The big news this week was the introduction of the iPad Pro. I’ve been using one since Wednesday, but I’m still not ready to write a review because I’m still trying to decide what I think of it. For some tasks, the larger size is amazing. Pictures and videos are stunning, and it is so much easier to read documents on the large screen. But for other tasks, it seems too big for me, although I know that I am still getting used to it. And I’d really like to try the Apple Pencil, but they don’t seem to be in stock yet in the Apple retail stores, and the one that I ordered online isn’t expected to ship until December 7 or later. If you have already purchased an iPad Pro and have some initial thoughts on using it in your law practice, I’d love to hear from you. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- If you use any of the great Lit Software apps — TrialPad, TranscriptPad and DocReviewPad — and you own or might soon own an iPad Pro, be sure to check out the post on the Lit Software blog with everything that you need to know about using Lit Software apps on the iPad Pro. I was using TranscriptPad on my iPad Pro yesterday, and it was nice to have a larger screen to read and annotate transcripts.
- In an article for Above the Law, New York attorney Nicole Black writes about how attorneys at the Fennemore Craig law firm in Nevada are using iPads in an interesting way — to send a video demand letter earlier in the litigation. Haven’t heard of that one before.
- California attorney David Sparks writes on his MacSparky website about Apple TV tips and tricks for using the remote and using Siri.
- Florida attorney Katie Floyd discusses using the Apple TV for cord-cutters (folks who don’t subscribe to cable or satellite TV).
- Massachusetts lawyer Bob Ambrogi writes that two more states (New Hampshire and New York) have adopted the duty of technology competence for attorneys.
- Earlier this week, I wrote about Google Cardboard. Oklahoma attorney Jeff Taylor of The Droid Lawyer has been using Google Cardboard for a while on Android devices, and he recommends some other things that you can do with Google Cardboard, such as Roller Coaster VR by FIBRUM, which is a free and fun app.
- Attorney Jeremy Horwitz of 9to5Mac has a good list of iPad Pro details that you should know before buying one.
- Ryan Smith and Joshua Ho of AnandTech wrote a long, detailed review of the iPhone 6s, with lots of technical details.
- I’m not a fan of posts on sites like Macworld that are broken into a slideshow so that you need to click to read through the article. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this one by Christopher Phin of Macworld: 16 weird, crazy apps for the new Apple TV, a good list of apps that you might not have known about.
- Ian Paul of Macworld / PC World writes that the Firefox browser is now available for iOS.
- Mike Beasley of 9to5Mac writes about updates to Apple’s iWork apps.
- This has nothing to do with the iPhone or iPad, but because I am such a Star Wars fan, I loved reading this interview with J.J. Abrams by Scott Dadich in Wired. It’s a great read. Actually, it does mention Apple’s Jony Ive in the article, so I suppose you could say that it has some lose connection to Apple products.
- And finally, we all know that it is more secure to use long, complex passwords, but this video of a password used by a Japanese Twitter user is probably more than you really need. Someone please show this guy Touch ID: (via Cult of Mac)
地下鉄にすげー奴がおるんやけど… pic.twitter.com/xw55SutbA8
— 寺下義人 (@yossy1999116) November 7, 2015