There have been lots of new visitors to iPhone J.D. lately, so I thought that this would be a good time to remind everyone that while I love it when you visit this website, there are also two easy ways to have iPhone J.D. come directly to you. First, if you use an RSS reader such as Google Reader, you can easily subscribe to the iPhone J.D. RSS feed. Second, you can have all new iPhone J.D. posts automatically show up in your e-mail inbox every morning by clicking here and providing your e-mail address. Frankly, I prefer it when people come to the iPhone J.D. website because I have various ads along the side. The ads don’t bring in much revenue, but it is enough to offset the hosting fees for this website, which is nice. I don’t put ads in the RSS feed or the e-mails because I don’t want to be annoying, but if you would prefer to subscribe that way, I’d love to have you do so — especially if it prompts you to send me e-mails from time to time with topics that I should address here. I love getting great tips from iPhone J.D. readers! And now, my tip to you is that you should check out some of these iPhone and iPad stories of note from the past week:
- Analyst Horace Dediu notes that in the first quarter of 2011, the iPhone had 5% of the mobile phone market by volume, 20% of the market by revenue and 55% [gulp!] of the market by profit.
- New York attorney Niki Black of Legal iPad argues that we are about to reach the “tipping point” for iPads. Given the large number of lawyers I now see using iPads, I agree with her.
- Niki Black also discusses the Rules of Professional Conduct applicable to the use of cloud computing services on her Sui Generis blog.
- Similarly, the Babbage Blog of The Economist has an interesting article on the security of storing confidential information in a cloud service such as Dropbox.
- Pastor John Chandler discusses formatting PDF files to the right size so that he can use his iPad for speaking notes. (Via TabletLegal)
- Josh Barrett of TabletLegal also reviews Exhibit A, a trial presentation app for the iPad. I’m just starting to try out this app myself; Barrett thinks that the user interface needs improvement.
- In his Time Magazine column, Harry McCracken reviews Peel, an innovative $100 device that turns your iPhone or iPad into a universal remote.
- Rob Dean of WALKINGOFFICE explains the three steps for moving your Facebooks contacts to your iPad’s Contacts app.
- If you own an iPad 2, I strongly encourage you to get an Apple Smart Cover. Should you get a polyurethane or a leather one? I really like, and recommend, the black leather version, but John Brownlee of Cult of Mac makes the case — if you’ll excuse the pun — for the polyurethane version.
- Tony Bradley of PCWorld discusses using Google Docs on the iPad.
- Justin Kahn describes some iPad keyboard shortcuts on his iPad Notebook blog.
- Killian Bell of Cult of Mac describes the Seagate GoFlex Satellite, an external hard drive that connects to the iPhone or iPad over WiFi so that you can carry around an additional 500GB of photos, movies, music or documents.
- Peter Coons, a computer forensics expert who regularly works with attorneys on ediscovery issues, explains some of the information that a forensic investigator can recover from an iPhone.
- If you like to try different wines, you should read this article by Bob Tedeschi of the New York Times about apps that you can use to keep track of wines.
- And finally, here is a cute iPhone-inspired doormat being sold by the German company getDigital.de for only 19,90 €, about $28.50 at the current exchange rate:
