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When Your Trial & Presentation Technology gets bit by Mr. Murphy
By Nerino Petro at 5 October, 2011, 4:38 pm
We like to think that a technical disaster won’t ever happen to us when we are presenting, but that’s just not the case. And it’s not just a trial: I experienced “technical difficulties” at a presentation last week to the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin. For some reason their projector and my Mac just didn’t want to get along. I had been bitten by Mr. Murphy. Unknown Object
Read More >>Pogoplug Pro Dirt Cheap through 8/26/2011
By Nerino Petro at 25 August, 2011, 5:45 pm
Here in Wisconsin, there’s been discussion about about NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. NAS devices are a great way to expand storage, make files accessible across the network, backup and some even provide access to their files over the internet. If you would like to access your files from your network or the web and if you already have one or several external hard drives (up to 4), one option is to use a Pogoplug device.
Read More >>Are there Alternatives to Dropbox?
By Nerino Petro at 8 July, 2011, 4:39 pm
Dropbox has quickly become a widely used product and service with a good reputation at least up until recently. In the last few months, Dropox has made a number of misstatements and gaffes regarding who has access to your data and to what extent that Dropbox could make of it. From a lawyers perspective, Dropbox should not be used for confidential or other sensitive data unless it’s been encrypted prior to uploading to your Dropbox account.
Read More >>Disaster Recovery and Disaster Planning Legal Toolkit Podcast now available
By Nerino Petro at 24 June, 2011, 4:03 pm
The folks at Legal Talk Network host the Legal Toolkit podcast with host Jared Correira who does a great job and if you haven’t listened to any of his podcasts, you should check it out. I was lucky to be his guest for his June 2011 Legal Toolkit podcast on Disaster Recovery and Disaster Planning.
Read More >>Get to Task Manager with a 3 button shortcut in Windows 7
By Nerino Petro at 20 June, 2011, 5:35 pm
By now, anyone using windows should be familiar with the 3 finger salute: Control+Alt+Delete, which in Windows XP or earlier opened the Task Manager. You could use Task Manager to kill frozen programs or specific processes. However, that changed in Windows Vista and now in Windows 7
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