BRUCEB NEWS
All Roads Lead To Philosophy In Wikipedia
Open a Wikipedia article – any article, it doesn’t matter. Here, try the article about Jasper Fforde. Click on the first link in the main article. Skip links that are in parentheses or italics, and don’t follow anything that leads outside Wikipedia. In the Jasper...
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...
GOOGLE CHROME & IE8
There are new Internet browsers available in the news - Microsoft made a beta release of Internet Explorer 8 available last week for testing, and Google caused a fuss when it...
OFFICE LIVE WORKSPACE – NOT PERFECT YET
I've stopped using Office Live Workspace for now. It's a service with a lot of potential but a few areas that are rough around the edges. Although I encourage you to try OLW and...
XO COMMUNICATIONS & CARL ICAHN
The New York Times has an article today about XO Communications, a company that most of you have never heard of. It gave me a little wave of nostalgia - XO is irrelevant now but...
GRANDCENTRAL & GOOGLE BLACK HOLE
GrandCentral is a wonderful free service for handling phone calls. When you sign up, you pick a new phone number and do a few minutes of easy setup. Then when someone calls that...
SETTING UP A WINDOWS LIVE ID
Windows Live ID is a single sign-on service from Microsoft that allows people to log into many websites and services with one account. A Windows Live ID is an email address and a...
NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCH IN VISTA
Windows Search 4 is an important upgrade for Windows Vista and Windows XP, enabling lightning-fast searches through your files and email for any word or phrase, anywhere. Here's...
AT&T TECH SUPPORT vs. ETERNAL DAMNATION – A TOSSUP
I'm occasionally asked why I have such a negative opinion of AT&T's DSL service. This chilling account should answer that question - a complete log of one person's...
MICROSOFT OFFICE ULTIMATE DISCOUNT
If you're sending a student off to college with a new laptop, Microsoft has a pretty good deal. A student with an email address at an educational institution (typically the email...
ANATOMY OF A MALWARE SCAM
Jesper Johansson has been working in information security for more than 20 years and has earned a good reputation for doggedly identifying and chasing the bad guys. He's written...
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SBS 2003 & SBS 2008
Small Business Server 2008 is nearly here! The final code was released to manufacturing yesterday. I wrote an overview of SBS 2008 last month. Here's an exhaustive rundown of the...
GLITCHES & ANNOYANCES
Tough week! Here are the kind of things that fill my days. And bear in mind, these are all stories about software and services that I love dearly - this is the good stuff, these...
VISTA SERVICE PACK 1 CLEANUP
If you're running Windows Vista, here's a safe way to reclaim some hard drive space. Before Vista Service Pack 1 is installed, Vista makes an extra copy of all the system files...
VERIZON MOBILE WIRELESS FUN
I have a Verizon mobile wireless adapter built into my Dell Latitude D630. I pay sixty bucks a month so I can connect to a reasonably fast EVDO broadband connection from just...
NEW DELL LATITUDE NOTEBOOKS
Dell introduced seven new models of Latitude business notebooks today. There are details, videos, and some screen shots on this page. Here's a partial list of new and improved...