I saw several references on the web this week (such as this one) to a letter that Apple sends new employees when they join the company. It contains a nice message that could apply to many other professions, including many law firms: "There's work and there's your life's work. The kind of work that has your fingerprints all over it. The kind of work that you'd never compromise on. That you'd sacrifice a weekend for. You can do that kind of work at Apple. People don't come here to play it safe. They come here to swim in the deep end. They want their work to add up to something. Something big. Something that couldn't happen anywhere else. Welcome to Apple." I hope that you find your own work that satisfying. And now, the news of the week:
- New York attorney Niki Black recommends websites for lawyers who use the iPad in her latest Daily Record article.
- Alan Cohen writes about what the 2012 edition of the iPad means for lawyers in this article for Law Technology News.
- Dallas attorney Tom Mighell reviews VirusBarrier, an app that can scan e-mail attachments to see if they have viruses before you open them. I'm not aware of any iPad or iPhone viruses so I'm not sure how necessary this app really is. [UPDATE: Mighell notes in a comment to this post that even if you can't get a virus on your iPhone/iPad, this app would help guard against your passing along a virus to a computer by forwarding an e-mail with a virus attached. I suppose that is something.]
- Apple updated the iOS software to iOS 5.1.1 this week to fix a few bugs. You can update directly from your iPhone or iPad. Just open the Settings app and go to General -> Software Update.
- If you missed the Steve Jobs patents exhibit when it was at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, VA last year, Glenn Künzler of MacTrast reports that the exhibit will be at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, D.C. today through July 8.
- I was impressed with PDFpen for iPad when I reviewed it this year. Brian Beam of Macworld wrote this favorable review.
- Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times raves about iPhoto on the iPad, a very impressive app, albeit one with a learning curve.
- Brian Chen of the New York Times writes that Amtrak conductors are starting to use iPhones to check train tickets.
- An iPhone waked into a bar ... and performed bar tricks, thanks to several apps reviewed by Bob Tedeschi of the New York Times.
- And finally, Marco Tempast is a magician who has come up with a clever way to combine three iPod touches and slight of hand. This is really fun. Check it out:
