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It’s Basecamp … it’s Highrise … it’s DropBox … it’s Yammer … it’s … Podio? Yes it is. And it’s on your iPhone, your iPad, your Android device, and in your office. Danish start-up Podio has elegantly married file sharing, contact management, task tracking, real-time asynchronous communication (i.e. Twitter functions) and more into a single, easy to use, free package. Did I say free? Yeah I did. Free for up to 10 users in a company. $99/year for up to 25. That makes Podio a no-brainer for solo’s and small law firms. Compare what it does and what it costs with the bill of goods you’re currently being sold by legal technology vendors who assume lawyers are too uninformed, gullible, or busy to check up on them. It’s shameful. Meanwhile, Podio integrates functions that the more tech-literate among us now use in Basecamp, Dropbox, Yammer, and other applications. But for most lawyers Podio will simply be a revelation and unbelievable resource. Hey, did I just save you thousands of dollars in useless, bloated office software? I think I did. You’re welcome. And by the way: Boom Shakalaka!

Google Cloud Print was developed in fall 2009, thrown to developers in April 2010, and has been fully functional for some time. In theory it’s perfect: print anything from anywhere. As usual, in practice things get trickier. What if you’re on the road? Can you print a document at your office by pushing a button on your iPhone? Luckily, issues such as those (and others) get sorted out in articles like this one. In the meantime, if you don’t already use Cloud Print I recommend giving it a try. Its easy, convenient, and can be a lifesaver.

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