BRUCEB NEWS
The 2020 Bruceb News Year In Review
We made it to the end of 2020! Almost done with Season 4 of the miniseries from hell, “The Decline And Fall Of The American Trumpire.” The next 29 days will move at a pace that makes glaciers look speedy, just like the last nine months. The best we can hope is that...
COPYRIGHT POLICE AND AMAZON MOVIE DOWNLOADS
Cory Doctorow has closely read the license agreement that accompanies Amazon's movie download service and he doesn't like it. "I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. A lot. I won't...
MICROSOFT ZUNE WON’T PLAY PROTECTED WINDOWS MEDIA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was the first to report on a remarkable example of how copyright abuse can harm consumers.Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows...
PICASA UPDATE
Google's free photo organizer Picasa has been updated to version 2.5. (As of today, the main download page may not be updated to the new version; according to this blog, it can...
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 & ADOBE PREMIERE 3.0
Postpone your shopping for photo and video editing software for a few weeks. Later this month, Adobe is shipping upgrades to Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 and Adobe Premiere...
DEVICE OVERLOAD
What a week for devices! I'm worried that every week will be like this for the next few months as manufacturers fill the channels for Christmas. Keeping up will be...
WINDOWS VISTA RC1
Microsoft has opened up the "release candidate" of Windows Vista for public testing. This page has program details and download guidance.If you're the right person to test Vista,...
ONLINE FILE STORAGE
Altexa provides an online backup service - a small program copying designated files to an online storage space in a simple, secure way.I have no idea whether Altexa is a good...
FREE AOL
If you're an AOL subscriber, you must have a masochistic streak. Or perhaps a very long memory and nostalgia for the years when AOL software made things easier to do online,...
CORE 2 DUO FAST ROLLOUT
Dell is aggressively updating its models with the new Intel Core 2 Duo chips. Many of the Latitude, Inspiron, and XPS notebooks now have Core 2 Duo processors either exclusively...
UNSTABLE UPGRADES
I'm seeing more and more half-baked, unstable products from hardware and software vendors. Here's two anecdotes to show you what I mean.PAPERPORTPaperport goes back years and...
WHO IS J RIVER?
J River Media Center is the most versatile media program on the market - among other things, it's the only program available that handles iPods as easily as iTunes while also...
WINDOWS LIVE ONECARE FAMILY SAFETY
Windows Vista will include deeply integrated parental controls to assist parents in monitoring kids' time online and preventing access to inappropriate web sites.A more limited...
WINDOWS VISTA IS COMING
Microsoft is putting the final touches on Windows Vista, the next-generation operating system scheduled for early 2007. Delays are still possible but recent builds of Windows...
INTEL CORE 2 PROCESSORS
The people marketing to consumers are malicious and hostile. Or possibly they've been kidnapped and replaced by aliens bent on driving us crazy. Those are the only explanations...
RESIZE DIGITAL PICTURES
Images from a digital camera are too big to share casually - you'll quickly clog up an e-mail recipient's inbox. Here's a nifty free utility to help you reduce the size of your...