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Tue, May 26th, 2009 by jallenlaw
iPhone Apps
The number of people who have iPhones and do not make use of the Apps available in the iTunes Store App Store amazes me. If you have an iPhone and have not taken a good look at the App Store, you should. If you don’t have an iPhone yet, take a look at the App Store, it may convince you that it is time to get an iPhone or, at least, an iPod Touch. The iTunes store reports that it now has over 15,000 apps available, some free, some that you have to buy.
The range of apps runs from amusement to business to productivity to travel to substantive legal and medical information. For example, I keep apps that provide the California Evidence Code, Federal Rules of Evidence and FRCP on my iPhone. While Apps do not exist for all codes or even for all states, there are Apps for several codes in many states. Check the store out for your state codes.
For those of you studying for a bar exam, the Law in a Flash series provides summaries and study aids for Constitutional Law, Federal Income Tax, Evidence, Real Property, Future Interests, Wills & Trusts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Corporations, Torts and Real Property.
Travel information abounds in the Apps Store. I recently downloaded a number of additional Apps containing street maps, subway maps and general information about New York, in anticipation of a trip I will take there. New York is not the only city for which you can get travel information; you can find it for many major cities throughout the world. You can get information about restaurants (I like Zagat and UrbanSpoon the best). You can get the local movie listings for wherever you happen to be in the US.
The bottom line: Without the App Store, the iPhone was one of the best phones around. With it, everything else pales in comparison.
Copyright 2009, Jeffrey Allen. All rights reserved. drugs vytorin canadian
Posted in Software
Tagged App, App Store, Apple, iPhone, iTunes, iTunes Store, Law in a Flash, Travel, Urban Spoon, Zagat
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Wed, May 20th, 2009 by
IT’S NADA
(Pictures courtesy of Nadachair).
This post deals with a product that can help an aching back, or prevent one. For some time, I have liked the NadaChair produced by a company with the same name. You can check their website out at www.nadachair.com. Nadachair sells a portable back support that you can easily take with you anywhere and that comes in a number of varieties ranging from the simple Nadachair itself to the Activest that have removable Nadachairs built into their structure. With the Activest ($135), you get a useful travel or everyday vest that has a chair that you can use with the vest or remove and use separately, if you don’t want to wear the vest. They call their flagship model the “Backup” and sell it for $70. They also make a lighter and more portable version called the SlouchBuster that sells for $40.
The Activest has useful pockets inside and out, making it ideal for travel. I have worn military style vests such as this for travel for a number of years as a matter of both comfort and convenience. Having the Nadachair built into the package adds a bit of weight, but a lot of comfort as airport and airplane seating generally provide little support
You can use the support sitting on almost any chair or with your legs folded and sitting on the ground.
The Nadachair consists of a pad that supports your lower back, straps that go around each knee and buckles that let you tighten the straps to pull the pad up against your back and support it. The system works well and makes your back feel much better than if you slouch while sitting as most of us do. The Nadachair works great used with a laptop and the straps help stabilize the knees to provide a more solid (and safer) base for the computer. I have found it particularly helpful on long plane trips as airplane seating generally does not provide the level of support that my back likes.
This nada really amounts to something. Try it out.
Copyright 2009, Jeffrey Allen. All rights reserved.
Posted in Product Review
Tagged back, laptop, Nada chair, nadachair, support, Travel, vest
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Fri, January 9th, 2009 by jallenlaw
On Using Netbooks
As most of you know, I have a strong preference for the Mac platform over the Windows platform. Notwithstanding that preference, I have continued to work with and explore the Windows platform so as to enable me to test software, evaluate it and report on it. Recently the manufacturers of computers (other than Apple) that run Windows software have offered less and less expensive computers. They have finally gotten to the point that instead of a premium for smallness and lightness, they are selling small, highly portable and lightweight computers for $300-400.
Manufacturers and pundits have joined in labeling the small new computers “netbooks”. Understand that netbooks were intended to serve as traveling companions. Notwithstanding that, some of the netbooks function sufficiently well that those with relatively light computer needs may choose to use a netbook as their primary computer. While I require more power for many of the things that I do, often a netbook works just fine when I travel. Often when traveling, I do not need more than a web and email appliance, a perfect use for the netbook.
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RV movies Most netbooks weigh less than 3 pounds and have 10“ or smaller displays making them small enough and light enough to travel easily. The smaller size also means a smaller keyboard, which cuts against using it for serious word processing. Most of them have single-core processors (the Atom processor is very popular). When you look at netbooks, you may be surprised to learn that many manufacturers package them with XP Home. (And you thought you couldn’t get XP any more…..) Don’t try upgrading to Vista, the netbooks can’t handle the overhead and generally can’t take the RAM required for Vista to run well. Count that as a blessing as XP remains the system of choice in the Windows world. Netbooks generally come with wireless Internet capabilities and with an on-board webcam. CD/DVD ROM drives cost extra and connect via USB ports. You can get one for around $100 and use it to load software and to play DVDs. Alternatively, you can download movie content to the S10 and play it back without connecting to a DVD drive.
When it comes to netbooks, you have a lot of choices. I looked at several of them before finally deciding on the Lenovo S10 Ideapad. I got my S10 at the end of December and have been quite happy with it. Lenovo (www.lenovo.com) currently has the S10 on sale for $399 ($50 discount from list).
Copyright 2009, Jeffrey Allen. All rights reserved.
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