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...
NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2002
Last year's version of Norton Antivirus was a fine piece of work - easy to use, easy to keep updated, and way ahead of the mish-mash of products put out by Mcafee. But it had a...
GOOGLE ELMER FUDD
There's no clear explanation yet of why you can access Google Hacker, Google Bork, bork, bork!, Google Elmer Fudd and Google Pig Latin. Isn't the Internet interesting?
POCKET PCs
Pocket PCs are far more appealing than Palm devices, but prices have been high on the few models that have been available. On Thursday, Microsoft is releasing a new version of...
COPYRIGHT POLICE SUE MUSIC CITY, KAZAA
Music City and Kazaa have been the most popular file sharing programs recently, taking Napster's place. The recording industry filed suit Friday in federal court in Los Angeles...
NOTEBOOK DEAL
I haven't laid hands on this notebook computer, but it sure looks like a sweet deal on a Toshiba notebook from Costco Online - $1399.99 buys a Pentium III 1.0 GHz processor,...
THE ONION: THE AMERICAN RESPONSE TO TERRORISM
The Onion has done its usual fine job of reporting on the WTC bombing and the American response. This article is a good place to start: U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At...
PRIVACY
One of the pieces of legislation being reviewed to deal with terrorism would permit Internet surveillance without a court order. The scope of that surveillance was debated at a...
PRESS DEMOCRAT AND MICROSOFT-BASHING
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat has somebody working their Business section with an anti-Microsoft grudge. The paper has been more and more bold about printing articles bashing...
AMAZON OPENS TRAVEL STORE
Amazon has added a travel store, appearing as a new tab on Amazon's home page. It links services from Expedia and Hotwire (a discount agency), presented in an Amazon design and...
REAL NETWORKS INTRODUCES NEW MEDIA PLAYER
Real Networks is introducing a new product today that blends RealPlayer and RealJukebox into a single program - and starts a steady flow of money out of your pockets. This is the...
DVD ON A COMPUTER
So far there have been very few compelling reasons to put a DVD player into a computer. There's only three things you might do with it: You can watch movies. Your computer...
FUN THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR BROADBAND CONNECTION
You're probably wondering what to do with all the bandwidth that your cable or DSL line supplies. Well, how about watching a scene from Monty Python And The Holy Grail, created...
HAS EVERYTHING CHANGED?
There's an interesting perspective in this column by Michael Kinsley about whether we should automatically accept the notion that life in America has permanently changed for the...
CHEAP FLAT PANEL MONITORS
Prices are still dropping all over. Costco has two 17" flat panel monitors for $599.99, the Princeton LCD17 and the Sylvania L17. That's awfully tempting if you're short on...
MSN WEB-BASED E-MAIL WOES
MSN subscribers are being forced to use web-based e-mail, instead of the standard POP3 e-mail that was previously available. It's similar to Hotmail, although the default...