My April Oklahoma Bar Journal column is titled "Utilities Power Up Your PC." I cover a few of the basic utility software programs that most of us have on our PC’s. If you are a user of OSCN.Net and have had a problem with your computer only displaying the first page of the scanned image
April 2005
ABA TECHSHOW Photo Album posted
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An ABA TECHSHOW 2005 photo album has been released, thanks to ace photographer Dale Tincher. TECHSHOW attendees can download the photos at no charge or even ask Dale to send you the larger versions. The only restriction is to credit Dale if you post them on the Web. Lots of photos of the exhibit area…
Malpractice Prevention is the Focus of April Law Practice Today
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The April issue of Law Practice Today has been posted online. The featured topic this month is malpractice prevention and risk management. It contains 8 to 10 feature risk management articles and a set of ethics links from Tom Mighell. I haven’t finished them all tonight, but they are all worth your attention. Print…
Effective Date(s) of New Bankruptcy Law
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The Commerical Law League of America has posted a memo in PDF format outlining both the effective date of the new Bankruptcy law and the various exceptions to the effective date, including some provisions that are now in effect.
Site of the Week: Law Professor Blogs
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Law Professor Blogs is a still-expending network of web logs designed to assist law professors with information and daily news in their academic field. Right now the areas covered include antitrust, criminal law, health law, labor law, contracts, sentencing and more. This site is projected to grow and add new blogs. That’s what makes it…
Free Fonts and PowerPoint Templates
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We’ve all sat through lots of PowerPoint presentations─some good and some not-so-good. Many "experts" are saying you shouldn’t use PowerPoint now. Well, they are wrong IMHO. There is a lot of research that concludes that people remember information better when they receive it through both their eyes and ears. However, if you use…
Congratulations to Dave Bilinsky
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Dave Bilinsky is the Practice Management Advisor for the Law Society of British Columbia. He is a valued colleague and friend. He is a former co-chair of ABA TECHSHOW.
But he’s also one of the 20,000 or so people who qualified for and ran in the Boston Marathon Monday. His official time was…
Tom Peters Outlines Ways to Succeed and Make Money
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How would you like to have a coaching session from an internationally-known management guru like Tom Peters? Many readers would say, "I’d love to, but can’t afford it." Well, Tom Peters has posted part 1 of his "100 Ways to Help You Succeed and Make Money" online for you to read. If these don’t start…
“60 Sites in 60 Minutes” Sites Posted
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We have now posted the links for the 2005 edition of "60 Sites in 60 Minutes" at the ABA TECHSHOW site. In keeping with tradition, we have posted not only the links to the sites we showed, but also to those that we had in reserve, but didn’t have time to show. So there are…
Site of the Week: Freesound Project
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In the early days of computers, we used to customize things, including event sounds. Most of us think we’re too busy to do that now (or maybe it just got old.) Today some of the places where you can find interesting sounds to download are now pop-up, spyware and adware-installer havens. Then, of course, one…