Tips and Tricks
When You Go To Heaven, Will Your Digital Assets go to Hell??
By Nerino Petro at 17 April, 2012, 10:36 am
As a lawyer, I always urged my clients to get their estate planning documents (wills, powers of attorney, trusts) in order and to update them on a regular basis. With the increased use of online banking, bill payment, email, etc. what will happen to these digital assets on your death? Will your significant other, agent, executor or trustee be able to access these assets and fulfill their due diligence requirements to the estate? Or will they face their own version of Hell because these assets were overlooked? Luckily, someone has thought about this and have shared their answer to this issue.
Read More >>Keep Your ISP Honest and other Free and Useful Websites and Utilities
By Nerino Petro at 21 March, 2012, 4:05 pm
Everyone likes useful websites and tools and we like free and open source tools that work even better. However, many websites and utilities that claim to be helpful are actually full of malware, viruses, rootkits and other little computer nasty’s that will make your computer life a living hell. So how do you know what tools and websites are safe? Turn to trusted resources…
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 >>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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