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 Often we want to make the text in our documents slightly bigger or smaller, instead of using the font drop down menu, you can use this quick key to increase or decrease the font by one size with each key sequence.
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 Justify the text so that the text is aligned with the left and right margins.
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The Dark Side of the Internet: Cybercrime in Southern Africa |
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 By the end of 2010, an estimated 1,97 billion people around the world were using the Internet. Of these, about 111 million were in Africa. With the recent events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, this number is likely to have grown substantially in the past few months. Close to 18 million Africans were using Facebook by August 2010 – this constitutes 16% of the total number of Facebook users worldwide, according to http://www.internetworldstats.com
Read the full article on the Institute for Security Studies web site...
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 Apply a hanging indent to the current text, or the selected area.
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 No doubt you've read in BigLaw about all the midsize and large firms equipping their lawyers with iPads — or at least supporting iPads purchased by their lawyers. Many methods exist for integrating iPads and other mobile devices into your legal environment.
Read more at Matt Berg's Technolawyer Blog area...
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 A year ago, the question everybody was asking was -When are you migrating to Office 2010 or 2007? The emerging questions are, "How much of Office 2010 or 2007 will you take advantage of?" and "How will you arm your users to cope with a dual-format environment?"
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 Use this quick key to indent the current text.
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A quick and easy way to get to find anything that is stored on your computer...
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 Targeted attacks, social networking threats, mobile device security and the proliferation of attack toolkits are top growing trends to watch in today's threat landscape.
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 This quick key sequence will open the font menu so that you can change the appearance of the selected area.
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Sometimes we need to prove the error we are getting in software programs, or we need to take a screen shot of the computer screen for training purposes. This shortcut will do that do you without taking a picture of everything.
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The Orphans Bill USA - Copyright |
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Tech advisor - Tech4Law
 Numerous people in graphic arts have contacted me in connection with the Orphans Bill in the USA and are concerned about putting their artwork on the net due to this posting on youtube.
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 As a conveyancer, how sure are you of the exact spatial extent and boundaries of the land you are in the process of registering and how well can you prove this?
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 South Africans love email so much they will work around any and all corporate policies to get to it. Mimecast's Generation Gmail Report has revealed that rogue emailing - using personal email accounts to send and receive work documents - and the associated information security risk is exacerbated by the laissez-faire attitude of most South African employers.
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 When you are typing correspondence on a regular basis (all day type of thing), it makies sense to use the shortcut key to open a new blank document....
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 We start off with the basic quick keys, which control most of the Windows functions.
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Metadata - What is it and what are my ethical duties? |
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 Jim Calloway explains why every lawyer needs to understand a few basic things about metadata. He contends that the legal ethics implications of metadata "mining" are no longer just of interest to the lawyers processing electronic discovery, or the ethics mavens.
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 To cap or not to cap? That is a question many businesses ponder as they consider their ADSL options. Andre Joubert, GM of MWEB Business says the answer to that question will depend on each business's individual situation and requirements.
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 New Open Value Subscription customers have the opportunity for greater savings through the Up to Date (UTD) promotional offer due to the expansion of qualifying Microsoft products.
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 When typing at the speed of light, like most paralegals I have met - it is a crime to have to stop to use the mouse to click the text formating tools on the menu bar, rather use the quick keys. I know this is a really simple shortcut, but I have seen a number of people using the mouse instead of these simple keys.
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 Yesterday I returned from a trip to Europe where I was in telephone contact via Skype and obviously stayed connected with Internet access throughout the trip – all done rather economically.
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 It’s been another great year for the iPad, and for iPad apps. There are now over 170,000 iPad apps available in the App Store (as at 12/21/11). And as Apple’s TV ads for the iPad so nicely illustrate, there are now iPad apps for just about anything you care to do with your favorite tablet device.
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 In the United States alone, over 60 million information workers employ the Internet and e‐mail in their daily duties. Most now view e‐mail as more important than the phone as a business tool. Yet, as indispensable as these tools have become, they expose most organizations to increasing risks, especially as it relates to the transmission or posting of documents. These documents are often published with hidden business data or confidential text not intended for the recipient or outside world to review.
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Do attorneys want to separate personal from professional on social networks |
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 The New York Times' Randall Stross has a story this morning about 'Sifting the Professional From the Personal' when it comes to social networks. Attorneys and other professionals have gravitated towards LinkedIn because it is 'professional.'
Read more at Real Lawyers Have Blogs
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 Sometimes we need to minimise all of our applications in a split second, not because it makes us work faster, but helps hide Facebook when the boss walks past...;-)
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 Symantec released the findings on their recent Electronically Stored Information (ESI) survey in EMEA countries covering 500 legal respondents from each country. We spoke to Tyrone Theodorides from Symantec and Paul Jacobson from Jacobson's Attorneys on the outcome of the survey.
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 The telecoms industry is arguably driven by consumer demand. In South Africa particularly, there has been much pressure from the public for lower costs in communications. This constant pressure has definitely had a positive effect. Inter-connect rates are dropping, broadband costs are lower, bandwidth packages are larger in size at lower prices, and call rates are much more attractive. Prices are expected to drop further.
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 Using your finger or a stylus to hand write your notes. This free app is a real meeting discussion point - everybody wants the app, in fact most download it during the meeting!
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 In October 2008 Namibia's electronic communications operators (1) were hosted by the Information Communication Technologies' (ICT) Minister Joel Kaapanda to address ongoing call termination rate disputes (2) between the parties. The forum agreed to a initiate a study of termination costs, which was commissioned in January 2009 and by 1 June 2009 the Namibia Communication Commission (NCC) prescribed a new termination rate ceiling of N$0.60 (3) (down from N$1.06) with a glide path to N$0.30 by January 2011. How did this happen and can it happen in South Africa?
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 If your law firm is not on the web, then it is probably not visible to the 7 million or so affluent South Africans who are connected and who use the internet to find information, get advice and purchase services and goods. Putting your law firm online is easy and affordable. Here are some pointers on what you need to consider.
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 Piracy hinders prosperity. This is the united/resounding message coming from speakers at the Convention on Reducing Software Piracy organised by the Free Market Foundation (FMF) and the Information Technology Association (ITA), and hosted by Microsoft South Africa on Thursday.
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 A quick way to open the “Find and replace” option….
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 Things do go wrong....You can be happily working in an application in Windows and the next thing, no matter how hard you hit that keyboard, the system will not respond - time to accept the reality and close the application, instead of just hitting the power button.
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Court: Not illegal to Google your employees |
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 A three-judge panel upheld a decision against a former government employee who had a Google search performed on him before getting fired, as well as being accused of misusing company funds.
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 Steven Hardy answers a question about using Outlook as a legal customer contact diary, where one can easily see all approaching appoints related to a client.
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A recent survey focusing on the important role of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in the legal process highlighted that while ESI has become a crucial part of the legal process, it has caused lawyers numerous problems over the past two years.
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 A quick and easy way to get to your printing window without the mouse.
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An easy and effective way to flip between open applications without having to go into each one to see if it is the application you need.
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Strategies for curbing internet defamation |
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 An identifiable Internet speaker who sends an unlawful e-mail or posts an unlawful Internet message is subject to traditional litigation tactics. However, countless Internet speakers are not effortlessly identifiable. Hence, novel litigation, technical and administrative law tactics are advantageous for successfully curbing Internet defamation.
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Jumping across the page one word at a time..
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