Today at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, legal tech consultant Brett Burney and New Orleans attorney Ernie Svenson are presenting a free webinar called Advanced Mobile Lawyering Tactics. I have known Brett and Ernie for a long time, and both are excellent presenters and very knowledgeable on mobile technology. According to a post on Brett's Apps in Law website, topics include: file management, note taking, scanning documents and working with PDF files, legal research, mind-mapping, and security tips. If you are in the Central time zone like I am, that means that you can learn some useful tips while you have lunch at your desk at Noon. Click here to register for free. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- In an article for Macworld, Jason Snell explains how the new iPad Pro, especially when paired with the upcoming iOS 11, is an amazing device for getting work done.
- In another article for Macworld, Jeffery Battersby reviews Citrix ShareFile, a service that works on your computer and iOS device. My law firm uses ShareFile and it works well for sharing large files.
- In yet another article for Macworld, Glenn Fleishman explains how the ability of apps to track you (even when you want them to) will change in iOS 11.
- Abhishek Kurve of Cult of Mac explains how, with iOS 11, you will get more free space on your iPhone or iPad.
- Serenity Caldwell of iMore discusses what will be new when watchOS 4 for the Apple Watch is released later this year.
- Steven Sande of Apple World Today reviews the iDevices Outdoor Switch, which brings HomeKit control to outdoor lights (and other things that you plug in outside).
- Jordan Kahn of 9to5Mac reports that the Waze driving app now lets you record custom voice prompts "turn right," "turn left," etc. and share them with others. Finally, you can have your spouse tell you what to do in your car.
- And finally, Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal describes steps you can take — from easy to hard — to fix an old iPhone battery that doesn't do as good a job of holding a charge:
