In early April, I’ll be in Chicago at ABA TECHSHOW 2013, the best conference for lawyers interested in technology. My favorite part of TECHSHOW every year is talking with other attorneys who love gadgets, and one great way to do that is to attend one of the Taste of Techshow dinners on Thursday, April 4th or Friday, April 5th to eat at great Chicago restaurants with a group of a dozen attorneys interested in a topic. TECHSHOW opened the registrations for this year’s dinners just a few days ago. The “bad” news is that the first such dinner to fill up is the one that I’m hosting on April 4th with Tom Mighell to talk about iPhone and iPad related topics. The good news is that this year TECHSHOW scheduled quite a few other dinners for iPhone/iPad enthusiasts. As of this morning you still have time to sign up for “iPad—I’ll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours” with Victor Medina and Mark Metzger, “iPads” with Rob Dean and Britt Lorish,”App-Etizers, iEntrees and Home Button Cooking” with Brett Burney and Mark Unger, and “Presentations From a Pad or Tablet” with Diane Ebersole and Chuck Diard — or about two dozen other dinners. Click here to sign up before the other dinners are all booked up. And now, here is the news of note from the past week:
- Clever California attorney David Sparks explains on his MacSparky website how you can use a Satechi Bluetooth Smart Pointer Mobile Presenter to control a Keynote presentation run on an iPad with remote control.
- New York attorney and TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante describes Remarks, an iPad app from Readdle for taking handwritten notes.
- New Orleans attorney Ernie Svenson discusses, and provides perspective on, the security of online services like Dropbox that are so incredibly useful on the iPhone and iPad.
- Speaking of Dropbox, the Dropbox app was recently updated to add more features for viewing PDF files as noted by Killian Bell of Cult of Mac.
- Horace Dediu of Asymco wrote an interesting article wondering why more companies don’t copy Apple’s approach as opposed to just the products that Apple sells.
- Speaking of Apple’s approach, Apple’s chief designer Jony Ive talks on a British children’s program Blue Peter about thinking outside of the (lunch) box.
- Brian Chen of the New York Times writes about the business implications of Apple’s Lightning connector.
- Office2 HD is an iPad app that lets you view and edit Microsoft office documents (my review). Rene Ritchie of iMore interviewed one of the developers of Office2 HD at Macworld and has this video.
- Alan of Art of the iPhone explains that we are finally about to see cars with Siri Eyes Free, technology that makes it easier to get information from your iPhone while you are driving.
- David Carey of Hearst Magazines (publisher of titles such as Esquire,
Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, Good Houskeeping, Road & Track and
Town & Country) discusses
digital magazines on the iPad at the All Things D conference, as noted
by Darren Murph of Engadget. One interesting revelation: men’s
magazines sell better on the full size iPad, while women’s magazines
sell better on the iPad mini. - And finally, popular magazines are not the only publications on an iPad. Firefighters in Atlantic City recently attended a promotion ceremony at which they would traditionally take an oath with a hand on the Bible, except that nobody remembered to bring a Bible. But there was an iPad available … and you can guess the rest. The local NBC affiliate has the story. (via Kevin Bostic of AppleInsider)
