BRUCEB NEWS
The Best New Music Of 2020
Spotify released the personalized Wrapped 2020 playlist a few days ago. I was a bit surprised to discover that my fave-rave most-played song in 2020 was the sound of soothing ocean waves. It turns out that Spotify’s algorithms get the teensiest bit confused if you...
AMAZON’S SECRET PRICE GUARANTEE
I can't vouch for this, but Timothy Noah at Slate writes that Amazon has a 30-day price guarantee - if the Amazon price drops on any item within thirty days after you purchase it...
APPLE AND PROPRIETARY FILE FORMATS
Microsoft will take some well-deserved heat for letting copy protection drive it to make bad decisions for technology and consumers, but Apple has also played an unappealing role...
WINDOWS VISTA & CONTENT PROTECTION
The entertainment industry is obsessed with copy protection and has been browbeating legislators, courts, hardware manufacturers and content creators with demands for more...
RIAA DECLARES INSANITY
The RIAA is resorting to even more bizarre behavior in its quest to be institutionalized for its own protection.AllOfMP3.com is a Russian site that has been thumbing its nose at...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I'll be back in 2007. Happy new year and best wishes to all!Windows Vista is right around the corner, and the press is heating up - it's full of flaws! No one wants it! A hacker...
THE IE7 MENU BAR
The team developing Internet Explorer 7 tried to maximize the screen space available for web pages by shrinking or removing some familiar parts of IE6. The missing menu bar has...
QUICKBOOKS, IE7 AND COMPUTER SECURITY
Intuit has finally released updates for various versions of Quickbooks to make them more or less compatible with Internet Explorer 7. Here's the IE7 compatibility chart, with...
NETWORK FILE INDEXING ADDED TO VISTA
My first impression was that the Vista developers had left Vista in a crippled state, unable to index shared network folders, but apparently they were just running late. Today...
FIX FOR SLOW IE7 PHISHING FILTER
A few people have complained that Internet browsing was slow or erratic after installing Internet Explorer 7. I haven't been able to find a pattern to explain that - no...
THE SAD TALE OF AMICUS ATTORNEY
At one time, Amicus Attorney was the premier program for law office case management. In version 5, it had a quirky but easy to understand interface, and a lot of power to link...
CELL PHONES – WINDOWS MOBILE AND SERVER CERTIFICATES
There are now more than a hundred cell phones built on Windows Mobile, capable of syncing with Microsoft Outlook and handling e-mail, calendar and address book chores.Businesses...
NETWORK FILE INDEXING MISSING FROM VISTA (superseded 12/19/06)
EDIT: On December 19, Microsoft released an add-in to index files on network shares in Windows Vista. See this comment.ORIGINAL POST:Windows Vista cannot index files on a network...
VIRAL ADVERTISING
The folks responsible for promoting Windows Vista are trying hard to be hip - check out http://clearification.com. Microsoft is footing the bill for Demetri Martin, a Daily Show...
E-MAIL RETENTION AND THE NEW FEDERAL RULES
Changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have imposed new requirements for retention and production of electronic records in federal court litigation, especially e-mail....
WINDOWS VISTA & SECURITY VENDORS
You may have seen news coverage of complaints by Symantec, McAfee and others about security changes in Vista. Basically they complain that Vista's security is locked up so...