BRUCEB NEWS
The Kaseya Hack And The Mysterious Disappearing REvil Gang
On July 3 the Russian hacking group REvil infiltrated tools distributed by a security and monitoring firm – Kaseya, this time – and slipped ransomware into thousands of business networks. Today REvil has disappeared, a curious twist in the story of the Kaseya hack –...
Bruceb.com 2.0 And Shameless Self-Promotion
Exactly twenty years ago the World Wide Web opened to the public. Yesterday, crack web site designer Andrew Berls finished work on the refresh of www.bruceb.com. Those things...
Lynda.com And The Joy Of Online Training
Lynda.com is a learning and training site with video tutorials to teach software skills. It has courses at all levels, from novice to expert, and it covers a wide variety of...
Bruceb Consulting Web Site Update Arrives Next Week
If all goes well, you’ll see Bruceb.com and Brucebnews.com wearing shiny new clothes next week after being redesigned top to bottom by Andrew Berls, who has been slaving away for...
Solid State Drives – The Future Of High Performance Computers
The little device in the picture – about the size of a deck of playing cards, less than half as thick – is an Intel 160Gb solid state hard drive. It has given me a more...
Online Marketing With Google AdWords And Facebook For Business
The rules for online marketing change every day. Something simple, like having a web site that ranks high in Google’s search results, is turning into something barely...
How To Turn Off Accessibility Features In Adobe Acrobat
Every time I opened a PDF file in Acrobat, a window would appear to notify me that I was reading an Untagged Document that had to be prepared for reading out loud. Every time....
Gorilla Glass And Your Phone
You jangle your keys in your pocket next to your Motorola phone and the screen isn’t scratched. You drop your iPhone and the glass doesn’t break. You jab with an icepick over and...
Google+ And The Dimming Of Facebook
Google+ represents Google’s boldest step yet into the social networking space, with a direct shot across Facebook’s bow. After several failed social network projects (Buzz,...
Google News Badges And The Decline Of Western Civilization
When I opened Google News today, I was greeted by this screen, asking me to “collect private badges for [my] favorite topics”: Here’s the way it was described in the Google Blog:...
Free Music On Demand From Spotify
You can be excused if you haven’t heard of Spotify yet. For months it’s been a hot topic for music junkies who have been impatient for it to debut in the United States. People...
Saving Email In An Acrobat Portfolio
Previously: The Problem Of Saving Email Inspired by Small City Law Firm Tech Saving Email – It’s Just the Right Thing To Do (Outlook – All Versions) Simply the Best, Better than...
The Problem Of Saving Email
Inspired by Small City Law Firm Tech Saving Email – It’s Just the Right Thing To Do (Outlook – All Versions) Simply the Best, Better than All the Rest – Saving Email in an...
Office 365 Part 4 – Integrated Communications With Lync
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 – Overview Office 365 Part 2 – The Evolution Of Exchange Online Office 365 Part 3 – Collaboration With Sharepoint Online The final piece of Office...
Office 365 Part 3 – Collaboration With Sharepoint Online
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 – Overview Office 365 Part 2 - The Evolution Of Exchange Online Sharepoint Online sets up an online portal that a business can use for a number of...
Office 365 Part 2 – The Evolution Of Exchange Online
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 - Overview Exchange Online is the compelling piece of Office 365 for small businesses and law firms. Even the smallest business should be...