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Recently I have had to send some files that are too large to e-mail. Most e-mail services seem to have a 5 MB (or less) attachment limit. I’ve been using YouSendIt.com and it has worked very well. You upload the file to this service and the person to whom the file is directed receives an…

There are lots of e-mail electronic discussion groups. Many have valuable information for lawyers. All Oklahoma Bar Sections have these lists available.

Solosez is a thriving electronic mailing list-based online community. It is for the benefit of solo and small firm lawyers and neither ABA membership or even a law degree is required to participate.

Several years ago when I was called on to do my first "60 Tips in 60 Minutes" program, one of my tips was about using Paste Special to copy and paste just the text from one document into another without bringing the formatting or hyperlinks or different font from the original document. (Just copy the…

Readers may ask "Why would anyone want to make a copy of an unsent e-mail?"

Like so many tech tasks, once I learned how to do it, then I came up with many reasons why to do it. I might have drafted a long important e-mail and wanted someone else to review it before I…

The word "hack" as applied to technology has many meanings. One meaning is "a clever or elegant solution to a problem." Lifehacker.com covers many solutions to our problems in life. Here’s the site’s mission statement: "Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save…

Time management is an issue for all of us. We all have good days where we get a lot of the right things done and bad days where at 5:00 p.m. we confront the fact that we’ve been so tied up in "putting out fires" that few of our real priorities have been touched. Anthony…

Do you have a Downloads folder? I thought everyone did. But several attorneys recently told me that they had never heard of this concept. Every time I get a new computer, I right click on the Desktop and make a new folder called Downloads. Everytime I download a file from the Net, it goes into…

The mouse is a very useful tool. We click on pull-down menus, graphical interfaces and icons to choose from among literally thousands of options. But there are many operations we do many times in a day or week. Memorizing the keyboard shortcuts for these tasks makes us more efficient computer users and speeds our workflow.