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SpamSieve for Apple Mail spam fighting alternative

Jordan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:44:33 +0000

I don’t get a lot of spam, as I actively try to keep most of my email addresses off the internet (and thus keeping them away from screenscrapers). Some of my accounts (I have 8+) are relatively immune, as they’ve never been signed up to email lists or given out to more than a few people.

But I’m not immune. I get about 50-100/week. Apple Mail’s filters have been doing a good job, but lately in the past few months about 5 get through a day, not counting the rules I had to create to eliminate spam from people like (spammers) LawCrossing or Affluence.org who refuse to actually remove people when requested.

So one quick search and a trip to Hawk Wings and enter SpamSieve for a test run. Only one day into it, but it is getting trained up and doing a pretty awesome job so far. It uses a different type of filtering (Bayesian) than Apple Mail so that’s part of the trick.

It also has a handy guide to integrating it with your iPhone (though it involves leaving a computer running back at home…).

I’ll give it a go over the next 30 day trial period to see how it goes.

Practice management sites every solo should follow

Jordan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:15:32 +0000

As a solo or small firm lawyer, you were a lot of hats and don’t have the luxury of just delegating lots of aspects of your practice to others. As a result of a conversation that I had today with a fellow small firm legal professional, I created this list of sites that I follow that help me keep track.

LPM blogs

Build a Solo practice. Susan Cartier Liebel’s blog and one of the first I started following when I developed my consultancy.

There are quite a few others that I dip in on regularly, such as Chuck Newton and Home Office Warrior. These days I mostly just see what is out there via the twitter people I follow, though I very sorely tempted to join Solo Practice University to give it a go.

Tech for the solo/small firm

Keep up to date with Future Lawyer and for the Mac users, subscribe to MILO and read iPhone JD if you have an iPhone.

SEO

SEO Moz comes in very handy and has lots of tools to help with SEO. My Pro subscription has been useful, but there are plenty of things to get you started for free.

SEO Book. I bought and read Aaron Wall’s SEO Book and it’s been a great help to understand the issues and where to improve (even if I don’t get to do all of what he and SEO Moz recommend).

UK

In the UK we have the SOLO IP group, which I’d hoped would offer more practice management tips and tricks, and still has the potential to be a really useful resource specifically for IP practitioners.

iPhoneJD

Jordan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:29:44 +0000

Just discovered iPhoneJD for all the tips and tricks for you iPhone lawyers out there.

iPhoto and iPhone – annoying?

Jordan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:16:27 +0000

I don’t actually plug my iPhone into my computer that often, but when I do iPhoto always pops up. I like using iPhoto to import photos from it, but don’t want it to auto load. But I do like it when iPhoto autostarts when I plug in my proper digital camera.

37 signals has a solution that involves AppleScript, but I’m wondering if there is a simpler solution? Some setting that I’m missing in my haste and annoyance?

iPhone 3G apparently hacked/unlocked

Jordan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:32:36 +0000

Via InfoWorld:

[A] team of hackers has finally figured out a way to alter the device’s software so that it can be unlocked for use on networks other than AT&T’s. … The unlocking hack isn’t out yet, but the team plans to release it on Dec. 31

This is for the US iPhone. Here in the UK, the iPhone is on on O2, and Apple has this to say about unlocking your PAYG iPhone:

Can I “unlock” the iPhone and use it with another network?

O2 is the exclusive wireless carrier for the iPhone in the United Kingdom. Unlocking your new iPhone 3G will invalidate its warranty and will disable all software updates.

No contract iPhone?

Jordan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:20:21 +0000

For US based customers, AT&T Mobility will offer the new iPhone without a 2 year contract for $599 for an 8GB and $699 for a 16GB. [Link - No-contract iPhone on the way]. But the article reports that the iPhone would still be locked to the AT&T network — so some sort of Jailbreak would be needed for those looking to buy and use a different carrier.

In the UK, it looks like o2, the exclusive iPhone carrier, will have a Pay-as-you-go option for the 3G iPhone as well. [Link o2 PAYG iPhone page].