As I've mentioned in the past, I'm now writing a monthly column for the TechnoLawyer BigLaw newsletter. In this week's issue, I wrote about key iPhone apps that law firms should encourage their lawyers to use and the ways that law firms can purchase apps for their lawyers, including using Apple's Volume Purchasing Program. If you don't subscribe to the BigLaw newsletter yet, I encourage you to do so. Click here to sign up for a free subscription to BigLaw. And now, the news of the week:
- If you use FileMaker as your database program, check out this article for TidBITS by Steve McCabe about the FileMaker Go app for the iPhone and iPad.
- Portland, Oregon attorney Josh Barrett of TabletLegal reviews OfficeTime, a time and expense app for lawyers.
- I recently reviewed TranscriptPad, an iPad app that is great for reviewing deposition transcripts. Yesterday, Josh Barrett posted this interesting interview with Ian O'Flaherty, the developer of the app.
- AppleInsider notes that Apple made $1 out of every $5 spent on consumer electronics in the U.S. this past holiday season.
- New York attorneys Katherine Helm and Joel Cohen discuss the risks of taking your electronic devices to other countries in this article for Law.com.
- Attorney Tom Mighell of the iPad4Lawyers site compares OnLive Desktop and CloudOn, two options for running Microsoft Word on the iPad.
- Boston Attorney Martha Sperry reviews Remarks, a PDF annotation app for the iPad, on her Advocate's Studio blog.
- Kelly Hodgkins of TUAW reviews the 2.0 version of Tweetbot. Because of Tweetbot's great new features such as inline viewing of images and Readabiilty integration, it is now my favorite Twitter client for both the iPhone and iPad. I had been using Twitterific.
- David Pogue of the New York Times discusses the next version of the Mac operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, which incoporates many concepts from the iPhone/iPad into the Mac and adds better compatability between the iPhone/iPad and the Mac such as a Messages client.
- Alan of Art of the iPhone analyzes whether AppleCare+ for the iPhone is worth it.
- Ron Johnson had been the head of Apple's successful retail stores. A few months ago, he left Apple to become the CEO of J.C. Penny and he is working to turn that company around. Johnson recently appeared on CBS This Morning. The interview begins with him talking about hiring Ellen DeGeneres as a new spokesperson, a decision in the news because it was opposed by a few homophobic protestors, but he also discusses his time at Apple and what he learned from Steve Jobs that he is bringing to J.C. Penny. The video is embedded in this MacNN article, as is a funny clip from DeGeneres.
- iDownloadBlog has the winners of the 2011 Original iPhone Film Festival.
- And finally, at the recent Grammy Awards, Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, accepted a Grammy on behalf of Steve Jobs for his contribution to music. Here is Cue's short acceptance speech:
