Category Archives: Cool Tools

The Pomodoro Technique – Supercharge Your Efficiency + Legal Productivity (Part 1)

By Larry Port on March 11, 2010

Let’s face it: lawyers have to wear a lot of hats. Before you know it, your day can be over and you feel like you’ve gotten nothing accomplished.
Like the Getting Things Done personal organizational system, The Pomodoro Technique is popular in technology circles but I haven’t seen a wide discussion of it in Legal. [...]

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Computer Spa Day: Reclaim Hard Drive Space on Mac OS X with GrandPerspective

By Larry Port on February 24, 2010

Computer Spa Day, which we talked about before (for both mobile and regular computers), will save you time and money.
I couldn’t believe it.  I wasn’t able to install Apple’s mammoth iPad SDK on my two-year old MacBook Pro because I was out of hard drive space.  Luckily, some genius named “eriban” wrote a donation-only program [...]

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New Google Chrome for Mac Release adds Bookmark Manager

By Larry Port on February 11, 2010

Thanks to Jim Halberg from NextPoint for pointing out that Google released a new version of Chrome with Bookmark Manager.
Bookmark Manager crashed Chrome the first time I used it, but that’s another story.
In any case, this development renders my previous post irrelevant. And now Chrome sits alone at the top of the heap. Chrome, I dub thee [...]

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How to Keep Social Media from Dominating Your Life

By Larry Port on February 9, 2010

Social Media, whether Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, LinkedIn, Flickr, or something else, is like a huge train whizzing by.  Some people are trying desperately to get on it (enter the snake oil salesmen) while others are spending a little too much time on it.
For those of you on the Social Media train, how often do you [...]

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Blogging on an iPhone

By Larry Port on February 7, 2010

I’m writing this post on an iPhone using an app called BlogWriter. It interfaces with most blog platforms, including WordPress.
Typing on an iPhone is a frustrating endeavor at best, so why would anyone want an app like this? The beauty, as I see it at least, is the ability to capture ideas while you’re on [...]

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Managing Bookmarks for Google Chrome on the Mac

By Larry Port on January 29, 2010

Google’s Chrome is a great browser.  It’s very, very fast, which is the primary reason I’m using it.  It has some cool features, too.  For instance, there’s no little window on the upper right for searching.  You type your search query directly into the address bar (it took a leap of faith and great confusion [...]

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iPad Envy? Save Money with Gadget Spa Day

By Larry Port on January 27, 2010

Today marks the much awaited announcement of the Apple iPad. Considering that people’s mouths were watering over the non-event of the iPhone 3G S launch last year, the arrival of the tablet is garnering, as many have observed, the type of interest reserved only for other tablets delivered to the masses several millenia ago [...]

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Rocket Recommends: Text Expanders to Save Time and Mistakes While Typing

By Larry Port on January 21, 2010

Do you type the same things OVER and OVER again? Do you have important codes that need to be correct 100% of the time without error?
Then take a look at programs called Text Expanders. You and your staff will be eternally grateful.
Basically, text expanders allow you to define your own shortcuts or abbreviations that, [...]

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Free Workbook for Lawyers: Get Organized and Take Action in 2010

By Larry Port on January 20, 2010

If you’re not subscribed to Ari Kaplan’s newsletter, go check it out.  It’s one of the few newsletters I’ve signed up for that I regularly read.  Every time it comes out, he offers great tips and articles which are immediately actionable.
This time he’s offering for free workbook from his “Seven Secrets of Opportunity Making Success” [...]

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Make Skype calls from Rocket Matter

By Larry Port on August 25, 2009

Today we’re pleased to announce integration of Skype, the Internet phone and messaging service, into Rocket Matter! This new functionality enables you to easily initiate click-to-dial Skype calls directly from Rocket Matter contact records.
Now, in addition to traditional telephone numbers, Skype usernames can now be associated withyour contacts, facilitating easy Skype-to-Skype calling. All you have [...]

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