Blackberry

Access Your Computer from Anywhere

January 2, 2010

Using cloud technology to keep your office mobile is a breeze with today’s technology. If you are still not into using the cloud, but want remote access to your work computer, then Remote Desktop for Mobiles (RDM+ ) should fit the bill.

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Create Your Focus Bubble

October 20, 2009

The wonders of technology are a huge distraction at work—turn things off and tune in to the task at hand.

Close your email. Sometimes waiting for an email is really important. Most of the time, however, you can close your email and check it later—that’s the beauty of email. Shut it down and focus on the [...]

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To Smartphone, or Not to Smartphone

September 9, 2009

While I do like to be able to check my e-mail whenever I want, smartphones have their downside. It turns out I do not actually like to be reachable and working all the time. I want to work when I work, and not work when I am not working.
I shut off e-mail on my Blackberry [...]

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Smartphone killing your reputation?

June 16, 2009

Blackberrys, iPhones, and Treos have become a staple of the legal profession. They allow us to access all the information we may need at any given time. They also allow anyone to get in touch with us. Does this constant access hurt our reputations?
When in public, excessive use of your smartphone creates a bad impression [...]

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Google finally syncs Blackberry contacts

November 19, 2008

Finally, a sync I can support! Google Sync will now sync your Blackberry’s built-in contacts with your Gmail contacts. This is huge, especially if, like me, you use Gmail for email. Before, I had to do a complicated dance with Plaxo in order to get my contacts onto my Blackberry. Now, it should happen automatically [...]

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Call for help: an online contact manager that syncs with my Blackberry

April 29, 2008

I just bought a Blackberry Pearl 8120 (has wi-fi), which I love. This may be the perfect phone (for me). The keyboard is not a full one, but I can still type faster and more accurately than I could on my Treo or my wife’s MotoQ. Remember the Milk now offers a Blackberry sync, which [...]

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Trip report: taking my law office with me to Europe

May 29, 2007

As you may remember, I recently took off for Europe with nothing but a USB drive and my Blackberry, audaciously leaving my laptop running UltraVNC on my desk at home. Fortunately nobody took that as an invitation to ransack my home. Here is how my portable law office experiment all panned out.
Phone
I did bring along [...]

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Gone mobile: first post from my new Blackberry

March 21, 2007

It is somewhat ironic, I suppose, that a geek such as I should be so late to the game on this, but I just got my first PDA/mobile phone. Quite exciting. I did use a Palm for a while, but I never liked the way it synced my appointments.
This, on the other hand, is far [...]

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