BRUCEB NEWS
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 1983 for MS-DOS and Apple II, at the birth of personal computing. It started to stagnate a...
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE
Don’t respond to unsolicited e-mail. Don’t click on links that say “Click here to be removed from this mailing list.” And especially – never, ever put passwords or credit card...
CHEAP DELL LAPTOPS
Tomorrow Dell will put two new laptops on its web site: the Inspiron 1100, starting at $899, and the Inspiron 5100, starting at $1,199. Features and price are comparable to...
CYBERTERRORISM AND FUD
More interesting reading: this Slate article casts a jaundiced eye at the “National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace” pushed out by the Bush administration last month. Part of a...
THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Click here and spend some time with one of the most interesting and enlightening articles I’ve ever read about the technology industry. I'm impressed. It pulls information...
RIAA WEB SITE PUZZLE
One of those odd little things that make you say, Hmmm. The RIAA is widely despised, for obvious reasons. Its web site has been hacked on a pretty regular basis for the last...
WINDOWS IS MORE STABLE AND SECURE THAN LINUX
Commentary by columnist Paul Thurrott in a newsletter today: "The mainstream press--which has historically over-inflated Linux's value, usage, and potential--is finally starting...
FCC SCREWS UP BROADBAND
A few days ago, the FCC ruled that the Baby Bells could lock up their broadband networks, but that they would continue to be required to allow competitors to have access to their...
WINDOWS XP KILLS DOG, STEALS TOASTER
The media gleefully went Microsoft-bashing again last week, and again it was complete rubbish. It started when an industry columnist noted that someone with physical access to a...
NORTON ANTIVIRUS GRIPES
Norton Antivirus continues to be the best antivirus program for most people – but it has had its share of annoyances. Many people found that online subscription renewal was...
GOOGLE BUYS BLOGGER.COM
Google is very powerful, but it has been cautious about expanding its reach. It bought Deja.com, a service that collects and indexes Usenet newsgroup postings, and it recently...
BRUCEB ON VACATION
Turn off your computers, introduce yourself to your spouse, go see a movie, play with your kids. There’s no point in being online – Bruce is on vacation. If you’re one of my...
DAVE BARRY HAS A BLOG
An interesting thing to have on your favorites list, eh? Here’s Dave Barry’s blog.
SLOW COMPACT FLASH CARDS
Costco has tempting prices on the SanDisk line of memory cards – Compact Flash, Smart Media, Memory Stick. I’m all set up with USB 2.0 ports and a USB 2.0 card reader, and I...
TANGLED UP IN SPAM
There’s a fascinating article about spam in the New York Times (free registration required). It will help you realize that you’re not alone, and you’re not receiving the junk...
NEW CHIPS FOR NOTEBOOKS
Intel will release its next mobile CPU chipset family, the Centrino, on March 12. The chipset has built-in support for 802.11b wireless networking and features Pentium 4-level...