Criminal Defense Law With An Apple

On the new iPhone.

I am kicking the wheels on a new outline program called Evernote. It is still in beta. There are a few screen casts here and here. If you are interested in giving it a spin yourself, shoot me an email or drop me a line in the comments. I have 10 invites.  Two left.

Plug-in from Post Check that will look up zip codes and format an address to meet the Postal Service guidelines.From TUAW.

And by Mac Lawyers, I mean Apple’s in-house counsel boost in billable hours, when they start litigation with Psystar. The blogs have been ablaze discussing the start-up that is proposing Mac Clones. Over the last 2 days the company has been making name changes in their products (losing the word Mac). Interested to see if they land on their feet?  For me, this is not really an attractive offer. Why would I want a cheap Mac? Even if I was still using a PeeCee, I would not buy an Emachine. Part of the advantage of a Mac is that it uses hardware that is made to last. In the world of PC, your laptop is obsolete in a year and you desktop in two. You can at least double that for a Mac (some users would argue that you could triple it).  

Usually when someone buys a ScanSnap for the Mac, the purchaser feels compelled to post on the list-serve about how great it is. It is nice that our love for Fujitsu is one thing we can agree on. Scan Snap is great.  Frankly, there is not a lot to say about the hardware. You plug it in, spend about 60 seconds in “preferences” and you are well on your way to the paperless office.   Please allow me to cast the first stone. There is no TWAIN for Adobe to run Scan Snap. Without going into detail, this means you have to use Scan Snaps software to scan. As such, there is the extra step of having to go back and add OCR, in Adobe, after the image is scanned. More of an irritant than a full fledged short-coming. Still, it had to be said.  Scan Snap was still worth the purchase price (and it is not cheap). It is quick, easy to use, and continues to help us maintain a less-paper office. It has a small footprint and requires very little set-up.  

I wanted to update both my blogs about a month ago and was searching high and low for some help. Low and behold, I discovered Blog Solace. This was a lucky find. If you are thinking of starting up a blog, wishing you could switch from blogger to Wordpress, or just need some help under the hood, drop them a line.

Bob Rudis at Apple Blog has a review of Evernote. This is an interesting program that I look forward to test-driving myself. 

A Mac Lawyer’s Notebook is fast becoming one of the most useful blogs for the attorney who uses Daylite. Go here to see the latest offering that looks at document management.