Introducing iSlips
If there is one question that I hear the most as a Timeslips consultant it is this – “Does Timeslips have an app for my iPhone?” Sage Software, the manufacturer of Timeslips, does not. But a former programmer who worked there does. Check out the Apple iTunes Store...
We have a sunrise!
In 2009, LexisNexis announced that it would “sunset,” or discontinue support, for its Billing Matters software by the end of 2013. At that time, their goal was to simplify and eliminate overlaps between other products they owned (such as Juris and PCLaw), and...
PCLaw 11 and QuickBooks: To Link or Not to Link?
This article won the SmallLaw Pick of the Week from Technolawyer. SmallLaw is a free weekly email newsletter from Technolawyer that provides helpful information for those who manage and work in small law firms. One of the major new features in PCLaw 11.0 is a closer...
Editing Bill Images in Timeslips 2012
It’s baffling – what is it about legal clients that makes them feel entitled to not pay their bills for months on end, and then tell their attorneys that they don’t “like” something about their bill and want a new one? Do these same people call up their credit card...
As the Clouds Roll In
I am casting my vote for “Cloud” as the leading candidate for “techie buzzword of the year.” Those of us in the industry who are old enough to have had a career prior to technology becoming ubiquitous may remember when this was called “distributive data processing”...
Whither Timeslips? News from the Sage Summit Conference
Mark Twain once said: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” As much as Timeslips’ competition wishes it were so, this award-winning product just keeps rolling on, adding new features every year. ELS members attended the Sage annual consultant...
Making Timelines with Adobe Acrobat
Recently I received an interesting request from one of our clients: “Can you tell us how to create timelines that can be sent outside of the office electronically with attached documents in the smallest storage size possible? I made a timeline for my attorney but...
Back up Your TM Database
The other day I met with a client who wanted to update hundreds of records. I recommended we first backup their Time Matters database. “I didn’t know we would need to call our I.T. consultants!” he said. I assured him that would not be necessary. Time...
Backing Up a Timeslips Database-HowTo
A Timeslips® database contains data related to a user’s time, client-related expenses, bills, accounts receivable and funds transactions. It contains custom bill designs (layouts) and both standard and custom reports. When the Backup command is used from within the...
Backing Up Your Data: A Cost-Efficient Safety Net
It must be sunspots – at least that’s my opinion – but this week alone I received four panicked phone calls from clients. One firm experienced a catastrophic server failure, which reduced their time & billing program to shreds. Another firm said during the last...