One of my absolute favorite websites for learning about new products, or how to enhance my use of existing products is MakeUseOf. Unfortunately, they post dozens of updates each day and it can be a bit overwhelming to find updates that fall specifically into my wheelhouse. Yesterday, however, I did find a nice juicy nugget of
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BandsInTown: The Best App Ever!
PicMonkey – For When Your Profile Pictures Needs To Look Five Years Younger
The developers that were behind the popular online photo editor called Picnik (which was bought by Google and will go under Google+ Creative Kit later this month) have created an alternative (and free) site called PicMonkey. I played around with it and found it to have a lot of features for an online editor.…
LogoType Maker: Fun Logo Generator
Having married into a very artistic family, I discovered that I’m really not as “artistically inclined” as I once thought. Not that this lack of skill has prevented me from doodling during meetings and conferences, mind you, but even the doodles aren’t really all that great. Fortunately, I came across a website that can help even…

Could BNA Content Integration with Bloomberg Law Be a Match Made in Heaven for Your Law Firm?
[I want to thank Cheryl Niemeier, Director of Library Services at Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, for offering to guest blog on the Bloomberg/BNA Integration and Pricing.]
I recently had the pleasure of meeting my new Bloomberg Law Representative to discuss current BNA subscription options with regard to the integration of those services into…
A New LPM / AFA Tool on the Market
Success Breeds Competition or Lexis Announces Practice Advisor
It’s one of those often overlooked economic rules: If you start a company and become successful, others will notice. Especially others with capital. In this case Practical Law Company (PLC) introduced a product/service a few years back and has been doing quite well with it. So much that apparently LexisNexis saw an opportunity and has
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5 Resources for Summarizing Web or Other Content
Larry Hawes reminded me yesterday of a web content summary tool I reviewed a while back. Unfortunately, it turns out that the product no longer exists. So, I got to looking for other options that were out there and came across a few that I tested using Zena Applebaum’s Competitive Intelligence and Know Your Client…

Too Busy To "Read" Your RSS Feed? "Listen" to Them via Vocalyze
I’ve been testing out an interesting product this morning called Vocalyze. The gist of Vocalyze is to take web content and covert it into audio and play it as new articles are published. Vocalyze is pretty simple to use, and works on the desktop, iOS and Android platform. There are a number of options…
3 Geeks and a Google Currents…
I saw this morning where Law.com was now available on the new Google Currents platform for Android and iOS devices. In checking out that news, I discovered that we could also add 3 Geeks and a Law Blog to the list of publishers available on Google Currents, so I jumped at the opportunity. Set up…