Kudos to OCU's Legal Research Certificate program for its innovative first Cool Tools Café program. I was familiar with many, but not all, of their cool tools. Descriptions of some of the cool tools are available at the link above. You may want to review these. These young law students will soon be young
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Time management tips for social media
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Your ABA, the American Bar Association's e-newsletter summarized an article that Catherine Sanders Reach and I co-authored for GPSolo magazine and titled it Time management tips for social media. I do like their heading a lot – Technology Translators. If you are not aware of social media management tools, this should be worth your time.
So why did Google hide Google Advanced Search and where do I find it?
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Earlier this year Google removed the "advanced search" link from its home page. The answer to the question "why did Google hide Google Advanced Search?" remains a bit of a mystery. Google home page simplicity taken one infuriating step too far remains my best answer. Where you can find Advanced Search is pretty easy. But…
Great Reading for the Week of July 4th, 2011
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Well, to celebrate the holiday weekend a little early, I have prepared a “Great Reading” list that wanders a bit from my usual fare. Thanks to all of the people who sent these my way, largely through Twitter.
David Pogue: We Have To Fix E-mail http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/we-have-to-fix-e-mail/?ref=personaltechemail&nl=technology&emc=cta1
Trying to figure out how to improve your website…
24 Favorite Websites from the Digital Edge Podcast
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ABA TECHSHOW 2011 closed with a large crowd in attendance for 60 Sites in 60 Minutes. Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson joined colleagues ABA TECHSHOW 2010 chair Paul Unger and TECHSHOW planning board member Erik Mazzone for this lively presentation. Jim and Sharon just couldn’t get enough of talking about interesting and fun websites for…
Really Cool Tool: VuPoint Magic Wand™ Portable Scanner
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WARNING: If you read this blog post you may find that you have to buy a VuPoint Magic Wand™ Portable Scanner. I mean, first of all, what lawyer hasn't wished for a magic wand before, particularly in certain courtrooms and depositions?
But seriously, the VuPoint Magic Wand™ Portable Scanner is a great tool for many, many lawyers.
Cool Tools: Windows 7
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No one is more surprised than me that I am featuring Windows 7 as a cool tool. I hated the early versions of Vista with a passion and still don't like it. I've always tended to not care about operating systems. I just wanted an OS to run my applications. But Windows 7 delivers on…
Cool Tools: Verizon 3G hotspot service on the Droid X
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The tools featured under "Cool Tools" will be primarily those that i have test-driven personally. But Scott Bassett's Verizon 3G Mobile Hotspot Service Mini-Review is well-written and this service really is a cool tool. The $20 per month charge is quite reasonable. Since he was trying it out at the same conference i was attending…
Cool Tools: The Samson Go Mic USB Microphone
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I have just had the Samson Go Mic USB Microphone for a couple of weeks, but I like it a lot. It works for speech recognition as well as recording my podcast. It is inexpensive and compact. But before I got around to reviewing it, Diane L. Ebersole, PMRC Advisor for the State Bar of…
Cool Tools: Virgin Mobile Novatel MiFi
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Often soon after you make an electronics purchase, you see a new tool that is cheaper, better or just more shiny. So just a few days after I blogged about my new Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile HotSpot, when New York Times Personal Tech columnist David Pogue wrote about the Virgin Mobile Novatel MiFi, I…