BRUCEB NEWS
Mudslides, Undersea Cables, And Fake News
The longest mudslide in history was just reported by an international team of researchers. Huge quantities of sand and mud traveled nearly 750 miles, causing significant damage along the way. You didn’t miss it in the news. It didn’t get much notice because the...
RESIZING OUTLOOK PHOTO ATTACHMENTS
Here's a tip about Microsoft Outlook that I discovered by accident. A common problem - you'd like to send an email to a friend with a number of photos attached. If you send the...
AUDIO & VIDEO MYSTERIES
A few final thoughts about file formats for audio and video and how that affects a Vista Media Center Extender. This is the place where strong people are humbled and the whole...
THE MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER
Running a Vista Media Center Extender in the living room requires a computer in the house running Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate. Your home computer can send your photos...
HP MEDIASMART CONNECT
HP has been creating devices for years to bring Windows Media Center to the living room. There are two new Vista Media Center Extenders being marketed under the "MediaSmart" name...
MEDIA CENTER EXTENDERS
Since the market for living room computers never developed, Microsoft decided to focus on "extenders," a different way to deliver media to your television. Huge numbers of people...
MEDIA IN THE LIVING ROOM
Your photos are on your computer. Your music is on your computer. It makes sense that computers should be able to record TV shows - it's kind of a computery thing to do, right?...
THE BIG MONEY, SOUNDUNWOUND
Two new sites have been added to the bruceb favorites page.The Big Money is a business web site created by the editors of Slate, intended to be an authoritative source of...
COMCAST POWERBOOST & SPEED TESTS
I was testing Speed.io, a new site for measuring the speed of an Internet connection and displaying it in a lovely way. (I've put in on the bruceb favorites page under Internet /...
Outlook Shortcuts
Here's a tip for getting around in Outlook: it's possible to switch between mail, contacts, and calendar using hotkeys on the keyboard instead of reaching for the mouse to click...
APPLE BLUESCREEN FOLLOWUP
Apple reacted quickly to the reports that the latest iTunes update has caused some Windows systems to crash badly. Last night Apple posted another version of iTunes that rolls...
iTUNES 8 UPGRADE CAUSING CRASHES
New slogan for Apple: iTunes ain't done till Windows won't run! After its iPod conference this week - more of a non-event than usual for Apple - a new version of iTunes started...
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 7
Adobe is taking orders for its annual upgrade to Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, the photo and video programs for consumers. Over the years I've found it hard to know...
RESTORING A CRASHED COMPUTER WITH WINDOWS HOME SERVER
Windows Home Server deserves more recognition. It had a nasty bug that took too long to cure but that's over now and it's back to being the helpful tool that I described a year...
DELL INSPIRON MINI 9 – 2.28 POUNDS OF FUN
I speculated a couple of days ago about a cheap device that might run Google's Chrome Internet browser - and here's the reality, right in front of us. Dell just formally...
SETTING UP LIVE MESH
Microsoft's Live Mesh service, now in beta testing, has the most promise of any of the online services. With an easy setup, you can make your files available on multiple...