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Google Apps Missing Features

December 24, 2009

The Google Apps I use in my firm—Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts—have some great features. They also have some crippling omissions that frustrate me on a daily basis. No integrated search Google is a search company, so why is search so limited within Google Apps? In good old, antiquated Outlook, I can find e-mails, [...]

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Sharing contacts without Exchange?

June 5, 2009

Until now, I have been a solo practitioner, but my firm is growing. Consequently, I need a way to share contacts between myself and my law clerk. Google Apps—what I use now—does not have an easy way to this level of sharing. Here is what I want: Free Cross-platform (Windows, OS X, and Linux) Syncs [...]

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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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What I use to manage my practice

April 16, 2008

Note new post: What I use to manage my practice (update), February 6, 2009 As most readers of this blog know, I am in a constant search to find the “best” way to manage my practice. As everyone knows, there is no “best” way to manage a solo or small law practice, but there is [...]

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Managing contacts

April 15, 2008

For quite a while now, I have been using Plaxo to manage my contacts. The great advantage of Plaxo is that it syncs with a variety of software—I use it with Outlook (two different copies), Thunderbird (ditto), and Gmail. The mobile version of Plaxo is also fast enough that you can access it even from [...]

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