This month in the Oklahoma Bar Journal, my column is Speech Tools for Lawyers in 2011. I covered many ways that lawyers can use their computers and their smart phones to prepare documents and do other tasks with their voices working with their computers and smart phones. I have tried to keep up in this
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Are tablets “laptop killers?”
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Rupert Murdoch has predicted that tablets will be laptop killers. Some may think this is crazy. But Murdoch is crazy like a fox (pun intended.) A good headline-grabbing quote can spread the word of the newly launched The Daily iPad app. There are a couple of interesting technology trends here.
First of all…
Super-charge your Conference Calls
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Conference calls (or teleconferencing, to be more modern) are a part of the lives of most business people and most lawyers. It is often easier to work something out with three or four people on one call than to use e-mails or individual calls. I think conference calls will be with us for some time.…
Site of the Week: WooWooMac.com
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I had slowly phased out the Websites of the Week, but have decided to revive it until at least the end of the year because I was inspired by WooWooMac.com. The site's motto is to "learn something new, useful and fun about your Mac, iPhone and iPad." It has many great tips, like Top Ten Useful iPad…
Oklahoma Bar Journal Gives You Great Collection of Legal Technology Articles
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The November 2010 Oklahoma Bar Journal has a Law Office Management and Technology theme and we're happy to share them with you whether you are a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association or not. So pass along this link to someone you think might be interested and settle in for a lengthy session if you…
Do You Have an Appetite for Apps?
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Courtney Kennaday loves her Droid HTC Incredible. I still like my iPhone. In our Sites for Sore Eyes column this month, Do You Have an Appetite for Apps?, we discuss a select few of our favorite apps for our respective phones. New apps hit the apps stores every day it seems and these are…
10 Tech Rules to Guide Users from Ernie the Attorney
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Many readers are familiar with New Orleans lawyer Ernest Svenson, aka Ernie the Attorney, and his well-known blog. I really like his 10 Tech Rules to Guide Users. (The paper is linked from his post.) It barely mentions specific products at all, but just covers concepts and attitude. I think you will enjoy and…
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…
Adding Photos to Your Outlook Contacts
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Most lawyers are all about business and wouldn't bother to take the time to insert photos along with the other contact information in their Outlook Contacts. Some, like me, might insert a few photos of loved ones into a very few contacts.
But recently I have been inserting more photos into my Outlook Contacts to…
Pew Study Says Mobile Web Use Now the Norm
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released a study on mobile use of the Internet, noting that now 6 in 10 Americans are mobile Internet users. The primary finding was that 59% of American adults now go online wirelessly using either a laptop or cell phone, an increase over the 51%…