BRUCEB NEWS
Nothing Is Technology. Everything Is Technology.
I’ve been trying to figure out a role for Bruceb News in 2022. My life has changed - I’m working with Jim Rowson on our latest best-selling novel SMelL and I’m not doing much IT work any more, as planned. But I still devour tech news hungrily, scanning hundreds of...
Office 365 Part 3 – Collaboration With Sharepoint Online
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 – Overview Office 365 Part 2 - The Evolution Of Exchange Online Sharepoint Online sets up an online portal that a business can use for a number of...
Botched Updates From Microsoft And Adobe
Did your computer start last night? Mine did! Boy, was I surprised! Ha ha! No, seriously, I was surprised. And sometimes I don’t like surprises. MICROSOFT Microsoft automatically...
Microsoft Online Services–Again? Really?
Microsoft’s hosted Exchange mail service went down again this morning. Apparently service is now restored and most people are able to get back online, as of about 10:45am. I...
One More Note About OneNote
If you have a new computer with Microsoft Office 2010, you should spend a few minutes figuring out Microsoft OneNote 2010, one of the great programs of our time. I’ve written...
Bruceb Retreats To The Fortress Of Solitude 06/10-06/24
Loyal clients know that every year I take a two week sabbatical in the Fortress Of Solitude, honing my technical skills in utter seclusion and emerging stronger than ever and...
Office 365 Part 2 – The Evolution Of Exchange Online
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 - Overview Exchange Online is the compelling piece of Office 365 for small businesses and law firms. Even the smallest business should be...
Microsoft Introduces Office 365
Tomorrow morning at 7am PDT, Steve Ballmer will host a webcast announcing the general availability of Office 365, Microsoft’s next generation of online services. This is a huge...
iCloud And The Competing Paths To The Future
Apple’s announcement of a collection of services sharing the name “iCloud” has generated endless articles about what it all means. I’ll talk about some of the details in the next...
Dell Inspiron Zino HD Home Media Center PC
The little box in the picture to the left measures eight inches across and just over three inches tall. It’s quiet and inexpensive. In this difficult world of technology, the...
Adobe Smooths Out Licenses, Introduces Software Subscriptions
Almost everyone has to do business with Adobe at some point. Businesses and law firms rely on Acrobat to scan documents and manage the ubiquitous PDF file format. Adobe products...
Office 365 Part 1 – Overview
Microsoft Office 365 is now available for small businesses. It is the most visible part of Microsoft’s efforts to migrate from shrink-wrapped software to services delivered...
Apple iCloud And Photo Syncing
The new service announced by Apple for syncing photos among different devices is one of the most interesting parts of the iCloud package, both for what it does and for what it...
Life Off The Grid
Greetings from Flat Creek Ranch, a bit of paradise at the end of a truly fearsome jeep trail, where the sun came out to celebrate our arrival and wonderful people are standing by...
The Fragmented Tech Landscape
Not everything works with everything else. Your expectations have changed so quickly that you might not have noticed. It wasn’t long ago that most people used a single PC at a...
Creating New Word Documents From Existing Documents
Every Word user does it the same way: open an old document and resolve to click on “Save As” and save it with a different name so the original file is untouched. Instead you edit...