50 tips 2011

50 Tech Tips 2011 2011 Equal Justice Conference

Las Vegas, Nevada

Glenn Rawdon, Program Counsel, LSC Liz Keith, LawHelp Program Manager, PBN David Bonebrake, Program Counsel, LSC Travis August, National Support Coordinator,

PBN Joyce Raby, FAIR Health, Inc.

Panelists

Glenn Rawdon

Navigation Pane Word 2010

PDF "sticky notes" as help for documents

Firefox 4 Apps Tabs

Firefox 4 Panorama (group tabs)

Firefox 4 Sync

Windows Live Mesh

Google Cloud Connect

PureSync

Set Conditions and Schedule

Focus Booster

Handbrake

Liz Keith

Simplify Flight and Hotel Searches

Hipmunk.com

Hipmunk.com

Organize your Travel with TripIt

TripIt.com

• Share trips by email or with a private link to your itinerary.

• Sync with your Outlook, Google, iPhone or Blackberry calendar.

Read it Later – Even without Internet

ReadItLater.com

PDF a Web Page in a Click

Stay Connected through Group Chat

[GroupName]@partychapp.appspotchat.com

http://partychapp.appspot.com/

Dim your screen

Disable your wi-fi

Keep it cool Don’t multitask Hibernate, don’t sleep

Maximize your Battery Life

Photo by marylkayoe/ Flickr

Hail a Cab from the Web – or a Text

Book your cab Track its arrival Charge the ride Get an e-receipt

TaxiMagic.com

Find the Perfect Parking Spot

Map it with Bing

Count your Chips

Record expenses by email, text, IM, voice and more

Email receipts as images Manage and export expense reports

xpenser.com

David Bonebrake

LawHelp/NY Usage Statistics◦ 2009: 377,000 visits◦ 2010: 461,000 visits

The Numbers Don’t Lie

http://bit.ly/gek6Xi

Gate Guru App

http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

Travis August

HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension It encrypts your communications

with many popular websites.

http://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

More Secure Hotspot Browsing

1Password http://agilewebsolutions.com

LastPass \http://lastpass.com/ Create strong passwords

◦ Sync with all your browsers◦ Sync with your

computers, mobile phone,and tablets

(check with IT first)

Secure Passwords Everywhere

Pastefire http://pastefire.com

Copy links, phone numbers, and more on your computer and send them to your iPhone instantly

Pastefire

GroupMe, Beluga, Fast Society, Kik, and more

Send messages to a group

Works with basic SMS phones as well as smartphones.

Other features:◦ Share location privately

for smartphone map apps◦ Group conference calls

Group Messaging

Turn RSS news feeds into emails

Feed My Inbox

Get SMS-like notifications for just about anything.

Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare and other social networks

Custom search alerts RSS feeds

Boxcar: iPhone Notifications

MS Business Intelligence Labsexperimental data mining tools http://bit.ly/msbilabs

Free Excel Add-in: Fuzzy Lookup Search Tool

Matches even spelling and abbreviation differences◦ Identify fuzzy duplicate rows

within a single table◦ Fuzzy join similar rows between

two different tables

Microsoft BI Labs

Upload Excel, CSV, or link Google Spreadsheets as data sources

Collaborate and discuss Visualize data with

maps and charts Embed on the web

or download

Google Fusion Tables

scrible

Word Lens

Joyce Raby

www.groupon.com

www.siezethedeal.com

www.livingsocial.com

http://escapes.livingsocial.com/deals

www.giveawayoftheday.com

www.freestufftimes.com

Sourceforge.net

www.grc.com

Testmy.net

www.woot.com

www.zulily.com

www.gilt.com

www.ruelala.com

www.dailygrommet.com

www.thinkgeek.com

http://www.vegas4locals.com/couponsdining.html

http://www.vegascoupons.com/top-vegas-coupons.html

http://www.smartervegas.com/

Glenn Rawdon, grawdon@lsc.gov Liz Keith, lkeith@probono.net David Bonebrake, bonebraked@lsc.gov Travis August, taugust@probono.net Joyce Raby, jaraby@gmail.com

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