Author: jrswrite
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The New Year Brings Exciting News for HotDocs’ Users
HotDocs released version 11 of its development and end-user tools for document automation. Version 11 includes enhancements to usability, development, and document assembly. HotDocs 11 is the first version to support Microsoft Word’s DOCX format. DOCX has been Word’s native document format since 2007. Now HotDocs works natively with that format, so you can create…
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The Mac Way to Rescue Stranded WordPerfect Documents
If you’re a Mac-based lawyer practicing with attorneys who continue to rely on WordPerfect, you’re faced with the fact that no one has made a version of WordPerfect for the Mac since version 3.5, which worked only on PowerPC Macs running Mac OS 9 or earlier. In other words, no hardware-software combination that Apple shipped…
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Mutli-Monitors on the Mac
Mac-based attorneys are less familiar with using multiple monitors to increase productivity because Apple provides no native solution to make multi-monitor workspaces a reality. There are two reasons for this situation. First, Apple’s preferred solution is its 27” Thunderbolt display. The upside of the Thunderbolt display is plenty of real estate, a minimum number of…
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iPad mini for Christmas?
A portion of this article originally appeared on Law.com. The iPad mini will be one of the hottest gifts this Christmas season. Does it have a place in a lawyer’s stocking? The iPad mini is both an incredibly new product and a modest revision of what we already know. It’s incredibly new in that it…
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Long Live Johannes Gutenberg! You Can Print from your iDevices Now!
Let’s face it. If you’re reading this blog, you’ve likely drunk the Kool-Aid.1 I know I have. Between my iPhone and iPad, I rarely print anything anymore. Even if I must send or receive a fax, I do by an efax solution.2 Of course, PACER has long made the federal courts relatively paperless. My home-county…
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HoudahSpot Review
While attending the Mac Power Users session at TechShow in March, renowned Mac-using attorney Randy Juip discussed Spotlight.1 For those of you unfamiliar with Spotlight, it is one of the great reasons to own a Mac. Released with OS X 10.4 Tiger in 2005, it is a system-wide, real-time search function built directly into every…