BRUCEB NEWS
Google Real-Time Transcription Is The Coolest Technology Of 2019
You can record speech on a Pixel phone with Google's new Recorder app, and it will transcribe the words into text in real time. You can save the text and search for words later. You can see captions on any video or spoken audio on your phone. (Not phone calls or video...
GOOGLE TOOLBAR
Google continues to provide search results that are so accurate that it's spooky. It bears repeating - as much as I hate screen clutter, I recommend the Google Toolbar, a browser...
FLAT-PANEL MONITORS
Prices on flat-panel monitors are finally falling. and it looks like this summer will be the time to buy one. The prediction is that a 15" flat-screen monitor will be in the $400...
NORTON ANTIVIRUS BUGGY E-MAIL PROTECTION
Norton Antivirus offers a feature called "e-mail protection" that I routinely turn off. It's a service that scans e-mail for viruses as messages come into your system - an...
AFTER NAPSTER
Napster is gone. Its death may be more or less protracted, but it's all over. There will now be a period of confusion - most of you will be well served by waiting until the dust...
GINGER UNWRAPPED
Ginger, the much-hyped device invented by Dean Kamen, apparently is a two-wheeled scooter-like device that will run nearly emission-free using a hydrogen-based engine.Here's an...
NEW VERSION OF MICROSOFT OFFICE SOON
Microsoft Office XP will arrive in a few months, the successor to MS Office 2000. Not much information on new features, but the company believes it's an important new release,...
BRUCEB WEB SITE 2.0
Hope you like the new look for the web site! Let me know if any links are broken!
GATEWAY FINANCIAL WOES
While Dell continues to be a strong company and a great choice when you're in the market for a new system, Gateway has been floundering. Although I was an early Gateway booster,...
GRAPHICS PRIMER
I know lots of people who are finding that working with images on a computer is hard and mysterious. It's taken me years to get grounded - and all that experience has mostly...
SLAMMING JUDGE JACKSON
If you're following the Microsoft hearings, the best part was the obvious distaste shown the by appellate panel for Judge Jackson's outrageous anti-Microsoft ravings in the...
INTEL NETWORK CARD
Network cards for notebooks can be frustrating. Typically they either require a dongle (a separate short length of wire with connectors on it that everybody loses) or a pop-out...
CHEAP STUFF
Prices on computer products have fallen so fast that it can be frustrating - it's hard to throw things away, yet the numbers sometimes require it. Want a good example? How about...
DIRECPC TWO-WAY SATELLITE ACCESS
DirecPC is the satellite Internet service offered by Hughes. It's been frustrating up to now because it requires a dialup connection for your outgoing traffic. A two-way,...
WHY MICROSOFT SHOULDN’T BE BROKEN UP
As we head into the arguments in the Court of Appeals, here's a good article that presents the case for leaving Microsoft alone. A sample: "STATED SIMPLY: Consumers want...
NAPSTER DAYS ARE NUMBERED
Even if Napster survives the court case, it won't be fun for much longer. In addition to its plans for paid subscriptions, Napster now plans to add a "protection layer" to .mp3...