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...
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Circus Ponies Notebook 3.0 Imminent

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Sep 17th, 2008 | 1 comment
Jayson Adams, from Circus Ponies, posted on September 1 that Notebook 3.0 is ready to ship, and we are only now waiting on them to square away their license key management and distribution. Jayson had this to say: The completion of the website work and launch window constraints makes it hard to declare when 3.0 will go live. To be safe I’m going to say it will happen within the next two weeks. It should not take two weeks to get the website ready, but stranger things have happened during this release cycle. Thank you again for your patience Check the rest of his announcement for all the...
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Circus Ponies Notebook 3.0 to Ship “end of August”

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Aug 9th, 2008 | 1 comment
Jayson Adams of Circus Ponies wrote on August 4 to update us on the status of version 3.0 of its highly regarded Notebook app: I promised 4 weeks ago to check in again and let you know how NoteBook 3.0 is coming along. Beta testing has been going well and we plan to ship NoteBook 3.0 at the end of August. Over the coming weeks we should be able to pin down an exact date, as well as provide information about obtaining your free NoteBook 3.0 upgrades (for those of you who purchased NoteBook 2.1 this year). I, for one, can’t wait to get my free...
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So, How You Gonna Run Yer Practice on that Fancy Macintosh Computer?

Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management on Jul 27th, 2008 | 7 comments
One thing every Mac-using lawyer has to ask themselves is what software they’re going to use to manage their practice. Anyone who’s scoured the interwebs for a solution has likely come to the same inescapable conclusion: there’s simply no obvious comprehensive software solution for the Mac-using attorney (or law firm, for that matter). In my view, at a minimum, a lawyer needs the following functions in a single software solution: Client/Contact Management Case/Matter Tracking and Management Document Management Calendaring/To Do Tracking (GTD) Billing There’s a lot of great...
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Circus Ponies Notebook 3.0 Delayed 6 to 8 Weeks

Posted by EsquireMac in Trial Prep on Jul 7th, 2008 | 0 comments
Circus Ponies announced Notebook 3.0 at Macworld and hoped to deliver in Q2, 2008. Unfortunately, they missed the mark slightly, but the 3.0 goodness is just around the corner. I am still learning Notebook, but I’m looking forward to exploring the new features in the new release. Check the story below. Follow the link for the full story behind the delay. NoteBook 3.0 – Schedule Update – Topic Powered by eve community We had announced a ship date for NoteBook 3.0 of “second quarter 2008″ — the second quarter ended yesterday, so we obviously missed that date. I know many...
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