Gadget, Gizmos and Widgets
Do You Know What Free Legal Research Your State Bar Offers?
By Nerino Petro at 10 March, 2010, 4:22 pm
The folks over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog (Toby Brown, Lisa Salazar & Greg Lambert) have a post putting up an interactive map of the US that shows which legal research product the bar associations of each state provides to its members. The map is from the Many Eyes site which I hadn’t encountered before but is pretty interesting.
Read More >>Capture handwriting and project it in real time without wires.
By Nerino Petro at 3 February, 2010, 7:09 am
A number of digital pen products let you capture your handwriting in electronic form. Typically with these products, you have to download the handwritten information onto your computer before you can view it on the screen. A lot of times that works fine—but what if you’re in a meeting or presentation and want to have on-the-fly handwritten annotations or drawings appear on the screen?
Read More >>Alternative Tools for Running your Practice (& Your Life)
By Nerino Petro at 17 November, 2009, 8:20 am
The Codswallop blog has a great list of 100 alternative tools for collaboration, organization, calendaring and more in the article The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need.
Read More >>Easy File Folder Navigation with QuickJump – Compujurist Readers Save 20%
By Nerino Petro at 16 September, 2009, 1:09 pm
Techhit Software makes a number of Outlook utilities that I use regularly including SimplyFIle, EZDetach and MessageSave . On September 15, 2009 TechHit released their latest utility called QuickJump which is a Windows file navigation utility. A beta version had been in use by a number of firms and people including myself and I’m happy to see the commercial launch of this latest tool. Using QuickJump, you can quickly navigate to any folder on your system or a network drive using just your keyboard.
Read More >>Free Web Based OCR
By Nerino Petro at 15 July, 2009, 10:30 am
There are still a large number of lawyers who don’t have OCR software in their offices. While they may have the ability to create images of scanned documents using their office digital copy centers, they don’t have the capability to take advantage of the uses of OCR for converting these images into usable text that can be brought into their word processor. For these lawyers and their staff, Free OCR Free OCR can provide basic OCR functionality at no cost.
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