BRUCEB NEWS
A Default Intervention For Microsoft
Microsoft, come in, glad you’re here, take a seat. Interventions are never welcome but I’m afraid we have to talk. You’re doing great work! Let’s start with that. The pivot to enterprise cloud services is brilliant. You’re managing to do what no other tech company is...
WINDOWS 7 SNAP
It’s Windows 7 week! Engadget and Gizmodo are working overtime to keep up with new product announcements, advertisements are starting to appear, bloggers and pundits are weighing...
GOOGLE’S ABANDONED LIBRARY
The Google Book initiative is a huge undertaking. Google is digitizing tens of millions of books and promising to make them available to the world forever. Sergey Brin, the...
VIEW PDFS IN GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS
Google has been introducing new features and services at a rapid pace for the last couple of months, presumably to stave off any defections to Microsoft’s search site Bing....
DANGEROUS SEARCHES
McAfee released a study a few months ago that illustrates the importance of being careful online. Most malware is installed now when you visit a rigged web site that takes...
SPEAKING OF UPDATES
Your computer should restart tonight after installing this month’s critical updates for Windows and Office. It’s a particularly large batch of updates and some of them are for...
SPECIAL OFFER – PC TUNEUPS
I’m happy to announce a new service available to anyone looking for some help maintaining a Windows XP or Vista PC – office users, home users, my clients, your parents, anyone...
EMBEDDING GOOGLE READER IN OUTLOOK
If the idea of following blogs in an RSS feed reader is tempting and your life is spent in Outlook, you might want to consider combining the two. Outlook has an RSS reader built...
WALTER MOSSBERG ON WINDOWS 7
Influential (and frequently cranky) tech columnist Walter Mossberg weighed in on Windows 7 today in the Wall Street Journal. His article is typical of the media blitz that you...
WINDOWS 7 PRESENTATION MODE
Here’s an example of a Windows 7 feature that has two interesting characteristics. It’s increasingly common for a laptop to be hooked up to a projector for a presentation – a...
PHONE EXPLOSION
This week it’s all phones, all the time. On Tuesday, Microsoft formally presented Windows Mobile 6.5 to the world. It’s a lightly modified version of the Windows Mobile software...
BROKEN BLOGGER
Blogger is a free service for setting up and hosting blogs. It was one of the earliest web-publishing services and it remains very popular. The bruceb news page has been hosted...
BRUCEB NEWS: IT’S BACK
It’s as if I never left, isn’t it? This is a more formal test of the email system. The test a few minutes ago was a bit of a mistake, but let’s not dwell on the past, shall we?...
READING BLOGS
There’s an easy way for you to keep up with web sites you visit regularly. If you’re not using some kind of a news reader or feed reader to keep up with blogs, news sites, and...
THE GOOGLE BIZ KIT SCAM
Desperation leads to scams. Here’s one that turned up today after an investigation by my loyal staff. The “Google Biz Kit” has been around for a while, promising money for...
HP DATA VAULT FOLLOWUP
Philip Churchill’s WHS blog has more details on the HP Data Vault, built on Windows Home Server. There are some fuzzy screen shots in the HP white paper showing that HP’s...