30 Tech Tips in 60 Minutes. CORT First Friday Webinar Series January 11, 2008

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1 30 Tech Tips in 60 Minutes CORT First Friday Webinar Series January 11,

2 Webinar Preliminaries Where is this PPT located: MPLP.Org ( Don t t Put us on Hold use mute To mute & unmute yourself, press 6 (Pressing 6 again will unmute.) Or use your phone mute feature 2

3 10 Minute Mentors Free skills tutorials for lawyers from Texas Bar - 3

4 Mobile Broadband Broadband Internet Access from anyplace you can get a celluar signal for about $50/month most cell providers offer a service now. I tried Sprint s and liked it. 4

5 Google s s Growing Empire Google Search Tricks GoogleTalk Instant Messaging Google Apps: Spreadsheet, Word Processor, Calendar 5

6 Define: Link: Calculate: These are just a few of the Google search box features. Check out all of them here: 6

7 Froogle Google Product Seach Google Product Seach - 7

8 Google Custom Search Engine Tool Google Custom Search Engine Tool - 8

9 Google Apps Google Apps Education Edition is Free to Non-profits - 9

10 Google Talk Free instant messaging and talk (VOIP) service Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free anytime, anywhere in the world. You can get in touch over , IM or a call. Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were in the same room. Integrated with Gmail. Also serves as a virtual in/out board. Festoon video add-on to Google Talk 10

11 Google Calendar 11

12 Google Documents 12

13 Firefox And Firefox Add-ons 13

14 Mozilla Firefox Tabbed Browsing Mozilla Firefox Browser features tabbed browsing - US/firefox/ 14

15 Firefox Foxmarks Bookmark Sync Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 15

16 TinyURL Button Firefox add-on Firefox TinyURL Creator

17 Firefox Add-on: IE Tab Firefox IE Tab Extension

18 Easily Increase Text Size for Viewing Use Shortcut Keys: <CRTL> + <+> to Increase <CRTL> + <-> to Decrease Use Shortcut Keys to Increase of Decrease Text Size: <CRTL> + <+> to Increase <CRTL> + <-> to Decrease 18

19 Web Tools RSS and Web Starter Page Meeting Wizard and Meet-o-matic FreeConference.com Wikipedia and Wikis Snopes Woot 19

20 RSS & Web Starter Page build your web starter page with RSS feeds and nifty widgets. igoogle also very popular now

21 Poverty Law Newspaper via RSS Using netvibes to build my own Poverty Law Newspaper using RSS feeds found on 21

22 Meeting Wizard and Meet-o-matic Meeting Wizard ( is a free, full featured, easy to use on-line program for scheduling meetings and phone conferences for any number of people. You can either propose different dates and times, or announce a specific time for a meeting. Your invitation is ed to the people you indicate and you are informed of their responses and availability. Meeting Wizard will propose the most appropriate time for your meeting when most people and all of the participants you have indicated as critical can attend. Can also try Meet-o-matic

23 FreeConference.com Free phone conferencing. Users pay their own long distance charges. 23

24 Wikipedia and Wikis Free Community Encyclopedia Wikipedia - Wikis in Legal Aid

25 An example: FEMA Answers FEMA Answers 25

26 Another example: Michigan Reentry Law Michigan Reenty Law Wiki

27 Snopes Before you react to some of those group s from family and friends, find out the real truth about some of those internet rumors and urban legends. Check out to 27

28 woot! - an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap. They do one item a day and that is it. 28

29 Poverty Law Community Tools LegalMeetings - Online Conferencing LSNTAP Tech Trainings Poverty Law Survey Tool 29

30 Web Conferencing for Poverty Law National Technology Assistance Project Cheap web conferencing for the poverty law community 30

31 LSNTAP Tech Trainings Free Tech Trainings for Poverty Law Community LSNTAP Tech Trainings

32 Survey.Lstech.Org Internet survey tool for the legal aid community The Poverty Law Survey Tool is being customized for the legal aid community. Presently, the community uses either commercially available, subscription model Internet survey tools or other fairly rudimentary applications to survey their audience. This tool - currently in a beta version, hopes to aggregate the complex features available in commercial survey software, combined with a user-friendly interface and online demos and help features to make the survey process more efficient and pleasant for both the administrator and the survey-taker. 32

33 Desktop Tools Clipboard Magic Teamviewer 33

34 Clipboard Magic Free Windows Clipboard Utility One of the weaknesses of Windows is the clipboard. It only saves one item at a time. Once you copy a new item to the clipboard it removes the previous item stored there. Clipboard Magic is a free Windows clipboard enhancement utility. Any text copied to the Windows clipboard is automatically archived in Clipboard Magic. This text may be copied back to the clipboard with a click of the mouse. Text may also be edited and added manually. Clipboard lists may be saved to a file to be loaded later. Features include search and replace, drag and drop, clip management and serial paste hotkeys. Download Clipboard Magic here: 34

35 Teamviewer free desktop sharing utility. 35

36 Document Handling Word Processor Meta Data Redaction PDFs 36

37 Word Redaction Add-in Microsoft Word Redaction Add-in

38 Table of Authorities Tutorial Nice tutorial for creating a Table of Authorities in Word

39 Removing Word Metadata Microsoft Remove Hidden Data Tool Free Microsoft Word Remove Hidden Data Tool

40 CutePDF Writer CutePDF Writer 40

41 Foxit Free PDF Reader Foxit Free PDF Reader

42 Presenter Steve Gray,, man of hats Michigan Poverty Law Program Ann Arbor, Michigan Phone: