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Windows and MS Office on your iPad or Android device?
By Nerino Petro at 4 February, 2012, 10:11 am
Working on a hosted desktop offers a number of benefits, including the ability to connect to it from a variety of devices across different platforms. Work on your virtual desktop from your Windows PC at home, check in from the coffee shop and make a change to a letter on your iPad and finally, access and open a pdf from your Android device. If your device crashes, no worries, the virtual desktop is unaffected because it is not running on your device but on a hosted machine in a server farm.
Read More >>60 Tip in 60 Minutes in the Big Easy
By Nerino Petro at 3 February, 2012, 7:00 pm
I had the pleasure of presenting 60 Tips in 60 Minutes for a joint ABA GP|Solo and Young Lawyer Division session today in New Orleans. My co-presenter was Ashley Hallene from Texas and she did a terrific job and had some very useful tips. The PowerPoint from this presentation is now availableon the Compujurist Downloads page.
Read More >>Getting the most from software you have (or should have)….Tip 1
By Nerino Petro at 9 January, 2012, 6:18 pm
Are you making the best use of the technology tools you already have, such as Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Office? This is the first in a series of useful technology tips to save you time, money, and headaches…Create a digital image of your signature with Acrobat
Read More >>Guess Who the ABA TECHSHOW 2012 Keynote Is……
By Nerino Petro at 29 November, 2011, 1:01 pm
Using clues that will be supplied by the ABA, be one of the first 5 to correctly guess who the ABA TECHSHOW 2012 keynote speaker is and be entered int o a drawing for a discount on registration. A new clue will be posted daily until the first five correct guesses are made.
Read More >>How do you squeeze more into a RT? Use a RT taxonomy.
By Nerino Petro at 14 November, 2011, 12:00 am
Corresponding in 140 character messages can be a challenge not only for the person who tweets, but also for those that want to retweet the original message either in endorsement, disagreement or a simple “check this out.” Bruce Carton of Legal Blog Watch suggested that twitter users adopt a taxonomy for retweets in his recent post The ‘RT Taxonomy’: Creating Different Flavors of Retweets detailing a suggestion by Ontario lawyer and blogger Antonin Pribetic, (who pens The Trial Warrior Blog) in this tweet . Pribetic suggests using a taxonomy of the existing RT (which designates a retweet) plus an additional symbol to convey one of several possible meanings.
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