Today is the start of one of my favorite times of the year in New Orleans: Jazz Fest. The event combines great music, great food, a great art market, and lots of good times. Whether you make it to New Orleans for Jazz Fest or some other occasion, you should check out the free Ultimate Insider's Guide iPad app from the local newspaper, the Times-Picayune, for some great tips on making the most of your time in the Big Easy, not to mention some great photography. Click here for New Orleans: The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to the Crescent City (free):
And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Evan Koblentz writes for Law Technology News that Lexis has introduced e-book software for law libraries. You can check out an electronic copy of a book and read it on your iPad. Interesting.
- Sam Glover of Lawyerist.com provides advice regarding the ethics of storing client information on cloud services like Dropbox.
- The Your ABA newsletter provides security advice for iPhone users, based on the ABA TECHSHOW presentation by attorneys Sharon D. Nelson and Tom Mighell.
- Speaking of security, did your iPhone start asking you to provide security details? Lex Friedman of Macworld explains why Apple started doing this.
- Attorney Jeremy Horwitz of iLounge compares the iPhoto app on an iPad to sophisticated photo editing software on a computer. The iPad does surprisingly well.
- Minnesota lawyer Francis Rojas provides tips for getting the most out of your iPad in an article in Minnesota Lawyer.
- Mobile Apps for Law is a website that catalogs legal apps. You have to pay $50 a year to use the website, but they asked me to announce that they just started providing a free RSS feed to recommend law-related apps.
- As I noted earlier this week, Apple sold a huge number of iPhones during the past quarter. John Gruber of Daring Fireball notes that the iPhone not only accounted for 75% of all AT&T smartphones sold last quarter, but also accounted for over half of all phones sold by AT&T. Employees at AT&T stores must sometimes feel like they work for an Apple Store.
- Does it seem like you are getting more spam text messages on your iPhone? It seems that way to me. Glenn Fleishman explains in TidBITS how you can easily report the spam to AT&T on your iPhone.
- Allyson Kazmuch of iMore provides some interesting details on the origin of Siri from Dag Kittlaus, one of the co-founders.
- PDFpen, which I reviewed last month, has been updated to add, among other things, support for folders.
- If you are looking for an iPad case that contains a keyboard, Dan Frakes of Macworld has a favorable review of the $99 Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover. It looks like an interesting device, a cross between the Apple Smart Cover and a Bluetooth keyboard.
- And finally, although this is technically not an iPhone or iPad story, it is a reminder of how important it is to be careful in this world of electronic communications. Rob Cooper of the UK Daily Mail reports that when the human resources department at the company Aviva Investors intended to send an e-mail to one person explaining the procedures now that the person had been fired, HR instead sent the e-mail to all 1,300 employees of the company worldwide. The error was discovered and the e-mail was "recalled" (often a useless step anyway) but even that took almost a half an hour, and you have to wonder if some folks started their day by thinking that they had been fired. Oops. This is probably as good a time as any to provide you with this important iPhone public service announcement for replying to most of your e-mails:
