Articles Posted in Office-in-Briefcase

I follow futurelawyer.com because he has one of the great sites for lawyers like myself who travel with an office-in-the-briefcase. Here is an interesting blog for the end of the year. No this isn’t a gadget or a piece of software. But the “procedure” may come in handy. Hopefully it doesn’t bowl you over with…

Frustrated with Google Reader, I began using and recommending Morning Coffee as a Firefox plug-in. I still think MC is a good tool if you are only interested in looking at certain websites once or twice a day, or once a week. However, for me that’s not flexible enough. Thanks to Practicing Law in the…

Office Tab. Do you (as you should) use Firefox as your browser? If so, you are perhaps used to using tabs for opening multiple windows. I’m told even Explorer does that now. Also, Adobe and my favorite Nitro PDF also use tabs to navigate between documents. Anyway, here is a potential useful tool for your…

Here is a neat website that allows you to calculate a deadline and due dates. Not an application, so there’s nothing to install on your computer or iPhone or BB – and for the overhead conscious it’s free. WolframAlpha. There’s a free download which will allow you to have a widget in your Vista sidebar,…

Do you get .pdf documents? Do you want to use the text from the .pdf document in other documents? Do you want to edit the .pdf document? I use PureText to copy parts of text for cut-and-pasting of small parts of a .pdf document. PureText is free. You highlight what text you want to copy…

Here is this month’s technology/software item to go in your office-in-a-briefcase. Gwabbit. gwabbit is an Add-in for Microsoft Outlook and the BlackBerry that finds, gwabs and adds contacts from your emails to your Outlook address book with a single mouse click! Along with PureText, and CiteGenie, gwabbit add-on makes it easier when cutting and pasting…

Jury instructions to include rules on use of new media Recent incidents of jurors using new media during cases in civilian courtrooms in the States have led a military judge to rework instructions given to panelists in military courts-martial. Army Col. Ted Dixon, a military judge who edits the military judges’ benchbook, said he’s not…

This week my technology item is PhoneTag. PhoneTag is a fee based system to receive voicemails as a written email. While on a business trip to Los Angeles in 2003, James Siminoff was out to dinner with friends. Before they could sit down, William had to sort through a 20 minute backlog of voicemails gathered…

Are you like me — you need to send or receive large files via email. If that’s the case — the law enforcement ROI, is a good example — here is a free, experimental way to transfer large files without having to send them by email. Most email accounts have size limits on what can…

Every so often do you get a file and you can’t open it? Check its file extension. The file extension comes at the end of the name of the file and is [dot].bz, and is a key to the name of the software program that created the file. .bz If you go to OpenWith.org you…