Author Archives: Dan Pinnington

About Dan Pinnington

Dan is a technology evangelist and is well known for his “tech tips”. His vision, energy and ideas have made practicePRO an internationally recognized claims prevention initiative. He is a prolific writer, speaker and blogger on legal malpractice, risk management, legal technology, and law practice management issues. He is a veteran of hundreds of presentations at law firms and conferences all over North America and has chaired more than a dozen major conferences. Dan was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management in 2007. The American Bar Association just published The Busy Lawyer’s Guide To Success: Tips to Power Your Practice, a book he co-authored with Reid Trautz. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the ABA LPM’s Law Practice magazine, was Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2007 and helped launch the Law Practice Today Webzine.

A Rant: Please Don’t Send My Attachments Back to Me!

Email attachments are wonderful things. Long gone of the painful and inefficient days of snail-mail and sending faxes (Perhaps dating myself here.) With just a few clicks, you can almost …

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Manipulating Windows With Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows 7 introduced some really neat new keyboard shortcuts for manipulating windows. Here are some shortcuts that every Windows 7 user should know:
Windows key + Up and Windows key …

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How Does USB 3.0 Compare With USB 2.0?

Most new devices sold today will include USB 3.0 connectivity. At home or work, many of your older devices will have USB 2.0 (or even 1.0!). So how does USB …

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Disable the Annoying File Delete Confirmation Box

While it is intended to prevent you from accidentally deleting a file, the file delete confirmation box (the little box that pops-up when you delete a file and asks if …

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Easily See Data Trends With Sparklines – an Amazing New Feature in MS Excel 2010

It is difficult to see trends or patterns when you are presented with a table full of rows and columns of numbers. A graph – like a picture – can …

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Free Quick Reference Cards for Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2010 and Other Programs

The staff and lawyers in most law offices use a fraction of the functions and features in the programs on their computers. This is because most law firms don’t follow …

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Remember to Use the Powerful Microsoft Office 2012 Clipboard

As we all know too well, the basic Windows clipboard holds only one item. This can be a pain when you have multiple items to copy and paste. Some people …

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10 Incredibly Simple Things You Should Be Doing to Protect Your Privacy

Forbes published a fantastic article on ten simple and essential things that everyone should doing to protect their privacy. The ten steps outlined in the article are really and …

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Mashable’s Facebook Guidebook Will Make You a Facebook Power-User

Facebook is very complicated and can be confusing to use and configure. Many people are not using Facebook to its full potential.
Do you want to do more with Facebook? …

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Double-Click Home Button to See All Apps Running on Your iPad

Want to easily see all the apps running on your iPad?
Double-clicking the Home button will show you all the apps that are running on your iPad as icons on …

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