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
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
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
June 4, 2022 – Getting a HP duplexer to work after you’ve installed it.
Note that on HP printers, even after you have manually installed a duplexer into the rear of a model such as those for the HP 600 series, it will not...more
May 7, 2022 – Excel array formula to check when all columns match, but ignore blanks -
Tonight’s tip of the night explains how you can use an array formula in Excel to confirm that values on a single row for multiple...more
APRIL 2, 2022: Checking for overlapping deposition designations -
If you have a list of page and line deposition designations and want to see not only where they match marked page and lines from a previous set, but also...more
MARCH 5, 2022: Finding which PDFs are not text searchable -
If you have a very large set of PDFs, and you’re uncertain about which files have searchable text, you can set up an Adobe action utilizing the Preflight tool to...more