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Chatting With AI: Synthetic Empathy
A lot of people talk to their AI buddies as if they have little friends that live in their phones. It doesn’t come naturally to me. I’ve been using ChatGPT and Gemini as if they are amazing upgrades to Google search. It doesn’t occur to me to open my phone for a…
The Bad Guys Are Gonna Git You If You Don’t Watch Out
Be careful when you read your email! I’ve noticed an increase in phishing messages in the last few months. The bad guys continue to improve their grammar and the presentation of…
How Do You Manage Your Household Finances? Quicken, Simplifi, Money In Excel, And More
How do you manage your household finances? Until a few years ago, there’s a good chance you used Quicken, the venerable Windows and Mac finance program. Quicken was released in…
Are You Feeling Subscription Fatigue Yet?
There are a lot of video streaming services. During the years when cable TV ruled the earth, all of us complained about the pricing of the bundles pushed by the cable companies….
Zoom’s Pandemic Success Story
Zoom just reported one of the best quarters in software history, perhaps one of the best earnings reports in the history of American business. The rapid adoption of…
Statement To The Analy High School Speech & Debate Team
From: Nate Berls To: Team Members Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:29 PMSubject: STATEMENT TO THE ANALY HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM We are witnessing the largest civil rights…
Oh Happy Day! It’s The Grand Opening Of The New Bruceb.com Website!
Come in, so glad you could make it, let me take your coat, have a canape! We’ve worked so hard on the remodel and it would have been a shame if nobody came to see it. Is anyone…
Please Chat Amongst Yourselves During This Brief Intermission
My websites – Bruceb.com, Bruceb Favorites, and Bruceb News – are going to be spruced up during the next week or so. During the construction, there won’t be any new articles or…
Outlook’s Slow Road To Syncing Signatures
At some point, possibly during our lifetimes, the Outlook desktop program for Windows will begin syncing email signatures through the cloud from one computer to another. This…
Dropbox Smart Sync Included With All Paid Plans
Dropbox Smart Sync is now included with all paid plans for individuals and businesses. It’s not a feature of Dropbox’s free account, but that plan is so limited that the lack of…
The Nine Billion Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
There are monks in a Tibetan lamasery working patiently to list all nine billion possible names of God, according to a 1953 story by Arthur C. Clarke. By an extraordinary…
Power And Cruelty In George Orwell’s America
Power Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair, April 3, 2020 Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo, May 13, 2020 Yahoo News, May 13, 2020 George Orwell on power: “Now I will tell you the answer to…
Tech Tidbits
As we enter into the twentieth year third month of the global pandemic, technology news has slowed down as much as everything else. There aren’t many things to tell you about!…
The Outlook Search Bar Is Changing, Whether You Like It Or Not. (You Won’t Like It.)
If you use the Outlook desktop program for Windows, the search bar is going to change and move around and grow and grow and grow like a mutant chicken heart from an old horror…
What’s Wrong With Office 365 Junk Mail Filtering?
Too many important messages are going into my Outlook Junk Email folder, and I can’t figure out why. Seriously, I don’t know how to explain it. Several of my clients have…
How To Turn Off The Dropbox Desktop App (And Why Is There A Desktop App, Anyway?)
Dropbox started as a drop-dead simple product for individuals: a folder on your computer that seamlessly syncs with the cloud so you can work with the identical folder on all…