It is with much sadness that we write this post regarding our friend and collaborator, Matt Willson. Matt passed away suddenly on Tuesday, Feb. 28. He was 40 years old. He was a beloved and regular contributor to Solo in Colo. A celebration of Matt’s life will be held on Monday, March 5, at 2 […]
Adobe released Adobe Reader for iDevices and Android phones, a free application available from the App Store and Android Market in a very quick download. The application starts with “Getting Started with Adobe Reader,” a tutorial explaining the Adobe Reader interface. Even if you have a PDF application on your mobile device, add this one […]
Word’s AutoCorrect feature automatically corrects commonly misspelled words on the fly, with no intervention on your part. Here are a couple tips that can save you time with your legal drafting: Did you know that you can create an AutoCorrect entry for words you often misspell? Even though Word includes hundreds of commonly misspelled words […]
Now that you’ve learned how to set up and run your own website, you may wonder what to do if you find yourself wanting a different layout or look. Below, Matt Willson walks you through finding, installing, and changing your WordPress website theme. What theme are you using on your site? Why do you like […]
You can use Google Alerts to monitor anything on the Web. And did I mention it’s free? It takes less than a minute to set one up, and you can use them to find out what’s being said about you, your client (or prospective client), an issue relevant to your practice (such as product recalls), […]
Now that you’ve got most of the static pages of your WordPress website created (like your home page, attorney bio page, and practice areas page), you can start working on your Web 2.0 pages—those pages that you update regularly, helping your search engine optimization and moving you to the top of Google’s search rankings. In […]
The good news is devices have much more storage than ever. The bad news is you need more storage. Here’s how to figure out how much storage capacity there is, and how much you have left. On an iPhone: Choose Settings, then General, then About. Now you can see how many songs, videos, apps, and […]
Have you ever wondered how spammers collect email addresses? There are several methods but the most common way is using spam robots and email harvesters. These applications are on the Internet constantly browsing and recovering information formatted in the classic email format—for example, example@emailserver.com. These roving harvesters are busily working the Internet and social media […]
In this latest installment of the WordPress Website Project, Matt Willson has two new screencasts to help you when building your website. First, learn how to make your home page (or splash page) static. Then, find out how to add your logo to your site. Wish your logo was your banner at the top of […]
You probably already know that “deleted” rarely means it’s gone. If you have deleted an item in Microsoft Outlook, you can retrieve it from the Deleted Items folder. But what if you have emptied your Deleted Items folder, or permanently deleted the item directly from your Inbox so it never went to the Deleted Items […]