Hello Dropbox, Goodbye SugarSync
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Syncing on Nov 24th, 2008 | 8 comments
Those who have been following Esquire | Mac know that I had high praises for SugarSync and have used the file synchronization service extensively for a solid 8-10 months. I have posted about SugarSync here, here and here. I did note, however, that despite how great the service is, there are some bugs.
In our office, we synced over 31,000 files, comprising about 1.5 Gigs of disk space. By and large, the process is painless, behind the scenes and effective. However, I have noticed that there are some folders that do not fully sync. I wrote about this problem before, and said:
Regarding limitations or...
My Rocket Matter Demo and Impressions
Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management on Aug 18th, 2008 | 0 comments
Recently, I had the opportunity to have Larry Port from Rocket Matter give me an online/telephone demonstration of the web-based law office management and billing solution. Much has already been said about Rocket Matter by my fellow legal Mac bloggers, so I will not duplicate their efforts.
I was impressed by the streamlined interface and ease of use.
Unfortunatlely, however, there are a few significant downsides which make it likely Rocket Matter won’t be an ideal solution for us.
No Document Management. Unfortunately, Rocket Matter does not currently offer a way to manage your documents. For...
SugarSync: Questions and Answers
Posted by EsquireMac in Syncing on Jul 16th, 2008 | 1 comment
One reader, Scott Wolfe, of Wolfe Law Group, a truly innovative law firm with offices in New Orleans and Seattle, emailed me with a few questions about SugarSync. He was in need of a more workable solution for his all-Mac small law firm.
I answered his email this morning with a fairly lengthy response. I figured that his questions were probably similar to questions that most people thinking about SugarSync might have, so I decided to post my answers to the blog as well for the benefit of everybody else. I know I’m heavy on the SugarSync posts lately, so, sorry if that’s not your thing....
Briefly: New SugarSync Update(s)
Posted by EsquireMac in Syncing on Jul 14th, 2008 | 0 comments
Today, I was contacted by Allen Bush, the director of Marketing and Business Development for Sharpcast, who runs SugarSync. He read my post from earlier this week, and he was nice enough to share some news about a couple of exciting and useful features they expect to roll out in the near future, but asked me to keep them under wraps. He did share with me that tomorrow they will be announcing a great new feature that will allow you to share any file you have with anybody by giving them a temporary link to that file. This will be a great way to share files with family and friends that are too large to...
A Small Firm’s Transition, Part I: Sharing Files
Posted by EsquireMac in Switching on Jul 12th, 2008 | 4 comments
This is the first post in a short series of indeterminate number about our small firm’s transition to a Mac-centric law office. Being a good 20 years younger than the next youngest person in our firm, I am, by default, the IT guy, or, “guy who does the computer thingies.”
When I joined my present firm about 1.5 years ago, I came packing my 15 inch Powerbook G4. The law firm had two dinosaur Windows machines – one for our receptionist, and one for our paralegal. My boss himself didn’t (and still doesn’t) use a computer at all for his law practice, even though his...
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