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Discount Available On MacSpeech Dictate And MacSpeech Scribe – Two Of My Favorite Law Firm Productivity Tools

macspeech law firm productivity tool Like most lawyers, I spend the day sitting in front of a computer. I juggle emails, documents, blog posts and in general just about everything word-related. Until recently, I used my keyboard for getting thoughts from my head to my computer.

Finally, I took a plunge and bought Save 10% on MacSpeech Dictate (aff link), a cool program from the folks who make Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. I’d used Dragon ages ago, and played with it just as I went to the Mac; it was very good, but not available for my new machine.

But my online content creation duties were starting to wear me down, causing my fingers to ache each night from the strain. I got worried about carpal tunnel syndrome and related repetitive stress injuries. I love to cook dinner at night, and the thought of that being taken away from me wasn’t too appealing.

Unfortunately, there was one major problem. A problem that had kept me from buying the program for a year.

For the past few weeks I’ve been suffering from PC envy. As a Mac user I’ve been very happy with my choice, and dutifully snicker when my PC-using friends experience problems with their computers. There’s a certain glee in it, and it’s my right as someone who has paid about double what a typical PC user does for a similarly-equipped computer.

My wife’s desktop died awhile ago, and she wanted a laptop. Windows user to the core, she didn’t feel like getting into whole cult of Mac users. No worries, I love her anyway. I picked up a Dell laptop and it arrived about two weeks ago.

One of my greatest joys is setting up new computers, unpacking boxes and tossing out manuals in favor of playing around under the hood. This was no exception. Plus, I got to take a spin with Google Chrome, the browser said to be the best thing in browsers since Netscape first came to town.

I was impressed at the speed and stability of this browser, the way it rendered pages quickly and easily. Firefox isn’t nearly as quick as Chrome, and neither is Safari. IE? Oh come on, now.

Why didn’t I load up Chrome on my Mac?

Uhm. Well. Uhhhh.

OK, you got me. No Chrome for Mac. Yeah, stop smiling at me like that.

Anyway, this past Tuesday Google finally released Chrome for Mac. It’s a beta version so it’s still a bit leaner than what I get on my wife’s Windows laptop, but I’m happy for now. Google says they’ll beef it up by the end of January, and I’m pulling for them.