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The Panasonic KV-S1026C is a throwback to a simpler time when all scanners were beige and manufacturers were not yet expected to focus on things like user experience.
You can see where this review is going.
The KV-S1026C does, in fact, scan things, but I cannot think of a single reason to recommend it to you. It is not a bad scanner. It is just unremarkable.
Why “Top 5 iOs Apps I Can’t Live Without” and not “Top 10 iOS Apps I Can’t Live Without”? 5 reasons.
So here are the five iOS apps that I use day in, day out, multiple times a day. Keep Reading ⇒
I’ve been around lawyers long enough to observe one thing: you people love to cut-and-paste. Rare is the first draft that either doesn’t contain text lifted from another document or isn’t an out-and-out copy of a similar document done for a prior client. (Hey, it’s efficient.)
Don’t worry, I’m not here to browbeat you about the dangers of such an approach or suggest you do something different. (I’ll leave that to others.) Instead, knowing as I do that you’re going to cut-and-paste, I’m going to teach you how to do it with the fewest formatting snafus possible.
I recently bought a new domain name for a side venture, and registered for a free email with domains.live.com. It is the hosted domain equivalent of an Outlook.com address. The premise is identical to Google Apps for Your Domain (GAYD). But, because GAYD is no longer free, I decided to give Microsoft’s alternative a chance. It excelled in document creation and editing (as one would expect from the creator of Microsoft Office) but the e-mail couldn’t keep up with Google.
Today, we’re going to do the first in what will hopefully be a regular Friday afternoon coffee break. At 2pm Central, come join us for a Google+ Hangout to talk about technology, productivity, and blogging with me, Ernie Svenson, Adriana Linares, and anyone else who drops by. We can only have 10 people on video at once, but any number of people can stop by to watch and comment.
Grab some coffee and fire up your webcam if you want to be seen, or stop in to watch and chat anyway if you don’t want to show your face.
The ABA’s annual TechShow conference is awesome and you should go. Sure, I was a little bit critical of it this year, but I guess, after three years of going to TechShow, some of the shine has worn off. But it is still a conference I look forward to all year, and I plan to keep going back, as long as our budget allows for it.
Here’s why you should, too.
Disasters can occur on a community and a personal level. They can be big or they can be small. It is a stretch to call what happened to me a “disaster,” but it made me realize just how critical a paperless/digital/mobile practice is to surviving disasters, big and small.
A paperless practice, whether as part of a brick and mortar office or a true virtual practice, will allow you the flexibility to respond in the event disaster strikes.
Computers are a tool of the lawyer’s trade, and you have a responsibility to learn to use the tools of your trade properly. I don’t mean that you need to be a power user. But you must aim for competence.
Here are five things I wish you would take time out of your busy schedule to learn before you hurt somebody.
Running a solo practice is more than just practicing law—you are also running a business.
Unlike most businesses, most solo attorneys do everything on their own: from IT support, to managing finances, and dealing with clients (customers).
That means when something goes wrong you have to deal with it and you have to fix it.
But if you plan for an emergency in advance, it will be much easier to overcome. Keep Reading ⇒
The 64 presenters at this year’s ABA TechShow were overwhelmingly white and male. I count 15 women (23%) and just 2 people of color (3% — although it is difficult to tell who might consider themselves a person of color just from a photograph). All of the LexThink.1 presenters who showed up were white and male (LexThink.1 is not officially part of TechShow, but it has become a much-anticipated prelude to the conference).
Why is this? Is the planning board consciously or unconsciously excluding women and minorities? Are no women or minorities interested in presenting or qualified to talk about tech? Do women and minorities feel like their speaking proposals will not be taken seriously?
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