BRUCEB NEWS
Location Tracking: Who’s Following You? How Do They Know Where You Are?
Previously: Location Tracking: They Know Where You Are Location Tracking: LA LA LA I DON’T WANT TO HEAR YOU Our phones track our movements every minute of every day. We carry around beacons that continuously broadcast their location. Our phones are remarkably...
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Bored? Go to the Google home page, type in “weapons of mass destruction” and click on “I’m Feeling Lucky.” (The page you’ll see has risen to be the number one search result on...
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE MOVIES
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen opened in the theatres yesterday. By most accounts it's a pretty awful movie, but that doesn't take away from an interesting thought. The...
MOVIE TRAILERS ONLINE
There's a huge library of files to download at Download.com. I just found out that it includes movie trailers for 50 or 60 new and upcoming movies at this Movie Trailers -...
AMAZING HONDA COMMERCIAL
You’ve just gotta see the Honda commercial airing in the UK. Here’s a page where you can view the commercial in your browser – Flash required. It’s about 4Mb total, so it may be...
ADOBE DEFECTS FROM APPLE
Adobe Systems announced a new version of Premiere, its high-end video-editing platform, but with one important change that bodes ill for Apple - the new Premiere will be...
CHEAP COMPUTERS GET CHEAPER
Prices have been in freefall for a long time, but I still get taken by surprise every time I look at the low end of the market. How about an entire HP system - including Presario...
MICROSOFT READER AND FREE BOOKS
Microsoft Reader is free software designed to display books onscreen in an appealing way. It’s available for Windows computers, as well as being supplied with most Pocket PCs....
THE EROSION OF ONLINE PRIVACY
EBay’s director of law enforcement and compliance, Joseph Sullivan, gave a talk last winter which is only now getting any attention. In it, he offered law enforcement officials...
DSL DISCOUNTS
There’s a bit of a price war going on among the larger DSL providers. SBC has extended its $29.95/month fee until August 31. Verizon discounted its DSL price last month,...
PARENTAL-CONTROL SOFTWARE
PC Magazine just ran a short review of parental-control software that can block Internet sites with inappropriate content when kids are surfing. The magazine liked Cybersitter...
EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES
Your new computer probably includes USB 2.0 ports – physically identical to USB 1.1 ports, but capable of transferring data at much higher speeds. One interesting way to use them...
GOOGLE TOOLBAR 2.0
The Google toolbar is one of the only utilities I allow on my computers. It’s so handy that I’m willing to let it take up a bit of valuable screen real estate. Google will be...
EARTHLINK TOTAL ACCESS
Earthlink is promoting a software bundle called “Total Access.” It includes features that sound tempting – including a popup blocker, something more and more people are looking...
APPLE’S CLAIM TO HAVE THE “WORLD’S FASTEST PERSONAL COMPUTER”
Perhaps you saw the mainstream press breathlessly reporting Apple’s announcement that its upcoming Power Mac G5 system would be the “world’s fastest personal computer,” based on...
RECORDING INDUSTRY TERRORISM
When last seen, the RIAA had been told by a federal court judge in Los Angeles that it could not shut down Grokster and Morpheus by suing the programs’ creators, since they...