BRUCEB NEWS
Bruceb News Continues On Hiatus Until The End Of 2020
I can’t wait until 2020 finally ends! You look puzzled – oh, I understand! A lot of people weren’t expecting the epilogue to 2020, which will continue for another week or so. Think of it as a hangover following a particularly unpleasant night of anger-drinking and...
PERSONAL DATA AT RISK
There have been several recent incidents where personal data stored on computers has been compromised. On Monday, Time Warner announced it had lost backup tapes with names and...
PDF SECURITY
Maybe you saw the news item - classified information about the shooting of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq was found by journalists in a PDF document given to the media by...
GOOGLE WEB ACCELERATOR
Google Web Accelerator just turned up today, and no one can quite figure it out. The Slashdot community is nonplussed.It's a bit of software that takes your requests for web...
REALNETWORKS RHAPSODY
RealNetworks unveiled a new version of its Rhapsody service for music. Here's an article about the launch. Rhapsody has been marginally successful in its basic incarnation, which...
TREO 650
Palm and PocketPC devices have been fading in the last couple of years. Sony dropped out of the market, Palm has had financial struggles, and there's been no buzz for new...
SECURITY PROBLEMS WITH FIREFOX
Here's an article about Firefox addressing the misconception that Firefox is somehow "more secure" than Internet Explorer. It's not. It has its own security problems - more than...
SYMANTEC OFFERS ANTISPYWARE PROGRAM
Symantec finally released an antispyware program, filling an embarrassing hole in its lineup of security products. The Norton Spyware Protection program will be free and...
VERIZON CEO GIVES LESSON IN ALIENATING CUSTOMERS
Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon, gave an interview to the SF Chronicle yesterday. In a shocking and unexpected development, he was critical of San Francisco's interest in...
GOOGLE & PACKAGE TRACKING
This isn't new, but it was another Google feature that I had overlooked. If you enter a package tracking number into Google - nothing else, just the number - you'll be taken to...
UPDATE FOR OUTLOOK 2003 JUNK E-MAIL FILTER
There is an update available for the junk mail filter in Outlook 2003. The direct link is this page, but the recommended way to get the update is through the Office Update page,...
EASYTREE REBORN
Music downloaders alert: for the moment, EasyTree has returned at a new web address, after being shut down by legal threats last week.
REBATES: THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO GET THEM
Here's a good article about the rebate game. Whether you believe in rebates or disdain them, never forget that they don't want you to get them. The process is intentionally...
R.I.P. EASYTREE
EasyTree was a well-known site for downloading live recordings of popular bands. It was scrupulously careful never to list anything that had ever been commercially released in...
MICROSOFT ANTISPYWARE
Whenever you go online, you are at risk of having adware and spyware installed on your system. Well-funded companies are seeking to invade your computer without your knowledge or...
GOOGLE ADDS SATELLITE IMAGES TO MAPS
Google Maps has quietly been updated to include satellite images. It's pretty extraordinary - click on the word "satellite" to switch from traditional maps to satellite photos...