BRUCEB NEWS
The Outlook Is Grim For Microsoft Updates
If you're an Outlook user, there's a good chance that the program crashed when you tried to start it yesterday (Wednesday, July 15, 2020). Microsoft uses the word "Outlook" to describe many different things, so let's be precise. This was a problem for people using (1)...
INTERNET ARCHIVE
If you're bored, spend some time looking around archive.org, a huge site attempting to be the library of the Internet. A fascinating section features snapshots of web sites taken...
FREE RECYCLING AT OFFICE DEPOT
Office Depot has partnered with HP to offer free recycling this summer. From July 18 through September 6, you'll be able to bring one electronic item per day for recycling at no...
COLOR LASER PRINTERS
Printer prices are in freefall. Inkjet and all-in-one printers under a hundred dollars, laser printers under two hundred dollars - and now color laser printers have dropped below...
WINDOWS UPDATES
There are five new critical updates from Microsoft today. If you followed my suggestion and activated the "Automatic Update" feature of Windows XP, your computer will download...
RANDOM HEADLINES
Some things to make you go, hmmm . . . - Microsoft posts patch on July 2 for hole publicized on June 30 - Security hole found in Mozilla browser - Motion Picture Association of...
PRINTING A LIST OF ATTACHMENTS TO AN E-MAIL MESSAGE
When you print a message from Outlook, the chances are that the printout will not include a list of the files attached to that message. This drives many people crazy. I went...
INTERNET EXPLORER SECURITY
The Press Democrat printed an alarming article today under an even more alarming headline: "Government suggests Web users avoid Internet Explorer." The article was picked up from...
RULES FOR SAFE COMPUTING
Every day I clean off adware, spyware, browser hijacking, viruses, Sasser worms, and other bad things. You are an unwilling participant in a war with spammers, virus writers,...
BACKUPS – JUST DO IT
The variety of bad things in the computer world - viruses, worms, adware/spyware, and the like - has me spooked. Computers are going down left and right. Done any backups lately?...
BUGMENOT
Here's a resource that might come in handy: http://www.bugmenot.com offers access to thousands of names and passwords for access to web sites that demand a "free" registration....
NO END TO BATTLE AGAINST SPAM
E-mail security firm MessageLabs reported this week that spam accounted for 76% of all e-mail traffic worldwide recently, and the level is rising. Filters are struggling to keep...
PRINTER ADVICE
If you're considering a printer, here's some advice from Vyomesh Joshi, general manager of HP's Imaging and Printer Group - someone in a position to give good advice. "If you are...
CELL PHONE NUMBER PORTABILITY
You're now able to retain your phone number when you switch cell phone providers. The FCC mandate went nationwide last week. Theoretically you can even move your landline number...
SONY DROPS DEVELOPMENT OF CLIE PDAs
Yesterday Sony unexpectedly announced that it was dropping development of its line of Clie handheld PDAs in the United States for the foreseeable future. It will continue to...
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is coming. It will be huge. Now is the time to start learning about it. Microsoft will spend $300 million marketing Service Pack 2. The marketing...