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.

MyPermissions: A Great Tool to Help You Protect Your Privacy

You can do lots of interesting things when you give social media tools permission to connect with each other and with other third-party apps. But beware, in doing this you …

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Use PC Decrapifier to Remove Unwanted Software From a New or Old PC

Some of you were lucky enough to have Santa leave a new computer or laptop under your Christmas tree. That’s great news. Now for the bad news: Unfortunately, most new …

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Easily View Two Windows Side-by-Side on Your PC Desktop

Do you want to quickly see two windows side-by-side on your desktop? Yes, you can manually resize them by dragging and dropping the edges of each window, but there is …

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Dealing With DOCX, XLSX and PPTX Files if You Use an Older Version of Office

Once or twice a month I hear from people who are struggling to open docx files. Read on for the reasons why this happens, and what to do about it. …

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Install or Update Multiple Computer Apps in Minutes With Ninite

Do you dread moving to a new computer because you have reinstall all your software? If so, you need to know about Nitite. This amazing free service automatically downloads …

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Helpful Tips for Collecting LinkedIn Contacts

Collecting a network of contacts is the very essence of LI. Here are some tips for building a good collection of LI contacts.

Do consider the quality, not the quantity,
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50GB Free Cloud Storage for Life for iPhones and iPads From Box.net

Box.net recently announced that it is giving away 50 GB of free storage to anyone who uses a free Box Personal account on an iOS device. This promotion only runs …

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Use Application Groups to Organize Apps on Your Ipad or Iphone

Most of us have many screens of apps on our iPads and iPhones. Sliding multiple screens of icons back and forth is really easy, but it can be a pain …

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Four Tips for Easy Navigation of PowerPoint Slide Deck

Ever seen someone get up to do a PowerPoint with no clue about how to advance (or reverse) the slides. Ouch!!! Here are four neat tricks for navigating through your …

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Google Map Maker Arrives in Canada

As of yesterday, Canadians can use Google’s Map Maker to correct and add details to places in Canada that appear on Google Maps. You can add roads, hiking paths, buildings, …

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