OK, if you aren’t doing your data backups properly, if your staff backs up most of the data but not all, or if you don’t back up the laptop because "a lot" of the data is on the network, you are hearby sentenced to go to Engadget’s Worst Data Disaster contest and read horror stories
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Mac Lawyers & iPod Users
By Jim Calloway on
Not knowing much about a topic never stopped me from briefing it, so why shouldn’t I write about Macs in the law office? In the February 12, 2005, Oklahoma Bar Journal my article "Macs Become a Familiar Sight in Law Offices" appears, along with a sidebar about my new favorite gadget, "The iPod: …
Top 100 Gadgets
By Jim Calloway on
OK, this may not have a lot to do with law, but you know you’ll have to read Mobile PC’s Top 100 Gadgets of All Time as soon as you see #99 is the Swingline 747 Stapler and #98 is the Pez Dispenser.
Anagram to Improve Your Outlook Contacts
By Jim Calloway on
Al Nye the Lawyer Guy just posted a positive review of Anagram. I’m sure many of your Outlooks contacts look like mine, with just a name and an e-mail address. You can right click on the sender’s name in an e-mail and add it to your Contacts, but you have to type (or copy…
Flash Drive to the Rescue!
By Jim Calloway on
When I was at the ABA Midyear Meeting, my laptop refused to connect to the Internet. The underlying problem was simply some corrupted DLL files, but, as the doctors would say, it presented itself in such as way as to send us down a lot of blind alleys. I received help from an outstanding IT…
Is That a Hard Drive in Your Pocket?
By Jim Calloway on
The Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive is less than three inches in diameter and comes in 2.5 and 5.0 Gigabyte sizes. It has a retractable USB cord included and (according to the computer magazine I’m holding) the 5GB should cost $160 street. Convenient and cute. I haven’t personally seen one, but we all…
Managing Your Digital Photos
By Jim Calloway on
By now many of us have hundreds, or thousands, of digital images on our computer hard drives or CD-ROMs which we have downloaded from our digital cameras. You can potentially acquire quite a collection of these over the years. How do you manage (and edit) all of these digital images? I know what tools most…
Great Electronics Reviews
By Jim Calloway on
Even though Christmas is over, you may still want to download Wired Magazine’s TEST reviews publication. It has reviews of all sorts of products and gadgets. If it plugs into something, there’s likely a review contained in its 117 pages. Download from here. When you get to the site, I suggest you right click…
The Mirra Personal Server 2.0
By Jim Calloway on
I was very intrigued when I read Brett Burney’s Review of the Mirra Personal Server 2.0 on LLRX.com. I didn’t get one of these for Christmas, so I may have to buy one myself for my home system. I think that many lawyers should be investigating external hard drives as a part of their disaster…