Monthly Archives: May 2008

Save a PDF as Black and White

Posted on May 29, 2008 by pete

Not so long ago, the federal court clerk refused an efiling and requested it be refiled… the problem? The pleading had a scanned signature on it which showed up in nice blue ink and the federal efiling system required black … Continue reading →

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Jury Selection Spread Sheet.

Posted on May 26, 2008 by pete

The Mac Lawyer has a guest post article by G. Ware Cornell Jr about his jury selection spread sheet using iWork ’08′s Numbers program.  While it might not precisely fit your practice, just seeing the template created by Mr. Cornell … Continue reading →

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Things: A Real Simple ToDo Manager

Posted on May 25, 2008 by pete

Boost Your iCal ToDo List. The iCal todo list, love it hate it rinse repeat. The best part of iCal’s todos is the simplicity. But, iCal’s simplicity also makes it difficult to track projects/group todos in hierarchical order, delegate tasks, … Continue reading →

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Sync. Sync. Sync.

Posted on May 23, 2008 by pete

MacLitigator has been a long time user of FolderShare, a short time user of SugarSync and recently obtained beta access to DropBox. Each of these services provide the ability to securely sync files and folders to multiple computers over the … Continue reading →

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Killer iPhone Tip

Posted on May 12, 2008 by pete

Some time ago MacLitigator showed you how to use your iPhone for flash cards. Now, a genius in the blogosphere shows us how to use your iPhone to replace all those ‘club cards.’ In short, scan your membership card (local … Continue reading →

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Instant Dictionary & Thesaurus Look Up

Posted on May 10, 2008 by pete

Old Dog, Old Trick, New Trick A TUAW blogger recently posted about a ‘plug-in’ that provides the ‘missing’ thesaurus function on Leopard. Chuckling smugly with the self-satisfied knowledge that Mac OS X already had built in Thesaurus (and Oxford Dictionary, … Continue reading →

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Open Office 3.0 Beta

Posted on May 8, 2008 by pete

Open Office 3.0 Beta is now available for Mac. It is of note because, previously, to run Open Office on the Mac required X11 plug-in and, frankly, felt too clunky, slow and buggy to use. Even though Open Office 3.0 … Continue reading →

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