Legal Technology for the Solo Attorney

Use Dropbox to Cover Your Microsoft Office Butt

This is a tip I picked up from Sam Glover’s post over on The Lawyerist blog. Be sure to check out both Sam and The Lawyerist for great tips and techniques about the practice of law!

This tip is a no-brainer. Do it now! In Word (or Excel or PowerPoint), go to File > Options >Save, and set the Save AutoRecover informationto every 1 minute.

Then, set the AutoRecover file location to a location in your Dropbox (click the image to see my file path).

Voila! Now your AutoRecover files will be synced up with Dropbox so you can get them back if they disappear from your hard drive.

Cloudon v. Onlive Desktop

Sometimes I’ve been known to back the wrong horse. I think I’m really in the know on something, and come to find out I was way off the mark. Such was the case with Onlive Desktop – the Microsoft Office app for iPad. I was initially impressed with Onlive, with it’s…

Pioneer Appradio Review

As a birthday present to myself I picked up the Pioneer Appradio a couple weeks ago. I recently purchased a 2003 GMC Yukon and was disappointed to find no easy way of integrating my iPod library into the unit. After some research I stumbled upon Pioneer’s Appradio – a double din sized unit that leverages…

Onlive Desktop App for IPad Review

One of the chief complaints of iPad users is that it’s lack of a physical keyboard and system file storage prevents the device from being much more than a wonder toy. Put that baby to bed, folks because Onlive (yeah the video game people) has released Onlive Desktop for iPad. It’s a free download in…

Is Siri Dropping the Ball? Try this Solution!

Is Siri, that sultry assistant residing on your new iPhone 4s letting you down? Is she repeatedly asking for time off, complaining about her lack of network connectivity? It’s frustrating, nigh infuriating when you get used to using her, but I’ve stumbled upon a solution. I can’t take credit. It was the result of a…