Don’t miss how easy it is to have Windows keep backups of folder contents, so you can always access the set of files that you had in a folder yesterday, a week ago, last year, or even 10 minutes ago....more
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9/2/2024 BatchGuru – Transform Metadata in Relativity - BatchGuru from vdiscovery and Nikolai Pozdniakov’s Hashtaglegal, is a set of tools to be used in a Relativity workspace which helps you easily transform metadata in...more
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8/2/2024 – EU 2024/1689 – Europe Tries to Reign in AI - This week the EU regulation 2024/1689, “laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence” became effective. The European Artificial Intelligence Act will regulate...more
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July 6, 2024 – Rufus – How to Create Bootable Media with ISO Files If you have a flash drive or disc from which you want to access a program when booting up in BIOS, the data can be saved in an .iso file – which acts as a...more
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6/4/2024 – Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Judge’s Guide to Pretrial and Trial - The Federal Judicial Center’s Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Judge’s Guide to Pretrial and Trial is an old manual prepared...more
May 5, 2024 – Imports of TextMap Annotations Into OnCue As Deposition Designations - The OnCue trial electronic presentation software makes it easy to import deposition designations added as annotations in TextMap as new...more
February 5, 2024: Destroying Solid State Drives - The Tip of the Night for March 25, 2022, mentioned that the data on solid state drives cannot be degaussed because such drives do not use magnetic fields to store data. A USB...more
January 7, 2024: Creating a Random Series of Numbers in Excel for QC - If you need to generate a list of random numbers in Excel you may want to avoid using the RANDBETWEEN formula....more
December 2, 2023: SEC Director of Enforcement on Penalties for Data Preservation Failures - In October 2023, the SEC’s Director of Enforcement Gurbir Grewal addressed the New York City Association. See the transcript posted...more
November 5, 2023: Regex to Change Case of Letters - Note that you can easily use a regular expression search to capitalize certain strings in text. In this example we have a list of names, and we want to capitalize the last...more
October 9, 2023: Projector Types - There are two basic types of projectors – digital light projectors and liquid crystal display projectors. An LCD projector sends light through a prism. A DLP projector works with micro...more
August 8, 2023: Detect Whether or Not Text Was Generated by AI -
It’s becoming more and more common to come across text on the internet which appears as though it may have been written by AI. You may question the...more
July 1, 2023: Javascript to Split PDF Into 5 Page Segments and Save & Rename -
You can use javascript code in Adobe Acrobat to extract set ranges of pages from a PDF file and then save and rename each extracted PDF range...more
June 3, 2023 – Hunting External Links -
Tonight I used the below vba code posted here by Domenic to successfully generate a list of each cell in a workbook which contained a link to an outside Excel file.
This code is...more
May 6, 2023 – Finding Abandoned Families in Active Learning Projects -
In an Active Learning project if a reviewer, while in the course of reviewing a family of documents for a prioritized review, is taken off a project,...more
April 7, 2023 – Stopping Excel From Rounding off Long Numbers During Import -
The Tip of the Night for March 24, 2023, warned about Excel’s tendency to cut off numbers with multiple decimal places. Excel will also round...more
March 4, 2023 – Searching for Emojis in Relativity -
A Relativity admin can make it possible to search for emojis in a Relativity workspace. A dtSearch index can be edited to include a special code that will enable the...more
2/4/2023: Regular Expression Search to Get the Line Count in a Text File -
Running the regular expression search:
\S+\s*$
. . . in a text editor like NotePad++ will generate a count of the number of non-empty lines in...more
January 1, 2023—Searching Inside an Excel Cell for One of Multiple Strings -
You can use an Excel formula to check to see when any one of multiple values appears in the contents of a...more
December 4, 2022 – S.D. Cal.: Request for Production from Backup Tapes Denied -
In 2015, Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo, in United States ex rel. Carter v. Bridgepoint Educ., Inc., 305 F.R.D. 225 (S.D. Cal. 2015), ruled...more
11/6/2022: Hash values of files sent via MMS can vary -
Multimedia Messaging Service is used by cell phones to send video, audio and multiple images. It contrasts with Short Message Service that can only send text up to...more
10/8/2022: Printer Settings on Local Computer Carry Over to VMWare -
When you send a job to a printer not on your office network from inside VMWare or another VPN, you may not see all of the options which should be...more
9/3/2022 – LINE CONDITIONERS -
Most people will have a used a power strip with a surge protector at some point – this will shut off an electrical current when the power becomes too high.
If you are setting up...more
August 6, 2022 – Powershell Script to Get the File Size of Files in Multiple Locations -
You can run a simple PowerShell script to get the file size of files saved in various locations on a network....more
7/1/2022: Fixing Excel Links Repointed to C drive -
If you find that Excel spreadsheets for which you have added hyperlinks to a network drive using the HYPERLINK formula are inexplicably repointed to the users appdata...more