Monthly Archives: March 2008

MacBook Air On the Road; ModBook Gets Probed

Posted on March 31, 2008 by pete

Traveling this week with the MacBook Air. A few things of note:  On a five hour flight from Las Vegas to Anchorage, the battery was still chugging along at 25% (wi-fi disabled) when the flight attendant told me to put … Continue reading →

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TrialManager – Online Litigation Manager

Posted on March 25, 2008 by pete

  Recently, MacLitigator had the opportunity to review a new online service called TrialManager. Nextpoint, the maker of TrialManager, claims that TrialManager is: the fastest and easiest way to manage your evidence. A completely new way to use technology in the … Continue reading →

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Game On.

Posted on March 21, 2008 by pete

Journler 2.5.4 is out of beta and has gone live. This beautiful program includes tagging, categorization, smart folders etc etc etc. MacLitigator has been using this program for sometime and keep your eye here for the complete details on how to … Continue reading →

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Rescue Me, Rescue Time?

Posted on March 15, 2008 by pete

Anybody, and I’m looking at myself the most critically, can find themselves getting sucked into the blackhole that is the internet, the WWW, the interwebs, the intertubes or whatever you want to call this giant time sink. It’s inevitable, and … Continue reading →

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Easy Envelopes, Really Easy.

Posted on March 12, 2008 by pete

Ambrosia Software makes a free widget called Easy Envelopes. I use this widget so often, I take it for granted and… that’s just the kinda stuff this blog was made to pass along.   Easy Envelops is a Mac OS X … Continue reading →

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Maximize A Minimized Window.

Posted on March 11, 2008 by pete

One of the frustrating things about switching was that doing the alt-tab thing didn’t work on Macs. First, you need to quit using the alt key and switch to the Command key (squiggle). Second, if the window you are tabbing … Continue reading →

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iPhone SDK Announced, Alphabet Soup Down 3 Letters

Posted on March 6, 2008 by pete

Today Apple (formally) announced the release of a Software Development Kit.  An SDK allows independent third party developers to create applications for the iPhone.  Applications will be distributed through iTunes and subject to Apple approval (Good: no crap malware sneaks … Continue reading →

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Leap… A Beautiful Find(er).

Posted on March 5, 2008 by pete

As a switcher, I initially hated the Finder, then grew to accept the Finder, then, with Leopard’s Quick Look, loved the Finder. Leap, from the Ironic Software & makers of Yep, has stolen my heart away. In Finder, the new Leopard Quick … Continue reading →

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