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...
NET NEUTRALITY
"Net neutrality" is a hot topic in Washington. The Internet was developed with a guiding philosophy that Internet service providers would treat all traffic equally. The cable...
MEDIA CENTER PCs AND INTEL’S VIIV
Many people are buying new computers with Windows XP Media Center Edition - it's the version pre-installed on most consumer PCs these days. Its most visible feature is...
EXTREMELY PORTABLE HARD DRIVE
It's long been a stereotype that technology keeps making things smaller. Here's the latest example: a 60Gb ($149.99) or 100Gb ($199.99) Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition external...
SKYPE AND WEBCAMS
Skype has a hard-earned reputation for handling Internet telephone calls with style - simple interface, great voice quality. Installing the software is a snap. Calling another...
TOP TEN WEIRDEST KEYBOARDS
For a grin, take a look at this article showing the Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever. There are some genuinely weird computer accessories out there!
DESKTOP SEARCH UPDATE
There are several programs that can index your files and Outlook folders and allow you to find something in them instantly - a name, a scrap of text, a number. It is liberating...
WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia occasionally gets in the news when one of its entries is hijacked by pranksters or political operatives. As a result, there have been endless discussions in the media...
UNINTENDED SIDE EFFECTS
This is the year of unintended side effects. Let me tell four stories from the last two weeks. The common theme is that in each story, nothing is broken and nothing is at fault....
BETTING ON SONY
Sony is gearing up its marketing department behind Blu-Ray DVDs, its next-generation disc for high definition movies. Toshiba and its partners are lined up behind HD DVD, a...
WORD REDACTION TOOL
There have been several embarrassing incidents recently in which information was learned from electronic documents because they were not adequately secured. In some cases, the...
NEW DELL WIDESCREEN NOTEBOOKS
Dell will roll out new business notebooks today, the Latitude D620 and D820, with two interesting features. Here's an article about the rollout.First, they will have built-in...
WINDOWS LIVE ONECARE UPDATE
If you're using Windows Live OneCare, it was recently updated to include protection against spyware as well as viruses. Here's info from the Windows Live OneCare team about the...
WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH
Microsoft has released an updated version of Windows Desktop Search, its program for indexing files and Outlook folders for lightning-fast searches. Here's the home page for...
PLAYSTATION 3 DELAY
Sony confirmed today that the Playstation 3 will not appear until November - a potentially disastrous setback for Sony's struggling electronics division.Sony is having a bad...
WINDOWS LIVE
Later this year, Microsoft will roll out Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP, as well as Office 2007, a dizzying array of familiar and unfamiliar business applications.The...