Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

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Google Analytics and WordPress

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As part of Google’s attempt to provide us with a solution for everything, Google now provides a service called Google Analytics to help you analyze traffic on your website. This solution appears to be geared primarily toward maximizing your revenue using Google AdWords. However, you need not be using AdWords to gain a benefit from this service. I have used Analytics for a few weeks now and I am pleased with the information that it provides in a very simple and easy to use format.

For those of you who, like me, use WordPress to blog, this website provides you with instructions to enable you to easily add Analytics to your WordPress website.

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Get Your Own Domain

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There is a funny email exchange that has been linked to fairly often in the last week in which a law firm sends a job offer for a law clerk position to someone via email. Because the sender typed the address incorrectly, the email ended up in the inbox of a second grader.

Futurelawyer draws some great advice from this story. He says:

“However, the most important part of the exchange for me was the advice to avoid Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, and other common domains. It would be impossible to mis-type the Futurelawyer’s email address, because, since it is my own domain, any email addressed to it comes to me or a member of my immediate family.”

His parting advice is simple but good: “So, if you aren’t in control of your own domain, get one.”

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You Send It: Sending Large Files By Email

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Most email systems limit the attachment to your emails to 2MB. Even if your email provider does not have such a limitation, you really should not be emailing such large files. What are you to do, however, if you need to send a large file to someone else and you want the convenience of email?You Send It

A popular solution is You Send It.  You Send it has a variety of plans available from Free (always a favorite) to $29.99 a month. The various plans offer differing amounts of time that the files are available for download, password protections, and limits on file size.

If this is an occasional need for you, the free plan will likely meet your needs. The utility of this service has previously been noted by David Swanner, Futurelawyer, and Jim Calloway.

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Remove Your Hard Drive During Repairs

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David Swanner at the South Carolina Trial Law Blog wrote about his experience sending his laptop to the manufacturer to repair a cracked case. Despite the fact that the only problem was with his case, the repair facility also replaced his hard drive. Unfortunately, David did not have his hard drive backed up.

Normally, when you hear a story like this, you expect some one to lecture you on the necessity of keeping a backup. I certainly agree that backups are a great idea. However, the problem here is easily solved. The first time I had to send my computer to be repaired, my IT guy told me to remove my hard drive before shipping it.

This is a simple solution that not only ensures that the data on my drive is safe, but it also ensures that I maintain the confidentiality of any client information that may be on the drive. I now also typically remove my battery to make sure that it is not accidentally lost in shipment.

Protect yourself and your data, remove your hard drive before shipping it off for repair.