Today's quick "How To" is useful if you are you are trying to create a whielist in GMail or any other time you want to insert a vertical pipe symbol "|" into a document or form.
How-To Geek has a great "How to" tutorial on using Grab in Mac OS X for more advanced screen captures.
Most lawyers forget that their websites are viewed by disciplinary authorities as a form of client communications. Firms that update their website or delete it for whatever reason may run afoul of ethics rules if they do not maintain a copy of it. Anna Massoglia over at Lawyerist.com has a good post on this topic Deleting Your Website Can Come Back to Bite you in the Assets . Some folks believe that since the Internet Archive Wayback Machine grabs snapshots of websites that they do not need to be concerned about this, but Anna's article should disabuse you of this thought.
One of the easiest ways to start automating document creation is to use the tools already included in the programs or platform we use daily. For most of us, this will be using text expansion or text replacement.
Memos are a necessary evil in the business and legal world, but that doesn't mean that you have to write (or endure) crappy ones.
There is a nasty new ransomware infection called Locky that is running rampant currently. This malicious infection is being transmitted by Word documents attached to an email purporting to be an invoice. Check out the following articles and share them with your laweyrs and staff to advise them as to how this is being targeted and to avoid opening one of these emails. The articles include samples of the message and other important information.
Microsoft, I like Windows 10 but the way you are trying to force it on every Windows user leaves me cold. For those of you that are not aware of what is happening, Microsoft has taken a number of steps to, in my opinion, trick users into upgrading to Windows 10...Luckily there is an answer - a handy utility called...
Ransomware. It's what keeps me awake at night as a CIO and technologist. Also known as crpytoware, these malicious tools encrypt your data, delete or disable the ability to use built-in tools in your operating system to roll back to prior versions and then charge you money to provide you with a decryption key. And they just keep getting more and more sophisticated, with some even providing so called "help desks" to assist you in paying the ransom and decrypting your files….EVERYONE. Yes, I mean everyone! that deals with computers needs to have a basic understanding of ransomware.…...
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