BRUCEB NEWS
The Best New Music Of 2020
Spotify released the personalized Wrapped 2020 playlist a few days ago. I was a bit surprised to discover that my fave-rave most-played song in 2020 was the sound of soothing ocean waves. It turns out that Spotify’s algorithms get the teensiest bit confused if you...
iPHONE SECOND THOUGHTS
Within a month or two we'll have a second-generation iPhone, with higher data speeds through AT&T's 3G network and built-in support for connections to Microsoft Exchange...
REMOTE WEB WORKPLACE TRICKS
If you work in a business run by Microsoft Small Business Server, you probably know about Remote Web Workplace, one of the best things Microsoft has created in the last few...
VISTA FIREWALL – THE HOME/WORK MYSTERY
Vista's firewall is significantly beefed up from the firewall in Windows XP - it monitors outgoing traffic, it's able to adjust easily when a computer is moved from one network...
FREE PUBLIC WI-FI!
If you have a wireless notebook, there's yet another way the bad guys can get past your defenses.When you connect to a wireless access point, normally you're in "infrastructure"...
MAKER FAIRE 2008
Sebastopol-based O'Reilly Media has clearly filled a need with Make Magazine, devoted to do-it-yourself technology - but a long, long way from Popular Mechanics and the other DIY...
OFFICE 2007 COMPATIBILITY PACK
Microsoft Office 2007 features top-to-bottom rewrites of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, with ribbons replacing the familiar menus and toolbars. There is another change lurking under...
GRAND THEFT AUTO IV (AND A RABBITY THING)
If you are young or young at heart, and have the luxury of free time, it's worth noting the release tomorrow for the PC, XBox 360, and PS3 of Grand Theft Auto IV, latest...
MICROSOFT LIVE MESH
In 2006, Ray Ozzie took over the title of Chief Software Architect from Bill Gates at Microsoft. Ozzie was instrumental in the development of Lotus Notes and his company Groove...
CELL PHONE SPAM
The advertising industry is starting to turn its attention to advertising on cell phones. Here's an article that forecasts a "perfect storm" of annoying advertising. "It audibly...
AUTOMATIC DISTRIBUTION OF VISTA SP1
Microsoft has begun pushing Vista Service Pack 1 out through the Windows Update service. If you have automatic updates turned on, you'll get an alert that an update is ready to...
MICROSOFT & THE CLOUD
Microsoft is working on a package of software and online services that might be exactly right for students and home computer users. Although Vista includes important features out...
FIXING WINDOWS VISTA
Columnist Ed Bott was curious about a friend who complained bitterly about the way Vista ran on his brand new Sony Vaio laptop last year, so he asked permission to look it over....
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 3
Microsoft announced today that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released on April 29, although there will be a delay before it is pushed through the Automatic Update process....
MICROSOFT OFFICE LIVE WORKSPACE
There are many visions of our online future. Google and many others envision a world of cloud computing, where our programs and our data are both hosted online. Google Docs...
AT&T: PROUD TO BE STUPID
Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, made some extraordinarily stupid comments in London this week.ISPs are doing a full-court press to ensure they...