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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Is the iPhone the Best Smartphone for Attorneys?

Posted in iPhone

Jeff Richardson, my friend and co-presenter at this year’s ABA TechShow, wrote the following excellent and insightful article addressing this very question: Apple released a software update for all iPhones, version 2.1. With this latest update, a strong case can be made that the iPhone is the best smartphone for lawyers. When the original iPhone… Continue Reading

Inactivity / Lack of Posts

Posted in Miscellaneous

I wanted to let my readers know that the lack of posts last week and this week are due to my being involved in a very complex child custody case that is being tried this week in Greenville County, South Carolina.  Please bear with me, and I will resume my regular posting schedule once this… Continue Reading

Immigration Attorney Switches from PCs to Macs

Posted in Switching to Macs

Eric Rhodes of Triangle Immigration recently switched from PCs to Macs for his practice.  He wrote the following about his "conversion experience" on his Visa Tech Law Blog: As a working attorney from 1999 onward, I gradually became more and more frustrated with Windows constantly crashing.  Other shortcomings of the operating system (security issues, frequent… Continue Reading

800 and 10,000

Posted in Online Resources

What exactly do those numbers mean?  As of last week, the Macs In Law Offices (MILO) forum has now surpassed 800 members, and it had its 10,000th post around the same time.  These numbers are pretty impressive, considering that it has been a little less than 18 months since Grant Griffiths and I founded MILO. … Continue Reading

Now … 3G for Me

Posted in iPhone

Late last week, I finally got the 3G iPhone — 16 GB black version.  I have wanted one since they were released, but I had simply been too busy to go pick one up.  I had several opportunities to get one, as out local AT&T Store has gotten a good supply of them, but between… Continue Reading