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Control Keynote with iPhone/iPod Touch
The best announcement out of Macworld this week, the ability to control Keynote ’09 through your iPhone or iPod Touch. Considering that as the best announcement either says how ho-hum Macworld announcements were, or demonstrates the complete descent into geek … Continue reading
Adobe Acrobat Alternative, OCR Included.
Smile on My Mac just released version 4.0 of PDF Pen. Perhaps the most needed of the new features is the capability to OCR, something sorely missing from Leopard’s built in Preview application. Other features include the ability to sign documents … Continue reading
Workflow… Channel the river, even the flood.
In the first of this series, we explored the document intake process and, unfortunatley, left out email. The failure to include email directly reflects my personal approach to filing and tracking email, none that involves any ‘hands on’ work. All … Continue reading
Workflow. Work. Flow.
Working in a small office provides unique opportunities to create and structure your own workflow.Put another way, how the hell do I manage this mess? If you work in a smaller law office (no more than 10 attorneys & staff), the next … Continue reading
Better than a dream journal, simpler than a string on your finger.
You just rolled into bed, you’re about to doze off, you remember you need to (insert: call client in morning; file answer to pleading; pick-up dry cleaning) and now you must either get out of bed and write a note … Continue reading
Things: A Real Simple ToDo Manager
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
Open Office 3.0 Beta
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
Case Analysis Using Journler
Adobe2Journler! Need to summarize some depositions? Need to summarize/build a chronology of a huge medical chart? Often litigators face the daunting challenge of collecting chunks of discrete facts/information from a diverse set of documents, usually Adobe PDF files. If you … Continue reading
Journler… but not journaling.
Don’t Let The Name Fool You. The name ‘Journler’ doesn’t do justice for what can be done with this software. Although originally designed as a journaling application, the scope of data which this little application can handle goes way beyond … Continue reading
TrialManager – Online Litigation Manager
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