TechnoLawyer: Business Productivity/Word Processing

In response to Blair Clark's review of WordPerfect 12 in Fat Friday, TechnoLawyer member Daniel Fennick writes: "I used WordPerfect 9, got version 10 and discarded it. I've just switched to version 12 and like it a lot. I don't know how anyone can use Microsoft Word. It's far more expensive, made by a company with monopolistic tendencies, and doesn't have reveal codes. It's also snobby in that it won't read WordPerfect files."

About Quips
A Quip is a brief member contribution for which we don't have room in our Answers to Questions or Fat Friday newsletters. Instead, Quips appear first in TechnoGuide, and later here in TechnoLawyer Blog. TechnoGuide, which is free, also contains exclusive content. You can subscribe here.

Coming May 16, 2005 to TechnoGuide:

The Floating Law Firm; Legal Salaries; Interwoven & Time Matters; Much More
In this issue of TechnoGuide, Neil Squillante ponders the offshore outsourcing of legal work, and provides a tip for law firms that publish e-mail newsletters. This issue also contains Quips about WordPerfect and PDF bates stamping, and Questions about legal salaries, Interwoven, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Time Matters, and Virtual PC.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Mondays, TechnoGuide is a biweekly newsletter that features Quips, TechnoEditorials, Industry News, Real-Life Questions submitted by your peers in the legal profession, and the Question of the Week. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. You can subscribe here.

Coming May 18, 2005 to Answers to Questions: William Hinkle reviews Yahoo Desktop Search as well as another free desktop search utility, Jennifer Little reviews Backup Now Deluxe Suite as used in 6-person law firm, Eliyahu Rooff reviews an input device for lawyers with hand tremors, Samuel Matunog reviews the Canon DR-2080c digital copier/scanner after five months of use, and Pat Smith provides a tip to minimize the size of your PDF files. Don't miss this issue.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a thrice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming May 16, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Peter Summerill reviews the Toshiba m205 tablet PC and Microsoft's OneNote, Clint Pullin reviews a PDF utility that he uses to batch convert TIFF files into PDF format, Britt Knuttgen reviews the Quikscribe digital transcription system, Nicholas Hagoort reviews the Visioneer XP Strobe 450, which he has has used for a year, and Gibson Gahan reviews a unique trackball. Don't miss this issue.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a thrice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming May 12, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Kevin Svec provides a troubleshooting guide for law firms experiencing network slowness, and Kristy Binmore explains how your firm can tweak the Maximum Transmission Unit in the Windows registry to speed up your network. In addition, John Laster tells you where you can find legal-oriented WordPerfect macros, and Bryan Keenan provides hope for lawyers who want to synchronize their Treo 600 with ECCO Pro. Don't miss this issue.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a thrice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming May 11, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Clint Pullin explains how to quickly compile an electronic case file (ECF) and its PDF attachments into a single PDF file that you can easily store for later retrieval, and Steven Parsons reviews the Olympus DS330 used in conjunction with an outsourced transcription service. In addition, Jennifer Little, James Marrs, and William Shilling debate whether Macs have earned a role in law firms as serious legal tools. Don't miss this issue.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a thrice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

In response to the review of six metadata removal utilities in a recent issue of Fat Friday, TechnoLawyer member Lewis Siegel writes: "Although the price per seat for KKL Software's ezClean is only $20/seat in smaller quantities, it has a 20 seat minimum making it very expensive for a small firm." A small correction — according to KKL Software's Web site, ezClean requires a minimum of 25 seats.

About Quips
A Quip is a brief member contribution for which we don't have room in our Answers to Questions or Fat Friday newsletters. Instead, we place Quips here in TechnoLawyer Blog and also in our TechnoGuide newsletter, but they appear in TechnoGuide first. TechnoGuide also contains exclusive content.

Below you'll find one of the five articles from today's edition of TechnoLawyer NewsWire:

The Power of Acrobat Standard at One-Third the Price
By Brett Burney
Need all the features of Adobe Acrobat Standard, but don't want to pay full price? Take a look at Nitro PDF Desktop, a brand new legal-oriented PDF utility from ARTS PDF. Nitro PDF Desktop bills itself as a "full-featured PDF creation and editing product." With Nitro PDF Desktop, you'll have access to many features previously available only in Acrobat Standard, including the creation of annotations and comments (highlighting and sticky-notes), bookmarks, digital signatures, hyperlinks, stamps, and watermarks. With Nitro PDF Desktop, you can make use of drawing tools, fill our forms, and edit text. Nitro PDF Desktop also includes macros for single-click PDF creation directly from Microsoft Office applications, and you can use it to merge a collection of files together into a single PDF file. If security or document tampering concerns you, you can specify whether readers can edit, print, or copy material from your PDF file thanks to Nitro PDF Desktop's security settings. Best of all, Nitro PDF Desktop sells for $99 — a price tag that should appeal to lawyers at small and large firms alike. If you couldn't afford (or refused to pay) for Acrobat Standard, your patience has paid off (literally). Learn more about Nitro PDF Desktop.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Wednesdays, TechnoLawyer NewsWire is a weekly newsletter that enables you to learn about new technology products and services of interest to legal professionals. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming May 2, 2005 to TechnoGuide:

The Next Big Thing in Blogs; Maximize Your Google Searches; Much More
In this issue of TechnoGuide, Neil Squillante discusses the next big thing in blogs, and explains how to maximize your Google searches. This issue also contains Quips about the Department of Homeland Security, KKL Software's eZClean metadata removal utility, and uninterruptible power supplies. This issue's Questions from Your Peers seek advice on bates stamping, laser printers, PDA synchronization, Rainmaker, real estate software, and VoIP. All that plus the Question of the Week.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Mondays, TechnoGuide is a biweekly newsletter that features Quips, TechnoEditorials, Industry News, Real-Life Questions submitted by your peers in the legal profession, and the Question of the Week. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. You can subscribe here.

Coming May 4, 2005 to TechnoLawyer NewsWire: In this issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, you'll learn about a hot new legal-oriented PDF utility for creating, editing, compiling, securing, and adding comments to PDF files, a free image-viewing and editing application, a free contact and calendar program (PIM) that rivals its more costly competitors, a business-oriented blog service that could give TypePad a run for the money, and a service for conducting Web surveys.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Wednesdays, TechnoLawyer NewsWire is a weekly newsletter that enables you to learn about new technology products and services of interest to legal professionals. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.