Category Archives: Reviews & Updates

Hardware, software, and accessory reviews and updates, with the occasional blended review thrown in for good measure.

Assessing the iPad

I’ve been obsessing about the iPad for at least two years. In a post called The Perfect Law School Laptop in February of 2008 I suggested that a perfect law school laptop would: Cost less than $2,000 Have sufficient power to handle daily applications Incorporate truly exceptional WiFi Use a 10″ – 12″ screen (so [...]

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Google Wave for Law School

The recent release of Google Buzz has quieted much of the talk about Google’s other big release, Google Wave. However, as a law student who has been using Wave for the past several months, Wave is still very much worth talking about. If you’re not familiar with Wave yet, check out this great guide created [...]

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Review of Things 1.1.3 for Task Management

Things is a task management tool that fits into the same general category as iGTD, Midnight Inbox, and OmniFocus. Like many apps these days, there’s a companion iPhone app. I’ll cover both flavors of Things in this review. It is important to note up front that while Things can be used as a very effective [...]

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Circus Ponies NoteBook 3.0 Review

Circus Ponies NoteBook is a Swiss Army Knife of sorts. You can use it to manage projects and tasks. You can take notes with it, perform research, and track all the picayune tidbits of necessary information that never seem to get saved anywhere. It’s a very capable application, and its $29.95 student pricing ($49.95 for [...]

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13″ MacBook Pros in High Demand

It seems the current average wait for a 2.53GHz 13″ MacBook Pro ordered online is 7-10 days. I’m not surprised. This critter looks like a nearly ideal workhorse for students of all stripes. It wouldn’t surprise me if a big chunk of the demand is due to the standard Apple Back to School promotion, wherein [...]

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