Archive for November, 2007
Exam Software Info Assistance
Since for many of us exams are fast approaching, I thought now would be a good time to ask for your help in expanding the Exam Software page and keeping the existing content up to date. If you don’t see your school on the Exam Software page, or if (eek!) the page contains out of [...]
Exam Software: Two Schools Don’t Tell the Whole Tale
There’s an interesting tempest in a teapot over at Abovethelaw, where two stories about Mac use during exams have generated a lot of heat, but not much light. It seems a student at American University’s Washington College of Law became upset when she was told that she would not be able to use a Mac [...]
Absurdly Low RAM Prices
One of the best things you can do for your laptop is give it more RAM. Mac OS X 10.5 (”Leopard”) requires a minimum of 512MB of RAM, but 1GB will give you a noticeable performance boost. Current MacBooks and MacBook Pros support up to 4GB of RAM. So if you haven’t maxed out the [...]
MacBook and MacBook Pro Software Bundling
This has probably been going on for some time, but I just noticed that Apple has scaled back the third-party software included with MacBooks and MBPs. Both the MacBook and MBP include full versions of iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD), the software bundle that makes every Mac user a Master of Media. This is [...]
FileMaker Campus Productivity Kit
I have a soft spot in my heart for FileMaker Pro. It’s a flexible, easy to use, and surprisingly powerful cross-platform database application that does many things well. For years I’ve used FMP to handle a wide variety of tasks, but since I’ve been in law school I haven’t come across many uses for it. [...]