Category Archives: Techniques

Tips, tricks, and secrets.

Delete Old Junk from Time Machine

Like many, I use Time Machine to regularly backup my entire machine (and Dropbox for my most often used and important files). The great thing about Time Machine is that you install a hard drive, turn it on, select which folders you don’t want backed up, and you’re done. The next time you need to [...]

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Appellate Brief Time: Dot Leaders in MS Word for Mac

At some point in your law school career you’ll likely have to write an appellate brief. For me, that time is now. While your instinct is probably to just hit the period key until your page numbers on the table of contents appear lined up, if your writing professor is anything like the ones around [...]

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Google Wave for Law School

The recent release of Google Buzz has quieted much of the talk about Google’s other big release, Google Wave. However, as a law student who has been using Wave for the past several months, Wave is still very much worth talking about. If you’re not familiar with Wave yet, check out this great guide created [...]

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Duplex Printing

With all the printing I do in law school (almost a thousand pages last term), duplexing can be a great way to reduce the number of trees you cut down and at the same time, lighten your book bag. Since Snow Leopard came out, Mac-using students at schools using ePrint for campus wide printing may [...]

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Safari in 32-bit Mode

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, you may have noticed that some of your apps don’t quite run like they used to. The browser plugins 1Password and Glims were affected, but have since been repaired. If you find yourself running into an application that worked pre-Snow Leopard, but now either doesn’t work or is having some [...]

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