15 Sunday Nov 2015
Posted in iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology
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How to Use Caps Lock on Your iPhone and iPad, by Lori Kaufman, How-To Geek Blog
http://www.howtogeek.com/233097/how-to-use-caps-lock-on-your-iphone-and-ipad/
You just got your new iPhone after switching from Android and you want to type something in all caps. How do you use caps lock in iOS 9? We’ll tell you how to type all caps and also how to enable and disable the caps lock feature. . . .
05 Monday Oct 2015
Posted in Apple, Apps, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology
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Codification App, iPad, iPhone, iPhone J.D. Blog, Jeff Richardson, Keyboard Character Shortcuts, Section Sign
Sections And Pilcrows — Making The § And ¶ On The iPhone, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D.
Yesterday, I reviewed an app called Codification, which uses for its icon the section symbol — §. That is certainly a symbol that lawyers need to type a lot, but it isn’t immediately apparent how to do so on an iPhone or iPad. . .
You can type many additional characters using the iPhone and iPad keyboard by holding down on a letter. I see that I haven’t posted a full list of those shortcuts since 2010, back when iPhone J.D. had far fewer readers, so I thought it might be useful to post the list again, which is largely still the same in iOS 8 . . . .
28 Thursday May 2015
http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2015/05/review-weather-line.html
You might have heard that folks here in Oklahoma and other states are having a spot of trouble with the weather. If it is not hail or tornados, it’s flooding.
Our weather channels are doing a great job, but I have not found my current weather app that useful. This one looks as if it might do the job. -CCE
There are a ridiculous number of iPhone apps that can tell you the weather. I have purchased a whole bunch of them, partly because weather apps are inherently useful, but also because whenever I find one with an interface or a feature that I like, it is often not long before another one comes along that seems like it might be better. But for quite a while now, I’ve stuck with just one Weather app on the home screen of my iPhone: Weather Line, which is currently on sale for only $1.99. Here’s why this has been my favorite weather app, and perhaps it will appeal to you as well. . . .
28 Saturday Mar 2015
Posted in Apps, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology
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In The News, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D.
Please read the entire post. As always, Jeff Richardson has plenty of news to share. -CCE
This past weekend, the ABA Journal sponsored its second Hackcess to Justice legal hackathon, where attorneys and programmers worked all weekend to create apps that help lawyers and increase the ability of individuals to gain access to legal services. This year the event was in my hometown of New Orleans, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to go. Victor Li of ABA Journal describes the winning apps. The first prize went to an app called Legal Proof that helps an attorney or a client collect and organize evidence. Second prize went to New Orleans attorney Ernest Svenson and Massachusetts attorney William Palin for their PaperLess app. Read the ABA Journal article to find out about the other best entrants. . . .
18 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in Adobe Acrobat, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology
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GoodReader Update Adds Signatures, by Jeff Richardson, by iPad J.D. Blog
The GoodReader app is one of the most frequently used apps on my iPad because it has such great tools for organizing my documents, syncing them to my computers, and annotating PDF files. And perhaps best of all, the developer is constantly finding ways to make the app even better. This week, GoodReader version 4.10 was released, and it adds the ability to create and add signatures to your documents. I’ve used many other apps with a signature feature, but GoodReader does such a nice job of implementing the feature that it may now be the best way to sign a document on an iPad or iPhone. . . .
19 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, Clouds, Emails, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Microsoft Office, Tablets, Word
≈ Comments Off on iPhone Candy Courtesy of iPhone J.D. Blog’s Sixth Anniversary!
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Six Years Of iPhone J.D., by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
Congratulations and thanks to Jeff Richardson for six years of iPhone J.D. Blog. As usual, Jeff shares a sweet collection of apps in honor of his yearly anniversary. Thank you, Jeff! -CCE
iPhone J.D. turns six years old this week. Seems like it was just yesterday that I wrote the first post on iPhone J.D., explaining why I found the iPhone a valuable tool in a law practice. Back then, almost no attorneys used iPhones (about 5% according to a 2008 Am Law Tech Survey), but now the majority of attorneys in the U.S. use an iPhone (around 60% according to the ABA).
Over the past six years, I’ve written over 1,200 posts on iPhone J.D., including reviews of over 300 apps, reviews of every major iOS device released by Apple (from the iPhone 3GS to the new iPhone 6 and all models of the iPad) and reviews of over 300 accessories. I’ve also tried to provide lots of tips and tricks for getting the most out of your iPhone and iPad, and discussed all of the tech news that I think that you might want to know about if you use an iPhone or iPad.
Through the years, I’ve gotten tons of great feedback from iPhone J.D. readers, ranging from emails to over 2,500 comments on the site, and I’ve been honored to share guests posts by attorneys from around the world who use iPhones and iPads in their law practice. Site traffic has grown steadily every year, and in just a few days, one of you is going to load iPhone J.D. and it will be the 5 millionth page view since the site launched.
Popular posts this year. It’s a tradition on iPhone J.D.’s anniversary (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) to identify the most popular posts from the prior 12 months. Perhaps it reveals something about the topics that iPhone and iPad owners have been thinking about lately. Here are the ten most viewed posts published in the last year . . . .
05 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Admissibility, Appellate Law, Apple, Cell Phones, Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Evidence, Fifth Amendment, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Passwords
≈ Comments Off on iPriviledge – Is It Legal To Be Forced To Use Your Fingerprint To Unlock Your iPhone?
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iPrivilege: Virginia Beach Judge Finds Prosecution Can Force Defendant To Supply Fingerprint To Unlock iPhone, by Evidence ProfBlogger, Editor Colin Miller, EvidProf Blogger
In relevant part, the Fifth Amendment states that:
“No person…shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself….”
The Supreme Court has stated that the Fifth Amendment only covers “testimonial” evidence that results from compelled communicative acts, i.e., acts which disclose the content of one’s mind. Therefore, the Fifth Amendment does not cover a suspect’s act of appearing in a lineup or giving a blood sample to determine whether there are drugs in his system. The Fifth Amendment also does not cover the act of completing a handwriting exemplar. Imagine that the police find an alleged confession note written by the defendant. The prosecution can force the defendant to complete a handwriting exemplar in which the defendant writes a pre-printed paragraph in his handwriting so that a handwriting expert can compare the exemplar and the confession note. All of these and similar acts are not communicative because they are nontestimonial in that they do not force the defendant to disclose the contents of his mind.
What about if the defendant has encrypted files on his computer? Can the prosecution force the defendant to decrypt them? Some courts have said no. Other courts have said yes.
Can the prosecution force a defendant to supply his fingerprint to use for the TouchID on his iPhone? For the last year, I’ve used this article to teach my students that a judge could likely order a defendant to supply his fingerprint to unlock his iPhone. Recently, this possibility has become a reality.
According to an article in SlashGear:
[A] judge has ruled that you can be forced to relinquish your fingerprint to investigators seeking access to your device. The reason, says the judge, is that the fingerprint isn’t knowledge like a password, but is instead a physical object of sorts, like a key or a DNA sample.
The ruling was made recently by Virginia Beach Circuit Court Judge Steven Frucci, and was the result of a case against EMS captain David Baust, who was accused of attempted murder. The case’s prosecutors wanted access to Baust’s phone, believing that it might have a video of the alleged crime, but the defendant’s lawyer argued against this.
And, according to an article in the Huffington Post:
[I]t’s unclear how the ruling will impact Baust’s case. If his phone is protected by Touch ID, prosecutors could access it using Frucci’s ruling. If the phone is protected by a passcode or both a passcode and Touch ID, they can’t . . . .
One workaround to this issue could be to just turn off your phone if cops approach. In that case, you’d have to enter your four-digit pin when you turn it back on, even if you use Touch ID. . . .
01 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in Apple, Cell Phones, Clouds, Cybersecurity, Encryption, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Mac
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Apple Says It Is “Actively Investigating” Celeb Photo Hack, by Arik Hesseldahl,
Apple said Monday it was ‘actively investigating’ the violation of several of its iCloud accounts, in which revealing photos and videos of prominent Hollywood actresses were taken and posted all over the Web.
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Security experts said the hacking and theft of revealing pictures from the Apple iCloud accounts of a few celebrities might have been prevented if those affected had enabled two-factor authentication on their accounts.
Apple hasn’t yet said anything definitive about how the attacks were carried out, but security researchers at the security firm FireEye, examined the evidence that has emerged so far, and said it appears to have been a fairly straightforward attack. That said, it is also one that could have been thwarted had some additional steps to secure the targeted accounts been taken.
That additional step is known as two-factor authentication. Apple calls it ‘two-step verification,’ although it doesn’t work very hard to tell people about it, said Darien Kindlund, director of threat research at FireEye.
‘In general Apple has been a little late to the game in offering this kind of protection, and doesn’t advertise it,’ he said. ‘You have to dig through the support articles to find it.’
When enabled, two-factor authentication requires users to enter a numerical code that is sent to their phone or another device, in addition to using their regular password. Since the number constantly changes, it makes it much more difficult for attackers to gain access the account, even if they know the password.
Assuming the compromised accounts were running without the two-step option turned on, it would then have been relatively easy for the attacker to gain access to the accounts.
As The Next Web reported earlier today the attack may be linked to software on GitHub called iBrute that is capable of carrying out automated brute-force attacks against iCloud accounts. In this scenario, an attacker simply guesses a password again and again until they succeed. While tedious and time-consuming for a person, it’s a simple and infinitely faster process for a computer.
The as-yet unknown attacker had one other thing going for him: Apple allows an unlimited number of password guesses. Normally, systems limit the number of times someone can try to log in to a system with an incorrect password before the account is locked down entirely. Apple has since fixed that aspect of the vulnerability.
‘The attackers never should have been allowed to make an unlimited number of guesses,’ Kindlund said. . . . [Emphasis added.]
24 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in Android Phones, Blackberry Phones, Cell Phones, Cybersecurity, iPad, iPhones, Law Office Management, Legal Ethics, Legal Technology, Mac, Passwords, Tablets, Technology, Technology
≈ Comments Off on Survey Says! iPhone Top Choice Among Attorneys.
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2014 ABA Tech Survey Shows More Attorneys Using iPhones, But iPad Use Holds Steady, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
Every year, the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center conducts a survey to gauge the use of legal technology by attorneys in the United States. My thoughts on the prior reports are located here: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. No survey is perfect, but the ABA tries hard to ensure that its survey has statistical significance, and every year this is one of the best sources of information on how attorneys use technology. Yesterday, the ABA released Volume VI of the report titled Mobile Lawyers. This year’s report once again shows that a large number of attorneys are using iPhones and iPads.
Six out of ten attorneys now use an iPhone
In both 2014 and 2013, the survey revealed that 91% of attorneys use a smartphone. (In 2012 the number was 89% and in 2011 the number was 88%.) For the past four years, there has been a slight correlation between law firm size and smartphone use. In 2014, for example, 86% of solo attorneys reported using a smartphone, 89% in firms of 2 to 9 attorneys, 95% in firms of 10 to 49 attorneys, and for firms with 100 or more attorneys, 96% use a smartphone. As a whole, though, it is fair to say that the survey consistently shows around nine out of every ten attorneys use a smartphone. . . .
21 Saturday Jun 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, Cell Phones, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Mac
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Every Legal App for iPhone and iPad, by Lawyerist Blog
Sixty-one legal apps for iPhone and iPad! Maybe not every legal app out there, but definitely worth a look. Some are free; some are not. Please also check out the comments at the end of the Lawyerist post – more apps are mentioned there. -CCE
iOS apps for lawyers abound, whether for case management, billing, or trial preparation. This page has every legal app for iOS that we could find in the App Store.
There are just a few exceptions. This does not include apps that have not been updated since 2011 and have few or no reviews in the App Store. Apps that are simply mobile versions of a legal publication aren’t here, either, since the app doesn’t do anything over and above the website. Finally, the App Store is full of applications that simply repackage freely available content, such as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Unless an app added some significant extras (such as the ability to annotate or cross reference) to that type of content, it’s not here.
The table below is searchable, and you can sort by each column. Use the comments to let us know if we missed an app, and look for an Android app catalog in the near future. . . .
07 Saturday Jun 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, Cell Phones, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Mac, PC Computers
≈ Comments Off on Use Reflector App to Display Your iPhone or iPad on Your Computer.
Please note the related posts at the end of this article by Ms. Pansini. –CCE
If you’ve ever tried to display your mobile device on a big screen without wires or an Apple TV, you know how complicated it can be. Enter, the Reflector app. Reflector is an AirPlay receiver that allows you to display your mobile device on a big screen without any hullabaloo. . . .
19 Monday May 2014
Posted in Apps, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Legal Writing, Microsoft Office, Word
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Review: Reviewer 7 — Review And Edit Microsoft Word Documents, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
For many years, there was no one, best way to review and edit Microsoft Word documents on an iPad, but there were lots of apps that could be used for the task, each with their own strengths and limitations. The landscape changed in March of 2014 when Microsoft introduced the Word for iPad app – a powerful app that can handle almost everything that you would want to do with a Word document on an iPad. Ever since then, I have wondered about the future of the other apps that handle Word documents. Some apps may be abandoned, but my hope is that others will find ways to distinguish themselves from Microsoft’s app.
That’s exactly what has happened with the new Reviewer 7 app. This a new name for an updated version of an app that used to be called Reader 7, and I reviewed it this past February. Reader 7 was created by German attorney Maren Reuter and her husband, who is a software designer, and I thought when I reviewed it that it was one of the very best apps for reading Word files on an iPad. The app’s name was changed because while it is still an excellent viewer, you can now get the app for free and spend $1.99 for the in-app Review Tools upgrade and then the app will let you create redline edits in a Word document. . . .
18 Sunday May 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, iPad, iPhones, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Mac, Technology
≈ Comments Off on Complete Guide to Everything Apple for Legal Professionals.
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Mi Apple Practice, from the State Bar of Michigan Practice Management Resource Center
http://www.michbar.org/pmrc/applepractice.cfm
Everything related to using Apple products in a law office, e.g., iPhones, iPads, and Mac. Accessories, apps, articles, blogs, podcasts, how-to’s, reviews, groups, websites, and more – it’s all here. -CCE
10 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Adobe Acrobat, Apple, Apps, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology
≈ Comments Off on GoodReader4 App for iPads Adds PDF Page Management.
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.pdf, Adobe Acrobat, GoodReader 4, GoodReader App, iPad, iPad Air, iPhone, iPhone J.D. Blog, Jeff Richardson
Review: GoodReader 4 — Next Generation Of Goodreader Adds PDF Page Management, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D.
GoodReader has long been one of the most useful apps on my iPad because it makes it easy to organize documents into folders and read them on the iPad. I have folders for each of my cases, sub-folders within each case folder for Correspondence, Pleadings, Exhibits, etc., and I sync all of my non-privileged documents to and from my iPad using Dropbox. It’s a good system that has worked well for me, and I know countless other attorneys who do the same thing.
Yesterday, the next generation of GoodReader was introduced. It is a new app called GoodReader 4, and you need to pay for it. It is currently on sale for $2.99, but after an introductory period the price will go up to $6.99. Unlike the prior version of GoodReader, GoodReader 4 is a universal app so you can buy it once and use it on both your iPhone and your iPad. You can tell the old app from the new app because the old app icon was green whereas the new one has an aqua gradient The old version of GoodReader was also updated yesterday to version 3.21, and you need to get that update in order to migrate your documents from the old version of GoodReader to GoodReader 4. . . .
15 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in Apple, Cell Phones, Google, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Mac, Tablets
≈ Comments Off on iPhone J.D.’s Latest “In The News”
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Alan Cohen, Apple, AppleInsider, Brian Chen, Daring Fireball, Good Technology, IDG News Service, Investors.com, iPad, iPhone, iPhone J.D. Blog, Jeff Richardson, Jeffrey Taylor, John Gruber, Juan Carlos Perez, Laptop, Law Technology News, New York Times, Patrick Seitz, Samsung, The Droid Lawyer, Tim Cook, Tom Mighell, Wall Street Journal
In The News, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
Another excellent review of legal technology news for the past week. -CCE
01 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in Apple, Apps, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology, Mac, Microsoft Office, Trial Tips and Techniques
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In the news, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2014/01/in-the-news230.html
As always, Jeff Richardson serves up a great collection for iPhone and iPad users:
10 Tuesday Dec 2013
Posted in Cell Phones, iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology
≈ Comments Off on iPhone J.D. Reports Survey Results on Attorneys’ Use of iPhones and iPads.
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Apps, International Legal Technology Association, iPad, iPhone, iPhone J.D. Blog, Jeff Richardson
ILTA Survey Reveals Extensive Lawyer Use Of iPhones, iPads, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
Jeff Richardson reports on lawyers’ iPhone and iPad use, mobile security, and the top thirty apps. -CCE
23 Saturday Nov 2013
Posted in Apps, Cell Phones, iPhones, Legal Technology, Recent Links and Articles
≈ Comments Off on More iPhone Tips from Legal Productivity
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7 Useful iPhone Tips You Probably Didn’t Know About, by Tim Baran, Legal Productivity
04 Monday Nov 2013
Posted in iPad, iPhones, Legal Technology
≈ Comments Off on In Love with the iPad Air
My Experience with the iPad Air, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
Jeff Richardson has found a new love:
If my third-generation iPad and my iPad mini had a baby, and if the proud parents were lucky enough to realize the dream shared by all parents that their child be even smarter than they are, the result would be the iPad Air. I’ve been using an iPad Air extensively for the last three days, and it truly combines the best features of the iPad and the iPad mini, plus offers more. This is an amazing product, and it is hard for me to imagine any lawyer not finding a lot to love about the iPad Air.
26 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Apps, iPhones, Legal Technology
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New iPhone app tries to make telemarketing calls less intrusive, by Salvador Rodriquez, Los Angeles Times Business Tech Now
http://lat.ms/1ilpNch
15 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Apps, iPhones, Legal Technology
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Automatic App Updates in iOS7, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog
http://bit.ly/1gGw5VS
