While looking at updates for practicelaw and the new mndocs site, we came across three nifty ideas to take your website up a notch. First up, SpicyNodes. It promises to make your site “spicy” by organizing your site and allowing users to “scan large quantities of information and linger over the details important to them.” …
Keyboard Shortcuts
Every month we get together with Minnesota State Bar Association members for Off the Clock, an informal discussion about tech tools for solo and small firm practitioners. Once a week we post either a tech or writing tip so you can better yourself two minutes at a time. One of the best ways to save …
Free Adobe Webinars and Tutorials
For last Friday’s Off the Clock we participated in an Adobe webinar concerning Acrobat 9 for Legal Professionals. There are a few more free Acrobat webinars coming up in January and February. You can sign up and watch from your home or office. Many legal professionals use Adobe Acrobat or Professional to maintain a paperless office …
Using Print Preview
My post-holiday wrapping and unwrapping haze has me trying to conserve paper. As a transplanted California native, my eco-friendliness runs deep, which brings with it a heavy dose of self-inflicted guilt about wasting paper. Hence this week’s two-minute tech tip: Use print preview to save paper and make sure you’re printing what you want. You …
Two Internet Freebies Worth Noting
The internet these days is full of amazingly free information, from Google Scholar and its collection of legal opinions to Wikipedia and its huge collection of links to even more free things, such as a resource list for public domain images). Two free things have impressed me recently. Even though one is really geared toward …
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