Archive for January, 2008
Audio Notes
Jesse, a student at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, passed this helpful tip my way:
I’ve been trying to find a good program to record class and haven’t found anything good (aka free). I recently discovered that Word 2004 (and possibly the 2008 version but I don’t know) make audio recordings. [...]A Third Mac Law Student Setup
Dan Rosenthal, a law student at American University, was kind enough to send me his Mac hardware and software setup, which is now part of the Mac Law Students permanent navigation, next to Brian’s setup and my setup. Further proof that there are many tasks you can perform with a Mac laptop, and many tools [...]
Score One for Skim
I’ve been getting a lot more of my reading in the form of PDFs. Today I was reading a lengthy PDF in Preview, highlighting text as I made my way through the material. I prefer doing this for certain classes, because while I enjoy printing as much as the next person, I don’t like spending [...]
Macworld 2008 Highlights
I usually have a privacy law seminar on Tuesdays, but by random chance it was cancelled today. So a friend and I drove up to San Francisco to take part in the madness. We arrived at about 10:15, and waited 45 minutes for the expo hall doors to open. Then we waited in this cattle [...]
Great MacWorld Expectations
I don’t know what Steve Jobs will unveil at the MacWworld keynote on Tuesday morning. Nobody else knows either, but there are plenty of predictions. It’s a fun game. Will he roll out a subnotebook? Will a successor to the ill-famed Newton appear? What’s all this “Air” business about? Will iTunes be free, like air? [...]