Posted in Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Gmail, Google on Feb 11th, 2013
There’s plenty to take advantage of in the free Google Calendar—features like creating and sharing multiple calendars, “quick add” smart appointments and the ability to make calendars public. In this article I dig in to unearth a few neat tricks to integrate your Calendar more tightly with Gmail and Tasks. With some exploring and clicking, you [...]
Google’s Chrome web browser is a stable, fast, and functional piece of software used to access the Internet. For many years Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominated the browser market, followed by Mozilla’s Firefox. Google released Chrome in September 2008, and now its usage has surpassed Firefox and Internet Explorer globally. However, Internet Explorer is still the [...]
Posted in CBA LPMT News, Disaster Planning, Ethics, Gmail, Security on Nov 15th, 2012
“In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Gmail, Google, How To... on Jul 3rd, 2012
A fantastic general tech blog, GroovyPost, just posted a nice step-by-step tutorial on “How to Enable and Set Up Google Docs Offline“. Sometimes you need offline access to files in “the cloud” and it is nice that Google works to make files available locally. In fact, you can access most of Google’s services offline, such [...]
Posted in Google, How To..., Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Social Media Search on May 31st, 2012
Google has incorporated Google Profiles and Google Places into Google+. In the past lawyers could boost their online presence by filling out a free Google Profile, which created a publicly available profile that included pictures, hobbies, personal and professional interests. You could link to your webpage, blog, LinkedIn profile or anything else you’d like to share. [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Google, Mobile, MS Office on May 22nd, 2012
Read my Attorney At Work article on how lawyers who are dependent on the cloud can be productive even when offline: Sometimes you just don’t have access to the Internet. Whether you’re traveling in a plane, or in a remote (or sometimes not so remote) area that has no WiFi, 3G or 4G coverage, or simply because [...]
Posted in CBA LPMT News, Disaster Planning, Google, Marketing, Mobile, Privacy, Security on Apr 5th, 2012
Did you miss ABA TECHSHOW this year? Come to the LPM Committee meeting next Friday (4/13) from 12:15 PM – 1:30 to hear a few attendees favorite tips picked up at the show. Until then… ABA TECHSHOW 2012 – 60 Sites in 60 Minutes (The whole list) Again this year, the always exciting 60 Sites [...]
See my recent post to the SLAW.ca blog “Privacy Please!“: This post is already dated. Why? Because privacy – or the lack thereof – is daily news. Facebook just announced their privacy policy would be called a “data use policy”. Before that it was Google’s announcement that they would be combining all the data collected [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Gmail, Google on Mar 27th, 2012
See one of my past posts to the AttorneyatWork blog “You Are Backing Up Your Gmail, Right?“: Google’s Gmail has made news in the past couple of years by “losing” users’ e-mail—often years’ worth. While these outages have primarily affected the free Gmail service, even access to the paid Google Apps has occasionally been lost. [...]
Recently you may have noticed a pop-up request when you opened your Gmail, asking “Allow Gmail to open all email links?”. If you are like me, and still struggling to understand the ramifications of the new Google privacy policy, you clicked “No”. However, for those who use Gmail as their primary email application, this new [...]
