BeenVerified.com is a service which has been getting a lot of attention in the press lately and they now have an iPhone app! BeenVerified.com offers background checks which include social media usage, marriage and divorce search, relative search, property valuation and state criminal searches. The service is far from perfect, but does offer users a…
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New MILO Chat Weekly – Episode 13 – “I Feel Like I’m Looking at a Skinnier Version of Me”
The latest episode of MILO Chat Weekly has been recorded and published. Of course, this is a special broadcast as only Victor and I were available. Enjoy the shenanigans. MILO Chat Weekly – Episode 13 – “I Feel Like I’m Looking at a Skinnier Version of Me” Two of the old regular crew: Finis Price…
ScanSnap Profiles – Scanning to Folder in Snow Leopard
UPDATE: Make sure you are running the latest version of ScanSnap Manager v. 22L11. You can download it from Fujitsu here. So a lot of Mac users who use a Fujitsu ScanSnap are having problems once upgrading to Snow Leopard. The main problem seems to be the upgrade breaks the ability to scan to a…
Headway Theme Review by Chris Cree
Since our post about TechnoEsq switching to Headway and the necessity for any lawyer thinking of blogging to use Headway we have gotten many questions asking what Headway is and how it works. Chris Cree from Success Creeations has a great review of the new Headway and why it is truly revolutionary for anyone wanting…
New Look Thanks to Headway – Easy Custom Blog Creation Tool
As I am sure many of you have noticed, we have switched TechnoEsq to a new WordPress theme, Headway. Headway is a theme for WordPress, but it is also much, much more. Headway picks up where Thesis left off, allowing users to create a blog exactly to their specifications using a graphical interface to resize…
GTD For Legal: Capturing and Transforming “Stuff” into Next Action Items
As many of you know, I use RocketMatter as my case management program for my legal practice. Being a solo practitioner who is often moving from place to place, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution such as RocketMatter greatly enhances my ability to have access to my client data from any location via my…
Case Management for Lawyers
TechnoEsq’s co-Founder Finis Price recently wrote a review for Legal Tech Newsletter of RocketMatter, an online Case Management Service for lawyers, entitled “SaaS Case Management for the Small Firm”. Since the time of the writing of the review, RocketMatter has announced the integration of Tasks in a “Getting Things Done” style system into RocketMatter. SaaS…
MacSpeech Dictate Legal for Lawyers
My good friend and fellow MILOChat Weekly host, Victor Medina, has beaten everyone to the punch and not only gotten his hands on a version of MacSpeech Dictate for Lawyers, but put up a great initial review of the product. The review, temporarily posted at MILOChat Weekly’s new home, Victor is starting what will sure…
Pros and Cons of Web Based Software for Attorneys
With his permission I am reposting my good friend, Ben Steven’s, post from The Mac Lawyer on the Pros and cons of Web Based Software for Attorneys. Ben Stevens, or The Mac Lawyer, as most of you may know him, is an authority on using Macs in a legal practice and is one of the…
Macs in Law Offices (MILO)fest 2009 – Conference for Mac Using Lawyers
If you are a Mac-using attorney (or if you want to become one), then you should attend MILOfest 2009, the Mac-focused conference for attorneys. After weeks of anticipation and speculation, details have just been announced this week about this exciting seminar. I, along with the esteemed “The Mac Lawyer” Ben Stevens, Grant Griffiths and Victor…