This isn’t so much a profound tip as an interesting story. DSL lines can be subject to different types of interference. You will probably never forget that fact after you read this story: “A 400-resident village in Wales suffered 18 months of DSL Internet outages each morning until the culprit was identified as electrical interference…

Sitting too much is an occupational hazard for lawyers. The same is true for many who use a computer every day. Sitting too much is dangerous and can lead to long-term health problems. We have seen many office workers opt for a standing desk environment. Proper stretching can also help. In 14 Stretches to Counteract…

Speech recognition in Teams is still under development. In fact, there have been reports that even muting a Teams call still doesn’t allow one to use Microsoft Speech recognition to operate without exiting Teams entirely. I was in my Teams staff meeting and needed to type several sentences into Teams. I decided to try a…

Tracking of our internet use, personal interests and the sites we visit online is getting more pervasive. You are not going to avoid it all unless you are willing not to go online. But you can minimize the tracking. Most of us have by now had creepy experiences that make us question how much we…

Podcasts are hot right now and many more people are listening to them. As shelter in place for the pandemic began, I thought less commuting might cause podcasts to be less popular but instead, the opposite seems to have occurred. Attorney@Work posted a feature today Lawyer Tech Tips: Favorite Podcasts for Learning Something New? Sharon…

As soon as we started using USB drives and other connectors, we started plugging them in upside down. The extremely frustrating experience was trying it three or four times when there were only two options. IT professionals learned the simple secret to avoid this quickly, but many other computer users never did. So, if you…

Some iPhone users can’t wait to see what the new iOS update will bring. Others don’t like that changes come to their phones with software updates. I know one lawyer who refuses to let automatic updates install because “the last thing I want first thing in the morning is to learn my phone changed overnight.”…

I’m a reader. Given the choice on a web page of reading the content or watching a video, I’m normally heading for the text. (How-to Videos are certainly the exception to this rule.) An increasing number of consumers prefer videos as the preferred method to receive new information. There are certainly generational differences at play…

Many small firm lawyers use the free Google email service Gmail to communicate with their clients. There are often questions raised about the security of Gmail because of the ads displayed that can change based on the content of your emails. So when you email several relatives seeing who is attending the cousin’s wedding, it…