It is finally starting to get easier to buy the new iPhone 5s. If you are still on the fence about whether to get one, here are two more good reviews to read. First, Rene Ritchie of iMore wrote an extensive, comprehensive review of the iPhone 5s. Second, I enjoyed reading the review of the iPhone 5s by Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times. Finally, if you are on the fence about upgrading and you have reached the end of your two year contract, New York attorney and TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante explains that you are wasting money if you don't get a new phone. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- San Francisco attorney Marcia Hofmann considers the Fifth Amendment implications of the new fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s in an article for Wired. Interesting.
- The next time that you need to make an important decision, did you know that you can ask Siri to flip a coin for you? California attorney David Sparks figured that out based on a post by David Chartier.
- Jordan Redavid, a law student at the University of Miami School of Law, asked me to announce that he wrote an iPad app to aid in jury selection called, appropriately enough, Jury Selection. The app is free to use for 10 days so you can try it out; after that it costs $19.99 for unlimited use. Click here to get Jury Selection (free):
- North Carolina attorney Brian Focht of The Cyber Advocate reviews the Jury Selection app.
- Vicki Voisin, Kathy Miller and Karen Trumpower discuss top apps for paralegals on the latest edition of The Paralegal Voice podcast.
- In our work and personal lives, we are all dealing with information overload. How do you keep track of everything? My tips for doing so with an iPhone or iPad are in a recent article that I wrote that was published in the TechnoLawyer SmallLaw newsletter. If you missed it, that article is now online.
- If your company uses the Good service to provide greater security for your iPad, this week Good added support for a version of the iAnnotate app that I recently reviewed and really like. Sean Doherty of Law Technology News has the details.
- Are you having trouble sending iMessage text messages with iOS 7? It has worked fine for me, but I've seen reports of others having trouble. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is aware of the problem "that affects a fraction of a percent of our iMessage users" and is working on a solution.
- If you upgraded to iOS 7 and only see the first names of people in the Mail and Messages app, that is because your iPhone/iPad has the Short Name preference turned on. Allyson Kazmucha of iMore explains how to turn it off.
- And finally, I've linked in the past to videos from magician Simon Pierro who does really fun things with his iPad, but here is another one, apparently from 2011, that I just saw. It isn't in English, but you won't have any trouble understanding what is going on, and it is amusing:
