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Errors While Updating to iOS 5? Here’s a Fix

by Joshua Auriemma October 12, 2011 Geekery
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If you’re having trouble updating to iOS 5 right now (generally resulting in an Internal Error popup), you are not alone. It seems that the problem is actually due to an overwhelming number of phones downloading, updating, and pinging Apple’s servers. Don’t fret. The easy solution is to keep trying to update. Lucky for you, [...]

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Pennsylvania Docketing Bookmarklets

by Joshua Auriemma August 3, 2011 Geekery

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Can Lawyers Ethically Sell Used Electronics?

by Joshua Auriemma June 30, 2011 Geekery
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Many of us view sensitive materials every day on our personal computers, tablets, smart phones, and e-readers. What happens when the newest gadgets or processors roll out and we want to upgrade our devices? If you’re like me, you put your current device up for sale on Craigslist or eBay, or send it along to [...]

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How Lawyers Can Make Their Smartphones Smarter

by Joshua Auriemma June 21, 2011 Geekery
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Note: the following is a contributed article written by Jeff Stalnaker, CEO of PrivacyStar.1 Outside the courtroom, legal professionals use their communications skills to generate referral business, leads and relationships with individuals, existing clients, past clients and other legal professionals, making their smartphone a key tool for success. However, there are two glaring weaknesses of [...]

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Only 9% of Lawyers Look to Blogs for Technology Advice

by Joshua Auriemma March 2, 2011 Geekery

This post was inspired by a review copy of a study by Andrew Z. Adkins III entitled, “Case, Matter, and Practice Management System Study” (now available for free by signing up for TechnoLawyer) (hereinafter “the Study”). Adkins explains that the goal of the Study was to reach a 95% confidence factor with a +/- 5% [...]

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What EVERY Lawyer and Law Student Needs to Know About the New Facebook “Not Now” Change

by Joshua Auriemma September 24, 2010 Geekery

It sounds harmless enough: in the past when someone requested to add you as a friend on Facebook, you would get a request allowing you to “Add” or “Ignore.”  Facebook recently announced that the “Ignore” button would change into a “Not Now” button.   No big deal, right?  Not necessarily. To understand why we as [...]

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Access Barbri Bar Review Materials from iPad/iPhone for Free!

by Joshua Auriemma June 30, 2010 Geekery

As some of you know, Barbri offers the ability to access bar prep materials on your iPhone or iPad for a fee.  What you may not know is that the Barbri Mobile device has some serious limitations: 1. You can’t use your Barbri account on both an iPad AND an iPhone (and if you upgrade [...]

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New Podcast Album Art!

by Joshua Auriemma April 29, 2010 Geekery

For those of you who subscribe to the Legal Geekery podcast, I’m happy to announce that no longer will you have to look at the drab gray album cover I unapologetically yoinked from my Legeeke comic. The new art was designed by Aira Saunar, and you should definitely go check out her stuff if you like anime. [...]

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iPad for Lawyers and Law Students

by Joshua Auriemma April 28, 2010 Geekery

So I was one of those dorks waiting in line at 6am on Saturday morning when the iPad launched. I had my new “toy” in time to attempt to run my Advocacy II trial from it.  I looked at a lot of apps that might make this possible but I settled on ReaddleDocs.  Having successfully [...]

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