BRUCEB NEWS
Turn On Car Crash Detection If You Have A Pixel Phone
The Bobcat loader pitched over the embankment and overturned in a ravine, trapping the driver and knocking him unconscious for several minutes. The driver, Chuck Walker, had seven broken ribs and four broken thoracic vertebrae. The exits from the Bobcat loader were...
AMAZON DISTRIBUTION
I'd like to take a tour of an Amazon warehouse! I placed an order on December 21 at midnight and got the shipping confirmation at 10:30 in the morning. How do they do that? This...
DIGITAL MOVIES & DURABLE DATA
The New York Times has a fascinating article comparing the methods used to preserve 35-millimeter movies and digital master records of movies. Conventional film can be stored in...
SEASON’S GREETINGS!
Dilbert - Christmas Day 2007 Hope you, your families, and your computers have a wonderful holiday! All my best wishes for a happy new year! I'll be off in the corner...
DAVID BYRNE & THE FUTURE OF MUSIC
David Byrne, former leader of Talking Heads, has written an article for Wired Magazine about the long-term prospects for the music industry when the costs of producing and...
HP LAPTOP INSECURITY
There's another example in the news of bad guys turning away from attacks on Windows and finding vulnerabilities in other programs. In my mind, it's another striking reason to...
PLAYSFORSAYWHAT?
Microsoft has a name problem. I used to think that Microsoft had learned a lesson from the years of confusion and frustration caused by the similar names for "Outlook" and...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 SP1
By now you've installed the updates and patches released last Tuesday on Microsoft's regularly-scheduled "Patch Tuesday." Some of you with new computers might have also found...
WINDOWS LIVE ONECARE 2.0 UPGRADE NOTES
The upgrade to Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is being rolled out this week to many OneCare users. A few of them have reported confusion or problems with the upgrade. Here are some of...
J RIVER MEDIA JUKEBOX 12
J River Media Center is the only important program on my computer developed by a small company. J River just released Media Jukebox 12, a simpler free version focused on music...
XMAS SHOPPING
Monday, December 10 is expected to be the busiest online shopping day of the year. Can I ask you for a favor? There are a few links on the bruceb favorites page and the bruceb...
MP3s AND THE FUTURE OF MUSIC
The music industry is in complete disarray; the shift away from CDs is irreversible and most consumers simply expect music to be free. The recording industry's hostility,...
ACROBAT 8 TIPS & TRICKS
It's easy to start using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, but it is also full of features that only emerge after a little digging. Here are some cool things that I didn't know about...
VERIZON’S OPEN NETWORK
Verizon's announcement that it would open up its network next year to devices not sold in Verizon stores made headlines and generated lots of online buzz. It is a welcome...
NEW YORK TIMES READER
The New York Times has a software-based version of the paper that - for the first time - makes it possible to imagine mornings without a newspaper printed on dead trees. The New...
THE BAD GUYS NEVER STOP
Google has just purged its index of thousands of malware sites that were being displayed in results lists for hundreds of innocuous search phrases. It's a quick end to a huge...