So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things. This blog, Signal vs. Noise, caters to a techier audience than the one I’m aiming for with this blog. That said, the above quote applies to so many things beside software that
Read more →The Arctic Obiter, a publication of the Law Society of the Northwest Territories, reprinted an article of mine about law practice management using software as a service (SaaS, aka cloud computing). While I wrote this two-page article for lawyers, the business concepts surrounding SaaS that I discussed
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Like file folders on your computer (Windows Explorer or the Finder on the Mac), you can put folders in other folders in your Mail program. Why would you do this? Consider these possibilities: You deal with 20 clients whose email you keep in their own client folders.
Read more →originally published in Award Magazine On a clear evening west of downtown Toronto, passersby may find their eyes drawn to the glowing rooftop of the city’s newest residential community, CityPlace Luna.
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Why does your email so often bother you? There’s spam, there are unwanted jokes and chain email, there’s the hassle of checking it all, and probably a dozen other reasons. Maybe the main reason email gets on your nerves is this: you keep every email you get
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Now you have new folders into which you can put your email. But why not have your computer file your email for you? All popular email software – Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird, Mac Mail and others – let you tell them how to handle incoming email using rules
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine Do you have what it takes to work in an electronically enhanced courtroom? Wonder no more — just take “Tom’s test.” Can you: Turn on a computer and monitor? Use a mouse? Use the scroll wheel on your mouse? Open a
Read more →originally published in Award Magazine What do a grocery chain distribution centre, a long-lost pier and Lake Ontario have in common? They each occupied or influenced the land where Toronto’s CityPlace Panorama condominium now rises.
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine If a clean desk is a clean mind, what do the papers on your desk say about your mind? Increasingly, lawyers answer that question by replacing piles of paper with that most prominent of paperless-office machines, the scanner. While critics argue
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