BRUCEB NEWS
Set Up Remote Access To Help Your Parents With Their Computer
Your parents need your help. Set up a remote connection to their computer so you can look over their hunched shoulders to lend a hand. It doesn’t matter if you’re not sure that you’re skilled enough – compared to them you are a wizard. I’ll give you several ways to...
MEDIA IN THE LIVING ROOM
Here's an article that describes the struggle to involve a computer in the living room, delivering photos, music and movies. The struggle is not going well. Hewlett Packard just...
MOSSBERG ON NEW COMPUTERS
Walter Mossberg is an influential tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Today's column is a well-justified complaint about the process of setting up a new computer.Mossberg...
AMICUS V SUPPORT ENDING
Law office alert: According to this blog, Gavel & Gown will be ending technical support for Amicus Attorney version V on June 1, 2007.That creates a business-critical problem for...
MICROSOFT DEEPFISH
If you've ever looked at Engadget or Gizmodo, you know there are an overwhelming number of new products appearing all the time. Here's one that looks like it might be...
PRINTING OUTLOOK MESSAGE HEADERS
Two clients reported problems printing e-mail messages from Outlook 2003 - the message headers weren't printing, the part that shows Date:, To:, From: and Subject. In each case,...
PEARLS BEFORE BREAKFAST
This has nothing to do with technology - it's just a fascinating, thought-provoking story. The Washington Post arranged for violin virtuoso Joshua Bell to play in a DC subway...
BLOGS & TUMBLR
Many people feel left out by the world of blogs, unsure how to find blogs to read and completely adrift about how to start writing one.Want to read some blogs? You could do worse...
OFFICE 2007 MOMENTS
The "ribbons" in Microsoft Word 2007 and Excel 2007 are better organized than the menus and toolbars in Office 2003, but I'm also going through odd moments of confusion or...
COMPARING PDFS
PDF has become the standard format for most documents exchanged in the business world, and it is increasingly used to exchange documents during negotiation or collaboration....
ZE FRANK & THE SHOW
Ze Frank has just finished a year of producing The Show, three-minute video monologues that appeared online five days a week. Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and others are writing...
“NETWORK OR FILE PERMISSION ERROR”
All right, now I'm getting angry.Like most of my business clients, my documents are stored on a network server. When I click on "My Documents," I'm taken to...
KODAK PRINTERS & REALITY
Kodak announced its new line of photo printers with bold promises - here's my writeup about an exciting world where photos could be printed for half the cost of materials...
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FREE WIRELESS BROADBAND
A potentially world-changing announcement from Google today - the launch of Google TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users'...
GOOGLE TEXT LINK ADS
Google announced a new advertising program last week and the reports focused on a new Google policy that doesn't affect us directly. (Briefly: Google sends money to advertisers...
BRUCEB ON VACATION
I'll be out of town from March 27-31. I'll be in an area with cell phone coverage, but you'll have to pardon me if I'm a little distracted or if it's hard for me to hear the...