BRUCEB NEWS
Bing Sucks At Searches
Bing sucks at searches. You know how I know that? Because I have an anecdote to prove it. Anecdotes don't prove anything. I know that. You know that. If I'm going to make a broad claim I ought to have solid evidence and statistics and data. I don't. Well, I do, but...
WINDOWS 7 LAUNCH
Windows 7 is available today in the stores and on new computers. It is faster than Vista and does not rely as heavily on state of the art video cards. It benefits from three...
MORE ABOUT WINDOWS 7 SEARCH
Windows 7 brings two subtle improvements to searches. As always, search results in Windows Explorer can be displayed as thumbnail images (useful for photos), as a list with or...
WINDOWS 7 SEARCH
Many of you will buy Windows 7 computers to replace aging Windows XP systems. There will be many things to get used to, big and small, but the best change is easy to miss –...
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?...