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My websites - Bruceb.com, Bruceb Favorites, and Bruceb News - are going to be spruced up during the next week or so. During the construction, there won't be any new articles or updates. When the dust settles, the websites will be exactly as dull as before, but with...
FREE HITCHHIKERS’ GUIDE
For the next couple of days, you can get The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy from Microsoft's free book promotion. (See the news item below on July 4 for details.) Everyone...
MICROSOFT INSTANT MESSAGING
A few years ago, Microsoft introduced two programs with similar names and similar functions – Outlook and Outlook Express. The result was years of confusion and ill will by...
UPLOAD A FILE, GO TO PRISON
Here's an article about a new bill introduced by Howard Berman, a House representative funded by the entertainment industry, that would land a person in prison for five years and...
TALKING COMPUTERS
Speech recognition programs have been around for years and have made great strides recently. IBM, Dragon, and Lernout & Hauspie have all offered programs for dictating to a...
BROWSER WARS
Not long ago the conflict between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator was covered in the newspapers, filled courtrooms, and inspired heated arguments. Now there's...
REAL LIFE – THE REVIEW
If you're a gamer, you might enjoy reading a review of the most accessible and widely accepted massively multiplayer online role-playing game to date - GameSpot's review of real...
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,...