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Securing Your Apple Devices

Clearinghouse IWG — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:56:02 +0000

Good information on Slaw about protecting your data on an iPad2. Security experts have noted that the flash memory of the iPad and iPad2 will retain images of documents and web pages viewed on the device even after the document or browser history is deleted. The only method to ensure this information cannot be accessed if your device is lost or stolen is to use the iPad2 password lock feature, which will encrypt all data (including screen images). The original iPad cannot be encrypted.

http://www.slaw.ca/2011/11/15/securing-your-apple-devices/

There’s an App for That Court

Clearinghouse IWG — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:48:24 +0000

This is an update to a previous post that looked at communication tools. The post ended with a ‘Let us know what your plans are to implement these types of technologies and for what purpose.” Well, there is some development in the States. Check out “There’s an App for That Court”and read about the Pennsylvania initiative.

A Post in Which I Disagree with Steve Jobs (and eventually say something about court technology)

Clearinghouse IWG — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:28:19 +0000

In IT circles, there’s a lot of discussion about the news that HP has decided to get out of the PC business. Erica Ogg at Gigaom suggests that HP decided that good profits can be made solutions at the back end of computing, but selling computing devices to end users is a business with diminishing margins. Erica’s relates this to a statement made by Steve Jobs that the PC era is over. She cites this quote from Steve Jobs’ announcement:

“When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms.” Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

“PCs are going to be like trucks,” Jobs said. “They are still going to be around.” However, he said, only “one out of x people will need them.”

So how does this relate to computers? PCs used to be expensive and had to perform many functions to justify the cost. Now, I can buy an iPad and a good-enough laptop and an ereader and an internet radio for less money than I paid for my computer 10 years ago. I don’t own all those devices because I somehow “evolved,” I own them because they are cheap and convenient to specific tasks.

So in the community of people who build technology for the courts, I argue that this is not the end of the PC era, it’s the beginning of the cheap computing appliance era. We need to be prepared to offer our services to as many end user platforms as possible.

So let me ask you ask you a question: What interaction with courts do you most desire to perform through technology, and what would be your computing appliance of choice?

Cali Conference – Further Commentary

Clearinghouse IWG — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:41:13 +0000

Theo Belniak (RIPS Law Librarian) provide further commentary on the conference sessions and has highlighted some of the tools showcased.

Unbound Conference Presentations from CALI

Clearinghouse IWG — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:49:08 +0000

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) conference presentations are available here. You will need to download Microsoft Silverlight to watch the sessions.

I mention this resources, as it highlights technology that future lawyers are being exposed to and will potentially drive the services courts will want to introduce: it will influence library services, the web services court provide, etc.

There are sessions on Drupal, social media and apps services as examples and then more specific sessions for the academic learning environment.

Canadian Centre for Court Technology – Centre canadien de technologie judiciaire

CCCT-CCTJ — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:01:00 +0000