I waited. The small screen strained my eyes. The CPU strained under the countless mods I had installed, and the paint wore off the little buttons. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months. The battery’s life began to end, barely lasting a work day. Then, just in time, it happened: [...]
Category Archives: Mobile Communications
Why The Untethered Lawyer Ditched His iPhone For Droid
For weeks my iPhone hadn’t logged in any visual voicemail. The only way I knew that there were messages was when my wife called to tell me that my voicemail was full.
For months my phone never rang, with callers going to voicemail (where I would lose them until my wife called to tell me that [...]
Drown Your Cell Phone? Here’s How To Fix It.
You’re out in the rain with your phone and you drop it in a puddle. Or you’re talking while you’re in the bathroom (yes, I know you do it from time to time – stop with that, “Who, me?” look). Or you’re in the kitchen and the darn thing slips from your hands [...]
Phone Tag And The Virtual Lawyer
As we become more location-independent in our lives and practices, lawyers need to remember that they’re still going to have to keep dealing with phone calls. Judges don’t use email as much as one would hope (they’d need to cc: opposing counsel every time they sent a message, which would be a pain), and clients [...]
Untethered Video Conferencing Comes To iPhone
Fring is a essentially an instant messaging platform that allows you to use AOL, MSN, Yahoo and all the other popular instant messaging systems. It supports Skype calls as well, and works on the iPhone.
Big deal, you say. Skype has an iPhone app.
Ever make a video call on your iPhone with Skype? As of now, [...]
Saving GMail To Your Hard Drive
Lots of lawyers use Gmail for their email needs, be it the standard “@gmail.com” version of the wildly-popular Google Apps. But we get nervous when it comes to keeping all of that valuable electronic data in the cloud. What if the messages are lost? What if I don’t have Internet access just [...]