New Job: Only Mac In The Shop
Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management, Switching, iPhone/iPod Touch on Sep 26th, 2009 | 0 comments
Last month, I started a new job at a new firm. I spent nearly three years at my old firm, and most of what I have written on this blog to date has been related to my experiences there.
If you read my Personal Update last fall, you know that last year I moved back to the town where I grew up – Hagerstown, Maryland. Long story short: The 3.5 hours of driving every day got old and a position at a well respected Hagerstown firm opened up due to one of its (now former) partners being appointed judge.
The new firm runs on a Windows 2003 Exchange Server, and my early-2008 MacBook Pro is the only Mac...
Palm Pre, I Hardly Knew You
Posted by EsquireMac in iPhone/iPod Touch on Jul 11th, 2009 | 2 comments
So, if you follow me on twitter (@esquiremac), you knew a long time ago that my wife and I returned our Palm Pre’s within the first week of owning them. I previously chronicled my thoughts about the Pre after my first two days of ownership about a month ago.
There were a lot of positives about the Pre. To name a few:
Hands down, best rate plan available, by a long shot;
Aside from the iPhone, probably the best darn phone out there;
Good 3G data access;
Nice size, comfortable fit in your hand or pocket;
Physical Keyboard;
Decent 3 megapixel, still camera;
Good IMAP email with multiple account...
Two Days With My Palm Pre
Posted by EsquireMac in iPhone/iPod Touch on Jun 7th, 2009 | 13 comments
Without a doubt, the Palm Pre is the best phone I have ever owned. Of course, that’s not saying much, since the previous best phone I ever owned was my Sanyo Katana that I’ve had for over 2.5 years, and it was just a plain ol’ phone.
Why Pre?
My wife and I have been getting along pretty well with each of us having a cell phone, iPod Touch, and a digital camera (of the Canon SD variety). We completed our latest 2 year contract with Sprint a little over 6 months ago, and we loved being contract free. We have been waiting for the iPhone to end exclusivity with AT&T and we both know...
Excel and Numbers Templates for Attorney Billing Timesheets
Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management on May 5th, 2009 | 7 comments
I do a fair amount of billable hour work in my practice. Over the years, I’ve developed a fairly simple but flexible spreadsheet for tracking my billable time. For our firm, this represents the ideal solution at present. I have taken a liking to a few different Mac billing apps out there (like Billings, Involer, Invoice, GrandTotal, and iRatchet) but each of them falls short in one way or another for our purposes. I would encourage you to give them a try, however, as your needs might be different than ours.
Early on, I would write my time down here and there, and at the end of the month, I would...
Practice Tip: Record Audio While Taking Notes
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Feb 15th, 2009 | 8 comments
Audio Notes in Microsoft Word
It’s not often that I have something nice to say about Microsoft. That said, Microsoft Word is a pretty top-notch product, if a bit expensive. While I have pretty much abandoned Excel for Numbers, Microsoft Word is still my work horse for drafting correspondence and pleadings. I don’t use anything else in the Office suite of applications; and until Pages enables you to set the default document format as .doc, I will continue to use Word for my law firm documents because, like it or not, the rest of the world uses Word, and therefore .doc. (I will refrain from...
Download Postbox Today: Open Beta
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Feb 10th, 2009 | 0 comments
Recently, I posted a review of Postbox, a new email client for Mac and Windows that is based on Mozilla, like Thunderbird. Until yesterday, the application was in private beta. Now, you can go to http://postbox-inc.com/ and download the beta version to try for yourself.
If my review wasn’t enough to satisfy your curiosities, check out these reviews below from (arguably) more qualified sources:
TUAW First Look: Postbox Public Beta – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Postbox competes with Thunderbird using Mozilla code | Webware – CNET
Downloads: Postbox Collects and Organizes Your...
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