The core of my thoughts about computers in the law office is captured in a phrase I attached as a tagline to one of my websites "We are an information industry and this is our age." In my view, few industries are better situated to reap digital benefits than us.

I spend much of my time on this site discussing the "basics" and reviewing discreet tips and techniques. But Digital practice is far more than getting a little more from Acrobat or a Mac.  That stuff is just the threshold, what may come next is much more interesting.

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Apple released, Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, the refined version of Leopard on Friday.  It is fast and very responsive and has some nice upgrades to the expose features, more on that in a latter post. 

This is a warning about Snow Leopard and the Fujitsu Scansnap. The Fujitsu Scansnap Quick Menu does not work in Snow Leopard.  So if you use it to alter the settings for each scan be prepared to do without something until Fujitsu fixes it. 

Fujitsu says it'll be done in 2009 and they have released a patch for now.  More on this issue from Fujitsu.

I hate to see two of my favorite things not play well together.

I have been using Acrobat 9 pro in Snow Leopard and open up a PDF with Acrobat 8 Pro and so so far no troubles. Losing Acrobat would be hurtful, I'll keep you posted.

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