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One of my "30 Tech Tips in 30 Minutes" given to the Cleveland County Bar Association Meeting in Norman last week was about the benefits of using two monitors. Law practice technology consultant Hank Ryan was in the audience and he actually gave the best quote, "It’s like power windows. Once you use dual monitors…

Microsoft Outlook’s autocomplete feature is handy. You type in a few letters of an e-mail address and the rest is filled in for you. But there’s more to the feature than first meets the eye. Noted legal technologist Ross Kodner believes the feature is so dangerous it should be disabled in all law firms. (I’ll…

Did you know that Microsoft Outlook will calculate future dates for you easily? In a new Appointment or Task, you can type 30d and when you hit tab, the date displayed is 30 days from today. Even more interesting is that you can type phrases like "45 days from April 25th" and it will calculate…

My fellow bar practice management advisors are providing a tip of the week to our members and various other bar associations. You may see them pop up on your state or local bar’s web pages soon. So to restart that project in grand style, here are five (count ’em, five) PMA practice tips.

1. Quickly…

Here’s an article I found on LifeHacker entitled Ten "Must Have " Bookmarklets. Bookmarklets are small bits of javascript that you can save in your Favorites. But instead of just taking your browser to a favorite Web page, they can perform other actions. If you don’t get bookmarklets, let me give you an example…

"A Desktop Search Primer" was the title of my Oklahoma Bar Journal story this month. I generally outlined what desktop search is and noted several of the leading products. An important point was that you should make sure the product indexes the files you need to search. For example, some products do not index WordPerfect…