This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Right after I wrote a post about enhancing Gmail's usefulness, they added more goodness.

Now you can make phone calls from Gmail without a Google Voice number. You can also download a free extension called Rapportive that shows the email sender's digital profile..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 1 September 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by Connie Crosby: "Yesterday the Twitter was awash with messages about this revolutionary new Gmail Priority Inbox. The beta version just arrived in my email, and have to say that I am already in love with it. Essentially what it does is bring new, unopened, important messages to the top, then lists those messages that are "starred" (which I have flagged with a star), and then lists everything else. It learns which are important messages over time depending on which are opened and which are responded to. In other words, its accuracy gets better over time..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 31 August 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

This post was written by Tom Mighell: "Want to grab the text from a PDF and throw it into a Google Doc? Well, now you can. When you upload PDF files to Google Docs, you'll now have the ability to convert text from PDFs or even images and store the text in a Google Docs document. It's not a perfect process, and there are definitely more efficient ways of doing this if you have to OCR (many people have turned the term Optical Character Recognition into a verb) a large number of documents."

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Source: Inter Alia, 31 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by the library staff: "Google has come out with a new product that will translate an entire web page at one time. Google Translate can be incorporated into a website to allow for the translation of text into 1 of 57 current languages. I thought about posting this message in Irish, but decided not to test our subscribers. To see an example of a website incorporating Google Translate, go to the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations website. We will soon be incorporating this feature into the Cleveland Law Library's homepage so that we can reach more patrons in more countries."

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Source: Cleveland Law Library Weblog, 27 August 2010. Reproduced with permission by Kathleen Sasala

This post was written by Rick Georges: "Google Voice is now accessible from the GMail interface, and is a worthy competitor to Skype. I have used, and love, Skype, and its quality is now ready for prime time. However, now that I can make free long distance call directly from my GMail interface, along with checking contacts, and email, I will be using Google Voice more. Ultimately, while it is risky putting all of my online eggs in one basket, there is no denying the convenience of having it all on one page. I am also transitioning to my Google email account for everything; so, if you want to contact the FutureLawyer from now on, email me at: rickgeorges@gmail.com."

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Source: Future Lawyer, 26 August 2010. © 1996-2010, Richard M. Georges, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Mazyar Hedayat:

"The Problem: E-mail Overload

The Solution: That depends ...

Finding too many new messages in our in-boxes is a stubborn, universal problem for lawyers: an occupational hazard if you will. I've examined various solutions to this problem, including as Outlook plug-ins ClearContext and Xobni, but was never satisfied with their performance.

...

Then I read about Gtriage in a FriendFeed post a few months ago. Gtriage works with Gmail or Google Apps to identify important messages and give you visual cues with which to find them. Just sign up and within minutes Gtriage learns your e-mail habits, applies its machine-learning algorithms, then identifies and labels messages so you know which ones to attack first. Amount of work required on the user's end: none. That's more like it..."

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Source: practicehacker, 21 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author

From an article written by Jason Beahm: "As a small firm owner, how do you monitor news related to changing laws, without breaking the bank on a bunch of staff you can't afford?"

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 7 July 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "If you use Google Scholar at all, you may be pleased to know that it's now possible to refine certain searches. In a particular kind of search you want to know how a judgment or article has been received: this you can get by clicking on the "cited by [n]" link that will appear beneath each item in your search results..."

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Source: slaw.ca, 6 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "How the heck did I miss this? Google announced last week that now when you import files into Google Docs (JPEG, GIF, PNG, or PDF) you have the option of running optical character recognition on them. This is really huge; this means that instead of just static files, you'll be able to upload sets of words with which you can do further work. There appear to be some limits on what you can upload/convert (more about that shortly) but I find this really exciting..."

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Source: Research Buzz, 29 June 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author

From the e-newsletter: "Google Voice is a Google application that has been getting a lot of attention from attorneys for quite some time. However, until Tuesday it was by invitation only and millions of potential users were left out in the cold. Now that Google Voice is available to everyone, for the low, low price of free, you should highly consider using it to benefit your law practice."

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Source: FindLaw's Modern Practice: Law & Technology. 24 June 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>