One of the best ways to boost your legal productivity, aside from using dedicated legal productivity software, is to embrace mind maps. We keep revisiting mind maps in our posts because they’re one of the most powerful collaboration and brainstorming tools we use here at Rocket Matter for all aspects
We software developers have been blessed with an incredible help site called Stack Overflow, written by one of the supreme nerd leaders and preeminent bloggers, the great Joel Spolsky. For the SaaSy consumer, the Stack Overflow people created Web Applications Stack Exchange, a terrific public forum for learning the ins
Skype is an amazing tool. The quality since we’ve been using it for the past three years keeps improving to the point where I hope, when I talk to someone, we can do a Skype to Skype chat as opposed to a regular phone call. We’ve even rolled together an
In Part One of our Legal Pomodoro Series, we introduced the basics of The Pomodoro Technique: Pomodoro is Italian for tomato. The guy who invented it lives in Italy and had a wind-up tomato timer in his kitchen. The idea is simple: you wind up the timer for 25 minutes
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
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
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
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
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
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
