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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 >>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 >>Is Marketing the most Important Function You Have in Your Law Firm?
By Nerino Petro at 29 December, 2010, 11:14 am
A post on the Lawyer Marketing Blog believes that marketing is more important than the accounting and management aspects of running a law firm. In his post Marketing, More Important Than Accounting, Finance, and Management, Gyi Tsakalakis of AttorneySync (“legal web strategy professionals”) advocates this premise based on an article in the New York Times and his own experience working with law firms.
Read More >>Firms Turning to Open Source Alternatives for Web Site Design & Management
By Nerino Petro at 8 December, 2010, 4:03 pm
My friend Larry Bodine has a great article on firms turning away from custom content management systems for their websites and turning to free and open source solutions for website design and content management. While Larry specifically talks about Drupal, one of the comments to his post also mentions Joomla and WordPress (which is the platform that Compujurist uses).
Read More >>The Unofficial Guide to Dropbox Now Available
By Nerino Petro at 23 November, 2010, 12:03 pm
I’m a big fan of Dropbox and wrote about this terrific tool in my recent post Dropbox: Have you Got Yours? With consummate timing, the folks at Makeuseof.com posted an article entitled The First Unofficial Guide to Dropbox , making available for free download or online reading, Matt Smith’s Using the Magic Pocket: A Dropbox Manual ebook.
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