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...
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Norton May Be Worse Than Any Virus You Could Get

Posted by EsquireMac in Windows on Jul 9th, 2008 | 4 comments
My mother (who runs her own business) recently made the switch from PC to Mac. I helped her set up and get familiar with her new MacBook Pro. I installed Windows XP via VM Ware Fusion, and installed AVG antivirus because it is less bloated and it is free – two values Norton can’t wrap its head around. Anyway, I guess I didn’t explain to her that her Windows installation was already protected by AVG. What did she do? She installed (and paid for!) Norton Antivirus. ACK! Next thing you know, her Windows installation would not boot – not even in safe mode. Thankfully, I set her up...
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Bates Stamp PDFs on a Mac

Posted by EsquireMac in PDF on Jul 6th, 2008 | 2 comments
I’ve been in search of a freeware method for adding bates numbers to PDF files on the Mac.  Well, there’s no such thing, as of this writing.  I’ve searched high and low to find a free method for bates stamping PDF documents on a Mac, and, quite frankly, I’ve struck out. Fortunately, I run Windows XP via VM Ware Fusion and I found what I believe to be the only freeware solution out there for bates stamping PDF documents: Windows or Mac. (For those of you who aren’t lawyers or otherwise don’t know what bates stamping is, it basically means page numbering.) That...
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