Category: Technology
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Mac Bloggers to Appreciate
February is Client Appreciation Month at Affinity Consulting. Elsewhere in the newsletter you’ll see links to webinars we’re hosting throughout the month on a variety of topics, including a follow-up Mac Tips and Tricks webinar on February 19th. For those who attended the January 19th webinar, this will include new material. Click here to register.…
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Resolve to be More Efficient with Your Mac
Regardless of whether Santa brought you a brand-new Mac or if you’re working with one you’ve had for a while, there are always new tricks and tools that you can learn to save you time and make you more efficient. Below is a way to make you a more productive Mac and iDevice user. Macros…
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Affinity Buzz Blurb
Services For those of you who do not know, Affinity offers several Apple Mac and iOS-specific services to lawyers. First, we help folks using a Mac at work, in otherwise PC-centric firms, to connect to firm resources either directly through their Macs (where possible), or via a remote desktop connection or VPN. We are also…
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Tech Gifts for Your Apple Lovers
December’s newsletter is perhaps the easiest and most fun for me to write because it gives me the opportunity to rattle off some great tech toys and gifts. First up, an update on a recommendation from last year. For men who wanted a wallet case for their iPhone, I recommended a product from Speck, who…
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Productivity Improvements in iOS 8 and Yosemite
For the past several years, Apple has made its annual Mac OS X updates available as free or nearly free downloads from its Mac App Store. This year is no different and the version released earlier this month, 10.10 Yosemite, contains a boatload of enhancements for those who live in the Apple ecosystem. The primary…
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Act Now to Secure Your iOS Device
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting blog on legal technology. On Friday, February 21st, Apple released a seemingly innocuous update to their iOS operating system, update 7.0.6. You should be forgiven for not thinking much of this. Most 0.0.x updates fix minor bugs addressing specific user situations. For example, 7.0.5 was not even…
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Unique, Functional Apple Gifts
We Mac users got our Christmas presents early this year: iPhones in September and iPads in November. The only Mac users waiting for new big-ticket items are those itching to buy Mac Pros sometime in December. And while we techies generally prefer to buy our own smartphones, tablets, and computers, that shouldn’t stop us from…
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Being Thankful for Fellow Mac-Loving Attorneys
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting November 2013 newsletter on legal technology. Having just wrapped up a week of conferences in Florida, I’m happy to be back home in Ohio. Although, of course, it was pleasant to escape late fall temperatures and spend time in Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando, at Disney World. The…
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Avoiding Some Scary Internet Problems
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting October 2013 newsletter on legal technology. As Mac users, we’re accustomed to ignoring most of the scary IT stories that surface in the Windows’ world. Fundamental weaknesses like viruses, root kits, and even device driver conflicts are scarce to non-existent on the Mac. Thank god. But, that…
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Fresh Apple Season is Upon Us
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting September 2013 newsletter on legal technology. One of the best things about using Apple products is that, as a consumer-centric company, they understand the value of making a marketing splash heading into the Christmas season. At June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, we were teased with many new products…