Category: Tools

Thanks to my colleague, Mary Jo Koranda, for pointing me to a service called inumbr, which provides you with a free, auto-expiring anonymous phone number that forwards incoming calls to your home or mobile phone. Callers do not see your home or mobile numbers. I tried it out this morning and it worked as advertised. …

The latest edition of LLRX features a useful article by Ken Strutin on Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools. This article is a short list identifying some ways to learn about new technologies that apply to legal research and law practice. At the same time, some specific tools have been identified that will help …

Bev Butula’s recent column in InsideTrack introduces a couple of tools for scheduling meetings: Coordinating schedules when working with a group of individuals can be a time-consuming process. It often entails several email exchanges or numerous telephone calls. Many experience the problem arranging times to meet with co-counsel, committee members or social groups. There are …

Have you ever received a document in a format that you couldn’t open? Maybe a MS Office 2007 .docx format but you’re using an older version of Office? Or wanted to convert a document to PDF but don’t have a PDF creator installed on your computer? Then check out Zamzar, a free online file conversion …

From the New York Times: In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser. Thanks to my colleague, Howard Nash, for passing this on.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “a Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit this morning against George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. Thomson Reuters Inc. had sued the university in a Virginia court in September for at least $10-million in damages, claiming that Zotero, a free software tool created by …

Zotero, a wonderful free resource for collecting, managing and citing sources, recently announced a major upgrade to version 2.0. “Most important among the new features is the long-anticipated ability to collaborate in groups and group libraries,” according to their post entitled Zotero 2.0 Mothership Lands. ReadWriteWeb has done a nice job of explaining the new …

The latest edition of WisBar InsideTrack is now available. In this April 1st edition, I contributed an article on Managing your research: Create and search your notes with Evernote. Evernote is a free, versatile note-taking tool. It provides a single place to store many types of notes and makes them instantly accessible at anytime, in …

The March 4 edition of InsideTrack is now available. InsideTrack is the new e-newsletter available from the Wisconsin State Bar. I contributed an article entitled Bluebook helpers: Tools for creating legal citations. In the article, I explore several new tools that can help attorneys create citations more easily: CiteGenie, Introduction to Basic Legal Citation, and …

Lots of good news from Zotero today! If you’re not familiar with it, Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. See my earlier post for further explanation. Zotero has announced the release of both Zotero 1.5 and the first release of Zotero’s web application. The …