Here is a great little laptop battery utility I have been testing. I found it so essential, that it’s now on all my laptops. Windows offers an icon that can show you the percentage of charge left in your laptop battery. I feel like it will also give an estimate of the time remaining on…
Category: Tools of the Trade
Why this Lawyer Loves His Apple Watch — Top 9 Favorite Benefits
I seem to have this need to date myself, but I will confess that my love affair with smart watches actually started back in the 1990s, with my Seiko Message Watch (shown above). It was basically a pager, but it could show text messages from my office and family, along with stock prices, sports scores,…
Law Office Software of the Month – Microsoft’s Mouse Without Borders
There are times, usually when I encounter some amazing software or incredible piece of technology, that I think The Matrix got it right. We are all suspended in goo somewhere, and what we perceive as reality is merely a computer construct. Okay, perhaps I’m overstating the case, but when I first used Microsoft’s Mouse Without…
Quick Tips: Replacing a Computer with Almost No Downtime
At least for me, when a computer dies, the biggest pain in the keister is not the cost of a new unit, but the much greater expense in terms of time spent installing all the necessary programs and drivers to get it back on par with the computer it is replacing. Inevitably I pull out…
Just for Fun – How to Use WordPerfect DOS
I happened across this WordPerfect DOS video from 1985, and wanted to share. It occurred to me that some may not even have experienced working with a DOS word processing program, and others might enjoy the trip down memory lane. I admit to saying, “oh yeah, now I remember, THAT’S how we created documents.” The…
Using the Internet to Educate (and Intimidate) the Opposition
I will say up front that I have no empirical data to show you regarding this strategy, but it came up in a case I just handled, and I wanted to share it with you. As I will discuss in a moment, on a number of occasions opposing counsel has quoted my articles back to…
How to Sign a PDF Without Printing and Scanning
So you’ve received a PDF document by email that you need to sign and return, or you’ve sent one to your client to sign. How do you accomplish that task? Do you print the PDF, sign the document, scan the document, and then email it? If you do, you are being unnecessarily inefficient. There is…
How To Get Back a Closed Tab
I might be the only one who does this, but I was very excited to learn this shortcut. When using Chrome (this also works for Internet Explorer and Firefox), I soon accumulate so many tabs across the top of the browser that I can’t tell what’s what. I then start closing tabs and occasionally realize…