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Younger Workers Enhance Productivity With Technology

February 19, 2010

Younger attorneys are much more likely to use Facebook, IM, and other emerging technology during work hours. Although some of that usage is purely social, some of it enhances their productivity. IM and other social media help foster connections between individuals. Large social networks allow individuals to call on more resources for information. For example, [...]

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Acrobat.com Presentations: a future PowerPoint killer?

May 27, 2009

Today, Adobe releases a new collaborative Presentations application for its free online Acrobat.com cloud-based office suite. This new presentation software brings Acrobat.com one step closer to being a full-fledged online replacement for Microsoft Office. Since all of Acrobat.com is still in a beta phase, none of the products are fully developed — and some need [...]

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Acrobat.com: another cloud-based office suite

March 16, 2009

Google Docs and Zoho Suite have a new competitor: Adobe’s Acrobat.com, a promising new entrant in the cloud-based office suite field. A few weeks ago, the Acrobat.com crew gave me an in-depth tour of their offering. Acrobat.com is mainly a word processor, Buzzword, and a collaboration tool, ConnectNow. They are entirely Flash-based, but other than that, they [...]

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Google Chrome coming soon to Mac and Linux

January 10, 2009

Feeling left out of the Google Chrome party? I know I am. It’s been out for some time now, but because Google left Mac and Linux users out in the cold, I still haven’t given it a try. While Firefox is my browser of choice, Chrome sounds like much more than a simple browser. It [...]

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Dropbox syncs files across all your computers

September 30, 2008

I have not decided just how I want to use Dropbox yet, but I will tell you what: this is one slick program. Dropbox is a very simple, easy-to-use program you install on all your computers, and it automatically syncs your files with a set of files in the cloud whenever you make changes, on [...]

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Use TiddlyWiki to take notes on your files

July 14, 2008

By now everyone knows what a wiki is, right? One of the best features of wikis is the ability to easily discover links between different bits of information. I have used various “wikipads” like Tomboy and ZuluPad, for example, which automatically highlight links to other notes. This is especially valuable in complex cases, where you [...]

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