BRUCEB NEWS
Tech Companies Are Too Big (And They’ll Probably Stay That Way)
They’re too damn big! Admit it, that’s your gut feeling about the five giant tech companies - Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft. It’s a constant refrain in the news, and it’s starting to be an assumption in our conversations. They need to be cut down to size!...
GRANDCENTRAL BLOSSOMS INTO GOOGLE VOICE
After years of uncertainty, Google announced Google Voice yesterday, the expanded version of its phone service GrandCentral. As a GrandCentral subscriber, I’ll be upgraded to the...
BACKUPS – SOFTWARE FOR DATA BACKUPS
Previously:BACKUPS – INTRODUCTIONBACKUPS – DATA vs. DRIVE IMAGEBACKUPS – EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES I’ll mention a few ways that you can make a backup copy of your important files, but...
PAUSE
That’s 14” of fresh snow overnight, followed by an afternoon of sunshine and deep powder skiing. I’m sorry, I didn’t want to gloat, but I had to tell someone. There will be a...
BACKUPS – EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES
There are no excuses. You must have a backup of your data that is updated regularly. A backup is just a second copy of your files stored separately from the primary computer’s...
BRUCEB ON VACATION 03/09 – 03/13
Oh wow, deja vu. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. I’ll be attending a seminar to brush up on important technical skills during the week of March 9. I will be occasionally...
BACKUPS – DATA vs. DRIVE IMAGE
Before we get into specifics, you should know that there are two different kinds of backups: backups of your data, and backups of an image of your hard drive. The one that comes...
BACKUPS – INTRODUCTION
Let’s spend some time in the next week or so talking about backups. Every computer depends on a hard drive to run the operating system and programs and to store your data. A hard...
ONE LAST IE7 TAB TRICK
If you click the wheel of your mouse on a link in IE7, the link will open in a new tab. (Click down like it’s a middle button, don’t just rotate the wheel.) Did you know that? I...
OBSOLESCENCE
If you’re like me, then you’ve been caught off guard in the last couple of years by something that you hadn’t realized was obsolete. Here are a few that still occasionally take...
IE7 TAB TRICKS
Here’s a couple of tricks that might be worth learning! When you click on a link in Internet Explorer, it’s not always easy to know what to expect – you might leave the page...
HP BLOAT
It seems we’re constantly buying printers to replace the ones that break before their time. A quick word of advice if you buy an HP printer: don’t put that installation CD in the...
CLUTTER & CRUD
When I got back from vacation, I got a quick lesson from Microsoft about how we get unwanted programs that slow down our computers, and how our computers are changed behind our...
QUICKTIME & QT LITE
I don’t use iTunes and I don’t want Apple’s version of Quicktime on my computer. I have a pretty low opinion of Apple’s skills at writing software for PCs. If you have iTunes,...
SBS 2008 & REMOTE ACCESS
Two issues have come up several times for my SBS 2008 clients connecting to Outlook Web Access or their office computers. OUTLOOK WEB ACCESSIf you go to your remote access web...
BRUCEB ON VACATION 02/16-02/21
There is no reason to panic. Back away from your computers slowly. Without breaking eye contact, feel your way along the wall and pull the power cord out with a smooth motion....