BRUCEB NEWS
It’s Time To Leave LastPass
LastPass was hacked. It was a bad, bad hack. If you use LastPass, your passwords are probably fine. LastPass uses a very secure method to protect your secrets. You don't have to panic. Isn't the word "probably" an annoying thing to see in that sentence? Wouldn't you...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...