven’t had since I read Misery, Thinner, Cujo, and the Shining. Infected is horror does in the classic King mold that is designed to scare you and mess with your mind...

10 Sync Tools

Posted on April 18, 2008
From MakeUseOf.com comes 10 Sync Tools Every Office Worker Should Know Of. There are some good suggestions here, including Google Browser Sync and Mozy. The other programs are ones that I have not used before. One that I find interesting is SyncToy, which allows you to sync files between your PC and your USB Thumb [...

The Perils of PowerPoint

Posted on April 17, 2008
Here is an excellent example of how a bad PowerPoint presentation can kill an otherwise well presented speech. First, start this speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWdOa2ypYg Then, click through the PowerPoint presentation below. | View | Upload your own Hat tip to Presentation Zen for pointing this out.

Downside to Multiple Monitors?

Posted on April 17, 2008
Dilbert exposes the possible downside to multiple monitors.

Google Docs v Office Live Workspace

Posted on April 16, 2008
If you have questions about the differences between Google Docs and Office Live Workspace check out this post from Inter-Alia, which compares the two. It looks like there are some significant differences between the two. For example, First, unlike Google Docs, you aren’t actually working on documents inside the browser — you are using the Microsoft [...

Irony from the Supreme Court

Posted on April 15, 2008
Does anyone else love the fact that the Supreme Court released two tax cases on April 15?

Microsoft Outlook Utilities

Posted on April 15, 2008
A while back a reader asked me if I knew of a solution that allowed him to file his emails from Outlook to a folder on his hard drive. I use Speedfiler and like it quite a lot. However, it files messages only in Outlook. That did not solve the reader’s problem...

Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity

Posted on April 14, 2008
To the surprise of no one who has ever used multiple monitors, recent studies show that multiple monitors increase a user’s productivity 20%-30%. As the Slashdot article notes: For those of us who use multi-monitors, this is not shocking. The Microsoft article states: Give someone a second monitor, let them use it for while, and then try to [...

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

Posted on April 13, 2008
I just finished Playing for Pizza by John Grisham. This Grisham novel is one of his few that does not include a disenchanted attorney hiding from or fleeing from the law. Instead, it is a feel good book about a third string quarterback who ends up playing football for the Parma Panthers in the Italian [...

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Posted on April 13, 2008
Recently I talked about how much I enjoyed The Kite Runner. I just finished Hosseini’s second novel: A Thousand Splendid Suns. Upon my initial reflection, I liked this book even better than The Kite Runner. Once again, Hosseini brings alive the culture in Afghanistan and sheds a light on the plight of the people there [...

Negotiating a SLA for SaaS

Posted on April 11, 2008
If you are considering using a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, John Heckman has some great advice on negotiating a Service Level Agreement. His post includes several tips on provisions to try to get included in the agreement, including: ? Specify levels for uptime, response time, support coverage, and escalation of issues (you don?t want [...

My Freedom GPS and TomTom Maps: I?d Be Lost Without Them

Posted on March 31, 2008
I have written before about how much I like the combination of my Freedom Keychain GPS and TomTom Maps. Until this last week, however, all that I had really done with the system was play around with it. On vacation, however, I had the opportunity to use it in several situations...

Kickin? it in Tennessee

Posted on March 24, 2008
I agree with the Greatest American Lawyer about the Power of a Good Vacation. Taking GAL’s words to heart, the family and I are spending the week in Tennessee at the Kickback Kottage. The cabin is very nice and has several amenities, including a hot tub and, most importantly, high speed internet access...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Posted on March 19, 2008
For Christmas, my sister gave me a copy of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Had she not given it to me, I likely would never have picked the book up. I have have too many unsatisfactory results from reading books that I “should” read to read a book simply because it is popular...

Google Docs Bar

Posted on March 14, 2008
Do you use Google Docs? If so, you might want to check out the Google Docs Bar for Firefox. According to the extension website, gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for firefox, a perfect companion for Google Docs. With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents...

Illinois and Electroinic Access to Court Files

Posted on March 13, 2008
I know that I have been blogging about this issue a fair amount lately. However, I think that it is the one area that can most dramatically improve our practice as well as our efficiency. Last night I had dinner with, among others, an attorney from another state...

Use TripIt to Organize Your Travel

Posted on March 13, 2008
When I schedule trips, I often end up with reservation confirmations from airlines, hotels, and car rental companies. I then have to put all of that information together to keep track of when I am supposed to be and how I am getting there. TripIt is a website that offers you a way to organize your [...

Being Productive Despite the Kids

Posted on March 12, 2008
One of the things that leveraging technology to practice law allows you to do is to practice law anywhere. Sometimes, this means that you are practicing law at home, with the kids around. If you have ever tried this before, you know how difficult this can be...

Benefits of PACER

Posted on March 11, 2008
Bonnie Scucha points us toward an article from the federal courts describing the effects of PACER. PACER is the electronic access system that allows users to access and retrieve electronic copies of court files. The article reports that: Hundreds of millions of pages of court documents retrieved online each year by customers who numbers are approaching [...

Synching Your Google Calendar

Posted on March 10, 2008
Affinity Law Office Technology Blog reveals that Google has released an update allowing you to sync your Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook. You can enable full bidirectional sync between both calendars or you can sync only from either Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook...

A New Member to My Household

Posted on March 07, 2008
This week I gained a new member in my Household: A Dell Latitude D630. My D600 was 4+ years old and had starting having problems. The optical drive did not work unless you taped it shut, the internal wireless card stopped working, the power button did not work well, and the touchpad was kind of [...

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