This week marked the much awaited announcement of the Apple iPad. Considering that people’s mouths were watering over the non-event of the iPhone 3G S launch last year, the arrival of the tablet is garnering, as many have observed, the type of interest reserved only for other tablets delivered to the masses several millenia ago… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: January 2010
iPad = iWow
Posted in iPadI missed Steve Jobs‘ keynote address yesterday announcing the iPad, but I have watched Apple’s video about the it (admittedly several times) in the last 24 hours. Wow. I was anxiously waiting to see what Steve had up the sleeve of his black turtleneck with regard to a table computer, but the iPad far surpasses… Continue Reading
Mac Daddy: Solutions to Put to Work in Your Law Practice
Posted in SoftwareThere are a number of ready-to-go applications for lawyers and law firms adopting the Macintosh platform. Here’s a snapshot of some favorite ones you can put to use in your daily practice. If there is one consistent thing about law firms, and the lawyers in them, it is that they resist change. Whether it is… Continue Reading
MILO Chat Podcast, Vol.14
Posted in PodcastsThe latest episode of MILO Chat Weekly, Episode 14 – “I’m old. I’m tired. What can I say?”, has been released. On this episode, Victor Medina, Grant Griffiths, and Finis Price discuss dissect the upcoming Apple announcement and give our opinions on the tablet. Due to a scheduling conflict, I was not able to make this recording,… Continue Reading
GSA Business Reports Firm Merger
Posted in MiscellaneousSpartanburg attorneys David Turnipseed, Doug Brannon, Brac Turnipseed and Ben Stevens have combined their practices to create Turnipseed, Brannon & Stevens. “This new partnership provides a tremendous added value for all our clients,” said David Turnipseed, whose office at 128 Magnolia St. now serves as the new headquarters. “By joining forces, we will be able… Continue Reading
Guest Post :: Life in “The Cloud” (Conclusion)
Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, SoftwareUltimately, you, the user, will have to determine if this “working in the cloud” is for you. Legitimate and less-legitimate concerns about the safety of your data and the security of your confidential information will be a topic for debate in another article. Consider, though, how much of your confidential life is already online—banks, insurance… Continue Reading
Guest Post :: Life in “The Cloud” (Evernote)
Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, SoftwareFinally, for all the data flotsam and jetsam we accumulate, there’s an application to make your online life searchable. Evernote gives you a central database to keep accounts, passwords, bookmarks, notes, recipes or whatever you want. It stores them securely and keeps it all easily accessible in numerous ways. Evernote is an application you install… Continue Reading
Guest Post :: Life in “The Cloud” (Google Documents)
Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, SoftwareIf viewing the changes after a document is saved is not fast enough for you, how about an application where people can share a document and see the changes AS THEY HAPPEN? This, among many other things, is a killer feature of Google Documents. Some of the features of this indispensible tool are: Totally free…. Continue Reading
Guest Post :: Life in “The Cloud” (DropBox)
Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, SoftwareDropbox, completely free for 2 GB of space, a pay service if you need more space ($10/month for 50 GB), appears just like any other folder on your local computer. However, the folder is actually a live, shared folder on the dropbox servers. With the help of an integrated menu bar application, you can give… Continue Reading
Guest Post :: Life in “The Cloud” (Introduction)
Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, SoftwareThe typical model of how people store and access documents is changing as “cloud computing” makes its way to the Mac environment. Basically, cloud computing means that software is stored not on the user’s desktop, but on a server or many servers somewhere on the Internet (hence, “cloud.”) Alternately referred to as SaaS (“Software as… Continue Reading
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