Notifications can be a distraction. They often interrupt a train of thought. If you are being notified of non-urgent information that you would likely learn of anyway later, you probably want to reduce your notifications. With iOS devices it’s easy to review all of your notifications. Just click Settings and then Notifications to scroll through
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Use Your Spacebar to Scroll Down (and up) Webpages Faster (December 8, 2020)
Using either the scroll bar or the arrow keys to move down a web page can be slow and time consuming. The next time you need to scroll down on a webpage try tapping the spacebar on your keyboard for faster scrolling. It’s a bigger target to tap on as well. Want to scroll back…
Tasks Has Rolled Out for Microsoft Teams (December 7, 2020)
Since technology has taken over law offices, there’s always been one data management task where most lawyers didn’t behave like the software developers wanted us to behave. That is managing tasks with software.
I’ll stand with my fellow lawyers and agree that they are just following precedent. Because before previous generations of lawyers had ever
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Why Your Law Firm’s Website Should Have a Great FAQ Page (December 4, 2020)
Sometimes law firms struggle to come up with relevant website content. The “traditional” FAQ page may be one area that they should address. After all, we know people come to lawyers with questions. It is likely the same with law firm websites. So, answer the web visitor’s questions. Why Your Law Firm’s Website Should Have
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Home Wi-Fi Security Tips – 5 Things to Check (December 3, 2020)
Whether it is working from home on confidential client matters or doing online shopping with your credit card for the holidays, today’s home WiFi Networks need to be secure. So, from Naked Security here some important things you can check, or do, without too much effort: Home Wi-Fi security tips – 5 things to check
Mask Up! How to Choose and Maintain the Best Masks for Use Against COVID-19 (December 2, 2020)
It appears we still have a few more months of mask wearing ahead and research has shown some of those neck gators are as bad as not wearing a mask at all. So, what’s the best type of mask? Ars Technica has a nice feature — Mask up! How to choose and maintain the best…
Cybersecurity for Attorneys: The Ethics of Incident Response (December 1, 2020)
American Bar Association Formal Opinion 477R (May 2017), …. describes the current threat environment: “Cybersecurity recognizes a … world where law enforcement discusses hacking and data loss in terms of ‘when,’ and not ‘if’…” a company (or law firm) will be breached.
The above sentence is from Cybersecurity for Attorneys: The Ethics of Incident Response
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Lawyer Tech Tips: Technology Treats to Brighten Year’s End from Attorney at Work (November 30, 2020)
After last week’s Tech Toys for the Holidays podcast and some links to other tech gift collections, one might assume I might have completed the tech gift suggestions for the season. But, not so fast! Lawyer Tech Tips: Technology Treats to Brighten Year’s End from Attorney at Work features an ensemble cast of technology tipsters
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Great tech gift ideas from ZDNet
Completing this week’s holiday shopping tips trilogy is the ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide 2020. Another reputable product review website, ZDNet began as a subscription-based digital service called “ZiffNet” that offered computing information to users of CompuServ. (Some will recall that first version of OBA-NET was also hosted on CompuServ.) It has a long online…
Find more technology-oriented gift suggestions at C|Net’s Holiday Gift Guide 2020
C|Net is one of my go-to websites for ethical and quality tech product reviews. So C|Net always has a massive holiday gift guide and its Holiday Gift Guide 2020 is no exception. For those shopping for gifts on a budget, it has sections for gifts under $30 and under $50. If you know what you…