Professor David Randall, a lawyer who teaches at Boston University’s School of Management, has some thought-provoking posts about the glut of law school graduates in the United States. They are, in order of appearance: Not Covered by LSAT Prep Legal Careers To Be* or Not to Be* I commented on the first of these posts, [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Amazon MP3 Store
I’ve been getting nervous about the dominance of the iTunes Store. It’s not a good thing for consumers when there is no serious competition, and a dominant vendor is less likely to innovate than one pressured by competitors. Enter Amazon’s beta MP3 store. Amazon offers DRM-free MP3 tracks at $.89 a pop. The albums are [...]
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Mac Word Processors and Importing Word Documents
The word processor, Lord of the White Collar World, doesn’t always reign supreme in law school, where note taking is of premier importance. However, a word processor is still necessary, even for those of us who live by our outlining apps. Legal writing and advocacy classes require the creation of documents with sophisticated formatting. Even [...]
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Apple Makes Running Windows Easier, Sony Not So Much
Steven Frank of Panic Inc., makers of the truly stupendous Transmit FTP client, has to use Windows on occasion. His lengthy saga explaining how difficult it is to clean up and reinstall Windows on a Sony VAIO is instructive. When he first booted the brand-new machine, he was greeted with this horror, which should be [...]
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About This Particular Outliner
Over at About This Particular Macintosh, Ted Goranson has been writing for the past few years about Mac outlining and writing applications. The archive of his About This Particular Outliner articles is a treasure trove of inight into the wide variety of applications Mac users can use to take notes, organize information, and write. Goranson [...]
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