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Organize Your Mind - You Know You Need To

Blumind Is a Powerful, Portable, and Free Mind Mapping Tool for Windows - How-To Geek ETC. Lawyers and other professionals often use outlines, diagrams, mindmaps, checklists, question lists, idea lists, and other tools to organize their thoughts while writing a letter, brief, or memorandum, or while preparing a direct or cross for trial. There are a lot of software tools for this; I am partial to Casemap and Timemap to create organized timelines and witness and document lists. However, I never could get used to complicated mind mapping software tools; although, I saw them used at an unconference effectively some years ago. Now, I have found a dead simple, easy to use, tool that will organize your thinking without a lot of complications, and is free, to boot. Blumind is worth the download for Windows users. 

Does Your Browser Make You Stupid?

Upgrade your browser - the more intelligent option. I love starting a new week with a controversy. Now,  a study allegedly shows that Internet Explorer users are dumber than your average user. It validates my advice to switch browsers to Chrome or Firefox. You don't want to be thought stupid, do you? I prefer to call those who continue to use Internet Explorer lazy. Satisfied with the browser that came with your system, you tend to stay with the familiar, and are incurious about the processes within your computer. This photo of two Internet Explorer users is instructive. Or, this could all be a bunch of hooey, designed to bring new readers to a blog. But, if you are so easily led to read hooey, what does that say? Maybe we should have a study.

Okay, I Get It, iPhone 4 Users Are Rich

BookBook Case Makes Your iPhone 4 Smell of Rich Mahogany. Okay, I get the pretty girl in this photo. We have already discussed the fact that marketers know that sex sells; so putting tech in the hands of a pretty girl pushes the right buttons. But, a leather, weathered case for the iPhone 4 that smells like mahogany? Why not just make one with diamonds studded in it? (Oh, yeah, been there, done that). Hey, I get it. Apple iPhone owners are cooler than the rest of us. They are richer than the rest of us. They are superior to the rest of us. They just spend a lot of money on useless things. And they really look weird smelling their phone cases. Even if they are beautiful.

Size Is Everything

Dell Will Add A 10-Inch Streak To Its Android Line-Up - The Washington Post

While I have been enjoying the 3.2 upgrade to Honeycomb on my Asus Transformer tablet (unfortunately, no Netflix yet), I saw this announcement of a new tablet by Dell with a 10 inch screen. It looks like 10 inches has become the sweet spot for tablet size, not too small and not too big. 4.3 inches is about optimal for smart phones (will the new iPhone 5 jump to that size? It is an interesting development. What size do you prefer?

Get On The Horse, Pilgrim. 4G LTE Is Coming!

Verizon Launching LTE in 15 New Markets on August 18th %u203A AndroidGuys. Not content to be the most reliable and fastest wireless out there, Verizon is coming to 15 new markets in August. So, if you are out in the boondocks, chances are LTE is available near you. I get emails from some of you; and, understandably, you don't want to move to the big city to get 4G. So, here is a list of towns and cities coming in August. If you are on it, get thee down to the Verizon Wireless store. 

ASUS Transformer 3.2 Update Is Here

ASUS Transformer 3.2 Update Rolling Out Tomorrow! %u203A AndroidGuys. Today is the day that the best tablet on the planet gets upgraded to Honeycomb 3.2. Applications will look better (scaled for tablet use), and work better, due to dozens of code changes. Hopefully, Netflix support will be included; which will make the EEE Pad Transformer a portable entertainment machine. Coupled with Slingplayer Mobile, which connects the tablet to the user's home Cable or Satellite box, this is a product that will propel tablet use into the stratosphere.

Mango - Is It A Phone Or A Fruit Smoothie?

First Windows 'Mango' Phone Unveiled | PCWorld. As the new Microsoft Mango phones, sporting Windows Phone 7, are introduced in Japan, it is fair to ask the question: "Who comes up with these names?" I guess Android's different flavors for its Operating System was something Microsoft sought to replicate. Hey, if I knew anything about marketing, would I be spending time writing a blog? Actually, while Microsoft is not in danger of taking over the smartphone market, the blogosphere is actually somewhat positive about Microsoft's new OS. The company has apparently given up trying to create a "little" Windows, and is instead shaping the software to the device. It is probably too late, however, unless Apple is successful in putting Android out of business with its patent litigation. It is more likely that consumers will win, as the big three of computing will be fighting each other to put more features into the devices. I will at least go to the store and play with one. How about you? Note: About the photo. Apparently, marketing has something to do with putting tech devices in the hands of beautiful young women, and then photographing them. Works for me.

 

LOMAS - Practice Management Resources

LOMAS: Index. The Florida Bar maintains the Law Office Management Assistance Service (LOMAS), on the Board of which I served a few years ago. In the advent of the Internet, much of the wonderful practice management materials, forms, and checklists for opening and maintaining a law office are now available online, and no lawyer, from any State, should fail to take a look. Much of the materials will apply wherever you practice, and the topics covered are comprehensive. Futurelawyer recommended. And free for the taking.

When You Get Old, You Drool

We%u2019re just back from lunch%u2026 | BitterWallet. Just in case you are becoming aware of the vicissitudes of age (you know, when it takes 4 AdVil and 6 cups of coffee to get you out of the house in the morning), here is a product made for you. It combines a sharp fashion sense, with a bit of practicality, and a splash of color. You know you need one of these.

Will Your Next Business Card Look Like This?

How to Make Your Personal QR Code | Smarterware. QR (Quick Response) codes are all over the place, now that a Bar Code scanner is part of just about every smart phone app list. If you have an Android phone, you have used "Bar Code Scanner" to download apps to your phone. Now, QR codes are being used to store personal information, and it isn't much of a leap to create a QR Code that contains all of your personal information that would normally be on your business card, plus a lot more. You can have your web address, with a link to the site. This post shows how, with little effort, you can join the QR revolution. If you want a site that will automatically encode your VCard, and much other information, try QR Stuff, which requires a subscription; but, will create a QR Code that can be printed or emailed.