It is the end of the year, so that means that it is time for the "best of 2014" lists. TechnoLawyer named its top 25 legal technology products of the year. There were two iOS-related products on the list: TrialPad 4.0, an app that you can use to present evidence at trial from an iPad, and the Transporter Genesis, an enterprise version of the Transporter that you can use to store your documents on a private cloud and access them from any computer or iOS device. It is a good list, but I would have also included Microsoft Word for iPhone/iPad. And now, the other news of note from the past week:
- Atlanta attorney Kevin Morris wrote a great article for Lawyerist about using an iPad for trial presentation using an Apple TV.
- Financial Times named Apple CEO Tim Cook the Person of the Year. And Time magazine considered naming him the Person of the Year; he was nominated, but instead Time gave it to the folks fighting Ebola.
- Apple and IBM have been working together on apps for folks who work sin large companies, and the first set of apps are ready and are described on Apple's website. I don't think that this set of apps would be useful to lawyers, but perhaps some of IBM's future apps will be.
- If you are looking for a good external keyboard for your iPad, Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal tested just about all of them and came up with some good suggestions, plus a fun video to go along with the article.
- Apple has named the best iPhone and iPad apps of 2014. You can view the full list in iTunes, or Graham Winfrey of Inc. lists them here. The lists includes some great apps that I use all of the time (such as 1Password) and a lot of apps that were new to me.
- Apple released iOS 8.1.2 this week, a minor update that addressed problems with ringtones purchased through iTunes and fixed other (unspecified) bugs. I've never purchased a ringtone, but bug fixes are always good.
- Macworld posted full reviews of the latest iPhone/iPad versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Jared Newman of Macworld reports that Iowa may offer a driver's license app that you can access on your iPhone to show during traffic stops and at airports. Interesting idea.
- Why yes, there is still time to vote for iPhone J.D. on ABA Journal's Blawg 100 page.
- And finally, BuzzFeed prepared a video of five iPhone pranks, some of which are pretty devilish. Of course, I am not encouraging you to be juvenille with your friends, but if someone else does one of these to you, after watching this video you will know what is going on.
