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Andy Ihnatko, a Boston resident who writes a great technology column for the Chicago Sun-Times, is one of my favorite technology reporters. He really knows his stuff, he offers great advice, and his writing style is very funny. A few weeks ago, Ihnatko reviewed some of the iPhone apps that ...
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A friend of mine mentioned to me Clio , an online practice management tool that handles document management, tasks, client contacts, time entry and billing. This is a web-based SaaS (software as a service) product that you access on your computer via a web browser, and what caught my ...
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I received a lot of good feedback from my article earlier this week about using Google Scholar's new caselaw feature to search legal opinions. Thanks, and if you missed the article, you might want to check it out. Other iPhone-related news from this past week:
The Webby Awards have ...
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I'm a big fan of the Take Control series of electronic books, published by Adam and Tonya Engst, the folks who run the excellent and long-running Macintosh newsletter TidBITS . Take Control books are published electronically as PDF files, which means that there is very little delay between ...
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Yesterday, Google announced that it expanded its Google Scholar service to include free, full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state courts. Google is not the first to offer free caselaw research, but given Google's search expertise, this service has the potential to be huge. ...
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One year ago today was the debut of iPhone J.D. with the post " Why I use an iPhone. " In the 250 posts to iPhone J.D. since then, I have reviewed 125 apps, posted countless tips and tricks on using the iPhone, analyzed lots of iPhone-related hardware including the current top-of-the-line ...
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When I discuss apps on iPhone J.D., I try to focus on apps that attorneys would find useful. Today, however, I want to instead discuss an app that attorneys themselves won't use but should know about because it is an app that provides an alternative to hiring an attorney. The app is iNDA . ...
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Apple is about to open a new store in New York City, and like the others in the Big Apple, this one is architecturally stunning. The store , which opens tomorrow, is located in the Upper West Side on Broadway at 67th Street, and as ifo AppleStore writes , the store will be a beacon visible ...
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We all know the importance of reading the fine print. Unfortunately, as we get older, that is sometimes easier said than done. Have you ever found yourself straining to read small, fine print on a page, on a prescription bottle, a menu, a receipt, etc.? Your iPhone can now help you if you ...
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I see a lot of people with iPhones, and it seems that most of them have some sort of protective case. While I understand the desire to protect the iPhone, I love the small and slim size of the iPhone and have no desire to bulk it up, so I have never wanted to use one. Of course, this means ...
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Every year the American Lawyer ranks the top 200 law firms based on revenue, a list called the Am Law 200. Firms on the list include megafirms with thousands of lawyers such as Skadden , Baker & McKenzie , Latham & Watkins and Jones Day , relatively smaller firms with very high ...
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Verizon has a new series of ads that assert that people should get a phone from Verizon instead of AT&T because Verizon's 3G network provides "5X more 3G coverage." Small print on the ads states: "Comparison based on square miles covered with 3G. Voice & data services available ...
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Yesterday, I reported that there are now over 100,000 apps on the iPhone. Suffice it to say that there is a heck of a lot that you can do with an iPhone, making it useful throughout the day. With this in mind, I found it interesting that Om Malik reported this week on a study of the ...
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Yesterday, Apple announced that there are now over 100,000 apps in the app store
and "well over" two billion iPhone apps have been downloaded, an increase from September 28, 2009 when Apple announced 85,000 apps available and "more than" two billion apps downloaded. A little history to ...
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I personally have seen a huge increase in the number of iPhones in law firms and other companies, and apparently Deutsche Bank research analyst Chris Whitmore has seen the same thing. Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune reports on a research note that Whitmore released to his clients this week in ...
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Bing is the search engine provided by Microsoft, that company's answer to Google and Yahoo. Microsoft has updated the website to optomize it for the iPhone, and so far it looks like the company did a nice job. Go to www.bing.com on your iPhone and you will be redirected to m.bing.com and ...
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As we get closer to the end of the year, you are probably concentrating on your CLE hours for 2009, not 2010, but I recommend that you mark your calendar now for next year's ABA TECHSHOW which will be held March 25 through 27, 2010, in Chicago. This is the premier conference for lawyers ...
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Does anyone else find it hard to believe that October is basically over? This year has certainly gone by fast. But back to the topic at hand, it's Friday, so here is some of the interesting iPhone-related news from this past week.
Yesterday I talked about Google potentially bringing ...
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Yesterday, Google showed off the new Google Maps application for phones running the Android 2.0 operating system (such as the new Droid phones that Verizon is starting to advertise), and it is mighty impressive. It includes free, built-in navigation services, so you can get turn-by-turn ...
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Just yesterday, I got the call that I have gotten countless times before. This time it was a law partner of mine, other times it has been a friend or a relative, but the question is always along these lines: "Jeff, I just got an iPhone. What should I do next?" Thanks to the folks at No ...
