Holy iPhone App, Batman!

Once again, proving the usefulness of Twitter, I find out (via @elizabethf) that Lexis has released a free iPhone/iPodTouch app that allows users to get cases from Lexis and to Shepardize them. You do need to have a current Lexis account. Still, how cool is that?

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Now a Word from CALI

There is often confusion surrounding the CALI authorization code among new students. Here are a few tips and a 2 minute video that to help you and your students avoid confusion.

Please pass this on to your students:

1. Before creating a new account at cali.org, find your school’s authorization code and have it handy. Contact your school’s rep at www.cali.org/contacts or just ask a librarian.
    
2. Use your school’s authorization code just one time. During your first cali.org registration/account creation process, enter it into the box entitled “Authorization Code.” You’ll never, ever type or even have to think about your school’s CALI authorization code again after your new cali.org account is created.
    
3. Your school’s authorization code IS NOT your cali.org username or password: You create your own username during registration. You create a unique password by following a link CALI will send you in an email immediately following the first registration step.

   This may sound confusing, but take two minutes to watch the video and you should understand.
    

    4. Once you’ve registered, use the username/password you created during registration to login at cali.org. Once registration is complete and your account is created, you use your own           username and password — not your school’s authorization code, which you can officially scrub from your memory.

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Cool tool for law students

I wish they had aspenlawstudydesk back when I was in law school. It would have made studying a whole lot easier.

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Cool Firefox add-ons

Add-ons are Firefox extensions that one can add to the basic browser to add new features. Bonnie Sucha, a super librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law Library, has put together a list of add-ons useful for legal/library researchers. Go check ‘em out.

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Help CALI – Donate Stuff for eLangdell

CALI is looking for more content for eLangdell. This is a very worthy project and it would be great if they could get more “stuff.”

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CALI Confernce 2008

This year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing is being held at our sister law school here in Baltimore, starting tomorrow (June 19). The conference runs through Saturday (June 21). You can find the program here. There is also a wiki.

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Mac Law Students

This one is for all our Mac-using law students: Mac Law Students.  This site has tons of useful information.

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Linux for Law Firms

From law.com: Legal Technology – Is Ubuntu the Linux OS for Law Firms?

With software licenses costing an  arm and a leg and with Vista getting less than stellar reviews, you could see this one coming from a mile away.

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