MILO Chat – Episode 18 – “iPad, New iPhone and Randy Juip” This episode… we talk about the new iPhone, the iPad and our guest Randy Juip’s conversion of his law firm to Mac In this episode “iPad, New iPhone and Randy Juip” your hosts Ben Stevens, Finis Price, and our guest, Randy Juip, not…
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39% of Blackberry Users Say They Would Switch to iPhone
A new study published at AppleInsider has revealed that 39% of BlackBerry users say they would switch to the iPhone for their next phone purchase. The study, by Crowd Science also said 92% of iPhone users are happy with their phones. Check out the rest of the article from AppleInsider: A study released this week from…
iPad in Trial with PadNote
We have ordered our Apple iPads for TechnoEsq Presentations as well as our personal iPad and besides being extremely excited we are already seeing the first iPad app a lawyer can use at trial. First seen on 9to5mac.com, PadNote looks like it was created for simple drawing at first, but it turns out to be…
Macs in Law Offices (MILO) Chat Podcast Vol. 11
If you’re a lawyer or law firm using Macs, you HAVE to be both a part of MILO (Macs in Law Offices), link to join below, as well as listening to the MILO Chat Podcast. The latest MILO Chat Podcast was released a while ago, but I missed posting it. On this episode, “Bringin’ the…
MacSparky's Presentation Mojo
David Sparks, from MacSparky, has a great post reflecting on the new study commissioned by the International Journal of Innovation and Learning showing the negative effects of PowerPoint presentations on viewers. David is absolutely correct in his observation that it is not PowerPoint which is futile, but the way it is being implemented. As David…
Social Media in Your Legal Practice
I just finished a Teleconference Seminar, Social Media in Your Legal Practice for the Kentucky Justice Association. We focused on using different social media programs such as Facebook, Twitter and Blogs to enhance your legal practice and for marketing. If you couldn’t make the teleseminar, feel free to go to the KJA link above or…
Problems with Site
Please bear with us as we attempt to fix some problems with the website. Some of our users are reporting problems with the site being displayed on Safari and now the issue seems to be extending to some users of Firefox as well. We have therefore gone to the default setup of WordPress until we…
Sorry for Lack of Posting – Been in the Hospital
I apologize to all of our readers for the lack of posting since the beginning of this month. I had an emergency appendectomy on June 8th and while I came home that night, I developed pneumonia three days later and was admitted to the hospital on the 12th. After spending the weekend on antibiotics and…
Kindle DX – The Lawyer's Kindle?
Finis here and I’m excited of the new announcement of the Kindle DX this morning from Amazon.com. Of course the rumor mills have been talking about this product since the Kindle 2 came out, but I still was not sure what to expect. As the owner of the Sony e-Reader (first post we ever did…
Thomson Reuters Releases Black's Law Dictionary iPhone App
Thomson Reuters’ first iPhone application, Black’s Law Dictionary, makes that venerable, but hardly portable, legal dictionary portable. Officially for sale on iTunes for a whopping $49.99, the application is the first of what is sure to be a series of applications put out by Thomson Reuters. The price seems rather high for something which, while…