Non-Legal Software
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 >>Good deal on an external drive and CMS BounceBack Ultimate software
By Nerino Petro at 11 September, 2009, 3:18 pm
If you’re looking for a backup system for a single computer, CMS backup has a 250GB external drive plus a copy of BounceBack Ultimate for $99.00.
Read More >>Free Acrobat Forums with Rick Borstein
By Nerino Petro at 27 August, 2009, 2:36 pm
Thanks to my good friend Bryan Sims of The Connected Lawyer blog for pointing out that Rick Borstein from Adobe (and the author of Acrobat for Lawyers blog) will be conducting a series of 3 hour Acrobat Forums for Legal Professionals around the country in September and October 2009, starting with Chicago on September 15, 2009. If you’ve never been to one of Rick’s Acrobat sessions, you need to try and go as he is terrific at explaining how lawyers can use Acrobat in their practices.
Read More >>How to Close a Word 2007 Document without closing Word
By Nerino Petro at 25 June, 2009, 4:07 pm
I’ve come to really like Word 2007 and the other Office 2007 applications. While the Ribbon toolbar took some getting used to, I know find it to be much more intuitive than the old Word toolbar. For those having difficulty or are afraid to upgrade to Office 2007 because of the Ribbon don’t be dissuaded: think of it this way – we spent years being trained by Microsoft to use their old non-intuitive toolbar, with Word 2007 we have to ‘unlearn’ these bad habits.
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