Welcome to the Memorial Day Weekend edition of The Friday Tech Fix, featuring three stories from the consumer technology world lawyers need to know about. Although it was a pretty quiet week overall, there were nevertheless three stories that I think were pretty big. So let’s get started!
I will wager that most of you don’t have a lot of time to keep up with the latest tech gadgets, apps, sites, and services. While I probably don’t have a lot of time for that either, I have come to recognize my tech addiction for what it is, and have accepted my need to
Back in December 2010, I mentioned a few services that would you or others to send files to your Dropbox files, without actually having access to Dropbox. Since that time, a couple of other services have come out that I thought were worth mentioning – several times in the past few months I have asked
I still use Google Docs, but not as much lately as I did the past few years. I recently started to work with Google Docs again, and found some really cool new features that have been added. Here are a few you might find worthwhile:
Improved File Upload – it’s a lot easier to
All right, I’m a bit behind on talking about this, but there’s a reason for it. As I was planning for a vacation last month, I decided to throw restaurant ideas into an Evernote folder, so I could come back later and make a decision. It turns out there were too many good choices to
Okay, so Google Docs still can’t match the power of any part of the Microsoft Office suite, but they sure keep getting closer and closer. Recently, they debuted a great new chart creation tool that makes some significant advances. You’ll find annotated timelines, organizational charts, gauges, a motion chart, and many more chart types. It
Anyone who reads this blog knows by now (and perhaps is tiredof knowing) that I’m a huge fan of Dropbox – I keep all of my files there now, so I can access my work files on my home computer, and my home files on my work computer when I’m on the road. I’ve
Google continues to offer some pretty terrific technology tools, many of which are useful to lawyers: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, and Google Translate or only a few of the great tools that lawyers can use in their practice. It can be someone daunting, however, trying to keep up with all of the new stuff
My Google tip of the week deals with images in Google Docs. It used to be that inserting images in Google Docs was a primitive affair, but the service has steadily improved its functionality in this area. True, it’s still not as sophisticated as Word or WordPerfect, or Pages, but it gets the job done.
If you have read this blog and/or have a pulse, you know how much I love Dropbox as an online file storage and syncing tool. But the free version of Dropbox only offers 2GB of storage – what if you want to store more files online? Well then, check out these 4 Best Sites to
