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Creating calendar entries using email

On January 30, 2012 / All Posts, TechnoZen

An email inbox isn’t the right place to keep track of your meetings, events and social gatherings. Don’t believe me? Try it sometime and see if you don’t lose your calendar invitations among the – what – hundreds? Thousands? of other emails sitting in there too. The

When a picture leaves 1,000 clues

On January 27, 2012 / All Posts, Periodical Writing Samples

While defending a client against someone claiming damages for having become disabled, Dera Nevin’s case took a strange turn when a photograph surfaced: It was “of a guy jumping across the finish line, hands in the air, after a half-marathon,” she recalls. “The photo clearly showed his

Creating tasks using email

On January 23, 2012 / All Posts, TechnoZen

An email inbox isn’t the right place to keep track of your to-do list. Don’t believe me? Try it sometime and see if you don’t lose your list among the – what – hundreds? Thousands? of other emails sitting in there too. The consequences? Not doing the

Getting litigation ready matter of planning

On January 20, 2012 / All Posts, Periodical Writing Samples

Litigation-prone businesses stand to save money with each case if they both make themselves litigation-ready and work with discovery-savvy counsel. On the latter point, Dominic Jaar brooks no debate. “In 2011? There is at least one email that is relevant to your litigation,” says KPMG’s national leader,

Introducing… the Delete key

On January 16, 2012 / All Posts, TechnoZen

I was once guilty: years ago, my Outlook inbox would sometimes overflow with stuff that wasn’t necessary. Unsolicited messages from PR companies (we journalists get plenty of those), unsolicited electronic commercial messages (distinct from outright spam) and other stuff could clog my inbox and, consequently, fuel the

Finding freelance work with Canadian governments

On January 13, 2012 / All Posts, Periodical Writing Samples

Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal governments buy billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services every year that they can’t make or perform in-house. Freelance writing figures among those services, so in December I, along with a few other freelancers, attended three workshops offered by the Ontario

Don't be a phish

On January 9, 2012 / All Posts, TechnoZen

Oddly, in the four years or so since the MacMost.com video below was published, not much has changed in the world of phishing. Phishing commonly refers to the activity of tricking people into surrendering financial or other important information using official-looking emails.

Viewing two pages at once

On January 3, 2012 / All Posts, TechnoZen

It’s easy enough to do when you read a dead tree book – just put your thumb in the table of contents or index while you flip from page to page looking for the stuff you want. You can easily view two documents on screen as well,

Bookmarking your document

On December 27, 2011 / All Posts, TechnoZen

When you create a cross-reference in a Word document, you can choose a number of different “hooks” to link that reference to. Headings, tables and numbered items might be the most popular such hooks. Sometimes, though, hooks aren’t precisely where you want them to be, so you

2011 was a year of links, locks and bots

On December 24, 2011 / All Posts, Periodical Writing Samples

This past year saw its share of advances in the technology sector, and Canadian law worked hard to keep up. Here are four developments in technology law and how they affect Canadians. 1. Delinking from defamation Can one publisher be another’s keeper? Not according to the Supreme

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