BRUCEB NEWS
AI Consumer Basics
Here’s your human-generated summary of the latest AI news. Mankind has never lived through a period of technological change like this. It arrived overnight, it is constantly changing and evolving, and its impact is so multifold that we literally can’t comprehend it…
More Dell Computers For Small Business
I’m not going to mention every product announcement that comes along, but Dell has introduced some small business laptops and desktops that look particularly appealing. The Dell…
SECURITY POSTSCRIPT
Take a minute to make sure your security software is running. If you’ve switched to Microsoft Security Essentials, look for the reassuring checkmark down by the clock. Two people…
MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS UPGRADE
Microsoft has rolled out a minor upgrade to its free security program, Microsoft Security Essentials. A few days ago I began running into computers with an MSE icon by the clock…
iPAD ASPECT RATIO
UPDATE 03/12: Okay, move along, nothing to see here. A commenter pointed out there are two versions of the iPad commercial on YouTube, identical except for the shape of the iPad….
OFFICE 2010 TECHNOLOGY GUARANTEE
Microsoft Office 2010 will be available to consumers on June 15. There are new features focused on increasing the integration with online file storage and collaboration – plus a…
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” 1366×768 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…