Thursday, September 10, 2015

This and That in Court Technology – September, 2015


This month we have news and notes about a crowdsourcing funding project, advances in artificial intelligence powered speech recognition, criminal case E-filing in Illinois, some comments about the new Apple's iPad Pro and Pencil, a new tiny cheap computer, IBM pitches Watson to trial lawyers, solar windows, and cleaning your gadgets.

Friday, September 4, 2015

No Power? Some Ideas and Strategies to Consider

Morgan County, WV Courthouse Power

I suppose that the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has me thinking about strategies for keeping the courthouse open.  In other words…”Plan B”.  And since, as you know, computers don’t work very well without some kind of “juice”, we will discuss aspects of electrical power.

Friday, August 28, 2015

Make Your Home Wi-Fi Work Better



A quick note before the weekend starts.  We received a link from our NCSC IT staff about a short online video by Vox.com on how to improve your home wireless (Wi-Fi) network performance.  It is really good. Check it out on YouTube by clicking here.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Cloud Backup


Former Intel CEO Andy Grove titled his 1999 book “Only the Paranoid Survive” which provides a good motto for thinking about protecting your personal and court data.  One potential solution that we will discuss in this article is backing your data up to “the cloud”.


Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Hamilton County Indiana Leads E-Filing Implementation


Hamilton County Courthouse, Noblesville, IN
They will be the first county in the state to accept electronic court filings.


Wednesday, August 12, 2015

User Interface Changes – Are They Worth It?


I read a terrific blog post last month regarding the problems that result when websites or computer applications change their user interfaces.  We discuss below.

Friday, August 7, 2015

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Upcoming JTC Webinar on eBench and Judicial Tools


The Joint Technology Committee (JTC) of COSCANACM and the NCSC will host a webinar on Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 2:00pm EDT.  The topic will be "eBench and Dashboards – Making a Case for Judicial Tools".