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Security Tip: Turn On Office 365 Two Factor Authentication
This is an action item. It’s not theoretical. This is not an article to file away in the special folder that you use for Bruceb News articles, the ones you’ve given cute names like Deleted Items. If you have an Office 365 mailbox, secure it with two-factor...
VISTA SP1 SUPPORT
If you have any difficulty installing Vista Service Pack 1 or dealing with problems after installation, Microsoft is offering unlimited installation and compatibility support...
VISTA SP1 & SEARCH
Searching in Vista quickly becomes second nature. Clicking the Start button and typing the name of a program brings it up immediately - no need to hunt through the long list of...
APPLE UPDATES: SAFARI INVASION
A client asked me about an update window that had popped up so I sat down in front of "Apple Updates" and stared at the three programs listed - "updates" to iTunes, QuickTime,...
WINDOWS VISTA SERVICE PACK 1 RELEASED
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is available today through Windows Update. Here's the announcement of the general release of SP1, and here's a technical note about a handful of...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER DATA CORRUPTION
The products developed using Microsoft's Windows Home Server software do a number of extremely useful things - backups, remote access, file and photo sharing, and file storage -...
R.I.P. PC MAGAZINE
I can't let the moment pass without acknowledging the loss of a dear friend. Magazines were a crucial source of information in the primitive days before the Internet. PC Magazine...
TALES OF WOE: SOFTWARE DEPT.
My office computer is a powerful Dell tower, with an Nvidia video card and too much software. I choose software carefully, but I use a lot of programs and there is an...
TALES OF WOE: HARDWARE DEPT.
My stick doesn't work. The Dell Latitude D630 is my favorite laptop, just the right combination of light weight and computing power and screen size, with nothing left out - a...
FOLDERSHARE UPGRADE
FolderShare, Microsoft's invaluable free utility for syncing and sharing folders among multiple computers, has gotten a long overdue upgrade. Foldershare starts with a free...
SONIC & SATELLITE SERVICE
Sonoma County's broadband coverage is spotty. Comcast and AT&T are not doing anything to expand cable and DSL service to new areas. There are too many areas with no good...
IPHONE & EXCHANGE
Apple announced today that it has licensed ActiveSync technology from Microsoft, allowing the iPhone to sync mail, contacts, and calendars with Exchange Server. Apple also...
VISTA FEATURE: SPEECH RECOGNITION
Microsoft has been researching speech recognition for more than fifteen years. It has released enterprise products like Speech Server for telephony systems, and built rudimentary...
ONECARE RENEWAL
WIndows Live OneCare is actually a subscription, renewed annually. Many of you are coming up on your one-year anniversary. The date is displayed in the lower left corner of the...
WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH ENHANCEMENTS
Windows Desktop Search is deeply built into Windows Vista and can be added for free to Windows XP to index files and Outlook folders for instant searches. By default, it indexes...
VISTA & WEAK HARDWARE
More evidence confirms that poor decisions by Microsoft played an important role in creating the public perception that Vista is a failed operating system. Vista may never...