I hope that you had a good Thanksgiving yesterday (or a good Thursday, if you are not in the U.S.). And that means that now we start the holiday buying season. If you are shopping today on Black Friday, hopefully you are getting some good deals. For example, I see that Apple is giving away gift cards with many Apple products if you purchase them today in a store or online, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are lots of great sales today. And now, the recent news of note:
- Washington, D.C. attorney Reid Trautz has released the 2014 version of his annual gift guide for lawyers. I see that the iPad Air 2 made the list.
- If you still don’t have the TrialPad and TranscriptPad (my review) apps sold by Lit Software, you can now purchase them as a bundle for $159.99, a $20 savings. Better yet, that bundle is on sale on Monday and Tuesday for only $99.99. And even better yet, you can also use the bundle as a way to upgrade, at a discount, to both apps if you currently only have one. For example, if you have TranscriptPad and already paid $89.99 for it, on Monday and Tuesday you’ll be able to complete the bundle and get TrialPad for only an additional $10, an amazing bargain. Click here to get the bundle, but wait until Monday to do so:
- With the Apple Watch coming out in a few months, I’m starting to think about the implications of wearable devices. Eleven judges recently gathered at my alma mater, Georgetown University Law Center, discuss some of the implications of this technology, and Mark Gerlach of Law Technology News wrote this report.
- One of the speakers at Georgetown was Judge Dixon of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. If you are looking for some year-end CLE credit, Judge Dixon and I are co-presenting an online CLE through ALI called iPad for Litigators on December 15th at 1:00 Eastern.
- Suffolk University Law School Professor Andrew Perlman discusses a lawyer’s ethical duty to keep up with technology in an article for The Professional Lawyer. And if you don’t have time to read the full article, Loyola (of New Orleans) Law School Professor Dane Ciolino sums it up here.
- California attorney Scott Grossberg discusses encrypting data on an iPad.
- John Edwards of Law Technology News provides five tips for using Safari in iOS 8.
- Law Technology Today has a post on Finger Moves and Shortcuts on the iPad, which is adapted from Dallas attorney Tom Mighell’s book iPad in One Hour for Lawyers.
- You know how the back of your iPhone, and so many other electronic items, has all of the small print? As reported by Julian Hattem of The Hill, this week, President Obama signed the E-Label Act, which means that the FCC information can now be available electronically instead of on the physical surface of the device. I presume that in the future it will just be part of the General information part of the Settings app. But that doesn’t mean that there will be nothing printed on the back of your iPhone; items available for sale in Europe still need (for now) the CE information. But at least that is one less item that Apple needs to put on the back of the phone.
- And finally, if you love coffee as much as you love your iPhone, then you may want to check out the Mr. Coffee Smart Wifi-Enabled WeMo 10-Cup Optimal Brew Coffeemaker, a coffee maker that you can control with your iPhone. ($140 on Amazon) Steven Sande of TUAW reviewed it and gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars, saying that “this coffeemaker does a good job of letting you schedule and monitor brewing from your iPhone.”
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