BRUCEB NEWS
Why Are The Lights On In Ukraine?
A lot of experts expected Russia to start its assault on Ukraine with a massive shock-and-awe cyberattack – turning off the country’s electricity, killing the Internet and phones, emptying all the bank accounts, causing planes to fall from the sky. Instead, Russia...
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...
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...
Dell’s New Ultrathin XPS 15z
Dell introduced the XPS 15z this week, a new ultrathin 15” notebook for $999. It might be exactly right for many people - a bigger screen than the 13” Vostro V130 and a much more...
Apple Responds To “MacDefender” Malware
For years, Windows users have felt persecuted by malware authors. Why weren’t Macs getting hit with viruses and poisoned web sites? The standard wisdom was that Macs didn’t have...
Windows 7 Is Safer Than Windows XP
Previously: Say Goodbye To Six Year Old Computers Windows XP computers are falling over left and right. Many of them are simply insufferably slow for all the reasons I wrote...
Not All Google Search Results Are Equal
Eli Pariser - Online searches and filter bubbles - TED Eli Pariser gave a fascinating talk at TED this year with some new information about online searches. It’s well worth nine...
Tech Tips And Tricks From David Pogue
Everyone might get something useful out of David Pogue’s column today for the New York Times, a collection of tips and tricks for cellphones and computers. Some of them are...
Whining About Wireless – The Home Edition
Previously: Whining About Wireless I’ll tell you a story about my own experience. You won’t learn anything and there’s not a happy ending, but perhaps it will give you a little...
Whining About Wireless
When you have a choice between running a cable and relying on a wireless connection, you simply must not consider them to be equal choices. The reliability of a wired connection...
Microsoft Apologizes For Problems With Hosted Exchange Mail Service
Microsoft’s hosted Exchange service wobbled badly this week, with an extended outage on Tuesday and more delays on Thursday. Messages were stuck in outboxes and there were long...
Why Did Samsung Turn Off The Windows 7 Search Service On The Series 9?
Previously: Enable Outlook 2010 Search And Indexing On Windows 7 I love my new Samsung Series 9 laptop even more now that I have finally put to rest the arcane issue that I...
Installing Internet Explorer 9
Previously: Battle Of The Browser Updates Comparing The New Internet Browsers Syncing Bookmarks And Favorites With Firefox 4 And Chrome 10 Syncing Bookmarks And Favorites With...
Microsoft Online Services – Mail Delays
Clients with mail hosted by Microsoft Online Services are experiencing mail delays, both sending and receiving. It began this morning and apparently is a system-wide problem....
Installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1
If you have a computer running Windows 7, then you probably have seen a balloon popping up from the lower right corner alerting you that there are Important Updates waiting to be...
Happy Mother’s Day!
My mother Helen Berls has friends all over the world. Maybe you’ve met someone like her. You’re on a cruise, or visiting somewhere exotic on a tour, or standing in line, or...