BRUCEB NEWS
The Great Russia Hack 1: Some Background About Cyber Warfare
Last month we discovered that Russian hackers have been running malware for almost a year in network servers used by thousands of large US companies and government agencies. It’s the largest espionage hack in history. As far as we know. We have all been suffering from...
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...
AOL 9.0 IS BADWARE
I'm still occasionally asked why tech support people hate America Online. Here's part of the answer.StopBadware.org evaluates software to determine if it presents any risks to...
APPLE BATTERY RECALL
Apple has announced a recall of 1.8 million Sony lithium-ion batteries, supplied with some iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 notebooks. Here's an article with details about today's...
VERIZON EVDO BROADBAND
Travellers love Verizon's EVDO service. You can get a reasonably speedy broadband connection for your cell phone/PDA or for your notebook computer, almost anywhere there's cell...
MCAFEE TOTAL PREVENTION
The deterioration of Symantec and McAfee products continues. Seems like every week I solve someone's problem by uninstalling a Norton product. (This week a client's outgoing...
WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER EDITION AND ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4
Personal computing feels sometimes like an arcane science, filled with secrets that are passed along in furtive, whispered conversations. We have too many choices, it's too hard...
SONY FAILS AGAIN
Although Dell is the featured name in the headlines for its notebook battery recall, don't overlook that this is Sony's fault and Sony is paying for the embarrassing cleanup. It...
OPERATING SYSTEM MARKET SHARE
OneStat.com reported yesterday that Windows XP is responsible for almost 87 percent of all Web usage, while all Windows versions combined account for 97 percent of Web usage....
DELL BATTERY RECALL
Dell has announced a recall of 4.1 million notebook batteries because of a production flaw that can result in sudden fires. Six Dell notebooks have exploded or burst into flames,...
AUTO-COMPLETE ADDRESSES IN OUTLOOK
When you type a name into the TO: field in a new e-mail message, Outlook looks it up and completes it automatically, if possible.It doesn't look where you think.The list that...