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E-Discovery For Small Cases

Ride The Lightning: New Book: Electronic Discovery for Small Cases. This book review highlights a great new resource for attorneys who try routine cases, and need economical tools for ediscovery. Most of us don't spend our time on huge litigation projects with huge ediscovery budgets. And, the ediscovery firms are way too expensive for small projects. This great new book highlights many of the ways that you can do a competent job of ediscovery without breaking the bank. If you try cases, you need to read this book.

And This Time, We Really Mean It!

Verizon, Google get ready to post Galaxy Nexus' Android 4.0.4 update, really really this time -- Engadget.
Verizon has finally approved the ICS update for the Galaxy Nexus phone, to IMM76K. Of course they have. After a couple of months of waiting, I finally bit the bullet last weekend, unlocked and rooted my phone, and flashed the new build from the Google website. If any of you need rain, I will fly there, and go out without an umbrella. Well, at least I now have a rooted phone that I can play around with. I don't recommend the rooting and flashing process, unless you have some experience. I have some not so fond memories of bricking my old GTablet a few times before I got it right. Anyway, if you have a Nexus, check for an update in the next few days. It does increase speed and stability.

Google Wins Oracle Litigation - Android Users And Developers Breathe Easier

Jury clears Google of infringing on Oracle patents | ZDNet. In a victory for open operating systems, a jury has found that Google did not infringe on Oracle Patents by using Java code in the creation and development of the Android OS. APIs, which link software programs to perform many functions, are not really susceptible to ownership by one software developer. Allowing Oracle to control them would stunt the growth of software, and stifle innovation. The win by Google, in the most important phase of the trial, is a victory for all open system fans. Of course, there are other claims, and Oracle has the money to appeal. However, today is Google's day, and it is a big win.

Android 4.0.4 For The Galaxy Nexus Coming Today?

Verizon Galaxy Nexus rumored to receive Android 4.0.4 tomorrow | TalkAndroid.com. From Tony Rosario's lips to God's Ears, let it be so! It seems like longer than six months that I have been using my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, which was the first phone to get Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The phone is great, but there are always small glitches that are annoying, even if they don't impair the main phone functions. Occasionally, while on WiFi, the phone spontaneously reboots, which can be a problem; although, I haven't noticed it. Other than that, I haven't had any of the other small problems noted in the press. But, a faster, less buggy, version of ICS would be welcome, if it does come today. Cross your fingers, Galaxynauts. Live long and prosper.

Back To Basics For Microsoft In Windows 8 - Redmond Gets Religion

Microsoft opines: Vista was 'cheesy'; drops Aero | Business Tech - CNET News. The next version of Windows will be crisp, clean lines, and no fancy gradients or "aero glass" interfaces. Metro is in. Fancy graphics are out. Gradients, shadows, fancy transparent windows, all use system resources, and are so "Nineties". According to Microsoft, we don't need tablets or notebooks or fancy interfaces. We need basic computers that do everything, and do it with plain building block tiles that group together on a page like bricks in a building. Windows 8 is all about efficiency, and keeping the basic Windows 7 ethic. Use system resources to solve the problem. Don't just make the problem pretty to look at. Hey, Microsoft, a good confession requires complete truth telling. Vista wasn't "cheesy". It was a buggy, unusable mess of an OS. We lawyers who had to use it want the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We want the truth. We can handle the truth. 

CoPilot GPS Is Now Free For Your Mobile Device

FREE CoPilot GPS App Makes its Debut on the App Stores. Back in the day, I paid $20 for CoPilot Live, for navigation on my computer. However, my first Android phone made me put it in mothballs. Why have it, when Google Navigation is free, and great? I knew that I was relying on always having an Internet connection, since Google Nav gets its maps and info online; but, no worries. I always had a connection. Now, however, the basic maps and CoPilot app are free for mobile devices, and I now have access to navigation even if I don't have an Internet connection. I don't know what the free version has, or doesn't have. You can find that out at the site, or by downloading it. Of course, they want you to upgrade to a paid version, for $20. But, you have nothing to lose by trying out the free version. Happy motoring.

CamScanner - Phone Scanner That Works

Cool Tools: Camscanner. Until Camscanner, phone scanner software was always hit or miss. Unless you got the scanned image just right, there was always a chance that you had the phone tilted, or didn't get the whole page, or got too little page. This $5 Android app is the best scanner app I have tried, and I have tried them all. The killer features? First, every scan puts a little bubble level in the top left of the image, and you tilt and move until it disappears. When it does you can be certain that you are on a plane with the document or page you are scanning. Then, the magic begins, and the software removes any extra stuff, crops the document to just document, and enhances the image for pdf conversion. Once it is right, you can share it, email it, or just save it on your phone for later use. Very cool, and very inexpensive. You can try it for free; but, you are limited to 10 scans and they all have an annoying watermark line. Just pay the 5 bucks, cheapskate. This app works. 

Evernote Gets New Interface - Track Your Cases

Evernote Receives Major Makeover, ICS Theming and Lots of Awesome Included %u2013 Droid Life. Organizing your life on a tablet just got flashier and easier. Evernote has been the best way to organize all the stuff you collect and do every day for some time. It is a dream on a tablet. Now, with a new tablet based swipe interface, it is even better. Whatever it is, from photos, to bits of information, to web pages, to task lists, it can benefit from being saved in Evernote. Then, whatever device you are using; be it a phone, tablet or notebook or desktop computer, you will have a complete record of whatever you want to remember. 

CloudOn - View And Edit Office And PDF Files On Your Tablet

CloudOn brings its Office to Android tablets, adds support for Google Drive (video) -- Engadget. I am not a big fan of the tablet productivity apps. I much prefer editing documents, and doing blog posts on a regular computer with a real keyboard. However, in a pinch, it is nice to be able to view and do minor edits on my Android tablet, with the addition of a small bluetooth keyboard. This new cloud app for Android allows the reading and editing of Word, PowerPoint, Exel, and Adobe files in Dropbox, or Google Drive, using the virtual keyboard or an addon. Not optimal for document geeks; but, serviceable. And, it is free. I still use Documents To Go as my regular app to read documents on Android; but, with access to the cloud, at no extra cost, CloudOn will develop a following.

Top Ten Free Tools To Analyze Your Hard Drive

The 10 Best Free Tools to Analyze Hard Drive Space on Your Windows PC - How-To Geek. You got one of the new computers with a huge hard drive, didn't you? Mine came with 750 Gigabytes. Quite an expansion from my first notebook that had a 10 megabyte drive, for which I paid more than the entire new computer this time around. You might think that you don't have to worry about new drives; especially, now that Windows automatically defrags them, and you will never fill them up. But, no, my child, you do need to worry, because you are now saving media files, and photos, and thousands of downloaded YouTube videos. And, modern software bloat makes current programs huge. You WILL fill it up. What to do? Why, here are ten free software tools to do the job for you. The biggest collateral benefit of this process is that you will find all sorts of files you forgot you had. Organize, organize, organize. You'll feel better about yourself. Trust me.