Category: Technology
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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…
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Countdown to Backing Up Your Data
This article originally appeared on the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center Blog on March 11, 2013. My favorite maxim regarding computer backups is Peter Krogh’s oft-quoted “3-2-1 Rule”. A proper backup of important information consists of three copies of you data, on two different types of media, one of which is off-site. Let’s…
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How to Minimize the Effects of “Apple-Picking”
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting March 2013 newsletter on legal technology. Over the last few months, big city thieves have developed a new business: “Apple picking”. The victim is sitting in a public place using his MacBook or iDevice, someone runs up, snatches the device from the user’s hands, and escapes in…
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The “Mac-Ware” Way to Handle Malware
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting February 2013 newsletter on legal technology. In this cold and flu season, we should remember that our computers can become “ill” as well. As Mac users, we’re accustomed to ignoring or chortling at the howls frustration of our Windows-using friends. According to a recent New York Times…
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Using Multiple Monitors on a Mac
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting December 2012 newsletter on legal technology. Mac-based attorneys are less familiar with using multiple monitors to increase productivity because Apple provides no native solution to make multi-monitor workspaces a reality. There are two reasons for this situation. First, Apple’s preferred solution is its 27” Thunderbolt display. The…
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Mac New Year’s Resolutions
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting January 2013 newsletter on legal technology. Your Mind and Body Shouldn’t be the Only Focus of Improvement in 2013 The December 13th edition of the Journal of Clinical Psychology contains statistics on the types of New Year’s resolutions that Americans make. The research indicates that 45% of…