BRUCEB NEWS
Microsoft Doesn’t Care That Windows Is Declining
Microsoft is failing at adapting Windows to modern ARM processors – and it doesn’t care. Microsoft will never acknowledge the decline of Windows, but it has already pivoted the company, so its bottom line will not be affected if consumers and small businesses flee to...
IPOD SKINS
There are several thousand accessories for iPod owners - here's one that would make a great stocking stuffer. Gelaskins makes particularly gorgeous skins, thin vinyl printed with...
FLIMSY TECHNOLOGY
I frequently rant about the declining quality of hardware and software. Here's an article blaming manufacturers: "Now computers are fast enough, mobile phones are small enough...
DISPOSABLE E-MAIL ADDRESSES
Some web sites require an e-mail address and send a confirming e-mail message to activate an account. The "confirmation" might be an excuse to get an e-mail address that can...
IE7 & QUICKBOOKS
Some versions of Quickbooks are incompatible with Internet Explorer 7. It's hard to say why IE7 came as a surprise to Intuit, but only now are patches appearing to make recent...
IE7 & THE LANGUAGE BAR
The Windows XP language bar reappears in the lower right-hand corner after installing Internet Explorer 7. It makes it easy to change the default language used by Windows XP, or...
MEMORY – THE MAGIC NUMBER CREEPS UPWARD
A few years ago, we routinely got 256Mb of RAM for our new Windows XP computers. Memory was expensive and 256Mb was sufficient to run Windows XP, an antivirus program, an e-mail...
GADGET SLOWDOWN
It briefly looked as if we would be awash in a sea of new gadgets for the holidays, but the flood turned into a trickle - and a pretty disappointing trickle, too. Two missteps...
WINDOWS VISTA RTM
Microsoft completed its work on Windows Vista and released it to manufacturing, beginning a ten-week process of pressing DVDs, putting them into odd looking plastic cases, and...
USE MP3 FORMAT FOR MUSIC FILES!
When you rip CDs to convert them to music files on your computer, a setting in your music software determines the format used for those files, and the bit rate at which the music...
INTERNET EXPLORER 7 – TABBED PAGES, ZOOM
It took me a long time to get used to the tabbed pages in Internet Explorer 7, but I'm starting to learn some of the shortcuts that bring them to life. Try some of these tips!...
MICROSOFT SYNCTOY
Microsoft has released version 1.4 of its wildly useful utility SyncToy, a free program for copying, moving, renaming and deleting files between folders and computers. Here's the...
NOVEMBER 30 LAUNCH FOR WINDOWS VISTA, OFFICE 2007
Microsoft announced today that Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 will officially launch on November 30.It's a little unclear what that means, since boxed copies of the...
IE7 ADDED TO AUTOMATIC UPDATES
Yesterday Microsoft added Internet Explorer 7 to the Automatic Updates system, so your computer will begin prompting you soon to install the upgrade. I suggest you install it;...
PROBLEMS WITH MCAFEE PRODUCTS AND IE7
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 changes many security defaults, and a few applications are having problems with that. McAfee has put up this page of instructions about how to make...
SHIFTING LANDSCAPE FOR ONLINE & OFFLINE GIANTS
The landscape is changing for new and old players. It's interesting to watch the ground shift and wonder where our world of information is going.MySpace and Facebook have reached...