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 only discuss Randy’s conversion of his office to Mac’s, but the upcoming iPhone as well as the iPad.

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A study released this week from Crowd Science found that 39 percent of BlackBerry owning respondents said they “definitely or probably would” switch to an iPhone if they had to buy a new handset “tomorrow.” Another 29 percent said they were unsure, while 31 percent are unlikely to buy Apple’s handset.

The survey carried even more good news for Apple, as 92 percent of iPhone users said they are satisfied with their purchase and would likely make their next smartphone another iPhone.

Users of the Google Android mobile operating system were also satisfied, with 87 percent saying they would buy another Android handset. In addition, 34 percent of BlackBerry owners would strongly consider buying an Android phone if they were to make an immediate purchase.

The study also found that 97 percent of iPhone users would recommend the product to their friends, and 52 percent of BlackBerry owners and 51 percent of other smartphone users would recommend the iPhone to others.

The study was of 1,140 respondents recruited via the Crowd Science Sample Beta program from Web sites serving more than 20 million unique visitors. Totaling 44 percent, most respondents were users of a traditional cellphone rather than a smartphone. iPhone users represented 17 percent of those polled, BlackBerry users amounted to 15 percent, Nokia 10 percent, Windows Mobile 4 percent, Android 3 percent and Palm 2 percent.

Trust me, if you’re going to buy a smartphone and want apps now instead of the promise of apps in the future, buy an iPhone.

It works by allowing the user to open a pdf and make it the “background” of a drawing. Once the pdf is opened into the program, it is placed into a document manager and may be called up any time for annotation. From the short video introduction show below (cheesy music not ours, highlighting begins midway through), we can see that users can highlight in any color, draw onto the PDF and type notes just as if the file was opened in Acrobat on a computer except instead of using a mouse, you use the touchscreen of the iPad.

This truly is the solo-practitioner’s dream for a trial presentation machine since the iPad has a VGA connector accessory which mirrors the iPad’s screen to a projector. Thus using this app, an attorney could open a medical record or other document, display it on the screen for the jury and, using his finger, highlight, draw and otherwise annotate the document. Since the annotations are not permanent but exist on a ‘layer’ above the pdf, they can be turned on and off with the push of an icon at the top of the screen. The days of having an assistant at counsel’s table trying to figure out where a attorney wants to highlight or zoom on a document with Sanction or Trial Director are over. Give me an iPad and an projector and I am suddenly a self-contained trial machine.

Unfortunately, our iPads will not arrive until April 3. Check back then for hands-on videos.

The latest MILO Chat Podcast was released a while ago, but I missed posting it. On this episode, “Bringin’ the Funny Today.” As usual, this podcast features your faithful hosts, Victor Medina, Ben Stevens, and our own Finis Price.

This week, we looked back at this year’s ABA TechShow, considered netbook options for Mac users, and discussed other exciting topics. Our picks of the week were: BoinxTV from Boinx Software, Curio from Zengobi, and Birdhouse by Sandwich Dynamics.

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As David suggests, at TechnoEsq Presentations we also try and persuade our clients, other attorneys, from using too many words in a presentation and letting the visual aspect of the presentation speak for itself. We often have to convince our clients of this by comparing and contrasting with and without bullet points, but eventually they begin to understand our philosophy behind creating presentations and appreciate the difference it makes in their demand and mediation presentations as well as at trial.

If you want to learn more about how to effectively use presentations, first throw PowerPoint away and then read a book such as Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. A lot of TechnoEsq Presentation’s philosophy on presentations was borne out of reading this among other authorities on presentations. Garr has a new Online Streaming video on Presentation Zen so you can watch a video on creating more effective presentations at your leisure, the online video and DVD are available here. we highly recommend either purchasing the book ($19.79), Online Streaming Video ($25.19) or the DVD ($26.99) of Presentation Zen. You can also read his blog at Presentation Zen.

For future reference, TechnoEsq Presentations doesn’t create PowerPoint presentations… we create presentations using myriad programs from TrialSmart, Sanctions and Apple’s Keynote; we just happen to export them to PowerPoint when requested. It’s like putting the body of a Hyundai on a BMW frame…why you would want to do it is beyond us, but we do as we’re paid.

Anyone participating in the Teleseminar or who hears it afterwards through a recording is free to contact me at Finis (at) TechnoEsq.com (I spelled the ‘at’ so I don’t get spammed from web-crawling applications). I’d be more than happy, free of charge, to discuss with you how social media can help you or your practice, heck, take me to lunch and you can get a free hour to pick my brain.

Needless to say, I of course overdid it upon my return home, taking our dog Shelby to the dog park and taking a quick trip to Kroger where I ran into Judge Willett. I was on heavy medication at the time so there is no telling what I told him. Waking up this morning I have now realized that my discharge papers were serious when they instructed me to have plenty of rest; I feel like I was run over by a train.

So I am now resting, but promise to begin posting as usual this week. We have a great number of posts scheduled, including our review of the new Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 which replaces the venerable S500 series as well as PaperShow’s incredible new product (all I can say is think of the LiveScribe pen, but as an overhead display tool). Thanks to everyone who sent their well-wishes and for everyone’s patience as I “get back in the saddle”.

The new Kindle DX features a 9.7-inch screen with a resolution of 1200×824 (so pictures look great), 4GB of storage (roughly 3,500 books), native PDF support (something none of the other e-readers have), automatic landscape/portrait text rotation (a la iPhone), free 3G cellular service for transfer of books/documents anywhere you get cell service. The only downside is the $489 pricetag, but e-ink is a new technology and that’s what happens when you are on the cutting edge.

I am currently pre-ordering mine now as it will ship this summer. I envision finally being able to read depositions, pleadings and medical records on my Kindle, something I could do on my 1st generation Kindle, but the screen was just too small to really see. You can annotate PDF’s with the Kindle DX as well as search and find definitions of words. Below will take you to a great video Gizmodo did of the Kindle DX hands-on and we will have a TechnoEsq review of the DX as soon as possible.

The price seems rather high for something which, while providing easy access to legal terms and phrases, is still not something a lawyer has been caught wishing he had on his iPhone. Black’s Law Dictionary will provide not only the same definitions of legal terms and phrases, but also embedded audio of the same information. These definitions are taken from the 8th edition of the Black’s Law Dictionary.

The application does not require an Internet connection, which means all of you who purchased an 8GB iPhone rather than a 16GB are going to start feeling the pinch as more and more apps store all of their information on your phone. To download the application, click here.

*source: WestBlog