BRUCEB NEWS
Lolita and the Art of Suitcase Literature
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Those are the opening lines of Lolita , Vladimir Nabokov’s dazzling literary masterpiece. Lolita was an international bestseller that reshaped modern fiction and established Nabokov as one of the…
BLACK SCREEN (WITH CURSOR)
Spent a few hours chasing down a problem with my office computer last night. It’s just remarkable how many ways our computers can go wrong, isn’t it? Honest, I would…
FONT MYSTERIES
Sharp-eyed Microsoft Office users might have noticed that the default fonts are changed in Office 2007. The old familiar names are still there – Arial, Times New Roman,…
RANDOM OUTLOOK 2007 NOTES
When I set up a new computer these days, I spend almost no time describing new features in Windows Vista – people are generally able to start using it right away with a…
GOOGLE LAUNCHES FUTURE SEARCH
Google Australia launched Gday today, a new search engine that allows users to search content on the internet before it is created. “Google spiders crawl publicly available…
WINDOWS SEARCH 4
Microsoft released a preview of Windows Search 4 today, an update to the Windows Desktop Search program that is built into Windows Vista and can be installed separately on…
THE END OF WINDOWS XP
Windows XP will stop being sold by computer manufacturers (Dell, HP, and the rest) on June 30, 2008. Too many people have been writing too much nonsense about Windows Vista,…
THE ART OF THIN
An effective ad from Lenovo to demonstrate that the Thinkpad X300 compares favorably to the MacBook Air.
ONENOTE FOR LAWYERS
Here’s a short article from the ABA’s Law Practice magazine noting the many ways that Microsoft OneNote 2007 can be used by lawyers for everything from trial…
VISTA SP1 SUPPORT
If you have any difficulty installing Vista Service Pack 1 or dealing with problems after installation, Microsoft is offering unlimited installation and compatibility support…
VISTA SP1 & SEARCH
Searching in Vista quickly becomes second nature. Clicking the Start button and typing the name of a program brings it up immediately – no need to hunt through the long…
APPLE UPDATES: SAFARI INVASION
A client asked me about an update window that had popped up so I sat down in front of “Apple Updates” and stared at the three programs listed –…
WINDOWS VISTA SERVICE PACK 1 RELEASED
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is available today through Windows Update. Here’s the announcement of the general release of SP1, and here’s a technical note about a…
WINDOWS HOME SERVER DATA CORRUPTION
The products developed using Microsoft’s Windows Home Server software do a number of extremely useful things – backups, remote access, file and photo sharing, and…
R.I.P. PC MAGAZINE
I can’t let the moment pass without acknowledging the loss of a dear friend. Magazines were a crucial source of information in the primitive days before the Internet. PC…
TALES OF WOE: SOFTWARE DEPT.
My office computer is a powerful Dell tower, with an Nvidia video card and too much software. I choose software carefully, but I use a lot of programs and there is an…