Here is this week’s collection of iPhone and iPad related news articles which I think are worth your time to read:
- Legal technology consultant Ted Brooks, who wrote a great comparison of the iPad Evidence and TrialPad apps, just wrote a review for Law Technology News of two useful iPad apps that help you pick and keep tabs on juries: iJuror and Jury Tracker. He finds that both are good apps, so you might want to put them both on your iPad before your next trial.
- Attorney David Sparks of MacSparky noted on Twitter that there is now a Dragon SDK for the iPhone. This means that iPhone app developers can incorporate the excellent Dragon speech recognition technology directly into their apps. It would be great to see Apple incorporate this feature into its Mail app.
- Ryam Kim of GigaOm notes that Starbucks will soon allow you to use an iPhone to pay.
- Apple COO Tim Cook, who is in charge at Apple while Steve Jobs is on leave, comes from Robertsdale, Alabama. The local CBS affiliate interviewed Cook’s parents, and it is a great interview. You can read the text of the interview, but I encourage you to instead watch the video which appears at the top of the same page.
- I’ve noted in the past that you can use Google Scholar to find caselaw on your iPhone. Now that we have the great Fastcase app, I rarely use Google Scholar on my iPhone, but nevertheless it was nice to see Google announce that you can now limit searches to specific courts in specific jurisdictions.
- Can’t remember the difference between an ETF and a UDID? TiPb has come up with a useful dictionary of iPhone-related terms.
- How many apps do you download every month? Horace Dediu of Asymco calculates that the average iPhone user downloads 5 apps a month, and in another article notes that more than 60 apps have been downloaded for every iOS device sold.
- Harry McCracken reports that Microsoft has released a OneNote app for the iPhone.
- Boston attorney Martha Sperry explains why she likes her iPad.
- I am a big fan of LogMeIn, an app that gives you remote access to your computer. Maryland attorney Charles Jannace pointed out to me that GoToMyPC — a competitor to LogMeIn — is announcing on its website that an iPad app is coming soon.
- Speaking of remote access apps, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal compares LogMeIn with iTeleport.
- Jannace also pointed me to this excellent series of posts by Australian attorney Kyle McDonald who discusses using an iPad in his law practice. McDonald and I practice law in very different parts of the world, but I find that we are using many of the same apps on our iPads.
- Glenn Fleishman reviews 11 iPhone GPS apps for Macworld.
- Kirk McElheam of Macworld lists 10 useful iPhone shortcuts.
- Heather Morse-Milligan, the Director of Marketing of Barger & Wolen LLP in Los Angeles, explains on her blog why a lawyer is like an iPhone.
- Charlie Rose of Bloomberg Businessweek conducted an interesting interview with Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg to discuss the iPhone coming to Verizon.
- Apple notes on its website that the 10 billionth app is about to be downloaded. If you are the one to do so, you will win a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Good luck!
- And finally, I was wondering how Verizon would advertise to the masses that it was now carrying the iPhone. Here is their first ad, which I find very effective: