I was too busy at ABA TECHSHOW last week to write an In the news post, so this week I'm mentioning stories from the last two weeks that I think might be of interest:
- In addition to writing on iPhone J.D., I also write iPhone and iPad articles for the TechnoLawyer BigLaw and SmallLaw newsletters. Those newsletters are free and full of useful articles, so I encourage you to sign up for both. This week, for example, Brett Burney of Burney Consultants wrote a great article comparing the different task manager apps for the iPad. You must be a subscriber to get the current articles, but older articles are sometimes posted on the web, and I see that an article I wrote in 2012 recommending the best iPad apps is now online. My recommendations are a little different now than they were a year ago, but there are still some great apps mentioned there that most any attorney would find useful.
- California attorney David Sparks discusses the recent rumors that Microsoft is holding back Microsoft Office for the iPad and will not release it until the end of next year.
- New York attorney Nicole Black discusses all of the mobile-related announcements at ABA TECHSHOW 2013.
- South Carolina attorney Ben Stevens reviews the FrameShfit iPad stand, a neat little stand that he showed the audience during a presentation that he and I gave together at ABA TECHSHOW 2013.
- Virginia attorney Sharon Nelson and her husband, security expert John Simek, provide 16 security tips for smartphones in an article for Wisconsin Lawyer.
- Carlos Motta is a Brazilian attorney with Tauil & Chequer Advogados, an affiliate of the U.S. law firm Mayer Brown. He asked that I mention that he created an iPhone app called MindMob, an app that contains legal content (mostly for Brazil, but there is some U.S. content) and can be used to create notes and send messages to other users.
- MyCase, a company that provides web-based law practice management software, now had an iPhone app, and Josh Camson of Lawyerist.com reviews it.
- Today is the first day you can get an iPhone 5 from T-Mobile. T-Mobile offers some unique features, such as no contracts so you can leave at any time and a lower cost over the course of two years than you will pay to get and use an iPhone 5 on other carriers. T-Mobie's 4G LTE network is currently very small but it is growing, and T-Mobile is the first U.S. carrier to support HD Voice, which Brent Rose of Gizmodo tried out and found to be "a bit richer, and definitely fuller. I wouldn't say it was like night and day, but it's definitely a noticeable improvement."
- Meanwhile, Jeff Blagdon of The Verge reports that AT&T will start to support HD Voice later this year.
- Macworld created a new ebook called The iPad Office. I haven't read it yet, but it looks to be full of information on how to get work done with an iPad. Get more details here.
- Nick Guy of iLounge reviews the new Bose SoundDocks Series III, an iPhone speaker that now includes a Lightning connector for the iPhone 5.
- Now that nice weather is returning, you might want to take your iPhone with you when you go to the beach. Bonnie Cha of All Things D reviews three cases that waterproof an iPhone. Last year I reviewed the DryCASE, one of the products mentioned in Cha's article, and it worked well for me.
- Joe Kissell of Macworld discusses options for editing PowerPoint presentations on an iPad.
- And finally, John Browlee of Cult of Mac collected a baker's dozen pictures of Apple cakes. Many of them relate to the iPhone or iPad, such as this one by Samantha of Scrumptious Buns in the UK:
