BRUCEB NEWS
Office Licenses Simplified And Made Fascinating
“One account for all things Microsoft.” That’s what the login screen says. It’s a lie. Before we talk about licenses – and oh, how I know you’re looking forward to that! – let’s go through the two types of Microsoft accounts again. You have a personal Microsoft...
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...
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...