Law Office Computing^TM Articles

by

Winton Woods

Winton Woods--mailto: wintonwoods@mail.com

Law Office Computing^TM is a series of columns and articles that have been published monthly since 1991. The columns appear in the Maricopa Lawyer, the Writ and elsewhere in both print and on the World Wide Web. The goal of the column is to provide information about generic, off the shelf hardware and software that is useful in the law office or courtroom environment.

Winton Woods

PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THESE ARTICLES FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES IS HEREBY GRANTED.

 

• Feb 2006: Backing Up Is Hard To Do-Part II
• Dec 2005: Internet protocol (VOIP) service from Vonage
• Oct 2005: On the Road Again II
• Sept 2005: Ding Dong Dell-The Emperor’s Clothes
• June 2005: SnapScan Your Way to Effective Document Management
• April 2005 There’s Good News Tonight!
• March 2005 There is a Wireless Network in Your Future
• February 2005 The Paperless Office
• January 2005 Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
• December 2004 Installing Windows XP Service Pack 2
• November 2004: Desktop Computer File Search Programs
• October 2004: The Electronic Information Explosion
• July 2004: Law Office Computing
• June 2004: Law Office Computing
• April 2004:Law Office Computing
• March 2004: There is a Wireless Network in Your Future
• January 2004: Would You Like a Cookie, Little Boy?
• December 2003: Moving Offshore--Problems with Dell
• November 2003: My Favorite Software-Outlook XP & InfoSelect 7
• September 2003: Annual Customer Service Reviews 2003
• July 2003: Usable Voice Recognition Technology Arrives
• June 2003: Law Office Computing
• May 2003: New Game In Town
• April 2003: Questions I Get and the Answers I Give
• March 2003: Getting Ready for Remote Filing--Visioneer Does it Again!
• February 2003: Installing A New Standard or Removable Hard Drive
• January 2003: A Reliable, Cheap and Easy Backup System—Finally!!!
• December 2002: The Electronic Discovery Tsunami
• November: Dribbles and drabs—Free Small Utilities and Other Useful Devices
• October 2002: Annual Computer Recommendations
• September 2002: My Three Rules of Safe Computing-Again!!
• August 2002: Annual Customer Service Reviews 2002
• July 2002: Small Firm Bookkeeping Made Easy-QuickBooks Pro 2002
• June 2002: Making the Trial Record Electronically
• May 2002:Some Dangers of the Internet-Hackers, Crackers and Other Nefarious People
• April 2002:Windows Office/XP Evaluation
• March 2002:Info Select and ISYS
• February 2002:Law Office Computing
• January 2002:The Courtroom of the Future II
• December 2001:MSN DSL: Bad Service, Bad Deal
• November 2001:The “Next Big Thing” and the Future of Computing
• October 2001: Is Windows XP a Non-Starter?
• September 2001: Hard Drive Maintenance Revisited
• August 2001: New Options for Hard Drives and Other Storage
• July 2001: Electronic Images of Documents and Things
• June 2001: Price War!
• May 2001: Bracing Against the Email Demons
• April 2001: The Email Etiquette
• March 2001: Moving Down The Information Highway At Internet Speed
• February 2001: My Three Odysseys
• January 2001: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do—How the Microsoft Team Flummoxed the Government
• December 2000: Getting Your Home on the Web is Easy
• November 2000: The Tyranny of High-Tech A Country Boy's Lament
• October 2000: Arizona - Broadband Capital of the World
• September 2000: Better Solution to Handling Office Document Tasks
• August 2000: Annual Customer Service Reviews 2000
• July 2000: Proprietary versus Open  Electronic Filing Systems-- Proposed Rule 124 and the “One Size Fits All” Approach to Judicial

Innovation
• June 2000: Let the String Remain Unbroken
• May 2000: Backing Up Is Hard To Do
• April 2000: Making the World Safe for Entrepreneurs
• March 2000: Digital Video
• February 2000: Building Your Electronic Office—Document Scanning and Management
• January 2000: Installing a new hard drive
• December 1999: Trouble behind, trouble ahead for US West
• November 1999: The Year 2000 Computer Glitch: The ADR Option
• October 1999 - We Get Mail!
• September 1999 - Ecommerce and the Free Computing Movement
• July 1999 - The Downside Of The Global Marketplace-“Just in Time” Manufacturing and the Y2K computer glitch
• June 1999 - Observations of a Road Warrior
• May 1999 - Microsoft Office is the HIT of the Year
• April 1999 - Avoiding Hard Drive Disaster
• March 1999 - Bookkeeping for the Accounting Challenged Lawyer
• February 1999 - Watch Out For Falling Prices
• January 1999 - What Makes A Monopoly?
• December 1998 - Ma Bell vrs. US Worst
• November 1998 - Y2K Again—What about your clients?
• October 1998 - Will Y2K Shoot Down the World Economy?
• September 1998 - Digital Voice Recorders Expand Dictation Systems
• August 1998 - Fixing Flats on the Information Highway
• July 1998 - Building the Virtual Office
• June 1998 - Buying a New PC
• May 1998 - From Information to Knowledge
• April 1998 - The Promise of USB Technology
• March 1998 - DOJ 'gets it'-- finally!!! Windows 98 is a go for '98!
• February 1998 - Beware the Coming of the Millennium Bug
• January 1998 - Doing Well by Doing Good--The New Computer Investment Tax Break
• December 1997 - Is Bill Gates your pal?
• November 1997 - The impact of bad Information in the Information Age
• October 1997 - The Road to the Paperless Office
• September 1997 - Voice Recognition Technology
• August 1997 - Would You Like a Cookie, Little Boy?
• July 1997 - Vendor Service is the Key
• June 1997 - ISYS and Document Management
• May 1997 - Using Internet Technology in your Office
• April 1997 - Intranets and Office 97
• March 1997 - Creating Electronic Exhibits
• February 1997 - More on Notebook Computers and Computer Generated Graphics at Trial
• December 1996/January 1997 - Buying a Notebook Computer
• November 1996 -WordPerfect is Back from the Beach!
• October 1996 - Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive
• September 1996 - Avoiding Hard Drive Disaster!
• August 1996 - Now's The Time to Buy More RAM!
• July 1996 - Not Just Another Mouse!
• June 1996 - Internet Providers
• May 1996 - E-mail Options
• April 1996 - Let's All Do Windows 95!
• March 1996 - EASY does it and SNAPPY snaps!
• February 1996 - Buying a new computer!
• November 1995 - Update on the Courtroom of the Future Project
• January 1996 - The Maricopa Lawyer
• December 1995 - Some ideas about buying a computer
• October 1995 - The Great Pipeline to the Sky
• September 1995 - My Favorite Software - ECCOPro 3.0 and InfoSelect 3.0
• August 1995 - Windows 95 and the Boy Scouts' Marching Song
• June 1995 - A Country Boy's Lament
• May 1995 - Accessing the Internet