18 Sunday Mar 2018
Posted in Criminal Law, Sentencing Guidelines
≈ Comments Off on USSC Has A New App for 2016 Sentencing Guidelines.
The new App gives you access to:
It also includes Frequently Used Tables and the Archive. -CCE
22 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Apps, iPad, Legal Technology
≈ Comments Off on iAnnotate App For iPad — Annotate And Manage With Lots of Tools!
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.pdf, App, iAnnotate iPad App, iOS Apps, iPad, iPhone J.D., Jeff Richardson, Legal Productivity, PACER, Travis Francis
iPad App: iAnnotate – A Powerful PDF Tool for Lawyers, by Travis Francis, Legal Productivity
iAnnotate is a powerful document mark-up and management app that allows users to annotate, manage and share PDF, DOC, PPT and image files.
With iAnnotate, documents can be synced and imported from Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive or WebDAV, and other iOS apps.
Once downloaded, the app includes numerous annotation tools including pen, highlighter, typewriter, stamp, straight-line, note, underline, strikeout, photo, voice recording, and date stamp. Locating these tools is easy and you can even customize the toolbar to include your most-used tools.
Users are also given the option of saving and syncing their annotations to either the original document or to a copy of the document.
The $9.99 iAnnotate iPad App (also available for Android devices) is particularly useful for lawyers. Jeff Richardson over at iPhone JD notes:
“All federal court pleadings on PACER are in PDF format and many state courts are moving to PDF electronic documents, other counsel frequently send me files in PDF format, when I do legal research I download the cases in PDF format, exhibits are in PDF format…[and iAnnotate] seems to be the most powerful and sophisticated app that I’ve seen for working with PDF files on the iPad.”
Check out also, Using iAnnotate to Review Court Decisions on your iPad: A paperless way to highlight text and take notes, then email or upload into Dropbox.
If you are looking for a powerful, comprehensive tool to annotate and review documents while on the go, iAnnotate is definitely worth the try.
28 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, Cell Phones, Emails, iPhones, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Link Rot
≈ Comments Off on Mailtracker – A New iPhone App That Monitors Email Analytics.
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App, Email Management, Gmail, iCloud, iPhones, Legal Productivity Blog, Mailtracker, Outlook, Yahoo
App of the Week: Mailtracker – See When and Where Your Email Was Read, by Lisa Pansini, Legal Productivity Blog
‘Hey, did you get that email that I sent you?’
With the Mailtracker app from Answerbook, you’ll never have to utter those words again.
It’s not a mail client in itself, but rather a tracking application for monitoring email analytics. It integrates with the native mail app on your iPhone, so it doesn’t impede your current email sending/receiving workflow. The service is compatible with emails sent via Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com and iCloud (with additional account support on the way!).
The Mailtracker app will deliver real-time analytics directly to your phone. You’ll be notified as soon as an email had been read. You can also see how many times the email was viewed, how much time was spent reading the email, the recipient’s location information, and device details. . . .
02 Friday May 2014
Posted in Android Phones, Apps, Cell Phones, Clouds, Criminal Law, iPhones, Law Enforcement
≈ Comments Off on Cloud App Used By Police and Public To Catch The Bad Guys.
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App, Associated Press, Boston Marathon bombings, Clouds, Computers, Forensic Magazine, Large Emergency Event Digital Information Repository, Law Enforcement, LEEDIR, Police, Tami Abdollah
New Tool Helps Police Crowdsource Evidence, by Tami Abdollah, Associated Press, posted by Forensic Magazine
An annual spring party in a Southern California beach town devolved into a riot last month when revelers turned violent, rocking cars, smashing windows and throwing rocks. Dozens were injured and about 50 people ended up in the hospital, including several police officers.
Today, as authorities seek help with the investigation in Isla Vista, they’re employing a new online and mobile app that designers say was created specifically for this type of situation.
‘When the public really wants to catch these bad guys as badly as we do, this is the mechanism,’ said Los Angeles Sheriff’s Cmdr. Scott Edson, who helped conceptualize the system in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. ‘They can help us by sending us pictures and video.’
The innovation, known as LEEDIR, the Large Emergency Event Digital Information Repository, pairs an app with cloud storage to help police use smartphones as tools to gather evidence. . . .
29 Saturday Mar 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, Excel, Legal Technology, Mac, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Word
≈ Comments Off on At Last! The Microsoft App For iPad, With Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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ABA TECHSHOW, App, Excel, iPad, iPhone J.D. Blog, Jeff Richardson, Microsoft, Microsoft Office Mobile, PowerPoint, Word
Microsoft releases Word (and Excel and PowerPoint) for iPad, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
I’m at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago right now, and the big news on Thursday was that Microsoft released a version of Word (and Excel, and PowerPoint) for the iPad. I have been kicking the tires on this app since it was released Thursday afternoon, and I am incredibly impressed. Unlike Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone released last year, the new Word app for the iPad has virtually every feature that lawyers want to use. Every attorney who uses an iPad will want to get this app. . . .
27 Thursday Mar 2014
Posted in Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Law
≈ Comments Off on New App for Crime Scene Investigation.
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App, CASE App, Crime Scene Investigation, First Responders, Forensic Institute for Research and Education, Forensic Magazine, Law Enforcement, Middle Tennessee State University, WillowTree Apps
CASE – Checklist App for Scene Examination, by WillowTree Apps, Forensic Magazine
The first moments at a crime scene can be critical to saving lives and ensuring justice. It’s essential that first responding officers arrive on a pristine scene, which can quickly deteriorate and lose its value in helping investigators with every minute that follows. Time, weather and the movement of essential personnel, such as EMTs and scene investigators, can alter the scene and destroy evidence. Early documentation of evidence can make a difference in bringing justice to both the guilty and the innocent.
Now, thanks to the Middle Tennessee State University’s (MTSU) Forensic Institute for Research and Education, known as FIRE; instead of trying to juggle notepads, cameras and video recorders, officers can immediately document crime scenes — capturing text, photographs, video, audio, GPS, dates and times — with their smartphones. Using a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, MTSU partnered with WillowTree Apps, an award-winning mobile application development company headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., to create CASE, crime scene checklist app for law enforcement agencies. . . .
