This post was written by Jim Heckman: "When a firm first adopts a document management system such as Worldox, it has to contend with the fact that many secretaries and power users have constructed their own workarounds to compensate for the innate inefficiency of not having a DNS...

Fortunately, there are a variety of ways around this.  One "quick and dirty" solution that I frequently suggest is to have the user move those files into Worldox but to add there initials or a unique code such as your initials (personally I use "yyy") to the description. Then, you can do a search for "yyy" and all your documents appear...

An added benefit is that the "standard" documents can then be organized to benefit the entire firm to the extent that they are useful to more than one person.

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Source: Does It Compute? 3 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Richard Georges: "Lookout Mobile Security :: Security that moves with you. Mobile and smart phones have an inherent security risk. They are small, and can be lost or stolen easily... So, why not use an application that is free, downloadable, and which not only backs up all of your contacts and photos, but also contains an antivirus that scans all new downloads?

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Source: Future Lawyer, 19 February 2010. © 1996-2010, Richard M. Georges, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "The two things everyone using computers is supposed to do are: back up regularly and create difficult, changing passwords. The two things that nearly everyone using computers fails to do are: back up regularly and create difficult, changing passwords. Now, the business about backing up wouldn't apply to computers used in law offices (would it?). But it's not so clear that all firms and lawyers in those firms have got a good password policy in place..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 16 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

In the news: "Moving or copying large Microsoft SharePoint document libraries from one site, or extranet, to another is a recurring need in law firms. Mark Gerow, of Fenwick & West, shows how to move a document library of any size with just a bit of .NET code using the Windows SharePoint Services SDK."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 16 February 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "February 8 was National Clean Out Your Computer Day. If you did not follow this well-known holiday, schedule an hour this week to tidy up your friend. If you are lucky enough to have an IT department, call them up and ask for physical on your computer..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 14 February 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Most attorneys carry some form of smartphone with them to check email, calendars, and other tasks. Today's smartphones, however, can help attorneys in many others ways like information gathering..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 11 February 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by John Heckman: "While you can't get rid of the Word 2007 Ribbon (except via third-party programs), you can seriously augment the QuickAccess Toolbar so it functions almost like a Word 2003 toolbar.

To do this, click on the Microsoft icon at the upper left corner of Word and select Word Options..."

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Source: Does It Compute?, 3 February 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Evan Schaeffer: "Fastcase is free for the iPhone. There are two good reviews here--

• "Review of the Fastcase iPhone App," at Legal Geekery;
• "Review: Fastcase -- free caselaw and statute research for the iPhone," at iPhone J.D.

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Source: The Trial Practice Tips Weblog, 2 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Mister Thorne: "I notice that quite a few law firms publish PDFs in which the type isn't rendered properly. Instead, it looks bold and rough unless you zoom in on it, in which case it looks just fine.

Consider the following block of type. The left side is from a PDF published by a Great Big Law Firm; the right side is from the Word document that was the source of the PDF.

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The type in the Word document looks fine; the type in the PDF is much heavier and less distinct. To use some highly technical typesetter's terminology, "it just don't look right."

In this case, the problem is that the PDF was saved in the wrong format. But that's not especially important, as there are a number of problems that can prevent PDFs from looking as good as they should..."

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Source: Set in Style, 26 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Some people carry around a note pad, others email themselves tasks that need to get done. But if you want a simple program that will synchronize notes from your iPhone to your computer (and vice-versa), give Simplenote a try..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 28 January 2010

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