Archive for October, 2007
Look Before You Leap Into Leopard
If your school uses a Mac-native exam software package (see here for a rundown on exam software and a listing of what some schools use), you should check with the IT department to be sure they’ll support Leopard for upcoming exams. If you’re at a SofTest school that allows use of Boot Camp for exams, [...]
Leopard Ship Date: October 26, 2007
It’s official. Mac OS X 10.5 is shipping on October 26th. You can pre-order now at the Apple Education Store, but it will cost you $116. You read that correctly. At least for now, Apple isn’t giving education customers much of a discount. The standard price is $129, so students will save a whopping $13 [...]
West Drops the Ball with Online CLE
Online continuing legal education is a great tool for solo practitioners. Doubtless when some of us graduate, we’ll want to find a good online CLE provider so we can keep current with the profession and fulfill our Bar requirements.
Unfortunately one of the major players in online CLE decided that lawyers only use Internet Explorer + [...]Taking Notes in Class
There’s an excellent thread at 43 Folders discussing the best method for taking notes in class (not methodology, as an astute commenter observed). There is plenty of discussion about which Mac note-taking app is best, which online note-taking service has been overlooked, and so on. But more importantly, the meta discussion is really about whether [...]
Getting Stuff Into Yojimbo with AppleScript (Part 1 of 2)
I have become quite the fan of Yojimbo - a ‘digital junk drawer’ application from Bare Bones Software. It is great place to store all those bits and pieces of electronic material that enter your life on a daily basis.
Yojimbo offers a number of different ways of importing your stuff into its database. By ’stuff’ [...]