Category: Technology
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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…
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Meet Fellow Mac Lawyers
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting August 2013 newsletter on legal technology. In the Beginning Much like Apple’s other businesses, Mac sales have grown remarkably in recent years. At first it was the “halo effect” of folks buying first an iPod and then a Mac. Then came the iPhone and the iPad, both…
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Efficient Mac Lawyering
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting July 2013 newsletter on legal technology. The overall theme for the July newsletter is efficiency in legal practice, with special emphasis on paperless office and time management. In an earlier Mac Corner article I discussed being able to work from anywhere using a program called Byword. This…
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Three iOS App Problems Solved
This article originally appeared on the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center Blog on May 8, 2013. It’s hard to imagine, but next month the iPhone will turn six years old. It ushered in the modern smartphone world. The improvements over the Palm Treo or Blackberry were so dramatic that they justify the word…
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Building Documents on the Mac
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting May 2013 newsletter on legal technology. This month’s Affinity newsletter is devoted to document assembly. While the Windows market is dominated by complex soup-to-nuts solutions, including those in which Affinity specializes, the Mac market utilizes more personal, approachable programs. Fundamentally, document assembly is about not reinventing the…
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Tools for Making Mac Presentations Stand Out
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting April 2013 newsletter on legal technology. We’ve all sat through deathly PowerPoint presentations. Several times I’ve sat in a darkened room thinking, “If he’s just going to read his slides, I could do that at home in my pajamas.” I expect that you’ve felt the same at…