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Penny Wise and Pound Foolish!

new and experienced lawyers continue to wonder if practice management software is really worth the time, effort and cost? This is like wondering if a washing machine really makes your life better!

20 May, 05
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Backup, why do I need to Backup?

In this day and age it still amazes me that there is still a group of lawyers out there that still don't take seriously the need for regular backups of their computers!

7 June, 05
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129th IL State Bar Association Annual Meeting

I’m writing this from the 129th Illinois State bar’s Annual Meeting being held at the Abbey Resort in Lake Geneva, WI. Beautiful weather, terrific views of the lake and some great CLE and presentations taking place are making this another successful meeting.

17 June, 05
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Another Security Breach Threatens 40 Million Credit Card Holders

It seems like a day doesn’t pass that more news of security breaches involving private information hits the press. The latest breach may potentially affect up to 40 million credit cardholders.

18 June, 05
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RSS in Microsoft Longhorn: Is there a Gotcha?

Many have written about potential benefits to the end user and syndication as a whole including Jeff Beard’s posts on his LAWTECH GURU BLOG about this news from Microsoft and what he thinks it means for RSS. He has some valid points about centralization of services into the OS and possibilities for making RSS even more useful. But are there any downsides to this move by MS?

30 June, 05
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CoolMon is Way Cool

Even before coming across SmartBar XP, I found a utility called CoolMon at http://www.coolmon.org/index.php The description of this utility from its site is: “CoolMon is a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else you wish to display on the desktop. It can also display stats from remote pc's and publish real-time stats on a webpage. The application can display CPU, RAM and page file usage, hard drive usage, MotherBoard Monitor temperatures and fan speeds, various network stats and much, much more.”

25 July, 05
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Microsoft Fixes A Perceived Problem, But Leaves Another In Place

With the issue of Word metadata still hanging over all of our heads, Microsoft, rather than fixing this issue, has now issued a means of redacting sensitive information from Word documents. So to be clear, metadata is still a problem, but now you can redact portions of a Word document to prevent inadvertent dissemination of sensitive information.

4 August, 05
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Take Your Dictation Digital

For many attorneys, dictating into a tape recorder is a fact of life. For many, myself included, who are keyboard challenged, dictation is usually much faster for document production then trying to type it myself. Like the gunslingers of the Old West, no attorney is without his handy recorder.

17 August, 05
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