BRUCEB NEWS
Happy 25th Anniversary To Bruceb.com And Bruceb News!
On September 11, 1997, I registered the domain name “bruceb.com.” Four days later Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the name “Google.com.” I expect Google will congratulate itself on its anniversary later this week, like it did five years ago. Pfft. I know who the...
How To Avoid Scams
Eric Ligman wrote an article today about avoiding scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently. One of my clients was just treated to one of them, a phone caller claiming to be...
The Increasing Need For Bandwidth, Part 2
Previously: The Increasing Need For Bandwidth, Part 1 You should know the basic details of the Internet connection at your home or business. Find out the speed of your existing...
The Increasing Need For Bandwidth, Part 1
Many small businesses and homes will feel the need to increase the speed of their Internet connection in 2011. In the late 1990s, we began the serious movement away from our...
Happy New Year!
All my best wishes for a prosperous and healthy new year, filled with technology that does wonderful things for you (and, with luck, requires just a bit of assistance from your...
Get any good presents?
You may be wondering where to start with the shiny new technology that appeared under the tree - after all, there are reportedly 200,000 Android apps and almost 500,000 iPhone...
Happy Holidays From Bruceb Consulting!
The entire team at Bruceb Consulting would like to wish everyone a safe and joyous holiday! Thank you for your support and your trust in 2010. I worked harder - and had more fun...
Touchdown For Android – Alternate View of Exchange Mail / Calendar / Contacts, Improved Tasks
I’m going to show you an app for Android phones and tablets that is not for everybody - but a few of you will like it quite a lot, and it might give the rest of you something to...
Dropbox Updated To Version 1.0
Dropbox is high on the list of essential utilities. It has been in an extended testing period but a few days ago the official ultra-stable Version 1.0 was released. I’ve written...
Microsoft Security Essentials Updated To Version 2
Microsoft has released version 2 of Microsoft Security Essentials, with some nice improvements and new features. It is visually almost unchanged; MSE continues to be almost...
Outlook People Pane And The Facebook Social Connector
Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s Person Of The Year. Every person on earth has a Facebook page. Most household pets have their own Facebook pages. On average, people in the US spend...
Ten Things To Know About Office 2010
If you’ve gotten a new computer, then you’ve probably been relying heavily on my list of the best new Windows 7 features, chock full of screen shots and background information to...
Big Patch Tuesday
Your computer will restart on Tuesday night, after getting a particularly large collection of updates for Windows and Office. Close any open programs or files but leave your...
Cross-Posting WordPress Posts To Facebook
This is more of a test post. Facebook has a feature in “Notes” intended to import blog posts into a Facebook stream. It’s terribly broken. My experience matches many other...
Bruceb Consulting Does Facebook
I’m starting to think this social networking stuff has a future, by gum. I’m joining the 21st century. Visit the official Bruceb Consulting Facebook page! Push the Like button!...
Disappearing Mapped Drives In Windows 7
Here’s a moderately geeky tip about how to fix a nagging problem when a mapped drive disappears during installation of a program from a shared folder on another computer on the...