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
Cool Tips for Using Google Docs
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
Evernote’s Cool Sharing Features
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
Research Site of the Day – LegalTech Directory
Looking for the latest in legal technology? Then check out the LegalTech Directory, from the folks at American Lawyer Media. There you’ll find listings of technology providers, information on recent product releases, white papers, webcasts, expert reviews of products, news, and more. It looks like a lot of the information that gets published in
Research Site of the Week – phraseup*
You’re writing a brief, or a letter, or an article, and suddenly you’ve lost the word you want to use. It’s right there on the tip of your brain, but you just can’t remember it. Or maybe you’re using the same word over and over, and want something new. This is where phraseup* comes in
Send Bookmarks to your Friends the Easy Way
I’ve always loved URL-shortening site bit.ly for its ability to not only shorten long URLs, but also to track how many people click on those shortened links. Now it offers a great service that is really useful when you need to share a bunch of links.
Let’s say your firm’s managing partner asks for recommendations
Keeping Up with Google
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
Flowcharts for Free
Do you need to create a diagram or flowchart but don’t have Microsoft Visio? Visio is a strong diagramming tool, but if you don’t have MS Office, or didn’t pony up for the version with Visio, you won’t have access to it. Instead, check out MeeSoft’s Diagram Designer. It’s a dead simple way to
Track Your Congressman via RSS
A terrific new service mentioned by Sabrina and Bob last week, GovTrack.us does a couple of things. First, you’ll be able to track federal legislation, as well as just about anything happening on Capitol Hill, and you can set up an RSS feed to monitor your searches. You can also track what other people think
When You Really Need to Send Me a Terabyte of Information
Getting big files to people through e-mail is a problem; most ISPs have size limits on e-mail, and so files bigger than 3-5MB frequently don’t get through. A number of services have popped up to address this issue — companies like YouSendIt and FileCourier provide for safe and secure file transfer. Now Streamload is getting