BRUCEB NEWS
Google Shows The Promise Of Augmented Reality
Google demonstrated an augmented reality product last week that may never exist. I don’t want you to look at it and decide to sit at your desk hitting refresh on the Google Store waiting for it to go on sale. It’s exciting but it's not that kind of demo. It’s hard for...
Dell Latitude 13
Dell has added the Latitude 13 to its business notebook lineup, with a design that is identical in virtually every respect to the Vostro V13 introduced in December. The...
BRUCEB ON VACATION 03/04-03/07
Look, you don’t think I enjoy this, do you? The constant grind of shuffling from airport to airport, renting cars and climbing on shuttle buses, desperately drinking coffee to...
Information Literacy Postscript
(Thanks to haha.nu!)
Information Literacy
Technology has left everyone feeling a bit adrift. Everyone fears that they don’t have basic skills that other people seem to have mastered – whether it’s finding files on a...
TALES OF WOE: HARDWARE DEPT.
When you tell me about certain kinds of computer problems, I sometimes begin weeping uncontrollably, or excuse myself from the room for a few minutes while I gobble down powerful...
GROOVESHARK – MALWARE WARNING
Be careful out there! I went to Grooveshark tonight to listen to some music. (Here’s what I wrote about Grooveshark recently. For obvious reasons, I’m not going to link directly...
Confidential Folders In Small Business Networks
Here’s a procedure for people working in a very small business that don’t want to call me for every routine task. Very small businesses frequently have a single folder for all...
Hands-On With The Dell Vostro V13
Once my wife saw my Dell Vostro V13, it didn’t take long before we had two Vostro V13s. The Vostro V13 is an ultrathin notebook with a 13” 1366x768 nonglare screen and a...
MORE HACKING ATTACKS
The Wall Street Journal reports today: “Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in...
WINDOWS PHONE 7 SERIES
If you read gadget sites like Engadget or Gizmodo, then you already know that the world changed today when Microsoft unveiled the “Windows Phone 7 Series,” the next generation of...
BRUCEB ON VACATION 02/15-02/19
Technology is moving faster than ever before. Businesses are replacing aging computers and servers at a rapid pace. People are getting mobile devices that will improve their...
THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF LIVE MESH
Live Mesh is Microsoft’s program for syncing folders between multiple computers and online storage, making your files available to you wherever you are. I think Live Mesh is...
MICROSOFT FLOUNDERS
Windows 7 is a staggering achievement. Microsoft delivered exactly the right product at the right time and will completely dominate desktop computing for the foreseeable future....
Sync Files With Dropbox
If you use more than one computer regularly, then you understand the need for an easy way to access some of the same files from each of your computers. I want to add Dropbox to...
Who Will Buy The Apple iPad?
Who’s going to buy an Apple iPad? Well, not you or me, anyway - not this version, not at $600-800. It’s not going to revolutionize anything, it’s not going to replace netbooks,...