BRUCEB NEWS
The $240 Question: Is Free AI Good Enough?
In the last article I ordered you to subscribe to a $20/month plan for ChatGPT or Google Gemini. I didn’t explain why and in hindsight I shouldn’t have phrased it as “Follow and obey me, you low-bandwidth peasantry.” That was rude. Let’s talk some more about that….
QUICKBOOKS & VISTA REDUX
At the beginning of the year, Intuit claimed that Quickbooks 2007 was ready to be run on Windows Vista. That was an overstatement. Quickbooks 2007 can be made to work on Vista,…
AT&T TARNISHES iPHONE
Apple had to know that signing a deal with AT&T would lead to disgruntled customers. By definition, any customer of AT&T is an unhappy customer, right? It started when…
SENDING & SHARING LARGE FILES
Exchanging documents by e-mail is commonplace in business because it seems so easy, but there are two recurring problems: There is no easy way to track documents traveling by…
COMCAST PUTS ON THE BRAKES
The press occasionally notices that Comcast limits the amount of bandwidth that a cable subscriber is allowed to use. The Washington Post just published an article about the…
IT’S AN IPOD WORLD
Apple demonstrated again today that it can run circles around everyone else with its handheld devices. There will be lots of news coverage of the updates to the iPod line –…
PCLAW UPDATE
LexisNexis has updated some of its software for law firm accounting, but the upgrades only make it harder to figure out the LexisNexis product line. PCLaw had been a stand-alone…
SONIC OPEN WIFI PROJECT
Sonic is demonstrating again that it has its heart in the right place. Now that Earthlink has officially killed its plan to deliver free wireless Internet access to San…
SF FREE WIRELESS, R.I.P.
In January, Google and Earthlink signed a contract to set up free high-speed wireless Internet access for the entire city of San Francisco. The deal provided that EarthLink would…
MORE GOOGLE EARTH TRICKS
I mentioned a few days ago that the latest version of Google Earth includes “Google Sky,” adding the ability to zoom through the universe viewing high-resolution…
SONY ATRAC, R.I.P.
Sony is killing ATRAC, its proprietary format for music files. Here’s a brief news article about today’s death notice. This isn’t important – no one every…
MORE COPYRIGHT CRAZINESS
The world of copyright protection is a mess, and each day brings new craziness. A Federal District Court judge granted a ruling for summary judgment against a family that had run…
ACER ACQUIRES GATEWAY
Acer, the third largest PC manufacturer globally, announced that it is acquiring Gateway and the eMachines brand purchased by Gateway a few years ago. I’m nostalgic about…
BRUCEB.COM FACELIFT
The award-winning bruceb.com web site has been given a much-needed facelift. If you find anything that isn’t working correctly – dead links, buttons that pulse…
BRUCEB REMOTE SUPPORT
Providing support by phone is far more effective when the person at the other end can see your screen. I’m in a position now to work with your computer remotely at your…
GOOGLE NEWS
An interesting collection of news about Google projects today. As the new owner of YouTube, Google will introduce scrolling advertisements to YouTube videos today. They promise…