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The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 is a small, beautiful HTPC (home theater PC) that looks perfect sitting next to your television. That is, unfortunately, all it is good for. The Q180 is poorly constructed, under-powered, and a huge disappointment. Don’t buy it. A few years ago, I plugged an old Windows PC into our television, and [...]

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Review: Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 Home Theater PC is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Scott Greenfield starting writing Simple Justice only a month after Lawyerist’s first post (I think there were earlier posts I deleted, but the archive is all I have to go on), so we’ve been blogging for about the same length of time. He never had many good things to say about Lawyerist, but Simple Justice [...]

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Scott Greenfield Shutters Simple Justice is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Lawyers are egregious when it comes to mixing up which and that—probably because the former sounds more lawyer-y. But most could use a good refresher on whether and if, too. And nor and farther v. further and … well, just read this. (Hat tip to Lifehacker.) 20 Grammar Mistakes You Should Stop Making is a [...]

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20 Grammar Mistakes You Should Stop Making is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

The Doxie Go is one of the best gadgets I have reviewed (despite the fact that I have no clear need for one), and it just got exponentially better with the addition of Eye-Fi for wireless file transfer. I show you exactly what that means in the video above, but here’s the gist: You run [...]

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Review: Doxie Go with Eye-Fi is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

The latest Google Docs update goes a long way towards making Google Docs a viable alternative to desktop software, at least for the adventurous. Until now, my primary gripe about Google Docs has been the need to custom format everything. Now, you can set custom paragraph styles, which makes formatting much easier. I’d like to [...]

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Google Docs Adds Custom Styles! is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia reports on a case of espionage by (apparently) Chinese hackers who broke into two law firms representing the parties to a mining deal that the Chinese government hoped to stop. Reporter Mike Riley suggests that law firms are the “weak link” in the security chain, in part because lawyers aren’t used [...]

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Are You Afraid of Malicious Hackers? is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Somewhere out there a social media consultant must be blogging about how important it is to have a Facebook page for your law firm, because “Follow my firm’s Facebook page!” updates seem to pop up in my feed every day or two. That consultant is a moron. I’m sure there are law firms out there [...]

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Law Firm Facebook Pages Are Lame is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Doxie just updated its sweet Doxie Go portable scanner by adding an Eye-Fi card that lets you wirelessly deliver scans to your iPad, smartphone, computer, or Evernote. People were already doing this, as we discovered in the LAB; Doxie just made it easier. So I could try it out and report back, Doxie sent me [...]

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The Doxie Go, Now with Eye-Fi for Wireless Scanning to Your Phone, Tablet, or Computer is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Did you miss out on our ioSafe Rugged Portable giveaway? Well, this could be your lucky day. ioSafe is preparing for the 2012 apocalypse by giving away a hard drive that should survive it. One More Chance to Win An ioSafe Apocalypse-Proof Backup Drive is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com Related [...]

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One More Chance to Win An ioSafe Apocalypse-Proof Backup Drive is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Buying a font may be better left to professionals. That’s because font licenses are a minefield, and buying a font is a bit like buying a DIY computer thirty years ago. I’m a huge fan of Matthew Butterick’s Typography for Lawyers, which has helped me make big improvements to my personal and professional documents and [...]

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Normal People (and Lawyers) Shouldn’t Buy Fonts is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com