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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 86 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

Review of Lexis Advance

In Defense of the Stylus

How to Negotiate Fee Agreements

Year of the Law Firm Web Site Makeover?

This issue also contains links to every article in the November/December 2011 issue of Law Practice and the November issue of Law Practice Today. Don't miss this issue or future issues.

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Today's issue of Fat Friday contains these articles:

Wandal Winn, Reviews Of Dictamus And Cloud Dictation

Mike O'Horo, Optimists Can Create Their Own Luck But Can Lawyers?

Karen Oakes, Review: Fujitsu Scansnap S1500

Michael Caldwell, Thoughts About The iPad And TechnoLawyer Product Reviews

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Today's issue of TL Answers contains these articles:

Kerry Hubick, Review: PCmover Plus Windows 7 Upgrade Tips

Keith Collins, Review: iPhone 4S (Upgrade From A Treo 755p)

Edward Zohn, Review: Hosted Microsoft Exchange

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: John Lennon lamented about receiving "no reply" from his erstwhile girlfriend, but in the world of email no reply is often desired. Two problems exist. First, if you send firm-wide or department-wide messages, out-of-office and "Thanks" replies will likely clog your inbox. Second and much worse, replying to all instead of to just the sender can inadvertently disclose confidential and privileged information and get you fired. In this issue of TechnoFeature, Outlook expert and publisher of Small City Law Firm Tech Vivian Manning reviews two Outlook add-ons — "No Reply All" and "Reply to All Monitor" — that respectively tackle these problems. Read Vivian's in-depth review to find out how well they work.

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Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers a portable scanner (see article below), a multiuser cloud storage service, a document management system, a multifunctional power charger for iOS devices, and an HTML coding service. Don't miss the next issue.

Scan Without Cables

The more mobile our lives become, the more annoyed we become when we have to bring a wire with us — electrical cords, headphones, and worst of all — USB cables, which probably outnumber people by 10 to one at this point. Until now, if you wanted to scan documents on the go, you needed a USB cable not to mention a laptop. A new scanner eliminates the need for both — and you don't need a power cord either.

Doxie Go … in One Sentence
Apparent Corporation's Doxie Go is a portable color document and photo scanner.

The Killer Feature
Thanks to a rechargeable battery and an SD card slot, Doxie Go enables you to scan without any cables or a connection to a computer.

Other Notable Features
Doxie Go measures 10.5 x 1.7 x 2.2 inches and weighs just under a pound. It scans at 8 seconds per page at 300 dpi (you can scan at 600 dpi for higher quality). It outputs scans in PDF, JPG, or PNG format.

When you finish scanning, you can move your scans to a Mac or PC via a USB cable, or to an iPad or iPhone via the optional iPhone/iPad Sync Kit or Apple's similar Camera Connection Kit.

The included Doxie Go 2.0 software automatically cleans, rotates, and straightens your scans. Because the scanner lacks an ADF, the software can stitch together related pages into a single document. You can send your files to any local application as well as to cloud applications such as Evernote, Google Docs, and Dropbox. Also included is ABBYY OCR software for creating searchable PDF files.

What Else Should You Know?
Doxie Go costs $199, including a carrying case, SD memory card, and USB cable (which also charges the scanner). The iPhone/iPad Sync Kit costs $39 and the Doxie Go Kit (a universal wall charger and extra USB cable) costs $19. Learn more about Doxie Go.

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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 119 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

How Far Can Legal Work Be Automated?

Top 10 Smartphones of 2011 (Holiday Gift Guide)

Small Firm Lawyers Sometimes Handle Big-Time Cases

Why I Stopped Blogging, and Why I'm Back

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Today's issue of TL Answers contains these articles:

Fred Kruck, My Advice Regarding Email Disclaimers For Lawyers

Augustus Brown, Review: Needles For Practice Management

David Service, The Basics Of Multiple Monitors Plus The Case For 3 Versus 2

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Today's issue of TL Answers contains these articles:

Paul Mansfield, Tips For Migrating From GroupWise To Exchange

Douglas Thomas, The Problem With Software Upgrades

Bruce Gardiner, Multiple Monitors 101: Moving Documents And Copy/Paste

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Do you believe in the wisdom of crowds? In TL Answers, TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers. This newsletter's popularity stems from the relevance of the questions and answers to virtually everyone in the legal profession. The TL Answers newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to TechnoFeature: Longtime TechnoFeature subscribers know that we're skeptical of futurist hyperbole and groupthink. Without much empirical evidence, a group of non-practicing lawyers has emerged who congregate at various conferences and predict that law firms will become an endangered species if they don't transform. Yes, industries change but not overnight. Evolution is common, revolution is rare. So at the beginning of 2011, we reached out to practice management, business development, and marketing consultant Allison Shields whose judgment we trust to jot down her observations this year during the course of her work advising law firms. In this article, she discusses five trends in the legal profession that she believes have taken root this year — and how you can capitalize on them.

How to Receive TechnoFeature
Our flagship newsletter never disappoints thanks to its in-depth reporting by leading legal technology and practice management experts, many of whom have become "household names" in the legal profession. As a result, TechnoFeature offers some of the most profound thoughts on law practice, and helpful advice about legal-specific products. The TechnoFeature newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 87 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

Report From 2011 National Solo and Small Firm Conference

Voice Wars: Apple v. Google v. Microsoft

No, We Can't Let Just Anybody Be a Lawyer

How the Internet Killed All the Good Clients

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Our newsletters provide the most comprehensive coverage of legal technology, practice management, and law firm marketing, but not the only coverage. To stay on top of all the noteworthy articles published in blogs and other online publications you could either hire a research assistant or simply subscribe to BlawgWorld. The BlawgWorld newsletter has received rave reviews and is free. Please subscribe now.